April 13, 2026 • 30 mins
Sean Hannity opens the show by breaking down the failed Iran negotiations, arguing that Tehran arrived with impossible demands on the Strait of Hormuz, frozen assets, reparations, and regional ceasefires that were never going to be accepted. He walks through President Trump’s red lines, the growing focus on a naval blockade, the fate of Iran’s enriched uranium, and why the regime’s leverage is far weaker than its rhetoric suggests. The hour also expands into the global fallout, from oil shipping lanes and U.N. hypocrisy to a sharp clash over Pope Leo’s comments on war, peace, and America’s response to the Iranian threat.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks to all of you for being with us.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Right down are toll free telephone number if you want
to be a part of the program at say eight
hundred nine, if you want to join us. My first
observation is, I'm not really sure why a US delegation
would give twenty one hours to lunatic Iranians that had
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their list of demands that were so far off base
that it was never ever gonna happen. And it was
interesting watching as the Vice President and midd East Envoy
Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner went into this in Pakistan
over the weekend, the presidents saying, it doesn't really matter
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how these talks go, we win, and the President's not wrong.
Now it may take a little maybe a little bit
more complicated than where we were before because of the
straight of hormones, but I know that the President's blockade
is a first step the Iranians.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You know, it's very interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
There was a seventy one person delegation that they brought
with them, and they brought with them what they considered
four non negotiable conditions before the session began. Full Iranian
sovereignty over the straight of Horn moves that was never
gonna happen. That is non negotiable. And then they want
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complete war reparations, never gonna happen. They have no power
to negotiate anyway. They absolutely have been decimated militarily. And
then they wanted the unconditional release of frozen assets. That's
never gonna happen under Donald Trump. And they wanted a
ceasefire across the entire West Asia area. Those demands were
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non starters. And honestly, you know, why this went on
for twenty one hours. That's the only I can't figure out.
We haven't gotten an answer to that question. Hopefully we'll
get one in the days to come. But you know,
and meanwhile, the President had red lines. They've got to
end all uranium enrichment, dismantle all major nuclear enrichment facilities
any that they may have left, retrieve any highly enriched uranium,
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or there's a lot of talk of entombing it. At first,
I was told that that was not a likely scenario.
Now I'm told that, you know, once the President said
that they've had eyes on it ever since Operation Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
That that kind of made me. It gave me a
sense of relief.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Is they're not going to get it anywhere near the
sixty percent enriched uranium. Whether we go get it or not,
that our lines are. They have to accept a broader peace,
the escalation that includes regional allies, ending funding for terror
proxies Amas has Bala, the Huti rebels and simply open
the straight of hor moves and know they don't get
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to charge any tolls. Now, I don't know why that
took twenty one hours. I have no earth the idea,
but the Iranians, you know, came with this ridiculous set
of demand, so it was never going to work. And
I truly, knowing the president as well as I do,
know that he doesn't care. And they left Islamabad without
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anything really done. Now, General Jack Keem was skeptical of
this diplomacy idea from the very beginning, and he's he's
just he was on with Maria Bartromo over the weekend
discussing he'll be on with us tonight whether diplomacy can
achieve these objectives. He was very, very skeptical of of
all of it because of the forty seven you know,
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years of NonStop terror and madness, and this is a
radicalized theocracy. I mean, these are Aslamo fascist. And this
is why I don't really want to get into any
discussion or argument with people that don't understand the need
to take out this regime's ability to one day be
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able to reach an American city with a nuclear weapon,
because I believe their radicalism will cause them at some
point to think they're doing the will of God. Because
they strap bombs on kids and tell them to go
killing as men, women and children, why wouldn't they want
a even more spectacular event.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I mean, what happened.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
What happened twenty five years ago, nine to eleven one
is twenty nine hundred and seventy seven Americans were killed,
and the people that were flying those planes into the
trade center were screaming a lahu Akbar and doing this
in the name of quote religion and God and Allah,
and with a full belief that they were about to
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enter paradise and be rewarded with seventy two virgins. I
don't think you can negotiate with insanity, because that's what
it is. There are some updates as it relates to
the Supreme Leader's son, who the Supreme Leader never wanted
to replace him. But anyway, according to what is coming
out about this particular guy. Is he severe disfigured after
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the sustaining leg and face injuries. This was in the
opening moments of this conflict and the beginning of epic fury.
And how many son Hominy himself is recovering from these
injuries that were incurred on February twenty eighth that killed
his father and his top lieutenants despite the injuries, how
many allegedly they claim, according to Reuter's reporting remains mentally sharp.
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But you know, at the end of the day, I
think the one missing component that hopefully can be achieved
in all of this, and I know there have been
attempts to get there. It has been the notion of
regime of the ability of the people to win their
country back. And you can't win a revolution with a slingshot,
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and I've said that many many times. According to the President,
there have been attempts to arm the people in Iran
so that they can fight back against Iranian Revolutionary Guard
forces and cud's forces those that remain and police that
might be loyal to the former regime or the new regime.
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We don't really even know who's in charge at this point.
I think you also have a conflict and a power
struggle within Iran that we're probably not fully acutely aware of,
but we know there have been reports of it. I
have some good news on the oil front. Although oil
was below one hundred dollars a barrel for a while,
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today it was above one hundred bucks a barrel. But
Rory Johnston and we'll have oil experts coming up at
the top of the next hour. But according to Johnston,
he reported over the weekend that dozens of empty, very
large crude carriers now have just kind of given up
on the Straight of Horn Moves and are moving towards
the US Gulf Coast. And each of these tankers now
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carry around two million barrels of crude oil. And according
to him, this unusual movement of empty tankers is suggesting
that global buyers are now preparing to purchase large quantities
of American crude. And the trend has emerged as oil
supply disruptions continue as the tensions have gone on there.
