October 10, 2025 • 27 mins
On today's show, Sean Hannity delves into President Trump's pivotal role in negotiating a landmark ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, highlighting his unique use of tariffs and diplomacy to broker peace across volatile regions. Hannity critiques the Nobel committees decision to overlook Trump for the Peace Prize despite past flexibility for figures like Barack Obama while applauding Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado for both receiving the award and dedicating it in part to Trumps support. Key voices like Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and global leaders echo Trumps outsized influence in achieving this rare moment of simultaneous celebration among Israelis and Gazans. Hannity frames these developments against widespread political silence, especially among traditional critics, and emphasizes Trumps direct impact on U.S. foreign policy, hostage negotiations, and Middle East stability arguing why these achievements deserve more recognition.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks to all of you for being with us.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Right down our toll free telephone number if you want
to be a part of the program, it is eight
hundred and ninety four one Sean if you want to
join us. You know, pretty amazing here you have President
Trump and we've gone through the list of areas you know,
around the world, India, Pakistan, Iran and Israel and Armenian,
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Azerbaijan and Cambodia and Rwanda and you know, the Congo,
and it goes on and on and on that the
President has expended political capital in the name of trying
to negotiate a peace.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
He's used the power of tariffs.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
This is going to be a very very important, critical
Supreme Court decision, I do believe. While constitutionally, you know,
you can understand the argument about Congress having issues and
power over tariffs, but the president also needs it for
his constitutional authority and role. And this president, more than
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any other, is using it, the tariff issue as a
leverage point for him to prevent wars.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And that's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It was not a surprise to me that the President,
in spite of all these efforts which have been you know,
it's herculean in many ways to try and bring about
world peace and has been successful in so many areas.
With the latest development, I mean, I don't think any
of us really thought in our lifetime we'd see the
people of Kaza and the people of Israel both celebrating simultaneously,
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as we played on the program yesterday. And that's all happening,
and you know, outcomes the Nobel Peace Prize today, and
of course it didn't go to Donald J.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Trump.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
You know, some people are defending the Nobel Prize's decision
not to award the President by pointing out, well, the
nominations for the twenty twenty five piece prize were closed
twenty Well, this is really for the year twenty twenty
four was closed out nine months ago, before this historic
Mini's peace deal. But it doesn't reflect the magnitude and
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the effort that the president has put into peace around
the world. And anyway, so the Nobel Committee's deadline nominations
were January thirty first, the only days into the president's
second term of office. All right, I guess they can
use that as an excuse. We checked the record. As
it turns out, the Nobel Committee had absolutely no problem
whatsoever nominating Barack Obama for the two thousand and nine
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Nobel Peace Prize, even though the nomination for two thousand
and nine deadline was the exact same day, which is
January thirty first, two thousand and nine, and this decision
so bizarre that even Obama noted that the nomination seemed,
you know, it seemed hard to justify. In a thirty
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six minute speech accepting the nomination, Obama discussed the tensions
between war and peace and the idea idea of a
just war. Perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt
of this prize is the fact that I am the
commander in chief of the military of a nation in
the midst of two wars, and those who were passed
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over so that Obama could be awarded the Peace Prize
included the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, who had been considered
a favor for.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
The award at that time.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And responding to the controversy over the Obama award, the
Nobel Committee chair explained, no one could deny the international
climate had suddenly improved now that mister Obama was and
he was the main reason.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, I could do that.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Here's an interesting side note to this, so the winner
of the Nobel Peace Prize is a woman that is
actually very courageous, and she is the Venezuelan opposition. Maria
Carino Machado is her name. And what was fascinating is
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she received the award and she posted on x he
dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald J. Trump
and his support for her cause, after the Nobel Committee
again declined to bestow Trump himself with the award. Quote,
this recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a
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boost to conclude our task, which to conquer, you know,
for freedom. And she went on and she said, we
are on the threshold of victory. And today, more than ever,
we count on President Trump, the people of the United States,
the people the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic
nations of our world as our principled allies to achieve
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freedom and democracy. I dedicate this prize to the suffering
people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive
support of our cause. His dedication did not come out
of the blue. The Trump administration has been working to
pressure them or government in Venezuela at the crackdown on
their drug trafficking efforts, and considering they've not been too
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particularly cooperative. We've been watching what's been happening with these
narco terrorist boats that are being shot out of the sea.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Thatt and Yahoo knocked the Nobel
Committee after President Trump failed to win the group's coveted
Peace Prize. Quote the Nobel Committee talks about peace. President
at reel, Donald Trump makes it happen. The Israeli Prime
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Minister's office posted on x the facts speak for themselves.
