May 29, 2026 • 28 mins
Sean Hannity opens the show with major developments surrounding Iran, revealing details of what could become one of the most significant diplomatic and geopolitical victories of President Trump’s presidency. Hannity analyzes reports that Iran has privately agreed it will never possess a nuclear weapon while discussing ongoing negotiations involving the Strait of Hormuz, sanctions relief, and the removal of enriched nuclear material. Drawing on insights from his recent travels and conversations with sources close to the administration, Hannity argues that Trump is attempting to achieve something far bigger than a nuclear agreement: a lasting Middle East peace built around an expanded Abraham Accords coalition.
The hour also covers fallout from Jill Biden’s memoir comments about Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance, growing criticism of Democratic leadership, and broader concerns about the direction of the Democratic Party heading into the midterms. Hannity contrasts what he sees as Republican momentum abroad with Democratic divisions at home.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks to all of you for being with us Happy Friday.
Write down our toll free telephone number you want to
be a part of the program. It's eight hundred and
nine four one, Shawn if you want to join us. Well,
can the left in America get any crazier? We don't
need men as long as women vote, we don't need men, Okay, Democrats,
men out there, you toxic masculinity men in the audience,
(00:24):
which is probably most of you, except for Tim Walls, tampon,
Tim and a few others. I wouldn't put six gender
tell Erico in the toxic masculinity range either or all
the other lunatics on the left. They're absolutely crazy o
Zoron Marxist Kami Mamdanni. He wants the right to take
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over a home that somebody rents out, an apartment in
uh if they have a beehives that they haven't removed
from it. Oh two each according to the need, from
each according to their ability. God, I couldn't believe it.
I think Joe is having a stroke. Well, if he
was having a stroke, why didn't you go out there
(01:07):
and help him? We're going to get into all of this.
This is why Joe Biden is suing the Department of Justice.
He doesn't want the Robert hurtapes out. And we'll get
into this with Greg Jarard coming up. It is it
just it's really remarkable times that we are living in.
I mean, James Carvell, does he get any better than that?
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And and we're going to go over all of this
in a second. And you know, mom Donnie refusing to
march in the Sunday's Israel parade and meanwhile he's bringing
him every radical, you know, extremist into Gracie Mansion. That's
the home in New York City where the Mayor of
New York lives at any given time. Sad as it is,
(01:51):
but you know, we'll see. We got a lot of
ground to cover. I want to start with Iran because
we do have significant updates and I have a little
insight from my sources about what is going on here.
And a lot of people say, well, why is the
President allowing them more time? And it's a fair question.
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It is a fair question because as he's told us,
and he told me himself, they can wipe He can
wipe them out in minutes. Here is what Scott Bessant
was alluding to after he said that Gavinusom is stupid
and ripped into Democrats, which and we'll play it later
in the program. Today, you know, cracking jokes, jokes, one
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after another, the press brieving. He's become like a media
star in his own right. And he's a really he's
kind of unassuming. When you meet him. You might think
he's like, come, one of these nerdy academic, you know,
financial people. He's anything but that. It's crazy. So President
Trump truthed out today and then and and pay close
(02:53):
attention to this because this is critical. And I'm going
to give you the foundation as to why President Trump.
Scott Bessant, see what's happening economically. This blockade has been
enormously effective, and that is all of the revenue, pretty
much ninety percent of the revenue of the Iranians. There
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are now reports of widespread gasoline shortages inside Iran. Now
they have an oil based economy that should never happen.
That's how deep this is now running. They have more
than half their workforce not being paid. I'm sure the
IRGC is being paid. They have a three hundred percent
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inflation rate. They're collapsing from within. And I think if
there was not that level of hope. Now it also
is evidence by and my understanding is the president has
these outside advisors, he listens to everybody. I'm not really
waited in on it myself because I kind of have
faith in his principles and stated policies and that he
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means what he says. And if you want to know
what Trump really thinks, listen to Donald Trump. And he
put out this truth today. He says, Iran's got to
agree they will never have a nuclear weapon or bomb.
My understanding is they've already agreed to that behind the scenes.
Now they have to admit that publicly. But they have
the horror moves Straight must immediately be opened. No tolls
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for unrestricted shipping traffic in both directions, all water mines.
In other words, they've been mining the Straight of horm
Moves and the US has mine sweepers, but there are
lanes that are open within the strait that can be
used immediately, which I also found out about. And he
further goes on to say, if any will be terminated,
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the deal will be terminate. We have removed through detonation
numerous such minds with our great underwater mine sweepers. A
RAM will complete the immediate removal and or detonation of
any minds that are left, which will not be. Many
ships caught in the Strait due to our amazing, unprecedented
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naval blockade, which will now be lifted, may start the
process of heading home. Say hello to your wives, your husbands,
your parents, your families, from me, your favorite president. The
enriched uranium, the enriched material sometimes referred to as nuclear dust,
which is veried deep underground with virtually you know, collapsed
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mountains caused by our powerful B two bomber attack eleven
months ago. That's the fourteen bunker buster bombs will be
unearthed by the US, which is which it has agreed,
is the only country, along with China, with the mechanical
capability and engineering capability of doing so in close coordination
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conjunction with Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency, which
I've never liked anyway, But it doesn't matter. As long
as we're making sure the dusters are moved. No money
will be exchanged, none. They don't get a penny until
further notice, until they start doing what they say they're
going to do. In other words, okay, you give us
the dust, you get some of your money back, you
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get the ability to sell some of your oil. You
get the opportunity to try at the long process. It
will be a long process of rebuilding their economy. Other
items of far less importance have been agreed to. I
will be meeting now in the situation room to make
a final determination. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Now,
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I'm only following it. Now. Do I ever and will
I ever trust you know, even the fourth tier, fifth
tier leadership of Iran, and we may have to take
out one more layer of leadership, believe it or not.