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Now there is one other myth that has come out,
and that is that, Okay, so if you go with
the figure that about twenty percent of the world's oil
supply on a daily basis will go through the Straight
or Hormoz. Most of that supply has already been replaced,
or it has been rerouted, or they're getting safe passage,
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like for example, two million barrels of oil per day
are going to China. They're not being disrupted the same
thing with India. Apparently they've been given safe passage. Other
countries if they've made individual deals and want to pay
the tariff that the Iranians have been charging on the
passage through the strait, I mean that's fine too. But
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Central Command US Central Command forces now are implementing this
blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports
as of ten am this morning, in accordance with the
President's proclamation. The blockade now will be enforcing impartially against
vessels of all nations entering or departing the Iranian ports
or coastal areas.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
That means that the Iranians now going to be starved
of any financial benefit from carg Island. Now, Remember they
don't produce gas, they produce oil, and the oil is
then sent abroad and then it is refined and then
it has turned into gasoline. Petro diesel whatever it's turned into,
so additional information. But this now means this is the
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sole source of revenue for the Iranians, which will you know,
this will now bankrupt them if it is successful. The
danger to me, in my mind is when you think
of a traditional blockade, or if you think of American
I don't want to be in a situation where American
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ships are actually escorting these tankers through the strait of hormones.
That's not what the blockade is. The blockade means block
and what are they looking to block? The Iranian's ability
to export oil? Now, there are other countries that will
find alternative roots to get their oil to market short
of making a deal with whatever remaining third, fourth, fiftier
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leadership that exists in Iran. But what that really means
is that they're going to have to the world's going
to now look for other sources of oil. That's all
there is to it, and they're going to find them
because we don't have a shortage of oil. And now
that America has has gotten rid of Maduro, and you
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look at Venezuela as the number one producer of oil
on the planet is number two and way behind would
be Saudi Arabia number three. Uh, there's going to be
It's not that we're going to have an oil shortage.
It's just a short term distribution problem that will easily,
you know, in meaning in the next couple of months,
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be be able to sort itself out, and the world,
the world market for Iranian oil will disintegrate next to
nothing because they won't be able to they won't be
able to get it out.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
The one thing I would like a buffer zone the
problem with the Strait itself, which has been mined by
the Iranians, although America did ensure that there are specific
passing lanes that they can get these tankers through, which
is critical because like you don't know it when you
fly in an airplane and you're at thirty eight thousand feet,
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you're you're flying on what is and how do I
best describe this? It's it's the It's as similar to
a highway, except it does have a name to it.
In other words, planes will fly specific highways in the
sky and get reports. By the way, there might be turbulence,
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there might be choppiness, there might be air pockets, there
might be all sorts of things that pilots will communicate
to other pilots that are along that same route, but
there are It's not like they just fly anywhere in
the sky. There are specific rout specific routing flight patterns
that are given to aircraft both commercial and private, and
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those lanes exist well. Similarly, through the Strait of Hormuz,
there are specific now lanes that have been cleared so
that tankers, should we allow them at any given point
in time, will be able to move through and move
through safely without fear of any mining incidents. The US
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Navy began this critical mind hunt amid these Iranian tensions
and have already been able to identify specific areas where
tankers can get through. And US officials confirm that yeah,
Ran did in fact mind the Straight of hor Moves,
which was by the way, that was not something they
did not anticipate. That was discussed in great detail ahead
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of this entire operation. So they they have deployed mine
sweepers in the straight of Hormones and we're very good
at detecting them. It just takes time. At its narrowest point,
the Straight of hor Moves is I guess about twenty
twenty four miles wide, which is not very wide. Which
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means we don't want to get in a situation where
our navy destroyers, our navy fleet is anywhere near that
close to land, which would make it a little bit
more vulnerable to attack by the Iranians. And even though
it would for them it would be a I don't know,
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it would be a win on paper, and the consequences
would be so brutal I can't even begin to imagine it.
But we'll see, because every Iranian port is about to
be closed by the US Navy, and that's going to
shut off the Spickett in terms of their own finances.
So what the Iranians we're trying to achieve here doesn't
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make sense. But does anything that they do make sense?
Does the fact that they strap bombs on young kids
and tell them that they're going to get seventy two
virgins if they kill innocent men, women and children, does
that make sense? Does it make sense? After Midnight Hammer?
They wouldn't. They wouldn't negotiate with some level of sincerity,
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knowing what the inevitable outcome would be after Operation Epic
Fury and taking out three tiers of leadership. For these
people to show up in Islamabad with their own set
of conditions that were never going to be met, and
not negotiate what they knew was America's demands. What was
the point of it? I don't really know.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I just don't.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
So I think that the world is now going to
navigate the oil issue in a way that we've got
to keep America's navy safe and secure. And I think
that's all going to happen. A factor in one other
thing as well. And Fortune put this out today that
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you know, all the relentless bombing by the US and
Israel has pushed the ranium regime to the bring financially,
so if this blockade is successful, they can't sell their oil.
