May 8, 2026 • 27 mins
Sean Hannity opens the show with a wide-ranging Friday breakdown covering Russia and Ukraine’s reported three-day ceasefire, the future of drone warfare, and the ongoing pressure campaign against Iran. He argues that President Trump is trying to force Iran into a deal while preserving leverage through sanctions, military readiness, and economic pressure around the Strait of Hormuz. Hannity also previews his upcoming trip to China with President Trump, including concerns about surveillance and the challenge of missing live shows while overseas. The hour also dives into newly released UFO/UAP files, blue-state tax flight, and the massive movement of wealth and economic growth from states like New York and California to Florida, Texas, and the Carolinas.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks to all of you for being with us. Right
down are toll free telephone number this Friday. It is
eight hundred and nine four one Sean if you want
to be a part of the program, Linda, How often
do I say the days are long, the weeks are short,
and like we start our show Happy Monday, and then
the next thing I know, I blink my eyes and
(00:20):
as you know, Happy Friday. There's no such thing really
as a happy Monday. Except my one friend Michael says
Monday is my favorite day of the week. I can't
wait to get up out of bed and go to work.
And I look at him, I'm like, I really love
what I do for a living, but I don't love
it that much all to keep going because my brain
kind of shuts down a little bit over the weekend,
(00:41):
not completely, as you know. And by the way, why
were you whining? Because I was sending stories to everybody
at three thirty or four o'clock this morning, whatever time
it was. Why were you complaining? What was it dinging
next to your bed or something? I woke you up?
You said it woke me up.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, listen, you know you have a very special ring
on my phone. We've gone through this. It's kind of like, uh.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Meets No, that's not it.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You have a special ring. Go ahead, text me and
I'll play it over the air.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Text Linda, pay it over the this is.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Wait for America. This is a wonderful wait for it.
It's wonderful. It's coming right.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Hang on, I gotta get your text.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Oh my god, it is. Did you hear it?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You leave that on nightly? You're crazy because for.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
All I know, you're gonna text me something crazy. So
you're you don't get on your You're never on you know,
the Do not Disturb, You're never on silent, so no
matter what happens, I mean, you could be texting me that.
You know, Martha Stewart put it on a new cookbook
and I'm going to hear that.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Does Anthony hear that every night in the middle of
his sleep.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, he has Bloomberg on, so he has his own alerts.
Our room is one big alert. It's it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
But does that wake him up? That would wake me up.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I think he's immune to it now, you know, after
like the thirty eighth time in a night, he's like, whatever,
that's just Sean.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
He's you know, there are binge drinkers. There are binge
web surfers, and I'm one of those.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Oh yeah, you are a pro surfer, my friend.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Not sure what to make of this, The President announced
via truth Social that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to
a three day cease fire beginning May the ninth, which
he said would pause all kinetic activity in the ongoing
war that includes a thousand for a thousand prisoner exchange
of the two countries. He said, I'm pleased to announce
(02:43):
that there will be a three day ceasepire in the
war between Russia and Ukraine. The celebration in Russia is
for Victory Day, but likewise in Ukraine because they were
also a big part of and factor in World War Two.
This ceasfire will include a suspension of all kinetic activity
and also a prison swap of a thousand prisoners from
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each country. The request was made directly by me. I
appreciate it's agreement by Vladimir Putin and President Zelenski. Hopefully
it is the beginning of the end of a very long, deadly,
hard fought war. Talks are continuing on ending this major
conflict and the biggest, you know, since World War two.
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It's what four and a half years now. It's unbelievable,
you know, what's fascinating. And we always talk about the
next generation of weaponry, and we talk about how I
think future wars are going to be fought in air
conditioned offices. I mean, you can see with the pinpoint
precision and accuracy, you know, the first iteration generation, if
(03:52):
you will, of weaponry you know has been on full
display as it relates to Iran, which is why it
has been so it's a successful military effort. And I
just think it's all going to play out. What the
Ukrainians are doing, and I talk to people in the
know that know exactly what's going on, and I think
we should actually be partnering with them in this. They
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have every seven anywhere from four to ten days, they
have the next generation of drone that they use. In
other words, they keep improving it every four to ten days.
And they've been using robots on the battlefield successfully, you know,
fighting off you know, Russian forces and taking back land
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that Russia had acquired. I mean, if you would have
told me when Putin was amassing troops on the border
with Ukraine and Joe Biden was saying, you know what
he's going to do. Well, it depends if it's a
minor incursion. Obviously Putin had every intention to go in
there that you know four and a half years later
that they basically would be fighting to a standstill. Although
(05:04):
Russia has gotten some territory that they didn't have previously,
and that the Ukrainians would be able to fight this valiantly,
I frankly wouldn't have believed it. And now they're using
the next generation of weaponry. Pay close attention, because this
is the future and we better be on top of it,
and we better be ahead of the curve, and we
better do the investments. You know, people complaining Donald Trump
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is investing one point five trillion dollars and this maybe
is one of the fundamental differences. You know, these these
idiot commentators out there that you know, feel sorry for
those of us that believe that that radical Islamic terrorists
are a clear and present and existential threat. I don't
know what the hell they're talking about. They want to
put their head in the sands that you still have
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these isolationist idiots. You know, they said they support Trump.
