April 2, 2026 • 31 mins
In this powerful hour, Mark Simone fills in for Sean Hannity and tackles the legal and political firestorms dominating the headlines. Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett joins the show to break down Pam Bondi’s departure, Robert Mueller’s legacy, and the Supreme Court’s scrutiny of birthright citizenship. The hour then turns to President Trump’s primetime address on Iran, with sharp reaction to the speech, the media response, and the broader national security debate surrounding Operation Epic Fury. This episode delivers a mix of legal interpretation, foreign policy discussion, and unmistakable Hannity-style political analysis. Listeners looking for insight on the Constitution, executive power, and America’s role on the world stage will find plenty to unpack here. It is a timely, high-energy hour focused on law, leadership, and the fight over America’s future.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, welcome back. It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
Normally I'm on our big flagship in New York w
R also now the home of Curtis Leeway. He's on
every morning with us and Linda. You used to work
with Curtis, right, I did? Indeed, great guy. I also
used to work with you. Yes, she said it was
the high point of her It was.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Indeed, So I keep bringing you back.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I miss you.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I yelled at her once, and now for the last
twenty five years she's been yelling at me NonStop. So
see how things change. Hey, Greg Jarrett is the best
legal analyst of all Fox News legal analysts, New York
Times bestselling author Fact you want a great book, go
to Amazon, type in Greg Jarrett and order any.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Of his books.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
You'll really really love them, and of course you'll see
them all over television. Greg Jarrett, how are you good
to be with you?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I'm fine? Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Hey, Pam Bondy, what do you think what went wrong?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
There?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Jump had nothing but praise for Pam Bondi, stating she
did a tremendous job cracking down on crime, prosecuting violent offenders,
upholding law and order, and you know, all of that
was a chief goal of the president, and that is
her richly deserved legacy. You know, Trump called her a
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loyal friend he thinks very highly over. So this was
not mark you know, one of those acrimonious splits that
you know often happens in administrations. I think Trump saw
this as an opportunity to do a couple of things. First,
turn the corner on the whole Epstein ordeal, because you know,
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right or wrong, Bondy was associated with the slow disclosures
that were criticized. Second of all, I think Trump saw
this as a way to jump start some of the
corruption cases against those weapons as the law and abused
their power to pursue him and everything from the Russia hoax,
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and I wrote two books on that, you know, to
the specious criminal indictments against Trump to stop him from
winning elections. You know, sometimes new leadership and a fresh
perspective is needed at the top. And I'm pretty sure
the President decided let's move now on this, make a
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change now, and he advanced to the midterm elections to
avoid a confirmation fight if Democrats retake the US Senate.
So it was well thought out and that's my sense
of it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Very interesting. Hey, let me get sidetracked for a second here.
You did write the best books on the Russia hoax.
When Muller died, Trump tweeted out good, I'm glad, you know,
and everybody on the media went crazy. You can't speak
that way about it. A war hero, a Bronze star winner.
What's the truth about Muller? Where did he go wrong?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
At the end? Well?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I think he should. You know, I wrote a column
after Muller passed away and came out last week, and
you know, I think he made some egregious errors. He
had a fairly commendable career in government, and you know
we should respect that. Although there were a couple of
cases as a prosecutor and also at the FBI that
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where he did enormous damage and made incredibly bad errors.
But when it came to, you know, the whole Trump
Russia collusion conspiracy, you know, Muller should never have accepted
the job. He had disqualifying multiple conflicts of interest. He
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was hyper biased, and you know, he hired a team
of partisan prosecutors who's you know, who were obsessed with
and you know, abused their positions of power. To try
to get Trump. In the end, they failed because there
was never any evidence. As I wrote in both my
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books of Trump Russia collusion, you know, it was all
a fiction that was conjured up by Hillary Clinton, paid
for by Clinton, and you know, Obama and Biden and
James Comy and you know, John Brennan and the whole
gang were all in on it, and they used the
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phony dossier as a pretext to try to destroy Trump
and drive him from office. Muller should have been investigating them.
But then, you know, when we found out during his
you know, congressional testimony, after his report came out, that
he didn't know anything about what had actually happened, the
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people behind the Russia hoax, it became abundantly clear that
this guy was suffering from some sort of diminished mental
acuity and he didn't even know what was in his
own report, And you know, it was sort of sad.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, well, that's a new democratic technique. Find a guy
with the mental you know, diminishment, you do what you
want and put that guy in charge. So hey, let's
get to the Supreme Court. The President attends the oral
argument yesterday, and sure enough, there's all the media thing
was totally inappropriate for him to be there. He was
trying to intimidate them, what's the real truth?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Well, that's utter nonsense, because the President was a named
party in the litigation, and that automatically makes him eligible
to be invited and attend. You know, the oral arguments.
You know, I watch, I listened in. You can never
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watch unless you're there in person. But I listened in
to the oral arguments yesterday. And you know what struck
me is that John Sower really made a very persuasive,
credible argument. He backed it by historical facts. The authors
of the fourteenth Amendment never intended to grant universal citizenship
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to children of parents who broke the law coming here
fraudulently or illegally. But it didn't seem to matter to
the justices that those who wrote the fourteenth Amendment did
not mean to include illegal migrants. One of the authors
of the amendment stood on the floor of the Center,
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Jacob Howard, and said, quote, this will not include persons
born in the US who are foreigners and aliens. Instead
of paying attention to that, you know, very logical history lesson.