That's that is their main source of income. And their
central bank last month issued the highest largest ever currency
denomination and they're now facing you know, fifty sixty inflation
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on top of everything else. Official data downplaying it, but
they're in trouble financially.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Solid as a rock, honest, truthful.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
This is the Sean Hannity Show. I find it hilarious
that Iran nominated to head the UN Terrorism Prevention Group,
the number one state sponsor of terror. UN's fifty four
Nation Economic Social Council nominated Iran, which meets next month
to shape policy on women's rights, human rights, disarmament, and
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terrorism prevention, and the General Assembly. They usually rubber stamp
these nominations without even having a vote. And in addition
to this, they've nominated China, Cuba, nic Ad, Agua, Saudi
Arabia and Sudan to the influential committee that is going
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to I guess make this decision. I mean you talk about,
you know, the Henhouse, meet the Fox here, as somebody
put it in some column, the UN can't you know
counter terrorism, you know, when they're the number one state
sponsor of terror. Why do we pay seven billion dollars
a year for this globalist organization? Why why do we
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spend all this money? Why are we a part of
the World Economic Forum? Why were we ever a part
of the Paris Accords?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
You know?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Why do we look to international organizations when we should
be the masters of our own destiny.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
The reason the President is involved with Iran is because
it was an existential threat to America. The President saw
that they were twelve days away from enriching they're sixty
percent uranium to ninety percent weapons grade, and he made
a decision that they can't have nuclear weapons. It's that simple,
it's basic fundamental math. Then we learned that their ballistic
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missile range was far further than we thought. That's another problem.
And then we have these these absolutely useless organizations, globalist organizations.
And I'll tell you one other thing. You know, I
was listening to the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney defending
his countries NATO commitments after being pressed over the alliances
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spending by President Trump, insisting that Ottawa meets the benchmark
even though Canada has only reached two percent of their
defense target in twenty twenty five. They're not paying their
fair share. And for those countries that don't pay their
fair share, like Spain, why are we and won't allow
us to even use the air bases we built in
their countries as part of Alliance strategic planning? Why are
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we aligned with people that are reliable partners to begin with?
You know, we have to face the reality the continent
of Europe is in disintegrating before our very eyes. They
are in a steep, steep decline. And I don't think
there's any reversal of this decline. It's everything from embracing
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radical socialism, climate alarmism, the fact that they have neglected
their own national defense and national security. They've been weak
partners with NATO, They've never wanted to contribute their fair share.
And then the worst thing they've done is unfettered illegal
immigration without assimilation. Now you have no go zones in France,
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no go zones in other parts of Europe. They have
nearly one hundred sharia courts in Great Britain. They're all
countries in decline. They are a continent in decline. And
why should we spend eight hundred plus billion dollars a
year securing the defenses of U Europe when they won't
even defend themselves and their unreliable partners even as something
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you should have such easy moral clarity in standing with
us against the number one state sponsor of terror. And
by the way, we've got to now keep our eye
on China because US intelligence is indicating that China's preparing
weapons shipments to Iran amid this fragile ceasefire. The ceasefire
is over, by the way, nobody's saying it yet. The
ceasefire is over. There's a bit of a battle going
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on between the Pope, Hope Leo and President Trump. Pope
Leo on Saturday denounced quote, the the delusion of omnipotence
that is fueling the US Israel war in Iran and
demanded political leaders stop and negotiate peace. Well, we try
to negotiate peace. I've never heard the Pope once comment
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on the need for, you know, to prevent Iran from
ever having nuclear weapons, and if we're going to get
lectures from the Catholic Church. And I was raised Catholic,
and I went to Catholic school for twelve years, and
I think the Catholic Mass is beautiful and in every
way imaginable. I have not liked past popes. I think
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the last pope that I really liked and respected the
most was probably Hope John Paul the second. Anyway, he's
the first US born pope. And while he didn't mention
the US or President Trump in his prayer over the weekend,
which he which was planned before the talks were announced,
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but Leo's tone and message appeared to be directed at
President Trump and US officials that boasted of US military
superiority and how this war is justified, and he spoke
about it in religious terms, and he said enough with
the of the idolatry and self and money, enough of
the display of power, enough of war, and in the
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Basilica pews, the Archbishop of Tehran, Belgian Cardinal Dominic Joseph Matthieu,
said the US was represented in the diplomatic corps by
its chief mission, et cetera, et cetera, and then it
got a little more, a little bit more heated, and anyway,
the Pope said that the president's threat to annihilate Iranian
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civilization is truly unacceptable. How come no pope that I
know of, and especially Pope Leo, if he wants to
engage in a public discourse on issues, maybe we should
look at the Catholic Church's position during World War II
in Nazi Germany and talk specifically about what the Vatican
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knew and when they knew it. Just saying, you know,
if you want my real reasons for leaving the Catholic Churches,
in many ways, I could not get over the fact
that they institutionalized corruption. I'm just being blunt. I think
the Mass is beautiful, I believe in many of the
tenets of the Catholic faith. I've not abandoned my faith
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in any way. If anything, my faith has gotten stronger
in my older years. We've been talking a lot about
it lately, not that I want to discuss it at
all today, especially the Lord's Prayer and Linda's interpretation of
the Bible and her planed negotiation when she gets to
the pearly Gates and she's going to justify her hate
list and just justify ignoring the very clear statement in
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the Lord's Prayer which is a direct message to all
of us to forgive others as we forgive. That's a
different issue for another month, another year. But I find
this fascinating that I did not hear the Pope one time,
or any pope for that matter, weigh in about the
terrorism that has been waged in the entire region, in
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the Middle East or worldwide, or those that have been
so willing to strap bombs on young children and promise
them seventy two urgins in heaven. I've never heard the
Pope way in on October seventh. I haven't heard the
and the horrors of that day, and the murder and
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the rape, and the torture, and the kidnapping and the
beheading that took place that day. I've never heard the
Pope way in about the massacre of tens and tens
of thousands of Iranians, not one single word, And it
just seems to be a very one sided argument. And anyway,
I don't blame the President for fighting back, and I
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don't blame him at all. I think that the President,
you know, is right in challenging what this pope is
suggesting here, as the President went out there and said,
Pope Leo's week on crime terrible. On foreign policy, he
talks about fear of the Trump administration, but he didn't
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mention fear that the Catholic Church and other Christian organizations
had during COVID when they were arresting priests and ministers
and everybody else for holding church services, even going outside
and being ten or twenty feet apart. And I don't
really want a pope who thinks that it's terrible that
America attacked Venezuela, a country that was sending massive amounts
of drugs to the United States or worse, emptying their prisons,
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including murderers and drug dealers and killers. And I don't
want a pope criticizing the president of the United States
because I'm doing exactly what I was elected to do.