They never really were big Trump supporters, but you know
the fact that they would put their head in the
sands and hand off to our children and grandchildren a
nuclear arm. Durant as unbelievable. Rubio said it so well
this week when he went out there and said, yeah,
you've worried about the straight of horn moves and it's
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difficult to get you know, the Iranians out of the way,
and the blockade is you know, costing them four or
five hundred million dollars a day and bringing them economically
to their knees. And they have a currency that is
worthless and you know, a three hundred percent inflation rate,
have their workforces out of work now, the reports they
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can't even feed there and pay their revolutionary guard core.
All of this, you know, can end in in less
than an hour if Donald Trump decides to obliterate their
entire economies. Trying to trying to find a more peaceful
solution to it. So we'll see what happens. We do
have a lot of good economic news. We're going to
get to the Irs paid out over two hundred million
(06:49):
dollars in tax credits to foreign citizens who aren't entitled
to them. That's good news, right, Linda, Oh, I'm sorry,
foreign citizens, illegals, very people that the Left wants to
have vote and to give free health care too, and
sex change operations too, and college tuition to. It's unbelievable.
(07:09):
We see Secretary of State Marco Rubio apparently met with
Pope Leo. I did get a little behind the scenes
of what happened, and apparently, you know, Marco was extraordinarily
he's so smart, he's so bright, if you know him,
so persuasive that he was explaining to the Pope. And
(07:33):
I don't know why the Pope needed to hear it
this way, what the regime in Iran is all about.
It was pretty you know, I'm trying to understand because
the Pope's made the statement about God does not approve
any conflict, which I would argue if you believe the
God of the Old Testament's the same as the God
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in the New Testament, which he is, then God actually
put a seal of approval on well over four hundred conflicts.
But I don't want to get into a theological discussion. Now.
It doesn't mean because your pope that you're infallible. There
are if a pope is speaking ex cathedra. Okay, I
(08:15):
studied this when I studied theology, and I went to
Catholic schools twelve years and I studied Latin For the
little that I remember, and I mean little, but that
means on issues of faith and morals. When a pope
speaks otherwise, that does not make them infallible. Now, Marco
also meeting with Italy's Prime Minister Maloney to see if
(08:38):
they can resolve some of the tensions and differences. I'm
not sure that. I'm not sure it's going to be
possible to repair the damage that Europe has caused. It
was a phenomenal experience in Great Britain yesterday. It was
a complete and utter wipeout by Nigel Farage and his
Reform Party against ker Neville Chamberlain's Starmer and his Labor Party.
(09:04):
They only came into power two years ago. It was
a complete wipeout. We'll get into that more details later
today anyway, so we'll see if Marco's diplomacy pays off
in time. That would be interesting to watch. You know,
you can't win for losing, I mean all the people
you know. Release this release the JFK files, the EPSTEIN files,
(09:25):
the RFK files, the MLK files, the you know anything
we have on UFOs. Now, I've always been fascinated with
the UFOs. Linda, you fascinated with this, I am, indeed, okay,
you facined you know what a UAP is, I do indeed. Okay.
So the latest now they released what we learned from
today's release on the issue of UAP's UFOs, et cetera.
(09:50):
And by the way, we just did a podcast, you know,
on the Bob Lazar story, which is one of it
was a huge hit on Prime uh and the director,
I mean, the guy, the story he tells is phenomenal,
and he tells the story where yeah, he worked on
you know, power sources that were not of this earth
and well unidentified flying objects whatever you want to call
(10:15):
them UAPs, and saw them and discussed it and felt
that he had to tell his story because otherwise he
felt that he wouldn't be protected anyway. So the White
House put out the latest UAP videos, photos, original source
documents from across the entire US are all in one place,
no clearance required. And while past administration sought to discredit
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or dissuade the American people, President Trump's focused on providing
maximum transparency to the public. Who can ultimately make up
their own minds about information contained in the files. And
you know, the same thing was said by Tulsea Gabbard
and Cash Ptel, who said that to me in my podcast.
He made so much news in that podcast. Wow, you
haven't seen it. It's worth seeing wherever you watch it
(11:00):
video podcast. The same with the NASA administrator. Now they
released photos from the initial disclosure show. I mean, you
just can't describe it any other way than strangely shaped
objects captured on film. For example, it goes back as
far as Apollo twelve and Apollo seventeen space missions. One photo,
(11:22):
taken from the surface of the Moon appears to show
a cluster of three tiny dots in the sky. Again,
I'm just giving you the raw data. Here. A transcript
of communication between Apollo seventeen operators details the operators exchange
over this unknown phenomenon. And now we've got a few
bright particles, fragments or something that go drifting by as
(11:45):
we maneuver. Roger understand, there's a whole bunch of big
ones on my window down there, just bright. It looks
like the fourth of July out of Ron's window. Another
operator said, quote, yes, now you can see them in shape.
They're very jagged angular fragments. They are tumbling, the first
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operator said. An FBI photo containing the black dots appear
to be UAPs. FBI graphic showing a twenty twenty three
eyewitness account of a football shaped UFO materializing from light
in the sky, and the actual site photo of the
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FBI lab rendered graphic overlay depicting corroborating eyewitness reports from
September twenty twenty three. I mean it goes all the
way back nineteen sixty five, a transcript Gemini seven Space
mission describing astronauts encounter with a brilliant body containing trillions
of particles. And you know, look, just I'm not telling
(12:51):
you what to believe or not believe. I'm just fascinated
by it. And a lot of people. You know, God
created the heavens and the earth, and you know, here
we just keep discovering more universes within universes within universes.
The majesty of God's imagination and creation is breathtaking to me.
