April 6, 2026 • 28 mins
Sean Hannity opens the hour with a forceful breakdown of why the Iran confrontation reached a critical moment, arguing that the military action was necessary to stop a nuclear-armed regime before it crossed the point of no return. He frames the conflict around newly emphasized threats, including enriched uranium, ballistic missile reach, and the broader danger posed by a regime he describes as the world’s leading state sponsor of terror.
The hour also centers on the dramatic rescue of two American pilots deep inside enemy territory, with Hannity spotlighting the precision, courage, and professionalism of the U.S. military. From the planning and deception tactics to the message that no American will be left behind, this episode blends breaking geopolitical stakes with a patriotic tribute to the men and women who carried out one of the most daring recovery missions in recent memory.
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All of you for being with us. Right down are
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certain moments in time when you look at the United
States Military and it just you well up with a
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sense of gratitude and you are in just awe of
how amazing these men and women in an all volunteer
you know, armed forces are at any given moment, and
you think of the history of the US and dealing
with the Iranians, and it has not been a good
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one for the last forty seven years, you know, with
the Ayatola Komane coming into power nineteen seventy nine and
Americans held hostage for four hundred and forty four days,
and how stupid so many past presidents have been in
trying to deal with this radical eye Islamo fascist regime
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that controls this place, and what they have done to
once great people, the Persian people, and how they have
so oppressed this country and driven them into poverty, and
how much terror they have been fomenting around the world
and their terror proxies that they have been funding. And
then you think of the utter stupidity of people like
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Barack Hussein Obama. You know, oh, look, let's just fly
in cargo planes of cash and other currency and billions
of dollars so that the Iranians can build out their
nuclear capability, ballistic missile capability, and so on and so forth.
And the result has been devastating for the region, and
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it has been becoming an existential threat to the entire world.
We'll get into the need for this entire operation in
a second, although we've addressed it many times, But there
are so many people that could not be any more
wrong about the urgents of the President's actions here. And
it's all I could tell you, had the President not
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acted expeditiously, that the odds of a nuclear armed Iran
would have been that much greater. We once again, the
world underestimated the Iranians capability in terms of the range
of their ballistic missiles. We now know they have ballistic
missiles capable of being launched and that could hit countries
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like Great Britain and France and cities like Paris and London.
We did not know that before. As per usual, international
globalist organizations underestimated what they had and so we have
been engaged in this military effort because we learned from
our Mid eastn voice, Steve Whitkoff, who was negotiating with
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the uraniums confirmation of that which we kind of already knew,
which they had enough sixty percent enriched uranium that could
be enriched to way eapens grade uranium with it in
no less and no more than twelve days, which would
have given them enough uranium for eleven bombs. You couple
that with their ballistic missile capability, and now you're looking
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at a nuclear armed Iran, you know, with a live
with a converter di mentality and the number one state
sponsor of terror. The fact that we have to convince
some people that this was the right decision is a
little bit difficult for me to comprehend because we do
have a lot of stupid people. It's like a lot
of stupid people. I was watching melt down over the
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weekend because the President put out a controversial truth posting,
and I'll get to that in a minute. But the
moment that all of you heard, many of you heard
Sunday morning, Easter morning, many of you heard Saturday night.
We got him. My fellow Americans. Over the past several hours,
the United States Military pulled off one of the most
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daring search and rescue missions in US history for one
of our incredible crew member officers, who also happens to
be a highly respected colonel, who I am thrilled to
let you now to know is now safe and sound.
His brave warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous
mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies who
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were getting closer and closer by the hour, but was
never truly alone because his Commander in Chief, Secretary of War,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and fellow war fighters were
monitoring his location twenty four hours a day, diligently planning
for his rescue. At my direction, the US military sent
dozens of aircraft armed with the most lethal weapons in
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the world to retrieve him. He did sustain injuries, but
he will be fined. The miraculous search and rescue operation
comes in addition to a successful rescue of another brave
pilot yesterday, which we did not confirm because we did
not want to jeopardize our second rescue operation. This is
the first time in military memory that two US pilots
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have been rescued separately deep within enemy territory. We will
never leave an American war fighter behind. The fact that
we were able to pull off both of these operations
without a single American killed or even wounded, just proves
once again that we have achieved overwhelming air dominance and
superiority over the Iranian skies. This is a moment for
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all Americans, Republican, Democrat, everyone else that they should be
proud of all of the United States and all our
brave fighters. We truly have the best, most professional, lethal
military in the history of the world. God bless America,
God bless our troops. Happy Easter to all. I don't
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know why people doubt our military might. I'm not really sure.
We are at a very critical, crucial point in how
this is going to go down. A lot of people
don't know. When a US aircraft goes down in a
war zone, the response is anything but completely anticipated, choreographed tightly,
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and and it is something that they practice from day one.
And what is the highest, you know, the most sensitive technology.