President Trump deserves it. The post in response to the
White House spokesman Stephen Chung, who suggested the committee be
played that the committee plays politics over peace. In a
side note to this, the President is going now on
Sunday to visit Israel. On Monday, he will speak before
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the Kanessid and visit Israel ahead of the release of
these remaining hostages in Gaza, speak before the Kanesse, meet
with Prime Minister Netanyahu, and reportedly land a Bengorian airport,
and speak alongside not only the Prime Minister but President
Isaac Herzog. According to reports, following these speeches, he may
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go meet with the hostage families. The President also promised
pitar and Egyptian mediators he's going to meet, and Turkey
leaders that he would meet as well, that Israel Israel
won't return to fighting. Well, they're not going to return
to fighting. But really that decision is going to be
in the hands of Hamas. If Amas starts firing rockets,
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you know, it's it's it is beyond disconcerting. There was
a poll that came out of a new Quinnipiac survey
that came out forty three percent of New Yorkers favored
the Palestinians versus twenty two percent of the side with Israel.
And according to the Quinnipiac Pole, you know, the Republicans
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favor Israel over the Palstinians fifty three to eleven. So
this is a red blue issue in many, many ways.
And you have the anti Semitic, you know, members of
Congress and the the virulent you know, rhetoric that we've
heard out of the squad members, et cetera, et cetera.
It is very, very frustrating. And this is why I
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try to I try to cloak this argument in terms
that we can understand, because what happened on October seventh
is there is a little over nine million. A population
of nine million in Israel. It is not a big country.
It is about the size of New Jersey. And I
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keep pointing out, and have pointed out from day one,
since October seventh, what two years, four days ago, that
if you look at the fifteen hundred Israelis that were
slaughtered that day, and I've looked at the videos the
IDF showed me in private, you know, the actual videos
taken by these murdering, you know, kidnapping, raping thugs of
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Hamas because they were proud of what it was that
they were doing. But the level of ignorance to me
is breathtaking among some. And this is part of the problem.
I think people were sympathetic in the beginning, but they
don't really understand the magnitude of it. Because when you
compare such a small population, just compare it to America's population.
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What's our population now lived at three hundred and sixty
million Americans, whatever the number is, compared to nine million,
that would be the equivalent of forty thousand dead Americans
in a single day. And if you ask yourself, what
would you expect your country to do if you knew
that forty thousand Americans were killed in one day, and
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that others were taken hostage, and that others were raped,
and that others were beheaded, kiddennapped. All of these things happen,
and I have a hard time understanding, you know how
in two years time it evolved into an issue of well,
how is Israel responding? And then there's a level of
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ignorance as to the events leading up to this. And
having been to Israel numerous times and reported from Israel
numerous times, it is frustrating that so many people they've
never been in the terror tunnel networks that I have
been in and reported from. They've never been to those
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border towns that I have been to. One town in particular,
over ten thousand rockets fired into their one little border
town with Gaza in ten years. They've never seen the devastation.
They don't know what it's like to live life under
those conditions. And I just say, if it was ever
happening in America, I promise you would have a very
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different perspective and a very different desire of what the
conclusion and outcome should be. And it's not like Israel
is asking as much as some people would argue, as
much from the United States as you think, yes, we
do support them, Yes they are allied. They're the only
democracy in the region. And you know, can you blame them,
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but when their very survival is literally in jeopardy and
hanging in the balance, as they've been surrounded by enemies.