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And you know, nowhere biblically speaking, if you're looking at
this and you believe that God created the heavens and
the earth as I do nothing. There contradicts the idea
that God could could have created life or intelligence in
some capacity and in some other universe that maybe is
(13:31):
long and far away from here. I mean, all of
that is possible anyway. They talk about specifically people observing
you know it saucer shaped aircraft, how long it is
in dynameter one case, twenty one feet in diameter, radio
controlled you know, in this case of Bob Lazaar, which
(13:53):
we dropped in the podcast. I mean he's saying we
have it, and that he saw it and that he
worked on it. Then he talked about its power sauce
power source. I sound like you saying source, power source,
and how the power source is otherworldly, which makes perfect sense.
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There was this guy years and years ago. I used
to go to this thing called the invention convention. Invendors
would get together, and some of it was junk, some
of it was very interesting. The one guy really believed
that if we could ever tap into the gravitational force,
that there would be an endless source of human energy.
His fear was, not only would it be good be
used for good use, but it could be used for bad.
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I mean, I guess that's that's the human nature, good
and evil. But it was very convincing talk about buzz
Aldrin describing unusual things he saw in the Apollo eleven mission.
The issue of Iran is going to come to a
quick ad in US and Iran exchange fire on Thursday,
as we told you yesterday on the program. Of course,
none of our ships were hit. No damage done to
(14:58):
three destroyers. Great damage was done to the Iranian attackers.
They were completely destroyed. They're dead anyway. The President said no.
When I asked if the conflict is over, Secretary of
State Rubio says, the US expects Iran to respond to
their peace proposal, which means no nukes by the end
(15:20):
of the day. Today they are losing four to five
hundred billion dollars a day. You know, Rubio just summed
it up so perfectly this week when he said, imagine
that worries about the straight of Horn moves if Iran
ever had a nuclear weapon. And unlike these other isolationist
idiots that have a microphone, they're like homeless people with microphones,
(15:45):
and I'm like, they're the dumbest people on Earth. They
have no contact. They just make stuff up. The number
of people peddling conspiracy theories. I don't think it's ever
been higher than it is now. Israel did this. He's
the president who's listening to BB. No, the president listened
to his intelligence community. How do I know? Because I
(16:05):
speak to these people and without with one exception somebody
that just had a philosophical disagreement with the president, which
I don't really mind. The president will listen to all voices.
I know that there were prominent voices in the Oval Office,
not Fox News hosts, not Mark Levin, not Sean Hannity,
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thank me, God, bless us. No, but you know, sitting
in the days leading up to epic fury, you know,
begging the president to listen to them. The President didn't
listen to them. He listened to the intelligence to a fault.
All of the people that I talked to, and I
think people would understand that I am fairly you know,
(16:48):
well connected when it comes to government sources to they
all say the same thing. The president had no choice.
The one that said it most loudly and most publicly
was are Middle East non voice the wit cough, how
they were bragging. They had four hundred and sixty kilograms
nearly one thousand pounds of sixty percent enriched uranium. Okay,
(17:10):
maybe doesn't mean much to the average bird, but to
the to the people that are in the know about
nuclear and Richmond, that means that twelve days or less
away from weapons great and enrich uranium at ninety percent,
that's not a risk. We could take. The words that
I hear most often from the people that know is
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the president had no choice. He just didn't. And I know,
you know, people wish it would be be over. I
want it to be over. I don't want gas prices
to go up at all. Though I've noticed the price
of a barrel of oil last couple of days. It's
down again today, right, I'm pretty sure last time I checked.
And the President is saying that there will be a
(17:52):
lot of pain if Iran doesn't do this. He also
Marco Rubio says, only stupid countries don't chew back when
you're shot at Can you believe how dumb the legacy
media mob, the isolation as conspiracy theory morons are. They
really are stupid. One thing that is gaining traction is
what we've been talking about a lot, is getting arms
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in the hands of the Iranian people. I mean, for
forty seven years. These people have been terrorized. But it's
not our fight for their freedom. They got to fight
for their own freedom. But if we supplied them, we
did the same thing. Reagan did it, and Angolai did
it with the Nicaraguan freedom fighters. He did it with
the Moujahden when they were battling the former Soviet Union.
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You know, although you can listen to Kamala Harris, she
says Russia's the big winner in the Iran War. What
the hell is she even talking about? Is she really
that dumb? I mean, I can't believe this woman even
got any votes for president anyway. So that's the news
from Lake Wobogan as it relates to what's going on here.
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The president did strike one of the Iranian ports in
the straight of horn moves to send a message yesterday too.
Now this propaganda reports that the son of the late
Ali Hamani, who was also injured in the opening salvo
of Epic Fury, as full oversight of the Iranian state affairs.
(19:20):
According to the State Ministry of Propaganda, I don't believe that,
by the way, executed Iranian prisoners. Three Iranian prisoners executed
over the weekend. They described the torture, forced confessions, denied
legal rights, in messages that they shared with the Jerusalem
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Posts before their deaths, and anyway, you know they went
on to they were eventually hung. I mean, this is
just a brutal regime. It's just horrible. It will come
to an end. I think the President's patients now I
will be I was. I was struggling with whether I
should go or I shouldn't go, and I made a
(20:03):
final decision. And I hope, I hope the people in
this audience I understand why I was struggling, even in
the even in any way, when you have an opportunity
to go on Air Force one, why most people would say, well,
why are you struggling with that? Because I'm going to
miss too many programs based on the time difference, the
(20:24):
travel demands, and the the commitments that I will have
to be at certain events while my shows are taking place.