You know, these justices seemed skeptical and where of dramatically altering,
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you know, a century of government interpretation, interpretation by the
way that was horribly mistaken from the outset. So, as
I wrote in my column yesterday about the hearing, you know,
this may be one of those instances in which a
long established norm and the complexity of reversing it is
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just too much of an obstacle for a majority of
the justices on the court, which is a shame.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, hey, this content Contentie Brown Jackson a bit of
a nitwit, if I do say so myself. But listen
to this argument she tried to make, which made no
sense at all.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
If I steal someone's wallet in Japan, the Japanese authorities
can arrest me and prosecute me. It's allegiance, meaning can
they control you as a matter of law. I can
also rely on them if my wallet is stolen to uh,
you know, under Japanese lago, and prosecute the person who
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has stolen it. So there's this relationship based on even
though I'm a temporary traveler, I'm just on vacation in Japan,
I'm still locally owing allegiance.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
In that sense.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Is there any merit to that argument? And should she
be on.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
This court none whatsoever. And you know, I wish there
had been a camera in the Supreme Court because I'm
pretty certain that a lot of the justices were rolling
their eyes and shaking their heads when she uttered that nonsense.
You know, I listened to that, and I said to myself,
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how does she manage to think with that brain of her?
Really confounding? What she did was conflate.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Too.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
You know, well known principles of law and politics. There's
a difference between between territorial jurisdiction and political jurisdiction. She
was talking about with this silly analogy. Territorial jurisdiction you
have to follow criminal and civil law wherever you are located,
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in whatever country. But political jurisdiction is allegiance to the
United States and no other foreign power. But she doesn't understand,
you know, a basic legal concept as if she, you know,
slept through law school. And you know, as far as
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I'm concerned, she has no business being on the bench,
and certainly not in the nation's highest court.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Have we ever had this happen before we had a
bubblehead of just on there for a million years on
the Supreme.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Court, well, not in recent modern history, not in my lifetime.
But we've had some pretty hideous Supreme Court justices over
the last two and a half centuries, particularly those who
authored the dread Scott opinion, which was one of the greatest,
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probably the greatest miscarriages of justice ever issued by the
US Supreme Court, and a disgrace and a shame.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah, Now, why do we have I have never understood
this process. We have the oral hearing, oral arguments. We're
not going to have a decision till the summer. Why
do we have to wait so long?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Well, they go into conference afterwards after the oral arguments,
and you know, they usually have a discussion. They may
take an initial vote, then they have to assign it
out to whoever is going to write the opinion, and
you know, figure out all of that. But there's more
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that goes on, you know. I mean, I think the feeling,
as I wrote in my column, is that Trump's going
to lose, but that's that's not a certainty because behind
closed doors, there's there's a lot of lobbying that goes
on among the justices and in fact among their clerks,
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who are very active in shaping opinions. And there have
been a couple of very famous historical Supreme Court cases
in which you know, the initial vote was like, you know,
seven to two or eight to one, and it completely
flipped the other way around because of the conversations and
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the lobbying that took place, So you know, you can never.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Really tell interesting. Well, Greg Jarrett great stuff has always everybody.
Go read his columns Foxnews dot com and go to
Amazon and order any of Greg Jarrett's books. You'll love them.
In fact, one of the best legal books ever. Trial
of the Century and of course The Russia Hoax and
witch Hunting all the but any by Greg Jarrett. Just
go to Amazon and order his books. Read his columns,
(12:03):
Greg Jarrett, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
MARKO is going talking to you. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Take care, hey, we'll take some calls next. Eight hundred
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Go to Mark Simone NYC at Instagram. Mark Simone NYC
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We'll take your calls next on the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Chucky Schumer is sure upset because we want to see
where the money went. Where's the money? Maybe we should
start with him, how about at Chucky, where is the dough?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Sean Hannity, Hey, welcome back. It's Mark Simone here for
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Sean Hannity. Tiger Woods. Well, so they're releasing the bodycam
footage of Tiger Woods the DUI arrest. He doesn't look
that bad. He's sweating, he's uh, you can tell this
guy's been through a lot of car crashes. Normally, if
you're in a big car crash, you'd be totally shaken up.
This guy, it's like it's just another week for him.
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But he says to the cop he was trying to
he looked down at his phone. That was the problem.
Now with there's another cop that said the Tiger said
to him, I was trying to change the radio station.
I look down. He blamed that for the crash. So
I think we should find out who this radio host is.
Had he been doing a better show and Tiger not
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wanted to change the station, this scrash would not have occurred. Yeah,
here's the problem. If you got a brand new car
and I assume he's got a brand new car. You know,
it used to be buttons. The radio was buttons. You
push a knob, a button and you want to do stuff,
you turn a knob. Well, now it's all digital, and
it's all on a screen, so you can't just reach
your hand down.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
And feel it. You know.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
He used to be able to feel the buttons. Now
you got to actually look down and look at the
screen and it, you know, tap to look at the
screen and push it and tap. It takes a little
more time. So it's not the safest thing in the world.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
In the case of Tiger Woods, he was on all
kinds of pain medication. He took a breathalyzer at the
scene and passed it with flying colors, so there was
no alcohol in the system, but a lot of medication.
You can't drive with that stuff. The side effects her
are brutal. Now he's been in tremendous pain from all
these injuries. That's why he's got to take this stuff.
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But it's like a catch twenty two. He gets injured
in a car crash and it is in such pain
he has to take this medication, which gets him into
another car crash, which means he's going to take even
more medication. You know, it's your third, fourth time, you're
going to jail. The judge is not. You could have
all the high powered lawyers, all this stuff. You go
to jail when it's your third or fourth one. But
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he's made a deal with the court. They've let him
leave the country. He's going to go into rehab, go
into intense rehab, and he's gotten permission to leave the
country to do it. He's going to another country to
do this rehab. This does a couple of things. One,
if you do it long enough, you make it sound
like the problem is totally cured, it's solved once and
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for all. That way, the judge doesn't have to send
you to jail. And the other thing is if you
leave the country for a long time, hopefully all the
press dies down, all the commotion dies down. He's made
it clear he's not going to play in the Masters.