You know, we want to keep that out of enemy hands,
deny our adversaries, intelligence propaganda wins. The military has a
clear playbook. But when these situations arise there it is
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it is factored into any military mission. Because we're dealing
with mechanical equipment. Things can go wrong. Our people are
important and anyway, so if a pilot, like in this case,
two pilots ejecting and they survive, they are trained to
evade capture using survival techniques that are drilled into them
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before they are ever deployed. Concealment, communication with friendly forces,
movement to avoid detection. Military commanders prepare, they plan, they
execute recovery operations long in advance of them ever engaging
in any military activity, and ensure that these individuals are
trained to contend with any event unforeseeable event and capable
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of recovering personnel and staff to react quickly to whatever
situation just happens to arise. You know, elite units like
you know Air Force, you know power rescue, Navy seals,
Army special ops teams are are they know they're going
to be dispatched. They're often escorted by helicopters, fighter jets,
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et cetera. In some cases, drone satellite surveillance aircraft are
used and they monitor and track the pilot's position and
they were able to do this with perfection. It is
something that is practiced over and over and over again.
And the goal is to prevent a sensitive equipment radar
weapons technolo from falling in enemy hands. But more importantly,
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it is to make sure that we don't leave Americans
behind and when a crash site, the military may destroy
the records from the air. They ended up doing that
and this this effort for a number of different reasons
that came on board at the time. Now, when you
look at the details of this, it is spectacular, and
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the President went into great detail today and we'll play
some of it as the as the show on folds
throughout the day to day, and all of it is incredible.
All of it is. You know, we had over one
hundred men, you know, the US rescued this this f
fifteen airmen. It was deep inside enemy territory. They had
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Sealed Team six, one of the they had. John Ratcliffe,
the CIA director, described the CIA ruse to divert their attention.
They constructed a forward air strip in hostile territory. They
had patrols, they create a perimeter. They were using you know,
drones all over the region. As it means they knew
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exactly the location of this fighter pilot. I'll get to
that in a second. But the officer shot down on
Good Friday, this was southwestern Iran. Hid in the mountains.
He managed to climb a seven thousand foot ridge. My
understanding is get inside a little crevice inside of a mountain,
knowing that the Iranians had every belief that he was
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alive because they found the ejection seat and they found
a pilot there. But he was able to climb this
seven thousand foot ridge, And in an effort to confuse
the Iranians, they put a sixty thousand dollars bounty, which
is more times more than ten times the average household
income in Iran, So that was a great incentive for
people on the officer's head. The CIA pulled off a
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diversion Saturday, planting fake intel that he had already been
rescued and was being driven out of Iran, according to
The Times, to push them off at their attention in
another area. The operation involves landing multiple transport aircraft inside
of Iranian territory. Deep inside that territory, the US Air
Force landing strip was set up close to the city,
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and they started out with and this is another amazing
part of it, because they have contingency plans. And I
talked to people familiar with the mission. It's been now
widely reported. I'm not reporting anything that's not now in
the in the out in the public. They had these
two massive C one thirties that ended up, you know,
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coming in. They ended up actually sort of like having
problems when that was on the ground, But immediately they
dispatched not one, not two, but three backup transport planes
that were in place ready to take off in case
as a contingency, in case they had a problem. They
didn't have to you know, last minute, you know, scramble
these planes as a backup in case something happened. I mean,
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pretty amazing stuff. And I mean this is like, I
don't know, Jason Bourne, mission impossible, you name it, James
bond All loaded up in one. They had a total
of four helicopters night stalkers. According to a report in
the war zone, it's believed the Iranians were fired upon
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from the air in other words, as they created a
perimeter and anyway, they were able to send in these
backup aircraft to go in and get the rescue teams
and get this pilot that had been injured during the ejection,
and the US Air Force used multiple bombs, blowing up
all the aircraft that they ended up abandoning, you know,
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just to get the hell out of there, which is
standard operating procedure, and the US suffered no casualties. And
US Special Ops commandos also engaged in skirmishes apparently as well,
and then the President was able to say, we got them.
It is a lesson and it is a moment for
this country to just, you know, take a moment and
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be proud, be proud of the fact that we have
brave men and women that are willing to risk their
lives to protect one another and to protect us. There
is still a grave misunderstanding out there, and I think
it's purposeful and the part of people that have agendas.
The saddest part in all of this is you don't
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hear from the left. You don't hear from the crazy Democrats,
you don't hear from the radical left, you don't hear
from the isolationist wing all over the place that you know,
if they had their way, Iran would have nuclear weapons
and would hold the world and our children and grandchildren hostage.
Now you can be convinced of. And that is the
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whole reason that the President made this very quick decision
for Operation Epic Fury. To begin with, it's the sixty
percent enriched uranium. Now, according to the President, they are
in the middle of negotiations with a deadline of tomorrow,
with the promise that the President's going to blow up
their bridges and blow up their infrastructure and their power
plans and blow them into the Stone Age if they
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do not go along with this deal. And I'll get
to the actual verbiage of it in a second. And
the reason that the President is pushing this point and
this is a very simple choice for the Iranians. Now,
they had an opportunity for peace before midnight Hammered. They
did not take that opportunity. The same thing with Epic Fury.
They were given time, and the President would have preferred,
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he said it repeatedly, he would prefer to have peace.