I'll be able to do. I'll miss I think one
or two TV shows next week. I'm how many radio
shows am I going to miss? I'll do a show Monday.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
You're not missing every day talking to us? Is this
thing on? Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
You're gonna be here every day talking to us.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Will I will be updating this audience. I'll be talking
to the audience every day from China, and it's going
to be great. I said, do you think I'm going
to be spied on? He said, oh, yeah, I mean
and I said, well, explain what that means. He goes, Oh,
they're gonna bug your room. And I'm like with video
cameras because there'll be a video camera in the shower.
(21:19):
I mean, that's kind of creepy. That creeps you out
a little bit. And you will your great suggestions. Just
put on a bathing suit. That's all you need to do.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Put on a different bathing suit every day. That way
you're comfortable each day. You could do the colors, you know,
a different color every day.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
What do you have to do to put on a
bathing suit? Do you do? You wear your underwear on
your bathing suit?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I mean, I think I could get challenging.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
What what are you going to do? Take off the
bathing suit and and wait for the underwear to drive
you gotta get naked.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
And I don't know how much detail we're getting into here,
but I'm just gonna let you know that if you're
getting changed into your bathing suit, and there's video cameras
in your room in China. I suggest you do it
in the dark.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Do it in the dark. Did you ever hear of
night vision cameras? You don't think that they're using more
sophisticated technology than a regular camera.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
It's gonna look a little blurry. Everything's fine in the dark,
you know, even if they have night vision. You know
you got the lights on. You're in trouble.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Linda is saying to me, this is very rude. You
say I look better in the dark naked.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I never said that. I'm here my privacy. I'm all
about your privacy, That's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
It is creepy.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I support you.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I did think it was funny that you know that
this Chinese oil tanker that was attacked in the Straight
or Horror Moves fell apparently failed to identify which side
carried out the attack. But no, that would have been
that would have been the Iranians that did that. You know,
on the same day that China ordered firms to ignore
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US Iranian sanctions. It can't make You can't make some
of this stuff up. You really can't. It's just too
good to be true. A couple of other little things.
You know, we talked about the exchange fire, et cetera,
et cetera. So we'll see what happens there there is. Yeah,
as I told you yesterday, oil went it was like
(23:15):
at ninety four or ninety five barrel. I don't know,
I mean the way the markets react to this. Now,
we're going to get into it later in the program.
This is a massive, massive win. And Democrats, Keem Jeffries,
apparently Keem Jeffries Pack put forty million dollars into this
unconstitutional effort to pretty much steal these seats in Virginia.
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And then now backfright. I was telling everybody ahead of
Diam it's never going to pass judicial muster in judicial review.
It didn't. Virginia Supreme Court overturned the state's recently passed
redistricting plan. Ken Coochinelli, one of Virginia's senators, will join
us as well. We told you yesterday what the craziness
that went on in the US Senate with Justin Pearson.
(24:02):
You know, he went ballistic, another person in the Senate
standing on the Senate desk screaming and yelling. Apparently Democrats
burned sixty four million dollars on this veiled jerry mander.
Between that and the Supreme Court decision against racial jerry mandering,
Democrats are in an in very tough shape right now
(24:24):
because we're talking about about twenty seats or more. And
with the election of Donald Trump's handpicked people in Indiana,
now that's going to come back and play, you know,
and Democrats just keep you know, doubling down on dumb,
dumber and stupid, you know, with their hammer the rich nonsense.
I mean New York City for example. You talk about
(24:47):
a tax exodus. It was an analysis today that i
RS data shows a massive reallocation of adjusted gross income
as tax firs move from high cost coastal hubs to
the south and west. You know, Red states are taking
in an additional two thy one and ninety nine point
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one billion dollars about what Blue states like California, Like
California lost six hundred and sixty billion. No, New York
lost six sixty California five hundred and three billion. That
doesn't even include the more recent people. My free state
of Florida gained one. I'm sorry, I'm given the wrong
(25:31):
numbers here. Forgive me. This is based in I wrote
it down, like, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Should I get the Jeopardy music out?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Like I mean, I can't. No, Okay, nearly two trillion,
I'm talking about billions instead of trillion. That's where I
messed up. I stand forgiven. I forgive myself. Nearly two trillion,
and economic growth leaving blue states six hundred and sixty
six billion, New York five hundred and three billion, California
doesn't include you know, this idiotic referendum that'll be on
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the ballot November that'll be retroactive to January. That's pushing
so many wealthy people out of there. Illinois three ninety
nine billion, New Jersey two hundred and twelve billion, Maryland
one hundred and twenty billion. Florida the biggest winner, one thousand,
two hundred and ninety three billion dollars. Can you imagine
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Texas next three hundred and seventy one billion, Arizona two
hundred and three billion, South Carolina one hundred and eighty
seven billion, same with North Carolina one hundred and eighty
seven billion. Wow. I mean, my attitude is just keep
doing what you're doing all these blue states. Now. By
warning to people that live in blue states, be careful
(26:53):
because they're going to have an exit tax and these
wealth taxes like you know this idiot mayor is in
Seattle and what they're proposing in California and what Mamdani
wants in New York. Uh, they're going to have a
wealth tax. They're going to have an exit tax. If
you're looking to get out, get out now before they
put all of this in place, because that means you'd
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leave and they'd still want to tax your income even
after you left the state. How insane is that? Talk
about a cash grap Another thing they're doing, by the way,
they're now calling it a sur tax, a tax increase,
all happening in blue states.