And this is what makes what President Trump pulled off
here so difficult. He had to thread one needle after another.
You know, Arab nations that have wanted no part of
being involved in a solution for the region. You know,
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he was able to get them on board and committed
to that process. The President was able to persuade the
Israelis were perfectly positioned to go in and knock out
Hamas once and for all and finish the job and
decimate the place, and the President, because of the great
relationship that he's built up with Israel, was able to
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convince the Prime Minister not to do that. The presidents similarly,
you know, spoke very loudly, and he is respected in
that part of the world. I know because I was
with him on the trip to the Gulf States. I
sought firsthand the level of respect that they have for
this president, a respect for his strength, the fact that
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he wants a peaceful coexistence and to have trade deals
and business deals. And you know, I mean there is
I probably do beyond the Israelis. I'll tell you the
next happiest people that are that exist in the world
that are that Donald Trump took out Iranian nuclear sites,
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it would be the Arab world. And I just said
this yesterday. You know that he never got credit in
his first term that he created a coalition that I
never thought I'd see in my lifetime, and that was
you had intelligence sharing, cooperation.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
At a level nobody knew about.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I knew about it because of different sources that I
have and they were informing me about it. But trust me,
there's no love loss between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and
the UAE and the Kataris and the Egyptians and Jordanians,
and they all feared Iranian hegemony and a nuclear armed Iran,
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and they partnered with the US and with israel An
intelligence sharing and there was probably you know, I think
without taking out those Iranian nuclear sides, I don't think
what happened this week would have actually happened. Now we
got to get to the phase two of this aspect,
and I think we will. By the way, you got
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to tip your hat to the First Lady, Milania Trump
studying journalists Friday, announcing that she had an open channel
with the Russian President Vladimir Putin to secure the reunification
of kidnapped Ukrainian children with their families. Is that eight
kids have been returned to families over the past twenty
four hours, including one who was brought from Ukraine to
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her family in Russia, and plans are already underway for
further reunifications. The First Lady wrote a letter to Putin
that was delivered at President Trump's August fifteenth, Alaska summit
with his Russian counterport counterpart. And much has unfolded since
President Putin received my letter, she said. Putin replied to
her letter and quote since the President, since President Putin
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and I have an open channel of communication, you know,
she described several back channel meetings and calls that have
taken place. My representative has been working directly with President
Putin's team to connect children with their families. And she
accomplished that maybe she should get a peace prize too,
But you know, don't expect you know, goodness, by the way,
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we have insane debate audio. What's going on in New
Jersey and in Virginia. Wow, these races are heating up.
I think maybe with some of the most embarrassing moments
in gubernatorial debate history, especially in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
We'll get to that. We have a lot to get
to today.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
We'll get legal analysis on the indictment of Letitia James.
Jack Chidarelli deglubinatorial candidate from New Jersey will join us.
He's really in this race. And I believe that wins
Sears is making a massive comeback as well. It's one
last thing on what's happened this week in the history
of this week, all these lawmakers demanding that have been
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demanding a ceasefire in Gaza over the past two years,
eerily silent now since Donald Trump actually secured one with
Israel and Hamas on Wednesday. You know, well, where are
the squad members? Where's Congresswoman to leave that said, you know,
this is what happens when you refuse to facilitate a
ceasefire and help the escalate. Where's she? You know, she
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had nothing to say about our sitting president. Leader of
the squad. Another frequent voice calling for a ceasefire? Why
is she so quiet?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Quiet?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You know, why are Democrats in general so quiet as
Congresswoman Jayapaul, you know, call for an immediate and permanent
ceasefire on the two year anniversary of October seventh. Oopsie, Daisy,
you know she's not commented since Trump announced the deal?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Where's Congressman Omar, you know, one of the most outspoken
supporters of the Palestinian causing in Congress, issuing a lukewarm
response to the good news, saying, well, but the sake
of humanity, let's hope this will be a lasting, im
permanent ceasefire, and then demanded that Israel be punished. Unbelievable.