I mean, I know that sounds crazy. I mean for
those loyalists and those hardliners that may be, you know,
fighting all basic, simple common sense because they've been indoctrinated
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into stupid in a death cult and you know, is
Lamo fascism. I don't know, it may come to that.
And the President has all those military options obviously right
on the table. He's hit him twice this week militarily.
Newt wrote a piece and he put it up on
X and the President retruthed it, and he said, after
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spending this week reviewing the Iranian war, I'm now convinced
that President Trump is on the edge of a historic victory. Now,
Newton is a professor at Hart. You know, he's been
on this program many times, and he is a great
history and he said, the real breakthrough for me came
as I reviewed President Trump's decisions and maneuvers, not from
the standpoint of American unilateralism, but from the standpoint of
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the leader of a remarkable, historic coalition, the largest coalition
ever put together in the modern Middle East. Now, I
was on that trip to the Gulf States. I saw
this up close and personal, like I was on the
trip to China. Which is why I go on these trips,
not because they're fun. They're long, they're tough, it's hard travel,
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but it's worth every minute of it because then I
get to give you insight that I don't think anyone
else can. And that's my job, and I'm honored to
be able to do it. I'm honored to be able
to I mean, I never thought growing up I'd ever
be on Air Force One. Trust me, everyone understands Israel
is our most important ally, well not everyone. You have
a lot of stupid people. I don't have patience for
stupid people. But what is little discussed is the depth
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of support from the UAE, from the Qataris, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia,
other countries in the region. It has to be sobering
for the Iranian dictatorship to realize that it does not
have a single ally willing to challenge the American naval blockade,
and slowly and gradually and timidly are European allies, you know,
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too late to the to the NaNs are lining up
to even help with the Persian Golf and the straight
of Horn moves, and a great deal of President's Trump's
maneuvers against Iran makes sense once he is seen as
the coalition leader and not just the unilateral American president.
He said, I spent a lot of the last couple
of weeks reviewing the kinetic options, including winning the Battle
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of the Persian Gulf and the Stratahorn moves, and then,
if necessary, using shocking and chattering level of force that
President Nixon Secretary Kissinger used against Tanoi in Christmas in
nineteen seventy two, which both leaders believed, you know, convinced
the North Vietnamese North Vietnamese to agree to a truce
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and freeing American POWs. If this were a unilateral American campaign.
I could enthusiastically support a more aggressive kinetic campaign. However,
it is also clear it would chatter the coalition because
our Arab allies, they are convinced i Ran could still
do enormous damage to their oil fields, their infrastructure. Coalitions
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are inherently slow than unilateral campaigns. However, coalitions ultimately bring
vastly more power to the fight. And I am as
frustrated as everyone by the pace of talking with this dictatorship.
But having reviewed the correlation of forces and the options
available to the coalition on one side and the Iranian
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religiously motivated dictatorship on the other, and prepared to assert
the President Trump's coalition leadership, something almost none of his
critics want to acknowledge, is within reach of an enormous
and historic victory. And if the Iranian dictatorship ultimately proves
it is hopelessly committed to a suicidal position, there will
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be plenty of time for kinetic campaign of enormous power
and effectiveness either way, And that's what the President told me.
Either way, we're on the edge of an astonishing victory
for our values in a safer Middle East. Now, I
got to give credit where credit is due from the
very beginning. I think that Lindsey Graham often gets labeled
unfairly and that he supported making sure that future generations
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in this country. He should be credited for this don't
have to deal with the nuclear arm Duran and a
bunch of Islamic fascists that believe you can strap bombs
on children and kill innocent men, women and children, you know,
convert or die, and the sick mentality that they have adopted,
and the oppression of their own people which has been
unprecedented in forty seven years, and slaughtering forty five thousand people,
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but not one protester on one college campus or in
the halls of Congress, because that just exposes their anti
Israel bias. But the President also revealed one other thing.
He said, well, you know what is he he was
asked and by Laura Trump the interview with Aaron Fox's Weeken,
you know what is the line Iran will have to
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cross for the US to restart offensive military action. The
President addressed that. He said, well, a deal that wasn't
going to be good for us is the line? Ultimately,
in other words, if they're going to play games and
they're not going to abide by and then it's going
to be a trust of verified deals, what he's saying
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in his truth post. Then he will go and he
will finish it off. It's something he told me he
could finish, probably do, and accomplish in five minutes. Now,
some people want a fall tip taking too long, longer
than he said, longer than he thought. I am. I
am afraid of a quagmire forever at war. No, it's
it's not going to come to that. It just won't.
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Time will have to prove me right. But I'm just
telling you. You know, President Trump said, Ranians they are
good negotiators. They've made they've made great deals with the
likes of Obama, unprecedented cargo, you know, planes full of
cash and on the currency. And ten years later they
get to build out the nuclear program. It was so
stupid and such a waste a taxpayer, you know, dollars.
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They've been wiped out here, no nave, every ship, one
hundred and fifty nine ships, they're all at the bottom
of the sea. Everyone and you know, people going. They've
been degraded, their enrichment capabilities are gone. Now their economy
is being destroyed. And the question is does the president
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want to hold out in the hopes that he can
build the Abraham Accords. This was Lindsay Graham's brilliant idea,
you know, and now the President has taken it, and
he's saying to all of these countries in the Middle East,
recognize Israel and build a piece that hopefully can last
for a thousand years. Now, is it a big ambitious goal? Absolutely?
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Ronald Trump doesn't do small things. This is why he
will go down in history as transformational consequential. And all
you get from the radical left is we want open borders,
and we don't want to fund ICE, and we want
to you know, defund dismantle you know, the police departments.