And that is lowering the crime rate in this country,
creating the greatest you know.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
And then he went on to.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
List of successes, and he said the Pope should be
thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise.
He doesn't think the Pope would have been elected. But
if we're going to have selective outrage and we're going
to get political commentary from the pope now the pope, Linda,
correct me if I'm wrong. Didn't the Pope talk about
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the need for peace, and didn't the Pope talk about
the need for a cease fire and how war is
horrible and evil. I don't think all war is horrible
and evil at all. Oh and by the way, biblically speaking,
I don't think God viewed it that way. And when
I brought this up the other day, some people got
upset when I said this, But that was Are we
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to believe the Bible story about David and Goliath and
that David was was given the strength by God to
take on the giant Goliath and slay him, that would
be kill him? Or that you know what happened to
Pharaoh's army when Moses parted the Red Sea. I mean
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you can if you haven't watched the Ten Commandments, wend
are those examples where the Lord what happened with Joshua
and Jericho when the wall fell?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
You know?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And I can go on what happened to the many
victories of Saul, you know? Or the Amalekites which God
commanded the destruction of uh.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I think, well, he's from Chicago, he can't help. But
you know, him and Pritzker probably have Thanksgiving together for
all we know. But I think at the end of
the day, when we look at this particular pope, I
thought the last one was bad. He's worse. And the
reason is they've made it into being a celebrity. He
thinks he's cool. He likes to have, you know, people
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that play baseball come and see him. He likes to
meet with former advisors to former presidents. He has side meetings.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I'll tell you what if you mean, like with David Axelrod,
who he met with before all that.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm sure him and axel Rock go
way back.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I got a few things to say about the pope.
I'd like to know why.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
At the parish level, the bishop level, the cardinal level,
and all the way up to Rome. They knew about
systemic sexual abuse against children and try to do anything
about it, and they covered it up.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Catholic charities are one of the worst defenders in human
and sex trafficking, especially of children.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
About Catholic charities, but I can tell you that they
knew about the sex abuse of minors and they didn't
do anything about it that was systemic. Now, nowhere in
the Bible, if you look at does it say that
a priest can't be married. As a matter of fact,
the very apostles that were chosen by Jesus himself were married.
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Eleven of the twelve Apostles, to be precise or married.
You know, for the first twelve hundred years of the church,
priests were allowed to marry, and it was only after
that rule was changed. Now, I think you can get
into a wide variety of analysis in terms of why
that rule was changed, but I think one of the
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biggest reasons was the fear of the loss of property
if there was widespread divorce and they didn't want to
have to give up money and land. And then as
a result, I think you reduced the potential pool of
priestly candidates dramatically because I don't think. I think most
men would like to be with women in their lives
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to be very blunt. Is that because is that a
politically correct way to say that?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Listen the Catholic church. This is just my opinion as
a practicing Catholic. I love my particular church. But I
had a meeting with my priest last week and I
told him as soon as the meeting began that I
did not like this pope and I did not care
for him, which he laughed and said, Linda, tell me
how you really feel. And I said, I'm sorry, father,
I really I struggle with this person.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
He is not really sorry, but I'm being nice.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
You know, he's the priest. I can't be mean. My
point is he is not a representative of Catholics across
the world. He is not a representative. He is a token.
He is a person that is filling a seat right now.
I think, to Trump's point, if we voted for a pope,
Leo wasn't getting the seat. No way in hell.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Nobody ever heard of him before.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
No, he's an embarrassing if anybody was if they really
wanted to pick I think somebody that would have been
a good candidate, maybe Timothy Dolan would have been a
far better candidate, more dynamic.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
But all of them need to be quiet. You know,
the car knows the bishops. Why don't you get your
own house in order. And if you love illegal immigrants
so much, take down all the Vatican walls. Let them in.
I hear you guys got plenty of room. You just
redid the place. Let them all in and then we'll
talk about how kind and assimilating they are. Do me
a favor, please.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I think that's one favorite that they can do. The
second thing they least can do is come clean on this.
What was institutional corruption? That's why I left the Catholic Church.
And there's no perfect church, let's be honest about it.
And there aren't perfect people. All of sind even Linda,
and fall in short with Gloria God, although I know
you rewrite your Bible to think that you don't need
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to forgive other people, which I'm not getting back into
that discussion today. Copy pole one wants to drag me
into this discussion.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I want to talk about God. That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
What's the real story but behind the price of a
barrel of oil? And what will this blockade do to
the price of oil. Also, we're going to get full analysis.
What is the synopsis of new king rich Vic?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Three?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
What is our nim victory? You will explain when we
get back. He wrote a great column and we'll get
into the details of it coming up.