He will not. He was going to be the captain
of the Ryder golf tons withdrawn from that and a
lot of people blaming, uh, you know, why doesn't he
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get a driver? He's a billionaire. Why doesn't he have
a driver? He says, it's about privacy. He's also known
as the biggest chief skate in the world. Could be
that too, but privacy. Who knows what he's really up to?
Maybe who knows. Maybe that's why he can't have a
driver seeing everything. Hey, the president's speech last night. We'll
take a look at that. I'll listen to that coming up.
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Mark Simone here for Sean.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
The one thing you can always count on, Sean Hannity
is back on the radio.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Hey, Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. Last night, the
president people have been pushing him a lot. You've got
to do a primetime address to the nation. You need
to speak from the Oval Office. He doesn't like speaking
from the Oval Office. He doesn't like sitting at a
desk for the speech doesn't look right. He likes standing
up in you know, with a podium. But they were
pushing for this, and you know, I don't know. Obviously,
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way back then, in the good old days, an address
from the Oval Office, prime time man, ninety million people
would see it. It's not the same anymore, primetime network television.
Nobody watches it anymore. I know you can catch up
on YouTube and this and that, but not everybody sees
this I thought we'd take a listen to it. First.
Let me just point out before you hear this, the
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left went nuts. This drove them nuts, Schumer tweeting out,
it's the most incoherent, rambling, ridiculous speech ever. Nobody knew
what he was talking about. You have Joe scarboroughs to
listen to Joe Scarborough with what he actually said about
this speech.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
John, Let me ask you. You just said he only
thought this would be a conflict that would last a
couple of days, a week or two. Who does that
sound like Vladimir Putin going into Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
See, we live in the age.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Of asymmetrical warfare, the age of asymmetrical warfare. We're weaker
countries may not be able to prevail outright, but they
can bleed.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I'm getting a headache from him. Give me a headache,
that guy. So there you go to where it was
supposed to last a couple of You know, World War
two was three years, Vietnam was nineteen years. We're now
in an age where two and a half weeks. What's
taken so long for this war? Well, that's why I
thought you should listen to it for yourself. I thought
it was pretty coherent. We don't need an explanation, an explanation.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Why we're there.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It's the worst terrorist regime in the world, the biggest
threat in the world. That's why we're there. But tike
a listener. Here's the President last night speaking to the nation.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
My fellow Americans. Good evening. Let me begin by congratulating
the team at NASA and our brave astronauts on the
successful launch of Artimists too. It was quite something. It
would be traveling further than any manned rocket has ever
flown and will very substantially pass the Moon, go around it,
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and come back home from a distance that has never
been done before. It's amazing. They are on the way,
and God bless them. These are brave people who want
to God blessed us for unbelievable astronauts. As we speak
this evening, it's been just one month since the United
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States military began Operation Epic Fury, targeting the world's number
one state sponsor of terror, Iran. In these past four weeks,
our armed forces have delivered swift, decisive, overwhelming victories on
the battlefield, victories like few people have ever seen before. Tonight,
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Iran's navy is gone, Their air forces in ruins. Their leaders,
most of them terrorist regime they led, are now dead,
their command and control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
being decimated as we speak. Their ability to launch missiles
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and drones is dramatically curtailed, and their weapons factories and
rocket launchers are being blown to pieces, very few of
them left. Never in the history of warfare has an
enemy suffered such clear and devastating, large scale losses in
a matter of weeks. Our enemies are losing in America
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as it has been for five years under my presidency,
is winning and now winning bigger than ever before. Before
discussing this this current situation, I also want to thank
our troops for the massiful job they did in taking
the country of Venezuela in a matter of minutes. That
it was quick, lethal, violent, and respected by everyone all
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over the world. After rebuilding our military during my first term,
we have by far the strongest military anywhere in the world.
And now we're working along with Venezuela and our True
Sense joint venture partners, we're getting along incredibly well in
the production and sale of massive amounts of oil and gas,
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the second largest reserves on Earth after the United States
of America. We're now totally independent of the Middle East,
and yet we are there to help. We don't have
to be there. We don't need their oil, we don't
need anything they have, but we're there to help our allies. Tonight,
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I want to provide an update on the tremendous progress
warriors have made in a run and discuss why Operation
Epic Fury is necessary for the safety of America and
the security of the free world. From the very first
day I announced my campaign for president in twenty fifteen,
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I have vowed that I would never allow Iran to
have a nuclear weapon. This fanacular regime has been chanting
death to America, death to Israel for forty seven years.
Their proxies were behind the murder of two hundred and
forty one Americans and the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut,
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the slaughter of hundreds of our service members with roadside bombs.
They were involved in the attack on the USS Call,
and they're carried out the countless other heinous acts, including
the blood just horrible, bloody atrocities of October seventh in Israel,
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something that most people have never seen anything like it.
This murderer's regime also recently killed forty five thousand of
their own people who were protesting in Iran. Forty five
thousand dead. For these terrorists to have nuclear weapons would
be an intolerable threat. The most violent and thuggish regime
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on Earth would be free to carry out their campaigns
of terror, coersion, conquest, and mass murder from behind a
nuclear shield. I will never let that happen, and neither
should any of our past presidents. This situation has been
going on for forty seven years and should have been
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handled long before I arrived in office. I did many
things during my two terms and offers to stop the
quest for nuclear weapons by Iran. First, and perhaps most importantly,
I killed General Cassem Salomoni my first term. He was
an evil, genius, brilliant person, a horrible human being, however,
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the father of the roadside bomb, and he lived just horrible.