And we hate Trump. The more we hate Trump, then
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we hate Trump even more. I'll cooperate with ICE, Thankstuary
cities and states, free health benefits, taxpayer funded everything for illegals.
And they vote for the highest tax cut in history.
This is such a radicalized party and that's what, by
the way, I think will be the big advantage for
Republicans come this midterm. But you know, things have to
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play out in the meantime. By the way, this guy
Teller Rico, and we're going to get into all the
crazy left wingers. Later in the program, the guy that
is going to face now, Attorney General Ken Paxton. I'm
getting a kick out of the legacy media mob. They're
putting all their hope in tell Rico. You know, I'm
running a vegan campaign in Cattle Rich, Texas. Oh yeah,
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welcome Matt for illegals in Texas, a border state, not
a good idea. People happen to love their governor Greg
Abbott for handling and secure and Ted Cruz for handling
and securing the open border disaster of Biden, Harris may Orcus. Anyway,
so you know with all this stuff that the six genders,
I don't know what the other four are. I know
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what male and female. I don't know what the other
four are. I wish you'd explain it. Although he's now
trying to run away from his positions. God non binary.
If you're a Christian, forget about everything you've been taught
about our father who are in heaven. He's trying to
it took me out of contact. No, they're not taking
you out of context as I played yesterday. Anyway, Pelerico
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apparently did you know this one? And this came up
on my TV show last night, Linda, I didn't know
this one. I feel like I have failed this audience.
He prefers to refer to women as neighbors with a uterus. Now,
why do I think if I called women other people
(15:56):
with uteruses? Why do I think the left would go
ballistic and bubble and fizz and melt, you know, like
the woke dei lunatics that they are. If I said that,
am I wrong? You are not wrong? That guy is
an idiot. Every one of our neighbors with the uterus
became property of the state. He used the expression lamenting
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Roe v. Wade being overturned, which brought the issue of
abortion back to the state level. Another clip, Democrats talk
about how neighbors with the uterus should be able to
control their own body and leftist code for you know,
abortion on demand. Notice, liberals never want to answer the question.
I remember the debate with Desantas and Gavin. I kept
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pushing and pushing and pushing. You know, Okay, well, at
what point do you say enough's enough? I mean, should
a woman be able to have an abortion moments before birth,
an hour before birth, two days before birth, a month
before birth? Because those children, and they are children to
live outside there this womb. Now the Supreme Court has
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sort of codified the abortion pill, which is anywhere between
ten until twelve weeks. That's kind of and people forget
that part. We'll get to this later. About this left
wing psychos, Supreme Court haters. I'm telling you, the doxing
of ice agents, the doxing of law enforcement, the doxing
of Supreme Court justices. This better stop. This is not
(17:26):
going to end well. We live in an assassination culture
and they've they've now gone after Trump not once, not twice,
but three times. They killed poor Charlie Kirk, you know,
left his widow, Erica behind, and will people leave that
woman alone? For the love of God, I'm so sick
(17:48):
of it. You got threatened, the guy got arrested yesterday.
Your number of attacks. Now a former congresswoman is now
attacking you know and suggesting at turning point is responsible
for this unless you have, you know, just just clear
on ambiguous evidence, overwhelming, incontrovertible evidence. Just shut up because
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those comments are hurtful. You know. It's on top of
this woman having a loser husband raise her children alone.
I mean, the stuff that I see Why is it
they just don't like this woman? Why is that? I mean,
where where is their heart, their soul, their conscience? You know?
Maybe I don't know. You don't have to like her,
(18:34):
but can you not have some compassion? Maybe you don't
like her views or something. I don't know, but my goodness,
can you imagine if a Democrat left wing politician? How
awful would every Conservative with a heart, conscience, and soul
feel the loss of a loved one that you know
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was killed. I mean, in that we're becoming soulis the
last days? The love of man shall run cold? It
feels like that. I have been warning about Europe. I
have been predicting, and I think I'm not wrong. I
hope I'm wrong. I don't think I'm wrong. We have
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been watching the rapid decline of the continent of Europe.
We have been watching you know what, you know what
once our greatest allies, NATO allies, in most cases abandoning
all moral clarity. We have watched them abandoning, abandoned their
own security needs. And we have watched them reluctantly and
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in many cases not even contributing to NATO. And America
pays the bulk of the freight there. Okay, then we've
been watching the worst part, which and well the second
worst part. They've adopted socialism, they have adopted climate alarmism
that now even the UN is being Yeah, we were wrong. Sorry, sorry,
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all you countries worldwide joined the Paris Climate Accords and
spend trillions of dollars on solar and windmill Yeah, yeah,
I know, we told you that first there was going
to be an ice age, then we were going to
burn up together, and then it became just generic climate change,
and you know, and and all of the the snow
would melt in the and the mountains of column Juro
(20:28):
and so on and so for no, they're all wrong. Sorry, whoop, sorry,
they all lied. All the predictions at al Gore just
total complete adam bs. Anyway, so we have a little problem.
And then of course one other thing, unfettered illegal immigration
without assimilation. Now, when I had Piers Morgan on, and
I've always gotten along with Piers Morgan, and I said
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to him, and this was the night of the State
dinner with King Charles, I was did I tell you, Linda,
I was invited to that. I didn't go. You did
not Oh wait, wait, wait, yes you did, Yes you did.
I'm lying you didn't know I got invited. I knew
you got invited. I thought you were saying that you went.
I'm like, what about the freak Listen, you know me
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not my thing, that's not my cup of tea. I
am very proud of the fact that my perfect record
remains intact. I have never been to a White House
correspondence dinner. And I'm not referring to the terrible thing
that happened this year. I'm saying I just never went.