But when you're dealing with Islamo fascists that believe in
convert or die, the number one state sponsor of terror,
it's very hard to negotiate with radicalized people like this,
indoctrinated people like this. Now, the one benefit that we
have the president believes this next tier of leadership, the
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fourth or fifthier, is being more reasonable. But if they
don't agree to open the straight of horror moves, if
they don't agree how to turn over the uranium, not
if they will turn over the enriched uranium, then the
president will follow through on his promise. And you would
think that they might have learned something about Donald Trump
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and his promises at this point. Do you think they
might have learned that they've been They've been decimated. They're army,
their navy pretty much, their ballistic missile systems, they're nuclear systems.
Fourteen bunker buster bombs. How many more lessons you know,
do you have to teach one regime before they come
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to some level of understanding of what they're dealing with. Anyway,
I hope that they choose the peaceful option. Be better
for the world, better for our country, better for everything.
But you know what, they just can't be permitted to
have a nuclear weapon. We went over why this was
needed at this time, this conflict with Iran. We're now
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neutralizing the number one state sponsor of terror. We are
preventing them from ever getting a nuclear weapon. While we
had an opportunity. And I've explained in detail how this
president learned the lessons of Reagan peace through strength, the
lessons of history the last century, one hundred million dead
souls in the name of some Isam that could have
been taken out earlier that was not. And he also
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learned the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan. And you know,
I mean, I'm listening to people out there that are
now trying to claim that this war is illegal. As
Martin Goury put in the New York Post, wars are
not subject to laws or court hearings. Institutions that to
pretend to be otherwise, like these globalist institutions like the
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UN and the International Court of Justice, which we don't
recognize have existed, they have historically been anti Semitic and
anti American. A war is either just or unjust, he
makes a great point, and this is determined by the
circumstances of the conflict and the moral valiance of combatants.
The circumstances of this present conflict are straightforward death to America,
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number one state sponsor of terror. And you know, I
just I don't even know why this is even a
question for some people, but it is what it is.
And I think that history will be very kind to
the President's foresight wisdom to neutralize what was a growing,
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clear present danger to the world and to the United
States before it became more powerful and before it became
a nuclear armed A couple you marry nuclear, you know,
capability with radical Islamism, and you've got yourself a formula
for a potential modern day holocaust. It's that simple, not complicated.
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You know, if you watch Donald Trump sixty seconds. I
don't know why this is hard, you know for people
to really understand ow the straits of horn moves and
the sixty percent enriched uranium. They remain the final pieces
of this puzzle, and we're going to find out in
fairly short order. You know, we might know by the
time we get on this program tomorrow. We might know
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by the end of this program today. I don't know.
And that is whether or not the President is able
to successfully negotiate terms with this remaining tier of quote leadership.
By the way, well nobody was paying attention, you know,
while Field Team six and all these other heroes were
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rescuing this wounded airmen in the US warplanes were dropping
a bunker buster bomb on the Ranium Revolutionary Guard headquarters,
taking out more of their top leadership. We just don't stop.
We're pounding them and to the point where they are
now not capable of fighting any war. I mean, even
Prime Minister nat Yaho said that this existential threat that
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was Iran is not currently an existential threat even to Israel,
which is in the air, which is in the region.
By the way, the President did acknowledge today that they
are trying to funnel weapons to the Iranian protesters. I
hope that is successful, because you can't win revolutions without slingshots.
But the President was also clear regime change was not
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our main goal. Our main goal was to make sure
we don't have a nuclear armed Iran, and the President
is proving successful in that effort. The President says that
they're getting close. The President also said today that he
vowed to prosecute the leaker who blabbed the news that
a second airman was missing in Iraq in Iran rather apparently,
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I'm not sure which news organization. Linda's telling me she
believes it was CBS through and also the BBC, and
they have a relationship. But I want to see what
happened because you know, news organizations often pick up on
a lot of stuff that they can't in good consciences.
They love their country and care about men and women
in harm's way, you just don't do it. Let me
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get to this issue of President Trump and his tweet.
The tweet because people woke up on Easter Sunday morning
and they were shocked, Linda, they were just shocked. Donald
Trump has been saying controversial things ever since he announced
he's running for president, and he came down that escalator
at Trump Tower. I don't know why at this point
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in time people act shocked. I think it's fanned. I
think it's bony. I think it is that they don't
want to understand Donald Trump. He said Tuesday, meaning tomorrow
will be power plant Day and bridge Day, all wrapped
up in Won. They will be nothing like it. Open
the blanking straits. You crazy. I can say, bastards, or
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you'll be living in hell. Just watch Praise be to Allah.
That's what he said. Now, he says this as Steve Whitcoff,
Jared Kushner, and Marco Rubio reportedly or all negotiating with
whatever Iranian regime exists. In other words, went out with
the fourth or fifthier of leadership. Now, why did the
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president do this? Why? I know it's not conventional. Is
there anything about Donald Trump that's conventional? Really? Is there
anything that really surprises you? How many presidents are like
Donald Trump? We'll never see another one like him, I
don't think in our lifetime. And the fact that people
don't understand him at this late after having all these years,
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if they had any sense of objectivity and any desire
to understand him, you would understand him. Now, what is
he doing? It's what I say he always does. He's
in a perpetual state of new negotiation. He wants an answer,
and the answer is is this new Iranian leadership? Are
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they really more reasonable or not? And he is putting
them to the test. Now I can tell you what
he wants is the outcome. He would want the Iranians
to end this war peacefully. This is about pushing for peace,
not for more war. We've proven we can destroy them,
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We've proven that we can obliterate them, and he wants
the Iranians to choose peace. But he also knows the
mindset of these Iranians, especially in some level of leadership.