What he did, Iran would have been perhaps in far
better stronger position he lived. We would have had probably
a different conversation tonight, but you know what, we'd still
be winning and winning big. And then, very importantly, I
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terminated Barack Hussein. Obama is a rand nuclear deal, a disaster.
Obama gave them one point seven billion dollars in cash,
green green cash, took it out of banks from Virginia,
d C. And Maryland. All the cash they had flew
it by airplanes in an attempt to buy their respect
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and loyalty. But it didn't work. They laughed at our
president and went on with their mission to have a
nuclear bomb. His Iran deal would have led to a
colossal arsenal of mena of nuclear weapons for Iran, and
they would have had them years ago, and they would
have used them. Would have been a different world. There
would have been no Middle East and no Israel right now,
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in my opinion, the opinion of a lot of great experts,
had I not terminated that terrible deal, I was so
honored to do it. I was so proud to do it.
It was so bad right from the beginning. Essentially, I
did what no other president was willing to do. They
made mistakes, and I am correcting them. My first preference
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was always the path of diplomacy. Yet the regime continued
their relentless quest for nuclear weapons and rejected every attempt
at an agreement. For this reason, in June, I ordered
a strike on Iran's key nuclear facilities an Operation Midnight Hammer.
Nobody's ever seen anything like it. Those beautiful B two
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bombers performed magnificently. We totally obliterated those nuclear sites. The
regime then sought to rebuild their nuclear program at a
totally different location, making clear they had no intention of
abandoning their pursuit of nuclear weapons. They were also rapidly
building a vance stockpile of conventional ballistic missiles and would
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soon have had missiles that could reach the American homeland, Europe,
and virtually any other place on Earth. Iran's strategy was
so obvious. They wanted to produce as many missiles as possible,
and they did with the longest range possible. And they
had some weapons that nobody believed they had. We just
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learned that. We took them out. We took them all
out so that no one would really dare stop them
and their race for a nuclear bomb and nuclear weapon
and nuclear weapon like nobody's ever seen before. They were
right at the doorstep. For years, everyone has said that
Iran cannot have nuclear weapons, but in the end, those
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are just words if you're not willing to take action
when the time comes, as I stated in my announcement
of Operation Epic Fury, our objectives are very simple and clear.
We are systematically dismantling the regime's ability to threaten America
or project power outside of their borders. That means eliminating
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Iran's navy, which is now absolutely destroyed, hurting their air
force and their missile program at levels never seen before,
and annihilating their defense industrial base. We've done all of it.
Their navy is gone, their air force is gone, their
missiles are just about used up or beaten. Taken together,
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these actions will cripple around military, crush their ability to
support terrorist proxies, and deny them the ability to build
a nuclear bomb. Our armed forces have been extraordinary. There's
never been any like it militarily. Everyone is talking about
it in tonight. I'm pleased to say that these core
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strategic objectives are nearing completion. As we celebrate this progress,
we think especially of the thirteen American warriors who have
laid down their lives in this fight to prevent our
children from ever having to face a nuclear Iran. Twice
this past month, I have traveled to Dover Air Force Base,
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and it's been something I wanted to be with those
heroes as they return to Americans. So when I was
with them and their families, their parents, their wives, husbands,
we salute them. And now we must honor them by
completing the mission for which they gave their lives. And
every single one of the people they loved one said
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please please finish the job, every one of them. And
we are going to finish the job. And we're going
to finish it very fast, very close. I want to
thank our allies in the Middle East, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Guitar,
the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain. They've been great and we
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will not let them get hurt or fail in any way,
shape or form. Many Americans have been concerned to see
the recent rise in gasoline prices here at home. The
short term increase has been entirely the result of the
Iranian regime launching deranged terror attacks against commercial oil tankers
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and neighboring countries that have nothing to do with the conflict.
This is yet more proof that Iran can never be
trusted with nuclear weapons. They will use them, and they
will use them quickly. It would lead to decades of extortion,
economic pain, and instability worse than we can ever imagine.
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The United States has never been better prepared economically to
confront this threat. You all know that we built the
strongest economy in history. We're going through it right now,
the strongest in history. In one year, We've taken a
dead and crippled country. I hate to say that, but
we were dead and crippled country after the last administration
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and made it the hottest country anywhere in the world
by far, with no inflation, record setting investments coming into
the United States over eighteen trillion dollars, and the highest
stock market ever with fifty three all time record highs
in just one year. It all positioned us to get
rid of a cancer that has long simmered. It's known
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as the nuclear Iran. And they didn't know what was coming.
They've never imagined it. Remember, because of our drill, baby
drill program, America has plenty of gas. We have so
much gas. Under my leadership, we are number one producer
of oil and gas on the planet, without even discussing
the millions of barrels that were getting from Venezuela. Because
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of the Trump Administration's policies, we produce more oil and
gas than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. Think of that.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
That's pretty amazing. Well that's most of the president's speech
last night. I thought it was fine. I thought it
was clear. Let's go to the biggest critic ever, Linda.
It was pretty good, wasn't it. Anything President Trump does
is good.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
The fact that he takes the time to talk to
the American people makes him may plus of my book.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Yes, so don't go by Chuck Schumer, who if you
read his tweet, it was the most incoherent rambling awful.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
It was fine, and we forgot he was listening to
a recording of himself.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
He just got confused.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
That's a tribute to President Trump. He can't find the attack.
They just get hysterical, hyperbolic. They can't put their finger
on anything.