And you know why I don't go because I don't
particularly have any respect for people in that room. Generally speaking,
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I'm sure I'd run into a few people that I
do like and a few people that I do respect,
and I would get along with everybody. I'd be pleasant,
I'd be polite, I'd be nice. You've seen me with
people that you know I don't like. I'm not rude,
utually buy a little more want and rude than I
would be. Oh yeah, you know what your problem is.
You can't hide it? Who I can fake it? Life
(21:52):
is so short. I don't need to fake it. It's
good for you. Well, what is the point if I
run into I remember ones running into Chuck shut Umer
at a restaurant. I told you the story. I think
if I if I didn't, you did, Okay. So I
run into Chucky Schumer. And it's after I left New
York and I had to go back for I think
I had to go back to see my sister who
is there. And I go to a brunch on a Sunday.
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And I'm only there for like twenty four hours and
I'm out and I don't go back to New York.
I stay away. I never go back. And just so happens.
I ran into him. I say, come over. It's like
a senator. Who's your favorite Fox News host? Who's your
favorite radio host? He looks up and he goes, oh,
(22:36):
not you, just like that. I stay, Senator, I left
the state. I'm just here for one day. Don't you
do you miss me? He goes, Actually, I said, aren't
you glad? I left? It was actually no. Now, when
I interviewed Comrade de Bosio, he said the same thing.
He said to me, Oh, we need you to come
back to New York. Katy Hochel is saying, for if
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you move to Florida, come back to New York the
same people that said of your conservative we don't even
want you here. Just like Andrew quote, if you are
a pro a short weapon and pro life, you yawn
in New Yorker and there's no place for you in
the state of New York. I don't want to play it.
And then then Kathy Huckle Yeah, liez Alden Trump, get
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out of bus, get out of town, go down to Florida. Okay,
I did, and like so many New Yorkers, you have
to prove your innocence. That's why I never go back.
That's why I sold everything his why I hired attorneys
and accountants, you know, and paid a fortune because there
are more New York tax agents in Florida. I've talked
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to Governor DeSantis about this and he's I hope he
does something because it is outright harassment. And then you
have to prove that you were in Florida, which I
have no problem doing. They have. They have these applications
that you can put on your phone and a modern
is where you are on any day, and there's nothing
(24:02):
that they can do to argue it. Nothing, not a
thing anyway. What do you think of that, Linda?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I think that it is. I think it is disgusting
that what is happening in New York right now. I
think that this building grab as opposed to land grab
that's happening in New York right now, it's just another
way to crush the city. If you looked onlines, I
don't know if you saw, but there's a huge fire
in Penn Station. So people are coming in to see
their kids graduate, trying to get to work whatever. Nobody
(24:33):
can get anywhere because Penn Station's on fire again in
a month. Okay, I've never seen this in all my
years in New York. And people can't get around, and
it's all because of mom Donnie, and the only thing
he cares about is going and celebrating aid and ignoring
the you know, Jewish parade.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
He's a horrible distracting Well let you finish this point.
So a Russian drone did you see this hit a Romanian?
I did see that apartment building. Okay. Romania is part
of NATO. We have what is called Article four. An
attack against one nation isn't an Article four allows NATO
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members to formally start discussions about threats to their security
that has come under renewed focus since Russia invaded Ukraine
although they are not a member of NATO. In the
wake of multiple incursions by Russian drones and jets into
NATO countries airspaces has to stop now, I don't know.
I would say the answer is any time they invade
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NATO airspace, whatever invades that space should be shot out
of the sky. Hannity, you want to start another war
with Vladimir Putin? No, I want Putin to respect there's
sovereignty of NATO nations. Now the problem is, you know,
and to finish my point about Europe, these countries have
adopted radical socialism, climate alarmism, They've neglected the defense, unfettered
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illegal immigration and without assimilation in massive numbers, massive And
the problem is if you go to a country, you
don't want to assimilate, you want to separate, and then
you want to bring the values from the country you
left into the country you're going to, which makes no
sense to me unless you have some type of agenda.
And I never thought my lifetime Britain would have one
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hundred you know, sharia courts. I asked Peters Morgan about it.
He said, well, they're not binding. I'm not so sure.
I buy that. And I remember when the issue of
no go zones came up and people said that's not
true in France, not true. We had a Fox reporter
go through a nogro zone and said, yeah, they were
(26:41):
told to get the hell out. Police aren't allowed in,
fire aren't allowed in. You know, nobody's allowed in, and
they govern themselves. And you know European countries have allowed
this to happen and the numbers of people that would
radically alter Western civilization. Look, here's my take. If you
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and again I have no problem with people of a
different faith, but if you're a radicalized if you believe
in radical Islam and Islamo fascism and convert or die,
and you strap bombs on kids to killing us and
people and they get seventy two virgins, I have a
problem with that. That's why Biden, the most preventable national
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security disaster and history, never should have let in twelve
million plus that we know about, and then of course
how many got aways we don't know about from over
two hundred countries. Even countries would terroritize known terrorists, murderers, rapists,
child molesters, other violent criminals, cartel members, gang members. I
keep reminding you because we keep suffering from it. And
(27:47):
I'm just saying, I don't know if the uh when
I am going to predict something, and I have no
nothing to back this up in terms of a source. Okay,
everybody pay attention. I don't think NATO as we currently
know it, as it's currently configured. When Iran is all
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said and done, is going to exist. And if the
president can get all these Middle Eastern countries to recognize
Israel and sign on to the Abraham Accords, that will
be the most dramatic shift in geopolitical politics you will
ever see in your lifetime. Ever. And I'll add one
(28:33):
more thing, the Donro doctorate. Cuba's about to collapse, Maduro's out,
and our friends with Venezuela president putting pressure on countries
in our hemisphere that have been peddling drugs to and
killing Americans. That's stopping. You see it every day
Thanks to all of you for being with us Happy Friday.