Thanks to all of you for being with us. Right
down are toll free telephone number this Friday. It is
eight hundred and nine four one Sean if you want
to be a part of the program, Linda, How often
do I say the days are long, the weeks are short,
and like we start our show Happy Monday, and then
the next thing I know, I blink my eyes and
(00:20):
as you know, Happy Friday. There's no such thing really
as a happy Monday. Except my one friend Michael says
Monday is my favorite day of the week. I can't
wait to get up out of bed and go to work.
And I look at him, I'm like, I really love
what I do for a living, but I don't love
it that much all to keep going because my brain
kind of shuts down a little bit over the weekend,
(00:41):
not completely, as you know. And by the way, why
were you whining? Because I was sending stories to everybody
at three thirty or four o'clock this morning, whatever time
it was. Why were you complaining? What was it dinging
next to your bed or something? I woke you up?
You said it woke me up.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, listen, you know you have a very special ring
on my phone. We've gone through this. It's kind of like, uh.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Meets No, that's not it.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You have a special ring. Go ahead, text me and
I'll play it over the air.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Text Linda, pay it over the this is.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Wait for America. This is a wonderful wait for it.
It's wonderful. It's coming right.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Hang on, I gotta get your text.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Oh my god, it is. Did you hear it?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You leave that on nightly? You're crazy because for.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
All I know, you're gonna text me something crazy. So
you're you don't get on your You're never on you know,
the Do not Disturb, You're never on silent, so no
matter what happens, I mean, you could be texting me that.
You know, Martha Stewart put it on a new cookbook
and I'm going to hear that.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Does Anthony hear that every night in the middle of
his sleep.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, he has Bloomberg on, so he has his own alerts.
Our room is one big alert. It's it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
But does that wake him up? That would wake me up.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I think he's immune to it now, you know, after
like the thirty eighth time in a night, he's like, whatever,
that's just Sean.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
He's you know, there are binge drinkers. There are binge
web surfers, and I'm one of those.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Oh yeah, you are a pro surfer, my friend.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Not sure what to make of this, The President announced
via truth Social that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to
a three day cease fire beginning May the ninth, which
he said would pause all kinetic activity in the ongoing
war that includes a thousand for a thousand prisoner exchange
of the two countries. He said, I'm pleased to announce
(02:43):
that there will be a three day ceasepire in the
war between Russia and Ukraine. The celebration in Russia is
for Victory Day, but likewise in Ukraine because they were
also a big part of and factor in World War Two.
This ceasfire will include a suspension of all kinetic activity
and also a prison swap of a thousand prisoners from
(03:05):
each country. The request was made directly by me. I
appreciate it's agreement by Vladimir Putin and President Zelenski. Hopefully
it is the beginning of the end of a very long, deadly,
hard fought war. Talks are continuing on ending this major
conflict and the biggest, you know, since World War two.
(03:28):
It's what four and a half years now. It's unbelievable,
you know, what's fascinating. And we always talk about the
next generation of weaponry, and we talk about how I
think future wars are going to be fought in air
conditioned offices. I mean, you can see with the pinpoint
precision and accuracy, you know, the first iteration generation, if
(03:52):
you will, of weaponry you know has been on full
display as it relates to Iran, which is why it
has been so it's a successful military effort. And I
just think it's all going to play out. What the
Ukrainians are doing, and I talk to people in the
know that know exactly what's going on, and I think
we should actually be partnering with them in this. They
(04:15):
have every seven anywhere from four to ten days, they
have the next generation of drone that they use. In
other words, they keep improving it every four to ten days.
And they've been using robots on the battlefield successfully, you know,
fighting off you know, Russian forces and taking back land
(04:40):
that Russia had acquired. I mean, if you would have
told me when Putin was amassing troops on the border
with Ukraine and Joe Biden was saying, you know what
he's going to do. Well, it depends if it's a
minor incursion. Obviously Putin had every intention to go in
there that you know four and a half years later
that they basically would be fighting to a standstill. Although
(05:04):
Russia has gotten some territory that they didn't have previously,
and that the Ukrainians would be able to fight this valiantly,
I frankly wouldn't have believed it. And now they're using
the next generation of weaponry. Pay close attention, because this
is the future and we better be on top of it,
and we better be ahead of the curve, and we
better do the investments. You know, people complaining Donald Trump
(05:26):
is investing one point five trillion dollars and this maybe
is one of the fundamental differences. You know, these these
idiot commentators out there that you know, feel sorry for
those of us that believe that that radical Islamic terrorists
are a clear and present and existential threat. I don't
know what the hell they're talking about. They want to
put their head in the sands that you still have
(05:47):
these isolationist idiots. You know, they said they support Trump.
They never really were big Trump supporters, but you know
the fact that they would put their head in the
sands and hand off to our children and grandchildren a
nuclear arm. Durant as unbelievable. Rubio said it so well
this week when he went out there and said, yeah,
you've worried about the straight of horn moves and it's
(06:07):
difficult to get you know, the Iranians out of the way,
and the blockade is you know, costing them four or
five hundred million dollars a day and bringing them economically
to their knees. And they have a currency that is
worthless and you know, a three hundred percent inflation rate,
have their workforces out of work now, the reports they
(06:28):
can't even feed there and pay their revolutionary guard core.