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What part of forty the equivalent of forty thousand dead Americans?
Doesn't she get those sick of ignorant people. Schumer's out there?
How came Jeffries out there praising the Mid East peace deal?
But no mention of Donald Trump? I mean, this is
how petty the Democratic Party has become. And you know
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how lacking encouraged Schumer is. He doesn't want to alienate
his radical base anymore. Anyway, The so called leader of
the Senate, he's really leader in name only issued this
statement on the amazingly good news that President Trump has
engineered this peace deal, but he didn't mention Donald Trump.
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I mean, nowhere in Schumer's statement on this miraculous piece
deal of the words Donald Trump ever appeared, not once.
Nowhere doesn't happen. Does any of this surprise you? It shouldn't,
because this represents the radicalization of the Democratic Party today.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And it's so far worse than we ever thought, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
And now Trump is embarking on this trip to the
Middle East, and you're getting worldwide praise. You are getting
some Democratic praise as well, to be fair, But he's
gonna embark on this trip, He's going to speak before
the Kanesset, and you know, you have to hope let's
see these hostages get released, Let's see phase two. I
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think one thing you've got to understand in factor in
here is if there was any leverage that Hamas might
have had, you know, by agreeing to phase one of
this deal, that leverage will be gone. And I think
President Trump's you know, give he gave them a plain choice,
take the deal or get obliterated. Doesn't get any more
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clear than that, not unlike what he did with Iran,
not unlike by the way what he's doing and what
he promised Vladimir putin different circumstances, different country. You know,
we're dealing with nuclear weapons as something you have to
factor in. He's taken the handcuffs off the Ukrainians. They're
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now pounding Russian refine in a massive way. Reuters reporting
that the Russians now have have long lines and people
waiting to buy and purchase gasoline as a result of this.
The lifeblood of Russia's economy is is gas period, it's
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oil period. And then the president putting tariffs on countries
that do business with Russia.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
It's having a massive effort.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Speaker Gingrich pointed out that when the House passed the
budget that would have kept the government open without increasing spending,
and it was blocked by the Democrats, the clean cr
what is a clean r continuing resolution that means that
you keep the government open, funding at current levels.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And once the.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Public found out about that, all of a sudden, well,
you know, nearly forty percent of Americans they blame the Democrats.
You're always going to have, you know, thirty percent of
the radical left that will blame Republicans for nothing. What
the Democrats are saying the opposite of what they have
said their entire careers, like Chucky Schumer, Oh, you can't
shut down the government. Now we're feeling the impact of
it as of really right now, I mean this is now,
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as of next week, the paychecks stopped going out ap reporting.
The White House Budget Office said today that mass firings
of federal workers have now started in an attempt to
let people that as a result of the Schumer shutdown,
now and these these firings, according to President Trump, may
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end up being permanent. Russ Voight, director of OMB, said
on x that RIfS have begun that means reduction enforced
plans aimed at reducing the size of the federal government.
A spokesperson for the Budget Office said the reductions are substantial,
but did not offer any more immediate details. The Education
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Department among the agencies hit by new layoffs. A department
spokesperson said earlier today about providing more details. The Department
of laid off forty one hundred employees when Trump took
office in January. Its workforce was nearly had amid mass
layoffs in the Republican administration's first months. At the start
of the shutdown, it had twenty five hundred employees, and
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now many of them are going.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
To be furloughed. So how long will Chuck keep going? Now?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I guess the quote of the week is, you know,
Chucky Schumer just two days ago, every day gets better
for us, you know, crowing about extending the shutdown. Now,
let me play a montage with Schumer over the years
talking about the dangers of the shutdowns, and then ask
yourself what has changed in Chucky Schumer. I can tell
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you what it is before you hear it. It is
his desire to cling on to power, which, by the way,
he will not be successful at He's he's right now
leader in name only to begin with. But if he's
challenged by AOC, his political career is over.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
It's done.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I'll mention a name to Chuck Schumer, one that he
will readily remember, Alfonse de Motto. That's what we beat
to become the senator in New York. He will be
Alfonse de Motto, and he will retire from the US Senate. Anyway,
here's Chucky in years gone by.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
What if I persuaded my cause to say I'm going
to shut the government down? I am going to not
pay our bills unless I get my way. It's a
politics of idiocy, of confrontation, of paralysis.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
It's sort of like this.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Someone goes into your house, takes your wife and children hostage,
and then says, let's negotiate over the price of your house.