Write down our toll free telephone number you want to
be a part of the program. It's eight hundred and
nine four one, Shawn if you want to join us. Well,
can the left in America get any crazier? We don't
need men as long as women vote, we don't need men, Okay, Democrats,
men out there, you toxic masculinity men in the audience,
(00:24):
which is probably most of you, except for Tim Walls, tampon,
Tim and a few others. I wouldn't put six gender
tell Erico in the toxic masculinity range either or all
the other lunatics on the left. They're absolutely crazy o
Zoron Marxist Kami Mamdanni. He wants the right to take
(00:45):
over a home that somebody rents out, an apartment in
uh if they have a beehives that they haven't removed
from it. Oh two each according to the need, from
each according to their ability. God, I couldn't believe it.
I think Joe is having a stroke. Well, if he
was having a stroke, why didn't you go out there
(01:07):
and help him? We're going to get into all of this.
This is why Joe Biden is suing the Department of Justice.
He doesn't want the Robert hurtapes out. And we'll get
into this with Greg Jarard coming up. It is it
just it's really remarkable times that we are living in.
I mean, James Carvell, does he get any better than that?
(01:29):
And and we're going to go over all of this
in a second. And you know, mom Donnie refusing to
march in the Sunday's Israel parade and meanwhile he's bringing
him every radical, you know, extremist into Gracie Mansion. That's
the home in New York City where the Mayor of
New York lives at any given time. Sad as it is,
(01:51):
but you know, we'll see. We got a lot of
ground to cover. I want to start with Iran because
we do have significant updates and I have a little
insight from my sources about what is going on here.
And a lot of people say, well, why is the
President allowing them more time? And it's a fair question.
(02:12):
It is a fair question because as he's told us,
and he told me himself, they can wipe He can
wipe them out in minutes. Here is what Scott Bessant
was alluding to after he said that Gavinusom is stupid
and ripped into Democrats, which and we'll play it later
in the program. Today, you know, cracking jokes, jokes, one
(02:33):
after another, the press brieving. He's become like a media
star in his own right. And he's a really he's
kind of unassuming. When you meet him. You might think
he's like, come, one of these nerdy academic, you know,
financial people. He's anything but that. It's crazy. So President
Trump truthed out today and then and and pay close
(02:53):
attention to this because this is critical. And I'm going
to give you the foundation as to why President Trump.
Scott Bessant, see what's happening economically. This blockade has been
enormously effective, and that is all of the revenue, pretty
much ninety percent of the revenue of the Iranians. There
(03:15):
are now reports of widespread gasoline shortages inside Iran. Now
they have an oil based economy that should never happen.
That's how deep this is now running. They have more
than half their workforce not being paid. I'm sure the
IRGC is being paid. They have a three hundred percent
(03:39):
inflation rate. They're collapsing from within. And I think if
there was not that level of hope. Now it also
is evidence by and my understanding is the president has
these outside advisors, he listens to everybody. I'm not really
waited in on it myself because I kind of have
faith in his principles and stated policies and that he
(04:01):
means what he says. And if you want to know
what Trump really thinks, listen to Donald Trump. And he
put out this truth today. He says, Iran's got to
agree they will never have a nuclear weapon or bomb.
My understanding is they've already agreed to that behind the scenes.
Now they have to admit that publicly. But they have
the horror moves Straight must immediately be opened. No tolls
(04:23):
for unrestricted shipping traffic in both directions, all water mines.
In other words, they've been mining the Straight of horm
Moves and the US has mine sweepers, but there are
lanes that are open within the strait that can be
used immediately, which I also found out about. And he
further goes on to say, if any will be terminated,
(04:47):
the deal will be terminate. We have removed through detonation
numerous such minds with our great underwater mine sweepers. A
RAM will complete the immediate removal and or detonation of
any minds that are left, which will not be. Many
ships caught in the Strait due to our amazing, unprecedented
(05:07):
naval blockade, which will now be lifted, may start the
process of heading home. Say hello to your wives, your husbands,
your parents, your families, from me, your favorite president. The
enriched uranium, the enriched material sometimes referred to as nuclear dust,
which is veried deep underground with virtually you know, collapsed
(05:30):
mountains caused by our powerful B two bomber attack eleven
months ago. That's the fourteen bunker buster bombs will be
unearthed by the US, which is which it has agreed,
is the only country, along with China, with the mechanical
capability and engineering capability of doing so in close coordination
(05:51):
conjunction with Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency, which
I've never liked anyway, But it doesn't matter. As long
as we're making sure the dusters are moved. No money
will be exchanged, none. They don't get a penny until
further notice, until they start doing what they say they're
going to do. In other words, okay, you give us
the dust, you get some of your money back, you
(06:14):
get the ability to sell some of your oil. You
get the opportunity to try at the long process. It
will be a long process of rebuilding their economy. Other
items of far less importance have been agreed to. I
will be meeting now in the situation room to make
a final determination. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Now,
(06:35):
I'm only following it. Now. Do I ever and will
I ever trust you know, even the fourth tier, fifth
tier leadership of Iran, and we may have to take
out one more layer of leadership, believe it or not.
I mean, I know that sounds crazy. I mean for
those loyalists and those hardliners that may be, you know,
fighting all basic, simple common sense because they've been indoctrinated
(06:59):
into stupid in a death cult and you know, is
Lamo fascism. I don't know, it may come to that.
And the President has all those military options obviously right
on the table. He's hit him twice this week militarily.