All of this, you know, can end in in less
than an hour if Donald Trump decides to obliterate their
entire economies. Trying to trying to find a more peaceful
solution to it. So we'll see what happens. We do
have a lot of good economic news. We're going to
get to the Irs paid out over two hundred million
(06:49):
dollars in tax credits to foreign citizens who aren't entitled
to them. That's good news, right, Linda, Oh, I'm sorry,
foreign citizens, illegals, very people that the Left wants to
have vote and to give free health care too, and
sex change operations too, and college tuition to. It's unbelievable.
(07:09):
We see Secretary of State Marco Rubio apparently met with
Pope Leo. I did get a little behind the scenes
of what happened, and apparently, you know, Marco was extraordinarily
he's so smart, he's so bright, if you know him,
so persuasive that he was explaining to the Pope. And
(07:33):
I don't know why the Pope needed to hear it
this way, what the regime in Iran is all about.
It was pretty you know, I'm trying to understand because
the Pope's made the statement about God does not approve
any conflict, which I would argue if you believe the
God of the Old Testament's the same as the God
(07:53):
in the New Testament, which he is, then God actually
put a seal of approval on well over four hundred conflicts.
But I don't want to get into a theological discussion. Now.
It doesn't mean because your pope that you're infallible. There
are if a pope is speaking ex cathedra. Okay, I
(08:15):
studied this when I studied theology, and I went to
Catholic schools twelve years and I studied Latin For the
little that I remember, and I mean little, but that
means on issues of faith and morals. When a pope
speaks otherwise, that does not make them infallible. Now, Marco
also meeting with Italy's Prime Minister Maloney to see if
(08:38):
they can resolve some of the tensions and differences. I'm
not sure that. I'm not sure it's going to be
possible to repair the damage that Europe has caused. It
was a phenomenal experience in Great Britain yesterday. It was
a complete and utter wipeout by Nigel Farage and his
Reform Party against ker Neville Chamberlain's Starmer and his Labor Party.
(09:04):
They only came into power two years ago. It was
a complete wipeout. We'll get into that more details later
today anyway, so we'll see if Marco's diplomacy pays off
in time. That would be interesting to watch. You know,
you can't win for losing, I mean all the people
you know. Release this release the JFK files, the EPSTEIN files,
(09:25):
the RFK files, the MLK files, the you know anything
we have on UFOs. Now, I've always been fascinated with
the UFOs. Linda, you fascinated with this, I am, indeed, okay,
you facined you know what a UAP is, I do indeed. Okay.
So the latest now they released what we learned from
today's release on the issue of UAP's UFOs, et cetera.
(09:50):
And by the way, we just did a podcast, you know,
on the Bob Lazar story, which is one of it
was a huge hit on Prime uh and the director,
I mean, the guy, the story he tells is phenomenal,
and he tells the story where yeah, he worked on
you know, power sources that were not of this earth
and well unidentified flying objects whatever you want to call
(10:15):
them UAPs, and saw them and discussed it and felt
that he had to tell his story because otherwise he
felt that he wouldn't be protected anyway. So the White
House put out the latest UAP videos, photos, original source
documents from across the entire US are all in one place,
no clearance required. And while past administration sought to discredit
(10:39):
or dissuade the American people, President Trump's focused on providing
maximum transparency to the public. Who can ultimately make up
their own minds about information contained in the files. And
you know, the same thing was said by Tulsea Gabbard
and Cash Ptel, who said that to me in my podcast.
He made so much news in that podcast. Wow, you
haven't seen it. It's worth seeing wherever you watch it
(11:00):
video podcast. The same with the NASA administrator. Now they
released photos from the initial disclosure show. I mean, you
just can't describe it any other way than strangely shaped
objects captured on film. For example, it goes back as
far as Apollo twelve and Apollo seventeen space missions. One photo,
(11:22):
taken from the surface of the Moon appears to show
a cluster of three tiny dots in the sky. Again,
I'm just giving you the raw data. Here. A transcript
of communication between Apollo seventeen operators details the operators exchange
over this unknown phenomenon. And now we've got a few
bright particles, fragments or something that go drifting by as
(11:45):
we maneuver. Roger understand, there's a whole bunch of big
ones on my window down there, just bright. It looks
like the fourth of July out of Ron's window. Another
operator said, quote, yes, now you can see them in shape.
They're very jagged angular fragments. They are tumbling, the first
(12:07):
operator said. An FBI photo containing the black dots appear
to be UAPs. FBI graphic showing a twenty twenty three
eyewitness account of a football shaped UFO materializing from light
in the sky, and the actual site photo of the
(12:28):
FBI lab rendered graphic overlay depicting corroborating eyewitness reports from
September twenty twenty three. I mean it goes all the
way back nineteen sixty five, a transcript Gemini seven Space
mission describing astronauts encounter with a brilliant body containing trillions
of particles. And you know, look, just I'm not telling
(12:51):
you what to believe or not believe. I'm just fascinated
by it. And a lot of people. You know, God
created the heavens and the earth, and you know, here
we just keep discovering more universes within universes within universes.
The majesty of God's imagination and creation is breathtaking to me.