Thanks to all of you for being with us.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Right down are toll free telephone number if you want
to be a part of the program at say eight
hundred nine, if you want to join us. My first
observation is, I'm not really sure why a US delegation
would give twenty one hours to lunatic Iranians that had
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their list of demands that were so far off base
that it was never ever gonna happen. And it was
interesting watching as the Vice President and midd East Envoy
Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner went into this in Pakistan
over the weekend, the presidents saying, it doesn't really matter
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how these talks go, we win, and the President's not wrong.
Now it may take a little maybe a little bit
more complicated than where we were before because of the
straight of hormones, but I know that the President's blockade
is a first step the Iranians.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
You know, it's very interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
There was a seventy one person delegation that they brought
with them, and they brought with them what they considered
four non negotiable conditions before the session began. Full Iranian
sovereignty over the straight of Horn moves that was never
gonna happen. That is non negotiable. And then they want
(01:26):
complete war reparations, never gonna happen. They have no power
to negotiate anyway. They absolutely have been decimated militarily. And
then they wanted the unconditional release of frozen assets. That's
never gonna happen under Donald Trump. And they wanted a
ceasefire across the entire West Asia area. Those demands were
(01:53):
non starters. And honestly, you know, why this went on
for twenty one hours. That's the only I can't figure out.
We haven't gotten an answer to that question. Hopefully we'll
get one in the days to come. But you know,
and meanwhile, the President had red lines. They've got to
end all uranium enrichment, dismantle all major nuclear enrichment facilities
any that they may have left, retrieve any highly enriched uranium,
(02:18):
or there's a lot of talk of entombing it. At first,
I was told that that was not a likely scenario.
Now I'm told that, you know, once the President said
that they've had eyes on it ever since Operation Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
That that kind of made me. It gave me a
sense of relief.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Is they're not going to get it anywhere near the
sixty percent enriched uranium. Whether we go get it or not,
that our lines are. They have to accept a broader peace,
the escalation that includes regional allies, ending funding for terror
proxies Amas has Bala, the Huti rebels and simply open
the straight of hor moves and know they don't get
(02:55):
to charge any tolls. Now, I don't know why that
took twenty one hours. I have no earth the idea,
but the Iranians, you know, came with this ridiculous set
of demand, so it was never going to work. And
I truly, knowing the president as well as I do,
know that he doesn't care. And they left Islamabad without
(03:15):
anything really done. Now, General Jack Keem was skeptical of
this diplomacy idea from the very beginning, and he's he's
just he was on with Maria Bartromo over the weekend
discussing he'll be on with us tonight whether diplomacy can
achieve these objectives. He was very, very skeptical of of
all of it because of the forty seven you know,
(03:36):
years of NonStop terror and madness, and this is a
radicalized theocracy. I mean, these are Aslamo fascist. And this
is why I don't really want to get into any
discussion or argument with people that don't understand the need
to take out this regime's ability to one day be
(03:56):
able to reach an American city with a nuclear weapon,
because I believe their radicalism will cause them at some
point to think they're doing the will of God. Because
they strap bombs on kids and tell them to go
killing as men, women and children, why wouldn't they want
a even more spectacular event.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I mean, what happened.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
What happened twenty five years ago, nine to eleven one
is twenty nine hundred and seventy seven Americans were killed,
and the people that were flying those planes into the
trade center were screaming a lahu Akbar and doing this
in the name of quote religion and God and Allah,
and with a full belief that they were about to
(04:37):
enter paradise and be rewarded with seventy two virgins. I
don't think you can negotiate with insanity, because that's what
it is. There are some updates as it relates to
the Supreme Leader's son, who the Supreme Leader never wanted
to replace him. But anyway, according to what is coming
out about this particular guy. Is he severe disfigured after
(05:03):
the sustaining leg and face injuries. This was in the
opening moments of this conflict and the beginning of epic fury.
And how many son Hominy himself is recovering from these
injuries that were incurred on February twenty eighth that killed
his father and his top lieutenants despite the injuries, how
many allegedly they claim, according to Reuter's reporting remains mentally sharp.
(05:29):
But you know, at the end of the day, I
think the one missing component that hopefully can be achieved
in all of this, and I know there have been
attempts to get there. It has been the notion of
regime of the ability of the people to win their
country back. And you can't win a revolution with a slingshot,
(05:54):
and I've said that many many times. According to the President,
there have been attempts to arm the people in Iran
so that they can fight back against Iranian Revolutionary Guard
forces and cud's forces those that remain and police that
might be loyal to the former regime or the new regime.
(06:15):
We don't really even know who's in charge at this point.
I think you also have a conflict and a power
struggle within Iran that we're probably not fully acutely aware of,
but we know there have been reports of it. I
have some good news on the oil front. Although oil
was below one hundred dollars a barrel for a while,
(06:36):
today it was above one hundred bucks a barrel. But
Rory Johnston and we'll have oil experts coming up at
the top of the next hour. But according to Johnston,
he reported over the weekend that dozens of empty, very
large crude carriers now have just kind of given up
on the Straight of Horn Moves and are moving towards
the US Gulf Coast. And each of these tankers now
(06:58):
carry around two million barrels of crude oil. And according
to him, this unusual movement of empty tankers is suggesting
that global buyers are now preparing to purchase large quantities
of American crude. And the trend has emerged as oil
supply disruptions continue as the tensions have gone on there.