Hey, welcome back. It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
Normally I'm on our big flagship in New York w
R also now the home of Curtis Leeway. He's on
every morning with us and Linda. You used to work
with Curtis, right, I did? Indeed, great guy. I also
used to work with you. Yes, she said it was
the high point of her It was.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Indeed, So I keep bringing you back.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I miss you.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
I yelled at her once, and now for the last
twenty five years she's been yelling at me NonStop. So
see how things change. Hey, Greg Jarrett is the best
legal analyst of all Fox News legal analysts, New York
Times bestselling author Fact you want a great book, go
to Amazon, type in Greg Jarrett and order any.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Of his books.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
You'll really really love them, and of course you'll see
them all over television. Greg Jarrett, how are you good
to be with you?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I'm fine? Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Hey, Pam Bondy, what do you think what went wrong?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
There?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Jump had nothing but praise for Pam Bondi, stating she
did a tremendous job cracking down on crime, prosecuting violent offenders,
upholding law and order, and you know, all of that
was a chief goal of the president, and that is
her richly deserved legacy. You know, Trump called her a
(01:23):
loyal friend he thinks very highly over. So this was
not mark you know, one of those acrimonious splits that
you know often happens in administrations. I think Trump saw
this as an opportunity to do a couple of things. First,
turn the corner on the whole Epstein ordeal, because you know,
(01:44):
right or wrong, Bondy was associated with the slow disclosures
that were criticized. Second of all, I think Trump saw
this as a way to jump start some of the
corruption cases against those weapons as the law and abused
their power to pursue him and everything from the Russia hoax,
(02:07):
and I wrote two books on that, you know, to
the specious criminal indictments against Trump to stop him from
winning elections. You know, sometimes new leadership and a fresh
perspective is needed at the top. And I'm pretty sure
the President decided let's move now on this, make a
(02:28):
change now, and he advanced to the midterm elections to
avoid a confirmation fight if Democrats retake the US Senate.
So it was well thought out and that's my sense
of it.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Very interesting. Hey, let me get sidetracked for a second here.
You did write the best books on the Russia hoax.
When Muller died, Trump tweeted out good, I'm glad, you know,
and everybody on the media went crazy. You can't speak
that way about it. A war hero, a Bronze star winner.
What's the truth about Muller? Where did he go wrong?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
At the end? Well?
Speaker 4 (03:02):
I think he should. You know, I wrote a column
after Muller passed away and came out last week, and
you know, I think he made some egregious errors. He
had a fairly commendable career in government, and you know
we should respect that. Although there were a couple of
cases as a prosecutor and also at the FBI that
(03:27):
where he did enormous damage and made incredibly bad errors.
But when it came to, you know, the whole Trump
Russia collusion conspiracy, you know, Muller should never have accepted
the job. He had disqualifying multiple conflicts of interest. He
(03:49):
was hyper biased, and you know, he hired a team
of partisan prosecutors who's you know, who were obsessed with
and you know, abused their positions of power. To try
to get Trump. In the end, they failed because there
was never any evidence. As I wrote in both my
(04:12):
books of Trump Russia collusion, you know, it was all
a fiction that was conjured up by Hillary Clinton, paid
for by Clinton, and you know, Obama and Biden and
James Comy and you know, John Brennan and the whole
gang were all in on it, and they used the
(04:34):
phony dossier as a pretext to try to destroy Trump
and drive him from office. Muller should have been investigating them.
But then, you know, when we found out during his
you know, congressional testimony, after his report came out, that
he didn't know anything about what had actually happened, the
(04:55):
people behind the Russia hoax, it became abundantly clear that
this guy was suffering from some sort of diminished mental
acuity and he didn't even know what was in his
own report, And you know, it was sort of sad.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, well, that's a new democratic technique. Find a guy
with the mental you know, diminishment, you do what you
want and put that guy in charge. So hey, let's
get to the Supreme Court. The President attends the oral
argument yesterday, and sure enough, there's all the media thing
was totally inappropriate for him to be there. He was
trying to intimidate them, what's the real truth?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Well, that's utter nonsense, because the President was a named
party in the litigation, and that automatically makes him eligible
to be invited and attend. You know, the oral arguments.
You know, I watch, I listened in. You can never
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watch unless you're there in person. But I listened in
to the oral arguments yesterday. And you know what struck
me is that John Sower really made a very persuasive,
credible argument. He backed it by historical facts. The authors
of the fourteenth Amendment never intended to grant universal citizenship
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to children of parents who broke the law coming here
fraudulently or illegally. But it didn't seem to matter to
the justices that those who wrote the fourteenth Amendment did
not mean to include illegal migrants. One of the authors
of the amendment stood on the floor of the Center,
(06:38):
Jacob Howard, and said, quote, this will not include persons
born in the US who are foreigners and aliens. Instead
of paying attention to that, you know, very logical history lesson.
You know, these justices seemed skeptical and where of dramatically altering,
(07:02):
you know, a century of government interpretation, interpretation by the
way that was horribly mistaken from the outset. So, as
I wrote in my column yesterday about the hearing, you know,
this may be one of those instances in which a
long established norm and the complexity of reversing it is
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just too much of an obstacle for a majority of
the justices on the court, which is a shame.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, hey, this content Contentie Brown Jackson a bit of
a nitwit, if I do say so myself. But listen
to this argument she tried to make, which made no
sense at all.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
If I steal someone's wallet in Japan, the Japanese authorities
can arrest me and prosecute me. It's allegiance, meaning can
they control you as a matter of law. I can
also rely on them if my wallet is stolen to uh,
you know, under Japanese lago, and prosecute the person who
(08:03):
has stolen it. So there's this relationship based on even
though I'm a temporary traveler, I'm just on vacation in Japan,
I'm still locally owing allegiance.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
In that sense.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Is there any merit to that argument? And should she
be on.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
This court none whatsoever. And you know, I wish there
had been a camera in the Supreme Court because I'm
pretty certain that a lot of the justices were rolling
their eyes and shaking their heads when she uttered that nonsense.