(13:11):
And you know, nowhere biblically speaking, if you're looking at
this and you believe that God created the heavens and
the earth as I do nothing. There contradicts the idea
that God could could have created life or intelligence in
some capacity and in some other universe that maybe is
(13:31):
long and far away from here. I mean, all of
that is possible anyway. They talk about specifically people observing
you know it saucer shaped aircraft, how long it is
in dynameter one case, twenty one feet in diameter, radio
controlled you know, in this case of Bob Lazaar, which
(13:53):
we dropped in the podcast. I mean he's saying we
have it, and that he saw it and that he
worked on it. Then he talked about its power sauce
power source. I sound like you saying source, power source,
and how the power source is otherworldly, which makes perfect sense.
(14:13):
There was this guy years and years ago. I used
to go to this thing called the invention convention. Invendors
would get together, and some of it was junk, some
of it was very interesting. The one guy really believed
that if we could ever tap into the gravitational force,
that there would be an endless source of human energy.
His fear was, not only would it be good be
used for good use, but it could be used for bad.
(14:36):
I mean, I guess that's that's the human nature, good
and evil. But it was very convincing talk about buzz
Aldrin describing unusual things he saw in the Apollo eleven mission.
The issue of Iran is going to come to a
quick ad in US and Iran exchange fire on Thursday,
as we told you yesterday on the program. Of course,
none of our ships were hit. No damage done to
(14:58):
three destroyers. Great damage was done to the Iranian attackers.
They were completely destroyed. They're dead anyway. The President said no.
When I asked if the conflict is over, Secretary of
State Rubio says, the US expects Iran to respond to
their peace proposal, which means no nukes by the end
(15:20):
of the day. Today they are losing four to five
hundred billion dollars a day. You know, Rubio just summed
it up so perfectly this week when he said, imagine
that worries about the straight of Horn moves if Iran
ever had a nuclear weapon. And unlike these other isolationist
idiots that have a microphone, they're like homeless people with microphones,
(15:45):
and I'm like, they're the dumbest people on Earth. They
have no contact. They just make stuff up. The number
of people peddling conspiracy theories. I don't think it's ever
been higher than it is now. Israel did this. He's
the president who's listening to BB. No, the president listened
to his intelligence community. How do I know? Because I
(16:05):
speak to these people and without with one exception somebody
that just had a philosophical disagreement with the president, which
I don't really mind. The president will listen to all voices.
I know that there were prominent voices in the Oval Office,
not Fox News hosts, not Mark Levin, not Sean Hannity,
(16:27):
thank me, God, bless us. No, but you know, sitting
in the days leading up to epic fury, you know,
begging the president to listen to them. The President didn't
listen to them. He listened to the intelligence to a fault.
All of the people that I talked to, and I
think people would understand that I am fairly you know,
(16:48):
well connected when it comes to government sources to they
all say the same thing. The president had no choice.
The one that said it most loudly and most publicly
was are Middle East non voice the wit cough, how
they were bragging. They had four hundred and sixty kilograms
nearly one thousand pounds of sixty percent enriched uranium. Okay,
(17:10):
maybe doesn't mean much to the average bird, but to
the to the people that are in the know about
nuclear and Richmond, that means that twelve days or less
away from weapons great and enrich uranium at ninety percent,
that's not a risk. We could take. The words that
I hear most often from the people that know is
(17:30):
the president had no choice. He just didn't. And I know,
you know, people wish it would be be over. I
want it to be over. I don't want gas prices
to go up at all. Though I've noticed the price
of a barrel of oil last couple of days. It's
down again today, right, I'm pretty sure last time I checked.
And the President is saying that there will be a
(17:52):
lot of pain if Iran doesn't do this. He also
Marco Rubio says, only stupid countries don't chew back when
you're shot at Can you believe how dumb the legacy
media mob, the isolation as conspiracy theory morons are. They
really are stupid. One thing that is gaining traction is
what we've been talking about a lot, is getting arms
(18:14):
in the hands of the Iranian people. I mean, for
forty seven years. These people have been terrorized. But it's
not our fight for their freedom. They got to fight
for their own freedom. But if we supplied them, we
did the same thing. Reagan did it, and Angolai did
it with the Nicaraguan freedom fighters. He did it with
the Moujahden when they were battling the former Soviet Union.
(18:37):
You know, although you can listen to Kamala Harris, she
says Russia's the big winner in the Iran War. What
the hell is she even talking about? Is she really
that dumb? I mean, I can't believe this woman even
got any votes for president anyway. So that's the news
from Lake Wobogan as it relates to what's going on here.
(18:59):
The president did strike one of the Iranian ports in
the straight of horn moves to send a message yesterday too.
Now this propaganda reports that the son of the late
Ali Hamani, who was also injured in the opening salvo
of Epic Fury, as full oversight of the Iranian state affairs.
(19:20):
According to the State Ministry of Propaganda, I don't believe that,
by the way, executed Iranian prisoners. Three Iranian prisoners executed
over the weekend. They described the torture, forced confessions, denied
legal rights, in messages that they shared with the Jerusalem
(19:40):
Posts before their deaths, and anyway, you know they went
on to they were eventually hung. I mean, this is
just a brutal regime. It's just horrible. It will come
to an end. I think the President's patients now I
will be I was. I was struggling with whether I
should go or I shouldn't go, and I made a
(20:03):
final decision. And I hope, I hope the people in
this audience I understand why I was struggling, even in
the even in any way, when you have an opportunity
to go on Air Force one, why most people would say, well,
why are you struggling with that? Because I'm going to
miss too many programs based on the time difference, the
(20:24):
travel demands, and the the commitments that I will have
to be at certain events while my shows are taking place.