Newt wrote a piece and he put it up on
X and the President retruthed it, and he said, after
(07:22):
spending this week reviewing the Iranian war, I'm now convinced
that President Trump is on the edge of a historic victory. Now,
Newton is a professor at Hart. You know, he's been
on this program many times, and he is a great
history and he said, the real breakthrough for me came
as I reviewed President Trump's decisions and maneuvers, not from
the standpoint of American unilateralism, but from the standpoint of
(07:45):
the leader of a remarkable, historic coalition, the largest coalition
ever put together in the modern Middle East. Now, I
was on that trip to the Gulf States. I saw
this up close and personal, like I was on the
trip to China. Which is why I go on these trips,
not because they're fun. They're long, they're tough, it's hard travel,
(08:06):
but it's worth every minute of it because then I
get to give you insight that I don't think anyone
else can. And that's my job, and I'm honored to
be able to do it. I'm honored to be able
to I mean, I never thought growing up I'd ever
be on Air Force One. Trust me, everyone understands Israel
is our most important ally, well not everyone. You have
a lot of stupid people. I don't have patience for
stupid people. But what is little discussed is the depth
(08:31):
of support from the UAE, from the Qataris, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia,
other countries in the region. It has to be sobering
for the Iranian dictatorship to realize that it does not
have a single ally willing to challenge the American naval blockade,
and slowly and gradually and timidly are European allies, you know,
(08:53):
too late to the to the NaNs are lining up
to even help with the Persian Golf and the straight
of Horn moves, and a great deal of President's Trump's
maneuvers against Iran makes sense once he is seen as
the coalition leader and not just the unilateral American president.
He said, I spent a lot of the last couple
of weeks reviewing the kinetic options, including winning the Battle
(09:16):
of the Persian Gulf and the Stratahorn moves, and then,
if necessary, using shocking and chattering level of force that
President Nixon Secretary Kissinger used against Tanoi in Christmas in
nineteen seventy two, which both leaders believed, you know, convinced
the North Vietnamese North Vietnamese to agree to a truce
(09:37):
and freeing American POWs. If this were a unilateral American campaign.
I could enthusiastically support a more aggressive kinetic campaign. However,
it is also clear it would chatter the coalition because
our Arab allies, they are convinced i Ran could still
do enormous damage to their oil fields, their infrastructure. Coalitions
(09:59):
are inherently slow than unilateral campaigns. However, coalitions ultimately bring
vastly more power to the fight. And I am as
frustrated as everyone by the pace of talking with this dictatorship.
But having reviewed the correlation of forces and the options
available to the coalition on one side and the Iranian
(10:23):
religiously motivated dictatorship on the other, and prepared to assert
the President Trump's coalition leadership, something almost none of his
critics want to acknowledge, is within reach of an enormous
and historic victory. And if the Iranian dictatorship ultimately proves
it is hopelessly committed to a suicidal position, there will
(10:44):
be plenty of time for kinetic campaign of enormous power
and effectiveness either way, And that's what the President told me.
Either way, we're on the edge of an astonishing victory
for our values in a safer Middle East. Now, I
got to give credit where credit is due from the
very beginning. I think that Lindsey Graham often gets labeled
unfairly and that he supported making sure that future generations
(11:08):
in this country. He should be credited for this don't
have to deal with the nuclear arm Duran and a
bunch of Islamic fascists that believe you can strap bombs
on children and kill innocent men, women and children, you know,
convert or die, and the sick mentality that they have adopted,
and the oppression of their own people which has been
unprecedented in forty seven years, and slaughtering forty five thousand people,
(11:31):
but not one protester on one college campus or in
the halls of Congress, because that just exposes their anti
Israel bias. But the President also revealed one other thing.
He said, well, you know what is he he was
asked and by Laura Trump the interview with Aaron Fox's Weeken,
you know what is the line Iran will have to
(11:52):
cross for the US to restart offensive military action. The
President addressed that. He said, well, a deal that wasn't
going to be good for us is the line? Ultimately,
in other words, if they're going to play games and
they're not going to abide by and then it's going
to be a trust of verified deals, what he's saying
(12:13):
in his truth post. Then he will go and he
will finish it off. It's something he told me he
could finish, probably do, and accomplish in five minutes. Now,
some people want a fall tip taking too long, longer
than he said, longer than he thought. I am. I
am afraid of a quagmire forever at war. No, it's
it's not going to come to that. It just won't.
(12:34):
Time will have to prove me right. But I'm just
telling you. You know, President Trump said, Ranians they are
good negotiators. They've made they've made great deals with the
likes of Obama, unprecedented cargo, you know, planes full of
cash and on the currency. And ten years later they
get to build out the nuclear program. It was so
stupid and such a waste a taxpayer, you know, dollars.
(12:58):
They've been wiped out here, no nave, every ship, one
hundred and fifty nine ships, they're all at the bottom
of the sea. Everyone and you know, people going. They've
been degraded, their enrichment capabilities are gone. Now their economy
is being destroyed. And the question is does the president
(13:19):
want to hold out in the hopes that he can
build the Abraham Accords. This was Lindsay Graham's brilliant idea,
you know, and now the President has taken it, and
he's saying to all of these countries in the Middle East,
recognize Israel and build a piece that hopefully can last
for a thousand years. Now, is it a big ambitious goal? Absolutely?
(13:46):
Ronald Trump doesn't do small things. This is why he
will go down in history as transformational consequential. And all
you get from the radical left is we want open borders,
and we don't want to fund ICE, and we want
to you know, defund dismantle you know, the police departments.
And we hate Trump. The more we hate Trump, then
(14:08):
we hate Trump even more. I'll cooperate with ICE, Thankstuary
cities and states, free health benefits, taxpayer funded everything for illegals.
And they vote for the highest tax cut in history.