You know, I listened to that, and I said to myself,
(08:41):
how does she manage to think with that brain of her?
Really confounding? What she did was conflate.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Too.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
You know, well known principles of law and politics. There's
a difference between between territorial jurisdiction and political jurisdiction. She
was talking about with this silly analogy. Territorial jurisdiction you
have to follow criminal and civil law wherever you are located,
(09:15):
in whatever country. But political jurisdiction is allegiance to the
United States and no other foreign power. But she doesn't understand,
you know, a basic legal concept as if she, you know,
slept through law school. And you know, as far as
(09:36):
I'm concerned, she has no business being on the bench,
and certainly not in the nation's highest court.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Have we ever had this happen before we had a
bubblehead of just on there for a million years on
the Supreme.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Court, well, not in recent modern history, not in my lifetime.
But we've had some pretty hideous Supreme Court justices over
the last two and a half centuries, particularly those who
authored the dread Scott opinion, which was one of the greatest,
(10:13):
probably the greatest miscarriages of justice ever issued by the
US Supreme Court, and a disgrace and a shame.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Yeah, Now, why do we have I have never understood
this process. We have the oral hearing, oral arguments. We're
not going to have a decision till the summer. Why
do we have to wait so long?
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Well, they go into conference afterwards after the oral arguments,
and you know, they usually have a discussion. They may
take an initial vote, then they have to assign it
out to whoever is going to write the opinion, and
you know, figure out all of that. But there's more
(10:53):
that goes on, you know. I mean, I think the feeling,
as I wrote in my column, is that Trump's going
to lose, but that's that's not a certainty because behind
closed doors, there's there's a lot of lobbying that goes
on among the justices and in fact among their clerks,
(11:15):
who are very active in shaping opinions. And there have
been a couple of very famous historical Supreme Court cases
in which you know, the initial vote was like, you know,
seven to two or eight to one, and it completely
flipped the other way around because of the conversations and
(11:38):
the lobbying that took place, So you know, you can never.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Really tell interesting. Well, Greg Jarrett great stuff has always everybody.
Go read his columns Foxnews dot com and go to
Amazon and order any of Greg Jarrett's books. You'll love them.
In fact, one of the best legal books ever. Trial
of the Century and of course The Russia Hoax and
witch Hunting all the but any by Greg Jarrett. Just
go to Amazon and order his books. Read his columns,
(12:03):
Greg Jarrett, thanks for being with us.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
MARKO is going talking to you. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Take care, hey, we'll take some calls next. Eight hundred
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(12:29):
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Speaker 3 (12:41):
Chucky Schumer is sure upset because we want to see
where the money went. Where's the money? Maybe we should
start with him, how about at Chucky, where is the dough?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Sean Hannity, Hey, welcome back. It's Mark Simone here for
(13:22):
Sean Hannity. Tiger Woods. Well, so they're releasing the bodycam
footage of Tiger Woods the DUI arrest. He doesn't look
that bad. He's sweating, he's uh, you can tell this
guy's been through a lot of car crashes. Normally, if
you're in a big car crash, you'd be totally shaken up.
This guy, it's like it's just another week for him.
(13:44):
But he says to the cop he was trying to
he looked down at his phone. That was the problem.
Now with there's another cop that said the Tiger said
to him, I was trying to change the radio station.
I look down. He blamed that for the crash. So
I think we should find out who this radio host is.
Had he been doing a better show and Tiger not
(14:04):
wanted to change the station, this scrash would not have occurred. Yeah,
here's the problem. If you got a brand new car
and I assume he's got a brand new car. You know,
it used to be buttons. The radio was buttons. You
push a knob, a button and you want to do stuff,
you turn a knob. Well, now it's all digital, and
it's all on a screen, so you can't just reach
your hand down.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
And feel it. You know.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
He used to be able to feel the buttons. Now
you got to actually look down and look at the
screen and it, you know, tap to look at the
screen and push it and tap. It takes a little
more time. So it's not the safest thing in the world.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
In the case of Tiger Woods, he was on all
kinds of pain medication. He took a breathalyzer at the
scene and passed it with flying colors, so there was
no alcohol in the system, but a lot of medication.
You can't drive with that stuff. The side effects her
are brutal. Now he's been in tremendous pain from all
these injuries. That's why he's got to take this stuff.
(15:01):
But it's like a catch twenty two. He gets injured
in a car crash and it is in such pain
he has to take this medication, which gets him into
another car crash, which means he's going to take even
more medication. You know, it's your third, fourth time, you're
going to jail. The judge is not. You could have
all the high powered lawyers, all this stuff. You go
to jail when it's your third or fourth one. But
(15:22):
he's made a deal with the court. They've let him
leave the country. He's going to go into rehab, go
into intense rehab, and he's gotten permission to leave the
country to do it. He's going to another country to
do this rehab. This does a couple of things. One,
if you do it long enough, you make it sound
like the problem is totally cured, it's solved once and
(15:43):
for all. That way, the judge doesn't have to send
you to jail. And the other thing is if you
leave the country for a long time, hopefully all the
press dies down, all the commotion dies down. He's made
it clear he's not going to play in the Masters.