Convert or die Number one state sponsor of terror. Wipe
Israel off the map, Wipe America off the map. He
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knows exactly what he's doing. He's being purposely provocative. He
wants them to know. Number one, he will do it.
Number Two, he's crazy. If your enemy thinks that you're
willing to do it, that these are not idle words
that are being spoken by somebody like Obama and Biden.
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There's a lot of power behind that. If there is
any chance of any deal. This is the President drawing
his line in the sand, and he's speaking the only
language that lunatics like this will understand. People. You know,
the reports that they're actually arming children in case America
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ever hits the ground in Iran, they want young children
to go fight their wars rather than the quote leadership,
you know, putting weapons on themselves and going to fight wars.
You ever notice the leadership never strap bombs on themselves
with the promise of seventy two virgins to go kill
innocent men, women and children. They would get indoctrinated, you know,
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rich people to do that, but they themselves never do that.
And he's speaking the only language they understand. I'm telling
you right now, just like he didn't want to drop
fourteen bunker buster bombs before Midnight Hammer. He would have
preferred a peace steal, just like he didn't want He
would have preferred peace before Operation Epic Fury gave them
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every opportunity for peace. He is doing it now once again,
except the first tier of leadership, the second tier of leadership,
the third tier of leadership is now dead and gone,
and he's hoping that maybe this next tier of leadership
might take him seriously. The ball is going to be
in their court. It really, to use a very simple analogy,
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it's no different than a professional athlete, except the stakes
are much higher. Obviously, you know, talking Adam Schiff to
get a star player on the other team off their game,
and he's playing chess, and the media and other countries
are playing checker, and everybody else lives in fear. After
eleven years of him being front and center on the
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world stage, you would think that they understand. And what
is this negotiation coming down to. If the Iranians want
a deal, and we should know sometime tomorrow if there's
going to be a deal, all the President wants is
they must open the straight or horse moves immediately. The
second thing that they're gonna have to agree to, not
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if they will hand over the sixty percent enriched uranium,
how they will hand over the sixty percent enriched uranium. Now,
if they agree to this oldtimatum, then hell will not
rain down on Iran. It will not be bridge day,
it will not be infrastructure day. It will be Okay, Now,
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let's finish these negotiations and your country can survive day.
That's what it's going to be. And I hope and
I meet this. Maybe some people think I like whop No.
I want to get our brave men and women out
of arms way as quickly as possible while removing a
potential threat down the road that we have a nuclear
armed Iran Prime Minister nat Yakshu, who actually has declared
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Iran no longer poses that existential threat to Israel. But
he's also factoring in that the sixty percent of enrich uranium.
It's either gonna come out. It's we could do it
the easy way or we can do it the hard way.
And that's that's where we now are. Now I'm gonna
tell you something else. There's two other things that have
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pissed me off in all of this Number one, I
have had it with Europe. Absolutely. They have chosen to
disintegrates as individual countries and as a continent. They have
abandoned their commitment to national security and national defense. They
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have embraced radical social and climate alarmism, which is why
they are so dependent on outside sources. They've they've bought
into solar panels and climate change and all of this.
It's cost them billions and billions and hundreds of billions
of dollars. They've not committed themselves to securing their continent
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or their individual countries. And when America just asked for
a little bit of help and the President said it
was a test to see if NATO would step up,
they did not. So I would imagine when this is
all said and done and resolved, and it will be
resolved in a way that there won't be a nuclear
armed Oran or a nuclear threat of Iran. And that
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actually helps out oh cities like Paris in London because
they have the ballistic missile range that we didn't think
they had, and they can get to Paris and London
with nuclear material if they had it, and they just
they were a bunch of cowards. Neville Chamberlain juniors. They
learned nothing. We rebuilt Europe after World War Two and
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they have allowed unfettered illegal immigration and did not demand assimilation,
which has resulted in nearly one hundred Sharia courts in
Great Britain and no go zones and other parts of Europe,
including France. And why they You know, it is fascinating
as the world is getting away from radical Islam. Now,
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how interesting is it, Linda, that the daughter of the
top Iranian official Ali Larijani. Remember we talked about him
when they took this guy out anyway, forced out of
Emory University in Atlanta, set to be booted from the
United States. And anyway, her late father was a top
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official in Tehran. Very evil guy. She worked as an
assistant professor at Emory. Anyway, Now it sparked backlash. Now
did you see that the niece and grand niece of
General Solomani arrested in Los Angeles after the Secretary of
State Mark or Rubio terminated their permanent residence status and
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then ICE agents scooped them up. Apparently, I guess in
Los Angeles routinely boasting on Instagram about attacks against the US,
bashing US as the Great Satan Why would we be
that stupid of a country to allow them into this country?