(07:19):
Now there is one other myth that has come out,
and that is that, Okay, so if you go with
the figure that about twenty percent of the world's oil
supply on a daily basis will go through the Straight
or Hormoz. Most of that supply has already been replaced,
or it has been rerouted, or they're getting safe passage,
(07:40):
like for example, two million barrels of oil per day
are going to China. They're not being disrupted the same
thing with India. Apparently they've been given safe passage. Other
countries if they've made individual deals and want to pay
the tariff that the Iranians have been charging on the
passage through the strait, I mean that's fine too. But
(08:02):
Central Command US Central Command forces now are implementing this
blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports
as of ten am this morning, in accordance with the
President's proclamation. The blockade now will be enforcing impartially against
vessels of all nations entering or departing the Iranian ports
or coastal areas.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (08:26):
That means that the Iranians now going to be starved
of any financial benefit from carg Island. Now, Remember they
don't produce gas, they produce oil, and the oil is
then sent abroad and then it is refined and then
it has turned into gasoline. Petro diesel whatever it's turned into,
so additional information. But this now means this is the
(08:49):
sole source of revenue for the Iranians, which will you know,
this will now bankrupt them if it is successful. The
danger to me, in my mind is when you think
of a traditional blockade, or if you think of American
I don't want to be in a situation where American
(09:10):
ships are actually escorting these tankers through the strait of hormones.
That's not what the blockade is. The blockade means block
and what are they looking to block? The Iranian's ability
to export oil? Now, there are other countries that will
find alternative roots to get their oil to market short
of making a deal with whatever remaining third, fourth, fiftier
(09:33):
leadership that exists in Iran. But what that really means
is that they're going to have to the world's going
to now look for other sources of oil. That's all
there is to it, and they're going to find them
because we don't have a shortage of oil. And now
that America has has gotten rid of Maduro, and you
(09:55):
look at Venezuela as the number one producer of oil
on the planet is number two and way behind would
be Saudi Arabia number three. Uh, there's going to be
It's not that we're going to have an oil shortage.
It's just a short term distribution problem that will easily,
you know, in meaning in the next couple of months,
(10:16):
be be able to sort itself out, and the world,
the world market for Iranian oil will disintegrate next to
nothing because they won't be able to they won't be
able to get it out.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Now.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
The one thing I would like a buffer zone the
problem with the Strait itself, which has been mined by
the Iranians, although America did ensure that there are specific
passing lanes that they can get these tankers through, which
is critical because like you don't know it when you
fly in an airplane and you're at thirty eight thousand feet,
(10:49):
you're you're flying on what is and how do I
best describe this? It's it's the It's as similar to
a highway, except it does have a name to it.
In other words, planes will fly specific highways in the
sky and get reports. By the way, there might be turbulence,
(11:11):
there might be choppiness, there might be air pockets, there
might be all sorts of things that pilots will communicate
to other pilots that are along that same route, but
there are It's not like they just fly anywhere in
the sky. There are specific rout specific routing flight patterns
that are given to aircraft both commercial and private, and
(11:33):
those lanes exist well. Similarly, through the Strait of Hormuz,
there are specific now lanes that have been cleared so
that tankers, should we allow them at any given point
in time, will be able to move through and move
through safely without fear of any mining incidents. The US
(11:54):
Navy began this critical mind hunt amid these Iranian tensions
and have already been able to identify specific areas where
tankers can get through. And US officials confirm that yeah,
Ran did in fact mind the Straight of hor Moves,
which was by the way, that was not something they
did not anticipate. That was discussed in great detail ahead
(12:16):
of this entire operation. So they they have deployed mine
sweepers in the straight of Hormones and we're very good
at detecting them. It just takes time. At its narrowest point,
the Straight of hor Moves is I guess about twenty
twenty four miles wide, which is not very wide. Which
(12:37):
means we don't want to get in a situation where
our navy destroyers, our navy fleet is anywhere near that
close to land, which would make it a little bit
more vulnerable to attack by the Iranians. And even though
it would for them it would be a I don't know,
(12:59):
it would be a win on paper, and the consequences
would be so brutal I can't even begin to imagine it.
But we'll see, because every Iranian port is about to
be closed by the US Navy, and that's going to
shut off the Spickett in terms of their own finances.
So what the Iranians we're trying to achieve here doesn't
(13:19):
make sense. But does anything that they do make sense?
Does the fact that they strap bombs on young kids
and tell them that they're going to get seventy two
virgins if they kill innocent men, women and children, does
that make sense? Does it make sense? After Midnight Hammer?
They wouldn't. They wouldn't negotiate with some level of sincerity,
(13:40):
knowing what the inevitable outcome would be after Operation Epic
Fury and taking out three tiers of leadership. For these
people to show up in Islamabad with their own set
of conditions that were never going to be met, and
not negotiate what they knew was America's demands. What was
the point of it? I don't really know.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I just don't.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
So I think that the world is now going to
navigate the oil issue in a way that we've got
to keep America's navy safe and secure. And I think
that's all going to happen. A factor in one other
thing as well. And Fortune put this out today that
(14:29):
you know, all the relentless bombing by the US and
Israel has pushed the ranium regime to the bring financially,
so if this blockade is successful, they can't sell their oil.
That's that is their main source of income. And their
central bank last month issued the highest largest ever currency
denomination and they're now facing you know, fifty sixty inflation
(14:52):
on top of everything else. Official data downplaying it, but
they're in trouble financially.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Solid as a rock, honest, truthful.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
This is the Sean Hannity Show. I find it hilarious
that Iran nominated to head the UN Terrorism Prevention Group,
the number one state sponsor of terror. UN's fifty four
Nation Economic Social Council nominated Iran, which meets next month
to shape policy on women's rights, human rights, disarmament, and
(15:48):
terrorism prevention, and the General Assembly. They usually rubber stamp
these nominations without even having a vote. And in addition
to this, they've nominated China, Cuba, nic Ad, Agua, Saudi
Arabia and Sudan to the influential committee that is going
(16:09):
to I guess make this decision. I mean you talk about,
you know, the Henhouse, meet the Fox here, as somebody
put it in some column, the UN can't you know
counter terrorism, you know, when they're the number one state
sponsor of terror. Why do we pay seven billion dollars
a year for this globalist organization? Why why do we
(16:33):
spend all this money? Why are we a part of
the World Economic Forum? Why were we ever a part
of the Paris Accords?