He will not. He was going to be the captain
of the Ryder golf tons withdrawn from that and a
lot of people blaming, uh, you know, why doesn't he
(16:05):
get a driver? He's a billionaire. Why doesn't he have
a driver? He says, it's about privacy. He's also known
as the biggest chief skate in the world. Could be
that too, but privacy. Who knows what he's really up to?
Maybe who knows. Maybe that's why he can't have a
driver seeing everything. Hey, the president's speech last night. We'll
take a look at that. I'll listen to that coming up.
(16:26):
Mark Simone here for Sean.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
The one thing you can always count on, Sean Hannity
is back on the radio.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Hey, Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. Last night, the
president people have been pushing him a lot. You've got
to do a primetime address to the nation. You need
to speak from the Oval Office. He doesn't like speaking
from the Oval Office. He doesn't like sitting at a
desk for the speech doesn't look right. He likes standing
up in you know, with a podium. But they were
pushing for this, and you know, I don't know. Obviously,
(17:24):
way back then, in the good old days, an address
from the Oval Office, prime time man, ninety million people
would see it. It's not the same anymore, primetime network television.
Nobody watches it anymore. I know you can catch up
on YouTube and this and that, but not everybody sees
this I thought we'd take a listen to it. First.
Let me just point out before you hear this, the
(17:46):
left went nuts. This drove them nuts, Schumer tweeting out,
it's the most incoherent, rambling, ridiculous speech ever. Nobody knew
what he was talking about. You have Joe scarboroughs to
listen to Joe Scarborough with what he actually said about
this speech.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
John, Let me ask you. You just said he only
thought this would be a conflict that would last a
couple of days, a week or two. Who does that
sound like Vladimir Putin going into Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
See, we live in the age.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Of asymmetrical warfare, the age of asymmetrical warfare. We're weaker
countries may not be able to prevail outright, but they
can bleed.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I'm getting a headache from him. Give me a headache,
that guy. So there you go to where it was
supposed to last a couple of You know, World War
two was three years, Vietnam was nineteen years. We're now
in an age where two and a half weeks. What's
taken so long for this war? Well, that's why I
thought you should listen to it for yourself. I thought
it was pretty coherent. We don't need an explanation, an explanation.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Why we're there.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
It's the worst terrorist regime in the world, the biggest
threat in the world. That's why we're there. But tike
a listener. Here's the President last night speaking to the nation.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
My fellow Americans. Good evening. Let me begin by congratulating
the team at NASA and our brave astronauts on the
successful launch of Artimists too. It was quite something. It
would be traveling further than any manned rocket has ever
flown and will very substantially pass the Moon, go around it,
(19:19):
and come back home from a distance that has never
been done before. It's amazing. They are on the way,
and God bless them. These are brave people who want
to God blessed us for unbelievable astronauts. As we speak
this evening, it's been just one month since the United
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States military began Operation Epic Fury, targeting the world's number
one state sponsor of terror, Iran. In these past four weeks,
our armed forces have delivered swift, decisive, overwhelming victories on
the battlefield, victories like few people have ever seen before. Tonight,
(20:04):
Iran's navy is gone, Their air forces in ruins. Their leaders,
most of them terrorist regime they led, are now dead,
their command and control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
being decimated as we speak. Their ability to launch missiles
(20:28):
and drones is dramatically curtailed, and their weapons factories and
rocket launchers are being blown to pieces, very few of
them left. Never in the history of warfare has an
enemy suffered such clear and devastating, large scale losses in
a matter of weeks. Our enemies are losing in America
(20:51):
as it has been for five years under my presidency,
is winning and now winning bigger than ever before. Before
discussing this this current situation, I also want to thank
our troops for the massiful job they did in taking
the country of Venezuela in a matter of minutes. That
it was quick, lethal, violent, and respected by everyone all
(21:13):
over the world. After rebuilding our military during my first term,
we have by far the strongest military anywhere in the world.
And now we're working along with Venezuela and our True
Sense joint venture partners, we're getting along incredibly well in
the production and sale of massive amounts of oil and gas,
(21:36):
the second largest reserves on Earth after the United States
of America. We're now totally independent of the Middle East,
and yet we are there to help. We don't have
to be there. We don't need their oil, we don't
need anything they have, but we're there to help our allies. Tonight,
(21:56):
I want to provide an update on the tremendous progress
warriors have made in a run and discuss why Operation
Epic Fury is necessary for the safety of America and
the security of the free world. From the very first
day I announced my campaign for president in twenty fifteen,
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I have vowed that I would never allow Iran to
have a nuclear weapon. This fanacular regime has been chanting
death to America, death to Israel for forty seven years.
Their proxies were behind the murder of two hundred and
forty one Americans and the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut,
(22:38):
the slaughter of hundreds of our service members with roadside bombs.
They were involved in the attack on the USS Call,
and they're carried out the countless other heinous acts, including
the blood just horrible, bloody atrocities of October seventh in Israel,
(22:59):
something that most people have never seen anything like it.
This murderer's regime also recently killed forty five thousand of
their own people who were protesting in Iran. Forty five
thousand dead. For these terrorists to have nuclear weapons would
be an intolerable threat. The most violent and thuggish regime
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on Earth would be free to carry out their campaigns
of terror, coersion, conquest, and mass murder from behind a
nuclear shield. I will never let that happen, and neither
should any of our past presidents. This situation has been
going on for forty seven years and should have been
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handled long before I arrived in office. I did many
things during my two terms and offers to stop the
quest for nuclear weapons by Iran. First, and perhaps most importantly,
I killed General Cassem Salomoni my first term. He was
an evil, genius, brilliant person, a horrible human being, however,
(24:07):
the father of the roadside bomb, and he lived just horrible.