Did you see the pictures that the New York Post
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had of this young niece, this grand niece of Solomony?
What for all to talk about? You know, love of
Allah and you know the ayah tola? This I told
a lot of these leaders, kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews. Boy,
they all made their way to the US. What does
that say about the US? It says we're a stupid
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country for allowing them
All of you for being with us. Right down are
toll free telephone number if you want to be a
part of the program. It's eight hundred and ninety four
one sean if you want to join us. There are
certain moments in time when you look at the United
States Military and it just you well up with a
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sense of gratitude and you are in just awe of
how amazing these men and women in an all volunteer
you know, armed forces are at any given moment, and
you think of the history of the US and dealing
with the Iranians, and it has not been a good
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one for the last forty seven years, you know, with
the Ayatola Komane coming into power nineteen seventy nine and
Americans held hostage for four hundred and forty four days,
and how stupid so many past presidents have been in
trying to deal with this radical eye Islamo fascist regime
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that controls this place, and what they have done to
once great people, the Persian people, and how they have
so oppressed this country and driven them into poverty, and
how much terror they have been fomenting around the world
and their terror proxies that they have been funding. And
then you think of the utter stupidity of people like
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Barack Hussein Obama. You know, oh, look, let's just fly
in cargo planes of cash and other currency and billions
of dollars so that the Iranians can build out their
nuclear capability, ballistic missile capability, and so on and so forth.
And the result has been devastating for the region, and
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it has been becoming an existential threat to the entire world.
We'll get into the need for this entire operation in
a second, although we've addressed it many times, But there
are so many people that could not be any more
wrong about the urgents of the President's actions here. And
it's all I could tell you, had the President not
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acted expeditiously, that the odds of a nuclear armed Iran
would have been that much greater. We once again, the
world underestimated the Iranians capability in terms of the range
of their ballistic missiles. We now know they have ballistic
missiles capable of being launched and that could hit countries
(02:27):
like Great Britain and France and cities like Paris and London.
We did not know that before. As per usual, international
globalist organizations underestimated what they had and so we have
been engaged in this military effort because we learned from
our Mid eastn voice, Steve Whitkoff, who was negotiating with
(02:49):
the uraniums confirmation of that which we kind of already knew,
which they had enough sixty percent enriched uranium that could
be enriched to way eapens grade uranium with it in
no less and no more than twelve days, which would
have given them enough uranium for eleven bombs. You couple
that with their ballistic missile capability, and now you're looking
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at a nuclear armed Iran, you know, with a live
with a converter di mentality and the number one state
sponsor of terror. The fact that we have to convince
some people that this was the right decision is a
little bit difficult for me to comprehend because we do
have a lot of stupid people. It's like a lot
of stupid people. I was watching melt down over the
(03:32):
weekend because the President put out a controversial truth posting,
and I'll get to that in a minute. But the
moment that all of you heard, many of you heard
Sunday morning, Easter morning, many of you heard Saturday night.
We got him. My fellow Americans. Over the past several hours,
the United States Military pulled off one of the most
(03:54):
daring search and rescue missions in US history for one
of our incredible crew member officers, who also happens to
be a highly respected colonel, who I am thrilled to
let you now to know is now safe and sound.
His brave warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous
mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies who
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were getting closer and closer by the hour, but was
never truly alone because his Commander in Chief, Secretary of War,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and fellow war fighters were
monitoring his location twenty four hours a day, diligently planning
for his rescue. At my direction, the US military sent
dozens of aircraft armed with the most lethal weapons in
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the world to retrieve him. He did sustain injuries, but
he will be fined. The miraculous search and rescue operation
comes in addition to a successful rescue of another brave
pilot yesterday, which we did not confirm because we did
not want to jeopardize our second rescue operation. This is
the first time in military memory that two US pilots
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have been rescued separately deep within enemy territory. We will
never leave an American war fighter behind. The fact that
we were able to pull off both of these operations
without a single American killed or even wounded, just proves
once again that we have achieved overwhelming air dominance and
superiority over the Iranian skies. This is a moment for
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all Americans, Republican, Democrat, everyone else that they should be
proud of all of the United States and all our
brave fighters. We truly have the best, most professional, lethal
military in the history of the world. God bless America,
God bless our troops. Happy Easter to all. I don't
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know why people doubt our military might. I'm not really sure.
We are at a very critical, crucial point in how
this is going to go down. A lot of people
don't know. When a US aircraft goes down in a
war zone, the response is anything but completely anticipated, choreographed tightly,
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and and it is something that they practice from day one.
And what is the highest, you know, the most sensitive technology.
You know, we want to keep that out of enemy hands,
deny our adversaries, intelligence propaganda wins. The military has a
clear playbook. But when these situations arise there it is
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it is factored into any military mission. Because we're dealing
with mechanical equipment. Things can go wrong. Our people are
important and anyway, so if a pilot, like in this case,
two pilots ejecting and they survive, they are trained to
evade capture using survival techniques that are drilled into them
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before they are ever deployed. Concealment, communication with friendly forces,
movement to avoid detection. Military commanders prepare, they plan, they
execute recovery operations long in advance of them ever engaging
in any military activity, and ensure that these individuals are
trained to contend with any event unforeseeable event and capable
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of recovering personnel and staff to react quickly to whatever
situation just happens to arise. You know, elite units like
you know Air Force, you know power rescue, Navy seals,
Army special ops teams are are they know they're going
to be dispatched. They're often escorted by helicopters, fighter jets,
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et cetera. In some cases, drone satellite surveillance aircraft are
used and they monitor and track the pilot's position and
they were able to do this with perfection. It is
something that is practiced over and over and over again.