Speaker 1 (16:40):
You know?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Why do we look to international organizations when we should
be the masters of our own destiny.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
The reason the President is involved with Iran is because
it was an existential threat to America. The President saw
that they were twelve days away from enriching they're sixty
percent uranium to ninety percent weapons grade, and he made
a decision that they can't have nuclear weapons. It's that simple,
it's basic fundamental math. Then we learned that their ballistic
(17:08):
missile range was far further than we thought. That's another problem.
And then we have these these absolutely useless organizations, globalist organizations.
And I'll tell you one other thing. You know, I
was listening to the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney defending
his countries NATO commitments after being pressed over the alliances
(17:33):
spending by President Trump, insisting that Ottawa meets the benchmark
even though Canada has only reached two percent of their
defense target in twenty twenty five. They're not paying their
fair share. And for those countries that don't pay their
fair share, like Spain, why are we and won't allow
us to even use the air bases we built in
their countries as part of Alliance strategic planning? Why are
(17:58):
we aligned with people that are reliable partners to begin with?
You know, we have to face the reality the continent
of Europe is in disintegrating before our very eyes. They
are in a steep, steep decline. And I don't think
there's any reversal of this decline. It's everything from embracing
(18:19):
radical socialism, climate alarmism, the fact that they have neglected
their own national defense and national security. They've been weak
partners with NATO, They've never wanted to contribute their fair share.
And then the worst thing they've done is unfettered illegal
immigration without assimilation. Now you have no go zones in France,
(18:41):
no go zones in other parts of Europe. They have
nearly one hundred sharia courts in Great Britain. They're all
countries in decline. They are a continent in decline. And
why should we spend eight hundred plus billion dollars a
year securing the defenses of U Europe when they won't
even defend themselves and their unreliable partners even as something
(19:06):
you should have such easy moral clarity in standing with
us against the number one state sponsor of terror. And
by the way, we've got to now keep our eye
on China because US intelligence is indicating that China's preparing
weapons shipments to Iran amid this fragile ceasefire. The ceasefire
is over, by the way, nobody's saying it yet. The
ceasefire is over. There's a bit of a battle going
(19:31):
on between the Pope, Hope Leo and President Trump. Pope
Leo on Saturday denounced quote, the the delusion of omnipotence
that is fueling the US Israel war in Iran and
demanded political leaders stop and negotiate peace. Well, we try
to negotiate peace. I've never heard the Pope once comment
(19:56):
on the need for, you know, to prevent Iran from
ever having nuclear weapons, and if we're going to get
lectures from the Catholic Church. And I was raised Catholic,
and I went to Catholic school for twelve years, and
I think the Catholic Mass is beautiful and in every
way imaginable. I have not liked past popes. I think
(20:16):
the last pope that I really liked and respected the
most was probably Hope John Paul the second. Anyway, he's
the first US born pope. And while he didn't mention
the US or President Trump in his prayer over the weekend,
which he which was planned before the talks were announced,
(20:36):
but Leo's tone and message appeared to be directed at
President Trump and US officials that boasted of US military
superiority and how this war is justified, and he spoke
about it in religious terms, and he said enough with
the of the idolatry and self and money, enough of
the display of power, enough of war, and in the
(21:00):
Basilica pews, the Archbishop of Tehran, Belgian Cardinal Dominic Joseph Matthieu,
said the US was represented in the diplomatic corps by
its chief mission, et cetera, et cetera, and then it
got a little more, a little bit more heated, and anyway,
the Pope said that the president's threat to annihilate Iranian
(21:21):
civilization is truly unacceptable. How come no pope that I
know of, and especially Pope Leo, if he wants to
engage in a public discourse on issues, maybe we should
look at the Catholic Church's position during World War II
in Nazi Germany and talk specifically about what the Vatican
(21:43):
knew and when they knew it. Just saying, you know,
if you want my real reasons for leaving the Catholic Churches,
in many ways, I could not get over the fact
that they institutionalized corruption. I'm just being blunt. I think
the Mass is beautiful, I believe in many of the
tenets of the Catholic faith. I've not abandoned my faith
(22:03):
in any way. If anything, my faith has gotten stronger
in my older years. We've been talking a lot about
it lately, not that I want to discuss it at
all today, especially the Lord's Prayer and Linda's interpretation of
the Bible and her planed negotiation when she gets to
the pearly Gates and she's going to justify her hate
list and just justify ignoring the very clear statement in
(22:26):
the Lord's Prayer which is a direct message to all
of us to forgive others as we forgive. That's a
different issue for another month, another year. But I find
this fascinating that I did not hear the Pope one time,
or any pope for that matter, weigh in about the
terrorism that has been waged in the entire region, in
(22:48):
the Middle East or worldwide, or those that have been
so willing to strap bombs on young children and promise
them seventy two urgins in heaven. I've never heard the
Pope way in on October seventh. I haven't heard the
and the horrors of that day, and the murder and
(23:09):
the rape, and the torture, and the kidnapping and the
beheading that took place that day. I've never heard the
Pope way in about the massacre of tens and tens
of thousands of Iranians, not one single word, And it
just seems to be a very one sided argument. And anyway,
I don't blame the President for fighting back, and I
(23:31):
don't blame him at all. I think that the President,
you know, is right in challenging what this pope is
suggesting here, as the President went out there and said,
Pope Leo's week on crime terrible. On foreign policy, he
talks about fear of the Trump administration, but he didn't
(23:52):
mention fear that the Catholic Church and other Christian organizations
had during COVID when they were arresting priests and ministers
and everybody else for holding church services, even going outside
and being ten or twenty feet apart. And I don't
really want a pope who thinks that it's terrible that
America attacked Venezuela, a country that was sending massive amounts
of drugs to the United States or worse, emptying their prisons,
(24:15):
including murderers and drug dealers and killers. And I don't
want a pope criticizing the president of the United States
because I'm doing exactly what I was elected to do.