You know, we could do the same thing on immigration,
because we believe strongly in immigration reform. We could say
we're shutting down the government. We're not going to raise
the debt ceiling until you pass immigration reform. It would
be governmental chaos. Speaker McCarthy needs to stop letting the
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MAGA radicals drive his decisions and do the obvious and
sensible thing, follow the Senate's lead and pass a bipartisan
cr to prevent this reckless shutdown. We do not want
to let a Trump temper tantrum governor policies will caused
the shutdown of a government which everyone on both sides
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of the isles knows is the wrong idea.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
No, that was then, this is now and Chuck Schumer again,
leader in name only, is scared to death of the
radicals that run his party. What a change, Pretty dramatic.
I want to go to the Senate debate. I'm sorry
the gubernatorial debate. Sorry about that because we have Jack
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Chidarelli at the top, and then later we'll talk more
about this. There were two remarkable exchanges in this debate
that took place in Virginia between Abigail Spanberger and Lieutenant
Governor Wins some merl sears, and I'm beginning to think
that the house of cards for Abigail Spamberger is now
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collapsing in the in the Commonwealth of Virginia. One exchange,
they had to ask her four times about the issue of,
you know, allowing biological boys in girls' locker rooms. To
listen to how she won't answer the question.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Focusing on a K through twelve school system, should transgender
girls who are biological males be allowed to use girls'
bathrooms and play on girls sports teams? You have sixty seconds.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
I'm a mother of three daughters in Virginia public schools,
and nothing is more important to me than their safety
and their experience in schools. I'm also a former federal agent,
and I work to investigate crimes against children, and so
nothing is more important to me than the safety of
all of our children. And that work, in part has
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earned me the endorsement of Virginia's police benevolent.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Associations talking find.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Issues related to what's happening in our schools in each
individual community. I think it's important that we have parents
and teachers and administrators making decisions about their individual schools,
not politicians. And if we are talking about the safety
of our children, I would ask why my opponent continues
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to support efforts to defund public safety, an effort carried
on continually by this expoundation.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Once again, the question was should transgender girls who are
biological males be allowed to use girls' bathrooms and play
on girls sports teams? In K through twelve? You have
fifteen seconds to clarify.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
In cases across Virginia. I think it's incumbent upon parents
and educators and administrators in each local community to make
decisions locally.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
That's what this is about.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
There should never be really in lockness.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
We finally have her saying that, but you voted for that.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Up now you won't answer the question now, Jay Jones,
the guy that's running for AG is a Democrat exposed,
including messages wishing the death upon the former of Virginia
House Speaker Todd Gilbert and his family, and then span
Berger is asked for four separate times to clarify if
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she still endorses the guy.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Again, she won't answer.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Will you continue to endorse Jay Jones to be the
next Attorney General of Virginia? And were you aware of
these text messages before they released? You have thirty seconds.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
In fact, it appears that it was those who released
the text messages and held them for years, so the
public was unaware who had knowledge of these text messages
for many of us. You do these text messages the
day that they came out, and I denounced them as
soon as I learned of an importantly at this point,
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as we move forward, the voters now have this information,
information that was withheld for them. You're running, presumably for
polit affairs reasons, but the voters now have the information
and it is up to voters to make an individual
choice based on this information.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Miss Memory, I understand what you're saying about the voters,
But for you yourself, do you still continue to endorse
Jay Jones? Fifteen seconds? Yes or no?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
We are all running our individual races.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
I believe my opponent has said that about her Lieutenant
governor nominee. Affairs and up their every person to make
their own decision. I am running my race to serve
Virginia and that is what I intend to do.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Thank you, missus vam Berger. We just want to clarify
you know what you're saying is that as of now,
you still endorse Jay Jones as attorney General.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
I'm saying, as of now, it's up to every voter
to make their own individual decision. I am running for governor.