And the goal is to prevent a sensitive equipment radar
weapons technolo from falling in enemy hands. But more importantly,
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it is to make sure that we don't leave Americans
behind and when a crash site, the military may destroy
the records from the air. They ended up doing that
and this this effort for a number of different reasons
that came on board at the time. Now, when you
look at the details of this, it is spectacular, and
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the President went into great detail today and we'll play
some of it as the as the show on folds
throughout the day to day, and all of it is incredible.
All of it is. You know, we had over one
hundred men, you know, the US rescued this this f
fifteen airmen. It was deep inside enemy territory. They had
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Sealed Team six, one of the they had. John Ratcliffe,
the CIA director, described the CIA ruse to divert their attention.
They constructed a forward air strip in hostile territory. They
had patrols, they create a perimeter. They were using you know,
drones all over the region. As it means they knew
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exactly the location of this fighter pilot. I'll get to
that in a second. But the officer shot down on
Good Friday, this was southwestern Iran. Hid in the mountains.
He managed to climb a seven thousand foot ridge. My
understanding is get inside a little crevice inside of a mountain,
knowing that the Iranians had every belief that he was
(09:28):
alive because they found the ejection seat and they found
a pilot there. But he was able to climb this
seven thousand foot ridge, And in an effort to confuse
the Iranians, they put a sixty thousand dollars bounty, which
is more times more than ten times the average household
income in Iran, So that was a great incentive for
people on the officer's head. The CIA pulled off a
(09:52):
diversion Saturday, planting fake intel that he had already been
rescued and was being driven out of Iran, according to
The Times, to push them off at their attention in
another area. The operation involves landing multiple transport aircraft inside
of Iranian territory. Deep inside that territory, the US Air
Force landing strip was set up close to the city,
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and they started out with and this is another amazing
part of it, because they have contingency plans. And I
talked to people familiar with the mission. It's been now
widely reported. I'm not reporting anything that's not now in
the in the out in the public. They had these
two massive C one thirties that ended up, you know,
(10:37):
coming in. They ended up actually sort of like having
problems when that was on the ground, But immediately they
dispatched not one, not two, but three backup transport planes
that were in place ready to take off in case
as a contingency, in case they had a problem. They
didn't have to you know, last minute, you know, scramble
these planes as a backup in case something happened. I mean,
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pretty amazing stuff. And I mean this is like, I
don't know, Jason Bourne, mission impossible, you name it, James
bond All loaded up in one. They had a total
of four helicopters night stalkers. According to a report in
the war zone, it's believed the Iranians were fired upon
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from the air in other words, as they created a
perimeter and anyway, they were able to send in these
backup aircraft to go in and get the rescue teams
and get this pilot that had been injured during the ejection,
and the US Air Force used multiple bombs, blowing up
all the aircraft that they ended up abandoning, you know,
(11:47):
just to get the hell out of there, which is
standard operating procedure, and the US suffered no casualties. And
US Special Ops commandos also engaged in skirmishes apparently as well,
and then the President was able to say, we got them.
It is a lesson and it is a moment for
this country to just, you know, take a moment and
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be proud, be proud of the fact that we have
brave men and women that are willing to risk their
lives to protect one another and to protect us. There
is still a grave misunderstanding out there, and I think
it's purposeful and the part of people that have agendas.
The saddest part in all of this is you don't
(12:31):
hear from the left. You don't hear from the crazy Democrats,
you don't hear from the radical left, you don't hear
from the isolationist wing all over the place that you know,
if they had their way, Iran would have nuclear weapons
and would hold the world and our children and grandchildren hostage.
Now you can be convinced of. And that is the
(12:52):
whole reason that the President made this very quick decision
for Operation Epic Fury. To begin with, it's the sixty
percent enriched uranium. Now, according to the President, they are
in the middle of negotiations with a deadline of tomorrow,
with the promise that the President's going to blow up
their bridges and blow up their infrastructure and their power
plans and blow them into the Stone Age if they
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do not go along with this deal. And I'll get
to the actual verbiage of it in a second. And
the reason that the President is pushing this point and
this is a very simple choice for the Iranians. Now,
they had an opportunity for peace before midnight Hammered. They
did not take that opportunity. The same thing with Epic Fury.
They were given time, and the President would have preferred,
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he said it repeatedly, he would prefer to have peace.
But when you're dealing with Islamo fascists that believe in
convert or die, the number one state sponsor of terror,
it's very hard to negotiate with radicalized people like this,
indoctrinated people like this. Now, the one benefit that we
have the president believes this next tier of leadership, the
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fourth or fifthier, is being more reasonable. But if they
don't agree to open the straight of horror moves, if
they don't agree how to turn over the uranium, not
if they will turn over the enriched uranium, then the
president will follow through on his promise. And you would
think that they might have learned something about Donald Trump
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and his promises at this point. Do you think they
might have learned that they've been They've been decimated. They're army,
their navy pretty much, their ballistic missile systems, they're nuclear systems.