I'll be able to do. I'll miss I think one
or two TV shows next week. I'm how many radio
shows am I going to miss? I'll do a show Monday.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
You're not missing every day talking to us? Is this
thing on? Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
You're gonna be here every day talking to us.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Will I will be updating this audience. I'll be talking
to the audience every day from China, and it's going
to be great. I said, do you think I'm going
to be spied on? He said, oh, yeah, I mean
and I said, well, explain what that means. He goes, Oh,
they're gonna bug your room. And I'm like with video
cameras because there'll be a video camera in the shower.
(21:19):
I mean, that's kind of creepy. That creeps you out
a little bit. And you will your great suggestions. Just
put on a bathing suit. That's all you need to do.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Put on a different bathing suit every day. That way
you're comfortable each day. You could do the colors, you know,
a different color every day.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
What do you have to do to put on a
bathing suit? Do you do? You wear your underwear on
your bathing suit?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I mean, I think I could get challenging.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
What what are you going to do? Take off the
bathing suit and and wait for the underwear to drive
you gotta get naked.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
And I don't know how much detail we're getting into here,
but I'm just gonna let you know that if you're
getting changed into your bathing suit, and there's video cameras
in your room in China. I suggest you do it
in the dark.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Do it in the dark. Did you ever hear of
night vision cameras? You don't think that they're using more
sophisticated technology than a regular camera.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
It's gonna look a little blurry. Everything's fine in the dark,
you know, even if they have night vision. You know
you got the lights on. You're in trouble.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Linda is saying to me, this is very rude. You
say I look better in the dark naked.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I never said that. I'm here my privacy. I'm all
about your privacy, That's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
It is creepy.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I support you.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I did think it was funny that you know that
this Chinese oil tanker that was attacked in the Straight
or Horror Moves fell apparently failed to identify which side
carried out the attack. But no, that would have been
that would have been the Iranians that did that. You know,
on the same day that China ordered firms to ignore
(22:51):
US Iranian sanctions. It can't make You can't make some
of this stuff up. You really can't. It's just too
good to be true. A couple of other little things.
You know, we talked about the exchange fire, et cetera,
et cetera. So we'll see what happens there there is. Yeah,
as I told you yesterday, oil went it was like
(23:15):
at ninety four or ninety five barrel. I don't know,
I mean the way the markets react to this. Now,
we're going to get into it later in the program.
This is a massive, massive win. And Democrats, Keem Jeffries,
apparently Keem Jeffries Pack put forty million dollars into this
unconstitutional effort to pretty much steal these seats in Virginia.
(23:40):
And then now backfright. I was telling everybody ahead of
Diam it's never going to pass judicial muster in judicial review.
It didn't. Virginia Supreme Court overturned the state's recently passed
redistricting plan. Ken Coochinelli, one of Virginia's senators, will join
us as well. We told you yesterday what the craziness
that went on in the US Senate with Justin Pearson.
(24:02):
You know, he went ballistic, another person in the Senate
standing on the Senate desk screaming and yelling. Apparently Democrats
burned sixty four million dollars on this veiled jerry mander.
Between that and the Supreme Court decision against racial jerry mandering,
Democrats are in an in very tough shape right now
(24:24):
because we're talking about about twenty seats or more. And
with the election of Donald Trump's handpicked people in Indiana,
now that's going to come back and play, you know,
and Democrats just keep you know, doubling down on dumb,
dumber and stupid, you know, with their hammer the rich nonsense.
I mean New York City for example. You talk about
(24:47):
a tax exodus. It was an analysis today that i
RS data shows a massive reallocation of adjusted gross income
as tax firs move from high cost coastal hubs to
the south and west. You know, Red states are taking
in an additional two thy one and ninety nine point
(25:11):
one billion dollars about what Blue states like California, Like
California lost six hundred and sixty billion. No, New York
lost six sixty California five hundred and three billion. That
doesn't even include the more recent people. My free state
of Florida gained one. I'm sorry, I'm given the wrong
(25:31):
numbers here. Forgive me. This is based in I wrote
it down, like, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Should I get the Jeopardy music out?
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Like I mean, I can't. No, Okay, nearly two trillion,
I'm talking about billions instead of trillion. That's where I
messed up. I stand forgiven. I forgive myself. Nearly two trillion,
and economic growth leaving blue states six hundred and sixty
six billion, New York five hundred and three billion, California
doesn't include you know, this idiotic referendum that'll be on
(26:08):
the ballot November that'll be retroactive to January. That's pushing
so many wealthy people out of there. Illinois three ninety
nine billion, New Jersey two hundred and twelve billion, Maryland
one hundred and twenty billion. Florida the biggest winner, one thousand,
two hundred and ninety three billion dollars. Can you imagine
(26:31):
Texas next three hundred and seventy one billion, Arizona two
hundred and three billion, South Carolina one hundred and eighty
seven billion, same with North Carolina one hundred and eighty
seven billion. Wow. I mean, my attitude is just keep
doing what you're doing all these blue states. Now. By
warning to people that live in blue states, be careful
(26:53):
because they're going to have an exit tax and these
wealth taxes like you know this idiot mayor is in
Seattle and what they're proposing in California and what Mamdani
wants in New York. Uh, they're going to have a
wealth tax. They're going to have an exit tax. If
you're looking to get out, get out now before they
put all of this in place, because that means you'd
(27:16):
leave and they'd still want to tax your income even
after you left the state. How insane is that? Talk
about a cash grap Another thing they're doing, by the way,
they're now calling it a sur tax, a tax increase,
all happening in blue states.
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