This is such a radicalized party and that's what, by
the way, I think will be the big advantage for
Republicans come this midterm. But you know, things have to
(14:28):
play out in the meantime. By the way, this guy
Teller Rico, and we're going to get into all the
crazy left wingers. Later in the program, the guy that
is going to face now, Attorney General Ken Paxton. I'm
getting a kick out of the legacy media mob. They're
putting all their hope in tell Rico. You know, I'm
running a vegan campaign in Cattle Rich, Texas. Oh yeah,
(14:50):
welcome Matt for illegals in Texas, a border state, not
a good idea. People happen to love their governor Greg
Abbott for handling and secure and Ted Cruz for handling
and securing the open border disaster of Biden, Harris may Orcus. Anyway,
so you know with all this stuff that the six genders,
I don't know what the other four are. I know
(15:12):
what male and female. I don't know what the other
four are. I wish you'd explain it. Although he's now
trying to run away from his positions. God non binary.
If you're a Christian, forget about everything you've been taught
about our father who are in heaven. He's trying to
it took me out of contact. No, they're not taking
you out of context as I played yesterday. Anyway, Pelerico
(15:34):
apparently did you know this one? And this came up
on my TV show last night, Linda, I didn't know
this one. I feel like I have failed this audience.
He prefers to refer to women as neighbors with a uterus. Now,
why do I think if I called women other people
(15:56):
with uteruses? Why do I think the left would go
ballistic and bubble and fizz and melt, you know, like
the woke dei lunatics that they are. If I said that,
am I wrong? You are not wrong? That guy is
an idiot. Every one of our neighbors with the uterus
became property of the state. He used the expression lamenting
(16:19):
Roe v. Wade being overturned, which brought the issue of
abortion back to the state level. Another clip, Democrats talk
about how neighbors with the uterus should be able to
control their own body and leftist code for you know,
abortion on demand. Notice, liberals never want to answer the question.
I remember the debate with Desantas and Gavin. I kept
(16:40):
pushing and pushing and pushing. You know, Okay, well, at
what point do you say enough's enough? I mean, should
a woman be able to have an abortion moments before birth,
an hour before birth, two days before birth, a month
before birth? Because those children, and they are children to
live outside there this womb. Now the Supreme Court has
(17:02):
sort of codified the abortion pill, which is anywhere between
ten until twelve weeks. That's kind of and people forget
that part. We'll get to this later. About this left
wing psychos, Supreme Court haters. I'm telling you, the doxing
of ice agents, the doxing of law enforcement, the doxing
of Supreme Court justices. This better stop. This is not
(17:26):
going to end well. We live in an assassination culture
and they've they've now gone after Trump not once, not twice,
but three times. They killed poor Charlie Kirk, you know,
left his widow, Erica behind, and will people leave that
woman alone? For the love of God, I'm so sick
(17:48):
of it. You got threatened, the guy got arrested yesterday.
Your number of attacks. Now a former congresswoman is now
attacking you know and suggesting at turning point is responsible
for this unless you have, you know, just just clear
on ambiguous evidence, overwhelming, incontrovertible evidence. Just shut up because
(18:13):
those comments are hurtful. You know. It's on top of
this woman having a loser husband raise her children alone.
I mean, the stuff that I see Why is it
they just don't like this woman? Why is that? I mean,
where where is their heart, their soul, their conscience? You know?
Maybe I don't know. You don't have to like her,
(18:34):
but can you not have some compassion? Maybe you don't
like her views or something. I don't know, but my goodness,
can you imagine if a Democrat left wing politician? How
awful would every Conservative with a heart, conscience, and soul
feel the loss of a loved one that you know
(18:56):
was killed. I mean, in that we're becoming soulis the
last days? The love of man shall run cold? It
feels like that. I have been warning about Europe. I
have been predicting, and I think I'm not wrong. I
hope I'm wrong. I don't think I'm wrong. We have
(19:17):
been watching the rapid decline of the continent of Europe.
We have been watching you know what, you know what
once our greatest allies, NATO allies, in most cases abandoning
all moral clarity. We have watched them abandoning, abandoned their
own security needs. And we have watched them reluctantly and
(19:43):
in many cases not even contributing to NATO. And America
pays the bulk of the freight there. Okay, then we've
been watching the worst part, which and well the second
worst part. They've adopted socialism, they have adopted climate alarmism
that now even the UN is being Yeah, we were wrong. Sorry, sorry,
(20:06):
all you countries worldwide joined the Paris Climate Accords and
spend trillions of dollars on solar and windmill Yeah, yeah,
I know, we told you that first there was going
to be an ice age, then we were going to
burn up together, and then it became just generic climate change,
and you know, and and all of the the snow
would melt in the and the mountains of column Juro
(20:28):
and so on and so for no, they're all wrong. Sorry, whoop, sorry,
they all lied. All the predictions at al Gore just
total complete adam bs. Anyway, so we have a little problem.
And then of course one other thing, unfettered illegal immigration
without assimilation. Now, when I had Piers Morgan on, and
I've always gotten along with Piers Morgan, and I said
(20:51):
to him, and this was the night of the State
dinner with King Charles, I was did I tell you, Linda,
I was invited to that. I didn't go. You did
not Oh wait, wait, wait, yes you did, Yes you did.
I'm lying you didn't know I got invited. I knew
you got invited. I thought you were saying that you went.
I'm like, what about the freak Listen, you know me
(21:11):
not my thing, that's not my cup of tea. I
am very proud of the fact that my perfect record
remains intact. I have never been to a White House
correspondence dinner. And I'm not referring to the terrible thing
that happened this year. I'm saying I just never went.
And you know why I don't go because I don't
particularly have any respect for people in that room. Generally speaking,
(21:31):
I'm sure I'd run into a few people that I
do like and a few people that I do respect,
and I would get along with everybody. I'd be pleasant,
I'd be polite, I'd be nice. You've seen me with
people that you know I don't like. I'm not rude,
utually buy a little more want and rude than I
would be. Oh yeah, you know what your problem is.