Fourteen bunker buster bombs. How many more lessons you know,
do you have to teach one regime before they come
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to some level of understanding of what they're dealing with. Anyway,
I hope that they choose the peaceful option. Be better
for the world, better for our country, better for everything.
But you know what, they just can't be permitted to
have a nuclear weapon. We went over why this was
needed at this time, this conflict with Iran. We're now
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neutralizing the number one state sponsor of terror. We are
preventing them from ever getting a nuclear weapon. While we
had an opportunity. And I've explained in detail how this
president learned the lessons of Reagan peace through strength, the
lessons of history the last century, one hundred million dead
souls in the name of some Isam that could have
been taken out earlier that was not. And he also
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learned the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan. And you know,
I mean, I'm listening to people out there that are
now trying to claim that this war is illegal. As
Martin Goury put in the New York Post, wars are
not subject to laws or court hearings. Institutions that to
pretend to be otherwise, like these globalist institutions like the
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UN and the International Court of Justice, which we don't
recognize have existed, they have historically been anti Semitic and
anti American. A war is either just or unjust, he
makes a great point, and this is determined by the
circumstances of the conflict and the moral valiance of combatants.
The circumstances of this present conflict are straightforward death to America,
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number one state sponsor of terror. And you know, I
just I don't even know why this is even a
question for some people, but it is what it is.
And I think that history will be very kind to
the President's foresight wisdom to neutralize what was a growing,
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clear present danger to the world and to the United
States before it became more powerful and before it became
a nuclear armed A couple you marry nuclear, you know,
capability with radical Islamism, and you've got yourself a formula
for a potential modern day holocaust. It's that simple, not complicated.
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You know, if you watch Donald Trump sixty seconds. I
don't know why this is hard, you know for people
to really understand ow the straits of horn moves and
the sixty percent enriched uranium. They remain the final pieces
of this puzzle, and we're going to find out in
fairly short order. You know, we might know by the
time we get on this program tomorrow. We might know
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by the end of this program today. I don't know.
And that is whether or not the President is able
to successfully negotiate terms with this remaining tier of quote leadership.
By the way, well nobody was paying attention, you know,
while Field Team six and all these other heroes were
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rescuing this wounded airmen in the US warplanes were dropping
a bunker buster bomb on the Ranium Revolutionary Guard headquarters,
taking out more of their top leadership. We just don't stop.
We're pounding them and to the point where they are
now not capable of fighting any war. I mean, even
Prime Minister nat Yaho said that this existential threat that
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was Iran is not currently an existential threat even to Israel,
which is in the air, which is in the region.
By the way, the President did acknowledge today that they
are trying to funnel weapons to the Iranian protesters. I
hope that is successful, because you can't win revolutions without slingshots.
But the President was also clear regime change was not
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our main goal. Our main goal was to make sure
we don't have a nuclear armed Iran, and the President
is proving successful in that effort. The President says that
they're getting close. The President also said today that he
vowed to prosecute the leaker who blabbed the news that
a second airman was missing in Iraq in Iran rather apparently,
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I'm not sure which news organization. Linda's telling me she
believes it was CBS through and also the BBC, and
they have a relationship. But I want to see what
happened because you know, news organizations often pick up on
a lot of stuff that they can't in good consciences.
They love their country and care about men and women
in harm's way, you just don't do it. Let me
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get to this issue of President Trump and his tweet.
The tweet because people woke up on Easter Sunday morning
and they were shocked, Linda, they were just shocked. Donald
Trump has been saying controversial things ever since he announced
he's running for president, and he came down that escalator
at Trump Tower. I don't know why at this point
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in time people act shocked. I think it's fanned. I
think it's bony. I think it is that they don't
want to understand Donald Trump. He said Tuesday, meaning tomorrow
will be power plant Day and bridge Day, all wrapped
up in Won. They will be nothing like it. Open
the blanking straits. You crazy. I can say, bastards, or
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you'll be living in hell. Just watch Praise be to Allah.
That's what he said. Now, he says this as Steve Whitcoff,
Jared Kushner, and Marco Rubio reportedly or all negotiating with
whatever Iranian regime exists. In other words, went out with
the fourth or fifthier of leadership. Now, why did the
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president do this? Why? I know it's not conventional. Is
there anything about Donald Trump that's conventional? Really? Is there
anything that really surprises you? How many presidents are like
Donald Trump? We'll never see another one like him, I
don't think in our lifetime. And the fact that people
don't understand him at this late after having all these years,
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if they had any sense of objectivity and any desire
to understand him, you would understand him. Now, what is
he doing? It's what I say he always does. He's
in a perpetual state of new negotiation. He wants an answer,
and the answer is is this new Iranian leadership? Are
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they really more reasonable or not? And he is putting
them to the test. Now I can tell you what
he wants is the outcome. He would want the Iranians
to end this war peacefully. This is about pushing for peace,
not for more war. We've proven we can destroy them,
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We've proven that we can obliterate them, and he wants
the Iranians to choose peace. But he also knows the
mindset of these Iranians, especially in some level of leadership.