And that is lowering the crime rate in this country,
creating the greatest you know.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
And then he went on to.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
List of successes, and he said the Pope should be
thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise.
He doesn't think the Pope would have been elected. But
if we're going to have selective outrage and we're going
to get political commentary from the pope now the pope, Linda,
correct me if I'm wrong. Didn't the Pope talk about
(24:50):
the need for peace, and didn't the Pope talk about
the need for a cease fire and how war is
horrible and evil. I don't think all war is horrible
and evil at all. Oh and by the way, biblically speaking,
I don't think God viewed it that way. And when
I brought this up the other day, some people got
upset when I said this, But that was Are we
(25:11):
to believe the Bible story about David and Goliath and
that David was was given the strength by God to
take on the giant Goliath and slay him, that would
be kill him? Or that you know what happened to
Pharaoh's army when Moses parted the Red Sea. I mean
(25:32):
you can if you haven't watched the Ten Commandments, wend
are those examples where the Lord what happened with Joshua
and Jericho when the wall fell?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
You know?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And I can go on what happened to the many
victories of Saul, you know? Or the Amalekites which God
commanded the destruction of uh.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I think, well, he's from Chicago, he can't help. But
you know, him and Pritzker probably have Thanksgiving together for
all we know. But I think at the end of
the day, when we look at this particular pope, I
thought the last one was bad. He's worse. And the
reason is they've made it into being a celebrity. He
thinks he's cool. He likes to have, you know, people
(26:15):
that play baseball come and see him. He likes to
meet with former advisors to former presidents. He has side meetings.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I'll tell you what if you mean, like with David Axelrod,
who he met with before all that.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm sure him and axel Rock go
way back.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
I got a few things to say about the pope.
I'd like to know why.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
At the parish level, the bishop level, the cardinal level,
and all the way up to Rome. They knew about
systemic sexual abuse against children and try to do anything
about it, and they covered it up.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Catholic charities are one of the worst defenders in human
and sex trafficking, especially of children.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
About Catholic charities, but I can tell you that they
knew about the sex abuse of minors and they didn't
do anything about it that was systemic. Now, nowhere in
the Bible, if you look at does it say that
a priest can't be married. As a matter of fact,
the very apostles that were chosen by Jesus himself were married.
(27:16):
Eleven of the twelve Apostles, to be precise or married.
You know, for the first twelve hundred years of the church,
priests were allowed to marry, and it was only after
that rule was changed. Now, I think you can get
into a wide variety of analysis in terms of why
that rule was changed, but I think one of the
(27:37):
biggest reasons was the fear of the loss of property
if there was widespread divorce and they didn't want to
have to give up money and land. And then as
a result, I think you reduced the potential pool of
priestly candidates dramatically because I don't think. I think most
men would like to be with women in their lives
(27:57):
to be very blunt. Is that because is that a
politically correct way to say that?
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Listen the Catholic church. This is just my opinion as
a practicing Catholic. I love my particular church. But I
had a meeting with my priest last week and I
told him as soon as the meeting began that I
did not like this pope and I did not care
for him, which he laughed and said, Linda, tell me
how you really feel. And I said, I'm sorry, father,
I really I struggle with this person.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
He is not really sorry, but I'm being nice.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
You know, he's the priest. I can't be mean. My
point is he is not a representative of Catholics across
the world. He is not a representative. He is a token.
He is a person that is filling a seat right now.
I think, to Trump's point, if we voted for a pope,
Leo wasn't getting the seat. No way in hell.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Nobody ever heard of him before.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
No, he's an embarrassing if anybody was if they really
wanted to pick I think somebody that would have been
a good candidate, maybe Timothy Dolan would have been a
far better candidate, more dynamic.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
But all of them need to be quiet. You know,
the car knows the bishops. Why don't you get your
own house in order. And if you love illegal immigrants
so much, take down all the Vatican walls. Let them in.
I hear you guys got plenty of room. You just
redid the place. Let them all in and then we'll
talk about how kind and assimilating they are. Do me
a favor, please.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I think that's one favorite that they can do. The
second thing they least can do is come clean on this.
What was institutional corruption? That's why I left the Catholic Church.
And there's no perfect church, let's be honest about it.
And there aren't perfect people. All of sind even Linda,
and fall in short with Gloria God, although I know
you rewrite your Bible to think that you don't need
(29:38):
to forgive other people, which I'm not getting back into
that discussion today. Copy pole one wants to drag me
into this discussion.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
I want to talk about God. That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
What's the real story but behind the price of a
barrel of oil? And what will this blockade do to
the price of oil. Also, we're going to get full analysis.
What is the synopsis of new king rich Vic?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Three?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
What is our nim victory? You will explain when we
get back. He wrote a great column and we'll get
into the details of it coming up.
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