You can't hide it? Who I can fake it? Life
(21:52):
is so short. I don't need to fake it. It's
good for you. Well, what is the point if I
run into I remember ones running into Chuck shut Umer
at a restaurant. I told you the story. I think
if I if I didn't, you did, Okay. So I
run into Chucky Schumer. And it's after I left New
York and I had to go back for I think
I had to go back to see my sister who
is there. And I go to a brunch on a Sunday.
(22:16):
And I'm only there for like twenty four hours and
I'm out and I don't go back to New York.
I stay away. I never go back. And just so happens.
I ran into him. I say, come over. It's like
a senator. Who's your favorite Fox News host? Who's your
favorite radio host? He looks up and he goes, oh,
(22:36):
not you, just like that. I stay, Senator, I left
the state. I'm just here for one day. Don't you
do you miss me? He goes, Actually, I said, aren't
you glad? I left? It was actually no. Now, when
I interviewed Comrade de Bosio, he said the same thing.
He said to me, Oh, we need you to come
back to New York. Katy Hochel is saying, for if
(22:56):
you move to Florida, come back to New York the
same people that said of your conservative we don't even
want you here. Just like Andrew quote, if you are
a pro a short weapon and pro life, you yawn
in New Yorker and there's no place for you in
the state of New York. I don't want to play it.
And then then Kathy Huckle Yeah, liez Alden Trump, get
(23:20):
out of bus, get out of town, go down to Florida. Okay,
I did, and like so many New Yorkers, you have
to prove your innocence. That's why I never go back.
That's why I sold everything his why I hired attorneys
and accountants, you know, and paid a fortune because there
are more New York tax agents in Florida. I've talked
(23:41):
to Governor DeSantis about this and he's I hope he
does something because it is outright harassment. And then you
have to prove that you were in Florida, which I
have no problem doing. They have. They have these applications
that you can put on your phone and a modern
is where you are on any day, and there's nothing
(24:02):
that they can do to argue it. Nothing, not a
thing anyway. What do you think of that, Linda?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I think that it is. I think it is disgusting
that what is happening in New York right now. I
think that this building grab as opposed to land grab
that's happening in New York right now, it's just another
way to crush the city. If you looked onlines, I
don't know if you saw, but there's a huge fire
in Penn Station. So people are coming in to see
their kids graduate, trying to get to work whatever. Nobody
(24:33):
can get anywhere because Penn Station's on fire again in
a month. Okay, I've never seen this in all my
years in New York. And people can't get around, and
it's all because of mom Donnie, and the only thing
he cares about is going and celebrating aid and ignoring
the you know, Jewish parade.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
He's a horrible distracting Well let you finish this point.
So a Russian drone did you see this hit a Romanian?
I did see that apartment building. Okay. Romania is part
of NATO. We have what is called Article four. An
attack against one nation isn't an Article four allows NATO
(25:10):
members to formally start discussions about threats to their security
that has come under renewed focus since Russia invaded Ukraine
although they are not a member of NATO. In the
wake of multiple incursions by Russian drones and jets into
NATO countries airspaces has to stop now, I don't know.
I would say the answer is any time they invade
(25:32):
NATO airspace, whatever invades that space should be shot out
of the sky. Hannity, you want to start another war
with Vladimir Putin? No, I want Putin to respect there's
sovereignty of NATO nations. Now the problem is, you know,
and to finish my point about Europe, these countries have
adopted radical socialism, climate alarmism, They've neglected the defense, unfettered
(25:58):
illegal immigration and without assimilation in massive numbers, massive And
the problem is if you go to a country, you
don't want to assimilate, you want to separate, and then
you want to bring the values from the country you
left into the country you're going to, which makes no
sense to me unless you have some type of agenda.
And I never thought my lifetime Britain would have one
(26:20):
hundred you know, sharia courts. I asked Peters Morgan about it.
He said, well, they're not binding. I'm not so sure.
I buy that. And I remember when the issue of
no go zones came up and people said that's not
true in France, not true. We had a Fox reporter
go through a nogro zone and said, yeah, they were
(26:41):
told to get the hell out. Police aren't allowed in,
fire aren't allowed in. You know, nobody's allowed in, and
they govern themselves. And you know European countries have allowed
this to happen and the numbers of people that would
radically alter Western civilization. Look, here's my take. If you
(27:03):
and again I have no problem with people of a
different faith, but if you're a radicalized if you believe
in radical Islam and Islamo fascism and convert or die,
and you strap bombs on kids to killing us and
people and they get seventy two virgins, I have a
problem with that. That's why Biden, the most preventable national
(27:23):
security disaster and history, never should have let in twelve
million plus that we know about, and then of course
how many got aways we don't know about from over
two hundred countries. Even countries would terroritize known terrorists, murderers, rapists,
child molesters, other violent criminals, cartel members, gang members. I
keep reminding you because we keep suffering from it. And
(27:47):
I'm just saying, I don't know if the uh when
I am going to predict something, and I have no
nothing to back this up in terms of a source. Okay,
everybody pay attention. I don't think NATO as we currently
know it, as it's currently configured. When Iran is all
(28:08):
said and done, is going to exist. And if the
president can get all these Middle Eastern countries to recognize
Israel and sign on to the Abraham Accords, that will
be the most dramatic shift in geopolitical politics you will
ever see in your lifetime. Ever. And I'll add one
(28:33):
more thing, the Donro doctorate. Cuba's about to collapse, Maduro's out,
and our friends with Venezuela president putting pressure on countries
in our hemisphere that have been peddling drugs to and
killing Americans. That's stopping. You see it every day
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