What he did, Iran would have been perhaps in far
better stronger position he lived. We would have had probably
a different conversation tonight, but you know what, we'd still
be winning and winning big. And then, very importantly, I
(24:27):
terminated Barack Hussein. Obama is a rand nuclear deal, a disaster.
Obama gave them one point seven billion dollars in cash,
green green cash, took it out of banks from Virginia,
d C. And Maryland. All the cash they had flew
it by airplanes in an attempt to buy their respect
(24:48):
and loyalty. But it didn't work. They laughed at our
president and went on with their mission to have a
nuclear bomb. His Iran deal would have led to a
colossal arsenal of mena of nuclear weapons for Iran, and
they would have had them years ago, and they would
have used them. Would have been a different world. There
would have been no Middle East and no Israel right now,
(25:11):
in my opinion, the opinion of a lot of great experts,
had I not terminated that terrible deal, I was so
honored to do it. I was so proud to do it.
It was so bad right from the beginning. Essentially, I
did what no other president was willing to do. They
made mistakes, and I am correcting them. My first preference
(25:31):
was always the path of diplomacy. Yet the regime continued
their relentless quest for nuclear weapons and rejected every attempt
at an agreement. For this reason, in June, I ordered
a strike on Iran's key nuclear facilities an Operation Midnight Hammer.
Nobody's ever seen anything like it. Those beautiful B two
(25:54):
bombers performed magnificently. We totally obliterated those nuclear sites. The
regime then sought to rebuild their nuclear program at a
totally different location, making clear they had no intention of
abandoning their pursuit of nuclear weapons. They were also rapidly
building a vance stockpile of conventional ballistic missiles and would
(26:19):
soon have had missiles that could reach the American homeland, Europe,
and virtually any other place on Earth. Iran's strategy was
so obvious. They wanted to produce as many missiles as possible,
and they did with the longest range possible. And they
had some weapons that nobody believed they had. We just
(26:40):
learned that. We took them out. We took them all
out so that no one would really dare stop them
and their race for a nuclear bomb and nuclear weapon
and nuclear weapon like nobody's ever seen before. They were
right at the doorstep. For years, everyone has said that
Iran cannot have nuclear weapons, but in the end, those
(27:01):
are just words if you're not willing to take action
when the time comes, as I stated in my announcement
of Operation Epic Fury, our objectives are very simple and clear.
We are systematically dismantling the regime's ability to threaten America
or project power outside of their borders. That means eliminating
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Iran's navy, which is now absolutely destroyed, hurting their air
force and their missile program at levels never seen before,
and annihilating their defense industrial base. We've done all of it.
Their navy is gone, their air force is gone, their
missiles are just about used up or beaten. Taken together,
(27:46):
these actions will cripple around military, crush their ability to
support terrorist proxies, and deny them the ability to build
a nuclear bomb. Our armed forces have been extraordinary. There's
never been any like it militarily. Everyone is talking about
it in tonight. I'm pleased to say that these core
(28:06):
strategic objectives are nearing completion. As we celebrate this progress,
we think especially of the thirteen American warriors who have
laid down their lives in this fight to prevent our
children from ever having to face a nuclear Iran. Twice
this past month, I have traveled to Dover Air Force Base,
(28:29):
and it's been something I wanted to be with those
heroes as they return to Americans. So when I was
with them and their families, their parents, their wives, husbands,
we salute them. And now we must honor them by
completing the mission for which they gave their lives. And
every single one of the people they loved one said
(28:51):
please please finish the job, every one of them. And
we are going to finish the job. And we're going
to finish it very fast, very close. I want to
thank our allies in the Middle East, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Guitar,
the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain. They've been great and we
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will not let them get hurt or fail in any way,
shape or form. Many Americans have been concerned to see
the recent rise in gasoline prices here at home. The
short term increase has been entirely the result of the
Iranian regime launching deranged terror attacks against commercial oil tankers
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and neighboring countries that have nothing to do with the conflict.
This is yet more proof that Iran can never be
trusted with nuclear weapons. They will use them, and they
will use them quickly. It would lead to decades of extortion,
economic pain, and instability worse than we can ever imagine.
(29:53):
The United States has never been better prepared economically to
confront this threat. You all know that we built the
strongest economy in history. We're going through it right now,
the strongest in history. In one year, We've taken a
dead and crippled country. I hate to say that, but
we were dead and crippled country after the last administration
(30:18):
and made it the hottest country anywhere in the world
by far, with no inflation, record setting investments coming into
the United States over eighteen trillion dollars, and the highest
stock market ever with fifty three all time record highs
in just one year. It all positioned us to get
rid of a cancer that has long simmered. It's known
(30:41):
as the nuclear Iran. And they didn't know what was coming.
They've never imagined it. Remember, because of our drill, baby
drill program, America has plenty of gas. We have so
much gas. Under my leadership, we are number one producer
of oil and gas on the planet, without even discussing
the millions of barrels that were getting from Venezuela. Because
(31:05):
of the Trump Administration's policies, we produce more oil and
gas than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. Think of that.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
That's pretty amazing. Well that's most of the president's speech
last night. I thought it was fine. I thought it
was clear. Let's go to the biggest critic ever, Linda.
It was pretty good, wasn't it. Anything President Trump does
is good.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
The fact that he takes the time to talk to
the American people makes him may plus of my book.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Yes, so don't go by Chuck Schumer, who if you
read his tweet, it was the most incoherent rambling awful.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
It was fine, and we forgot he was listening to
a recording of himself.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
He just got confused.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
That's a tribute to President Trump. He can't find the attack.
They just get hysterical, hyperbolic. They can't put their finger
on anything.
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