Convert or die Number one state sponsor of terror. Wipe
Israel off the map, Wipe America off the map. He
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knows exactly what he's doing. He's being purposely provocative. He
wants them to know. Number one, he will do it.
Number Two, he's crazy. If your enemy thinks that you're
willing to do it, that these are not idle words
that are being spoken by somebody like Obama and Biden.
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There's a lot of power behind that. If there is
any chance of any deal. This is the President drawing
his line in the sand, and he's speaking the only
language that lunatics like this will understand. People. You know,
the reports that they're actually arming children in case America
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ever hits the ground in Iran, they want young children
to go fight their wars rather than the quote leadership,
you know, putting weapons on themselves and going to fight wars.
You ever notice the leadership never strap bombs on themselves
with the promise of seventy two virgins to go kill
innocent men, women and children. They would get indoctrinated, you know,
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rich people to do that, but they themselves never do that.
And he's speaking the only language they understand. I'm telling
you right now, just like he didn't want to drop
fourteen bunker buster bombs before Midnight Hammer. He would have
preferred a peace steal, just like he didn't want He
would have preferred peace before Operation Epic Fury gave them
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every opportunity for peace. He is doing it now once again,
except the first tier of leadership, the second tier of leadership,
the third tier of leadership is now dead and gone,
and he's hoping that maybe this next tier of leadership
might take him seriously. The ball is going to be
in their court. It really, to use a very simple analogy,
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it's no different than a professional athlete, except the stakes
are much higher. Obviously, you know, talking Adam Schiff to
get a star player on the other team off their game,
and he's playing chess, and the media and other countries
are playing checker, and everybody else lives in fear. After
eleven years of him being front and center on the
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world stage, you would think that they understand. And what
is this negotiation coming down to. If the Iranians want
a deal, and we should know sometime tomorrow if there's
going to be a deal, all the President wants is
they must open the straight or horse moves immediately. The
second thing that they're gonna have to agree to, not
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if they will hand over the sixty percent enriched uranium,
how they will hand over the sixty percent enriched uranium. Now,
if they agree to this oldtimatum, then hell will not
rain down on Iran. It will not be bridge day,
it will not be infrastructure day. It will be Okay, Now,
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let's finish these negotiations and your country can survive day.
That's what it's going to be. And I hope and
I meet this. Maybe some people think I like whop No.
I want to get our brave men and women out
of arms way as quickly as possible while removing a
potential threat down the road that we have a nuclear
armed Iran Prime Minister nat Yakshu, who actually has declared
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Iran no longer poses that existential threat to Israel. But
he's also factoring in that the sixty percent of enrich uranium.
It's either gonna come out. It's we could do it
the easy way or we can do it the hard way.
And that's that's where we now are. Now I'm gonna
tell you something else. There's two other things that have
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pissed me off in all of this Number one, I
have had it with Europe. Absolutely. They have chosen to
disintegrates as individual countries and as a continent. They have
abandoned their commitment to national security and national defense. They
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have embraced radical social and climate alarmism, which is why
they are so dependent on outside sources. They've they've bought
into solar panels and climate change and all of this.
It's cost them billions and billions and hundreds of billions
of dollars. They've not committed themselves to securing their continent
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or their individual countries. And when America just asked for
a little bit of help and the President said it
was a test to see if NATO would step up,
they did not. So I would imagine when this is
all said and done and resolved, and it will be
resolved in a way that there won't be a nuclear
armed Oran or a nuclear threat of Iran. And that
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actually helps out oh cities like Paris in London because
they have the ballistic missile range that we didn't think
they had, and they can get to Paris and London
with nuclear material if they had it, and they just
they were a bunch of cowards. Neville Chamberlain juniors. They
learned nothing. We rebuilt Europe after World War Two and
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they have allowed unfettered illegal immigration and did not demand assimilation,
which has resulted in nearly one hundred Sharia courts in
Great Britain and no go zones and other parts of Europe,
including France. And why they You know, it is fascinating
as the world is getting away from radical Islam. Now,
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how interesting is it, Linda, that the daughter of the
top Iranian official Ali Larijani. Remember we talked about him
when they took this guy out anyway, forced out of
Emory University in Atlanta, set to be booted from the
United States. And anyway, her late father was a top
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official in Tehran. Very evil guy. She worked as an
assistant professor at Emory. Anyway, Now it sparked backlash. Now
did you see that the niece and grand niece of
General Solomani arrested in Los Angeles after the Secretary of
State Mark or Rubio terminated their permanent residence status and
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then ICE agents scooped them up. Apparently, I guess in
Los Angeles routinely boasting on Instagram about attacks against the US,
bashing US as the Great Satan Why would we be
that stupid of a country to allow them into this country?
Did you see the pictures that the New York Post
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had of this young niece, this grand niece of Solomony?
What for all to talk about? You know, love of
Allah and you know the ayah tola? This I told
a lot of these leaders, kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews. Boy,
they all made their way to the US. What does
that say about the US? It says we're a stupid
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