I am accountable for the words that I say, for
the acts that I take, for the policies that I
have put out.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I can't take it. It's so frustrating. We'll get back
to that later. Now these races seem to be in play.
Virginia get voting, New Joysey get voting. We have Jack Chidarelli,
the gubernatorio candidate, coming up,
Thanks to all of you for being with us.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Right down our toll free telephone number if you want
to be a part of the program, it is eight
hundred and ninety four one Sean if you want to
join us. You know, pretty amazing here you have President
Trump and we've gone through the list of areas you know,
around the world, India, Pakistan, Iran and Israel and Armenian,
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Azerbaijan and Cambodia and Rwanda and you know, the Congo,
and it goes on and on and on that the
President has expended political capital in the name of trying
to negotiate a peace.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
He's used the power of tariffs.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
This is going to be a very very important, critical
Supreme Court decision, I do believe. While constitutionally, you know,
you can understand the argument about Congress having issues and
power over tariffs, but the president also needs it for
his constitutional authority and role. And this president, more than
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any other, is using it, the tariff issue as a
leverage point for him to prevent wars.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And that's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It was not a surprise to me that the President,
in spite of all these efforts which have been you know,
it's herculean in many ways to try and bring about
world peace and has been successful in so many areas.
With the latest development, I mean, I don't think any
of us really thought in our lifetime we'd see the
people of Kaza and the people of Israel both celebrating simultaneously,
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as we played on the program yesterday. And that's all happening,
and you know, outcomes the Nobel Peace Prize today, and
of course it didn't go to Donald J.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Trump.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
You know, some people are defending the Nobel Prize's decision
not to award the President by pointing out, well, the
nominations for the twenty twenty five piece prize were closed
twenty Well, this is really for the year twenty twenty
four was closed out nine months ago, before this historic
Mini's peace deal. But it doesn't reflect the magnitude and
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the effort that the president has put into peace around
the world. And anyway, so the Nobel Committee's deadline nominations
were January thirty first, the only days into the president's
second term of office. All right, I guess they can
use that as an excuse. We checked the record. As
it turns out, the Nobel Committee had absolutely no problem
whatsoever nominating Barack Obama for the two thousand and nine
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Nobel Peace Prize, even though the nomination for two thousand
and nine deadline was the exact same day, which is
January thirty first, two thousand and nine, and this decision
so bizarre that even Obama noted that the nomination seemed,
you know, it seemed hard to justify. In a thirty
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six minute speech accepting the nomination, Obama discussed the tensions
between war and peace and the idea idea of a
just war. Perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt
of this prize is the fact that I am the
commander in chief of the military of a nation in
the midst of two wars, and those who were passed
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over so that Obama could be awarded the Peace Prize
included the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, who had been considered
a favor for.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
The award at that time.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And responding to the controversy over the Obama award, the
Nobel Committee chair explained, no one could deny the international
climate had suddenly improved now that mister Obama was and
he was the main reason.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, I could do that.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Here's an interesting side note to this, so the winner
of the Nobel Peace Prize is a woman that is
actually very courageous, and she is the Venezuelan opposition. Maria
Carino Machado is her name. And what was fascinating is
(04:01):
she received the award and she posted on x he
dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald J. Trump
and his support for her cause, after the Nobel Committee
again declined to bestow Trump himself with the award. Quote,
this recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a
(04:23):
boost to conclude our task, which to conquer, you know,
for freedom. And she went on and she said, we
are on the threshold of victory. And today, more than ever,
we count on President Trump, the people of the United States,
the people the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic
nations of our world as our principled allies to achieve
(04:44):
freedom and democracy. I dedicate this prize to the suffering
people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive
support of our cause. His dedication did not come out
of the blue. The Trump administration has been working to
pressure them or government in Venezuela at the crackdown on
their drug trafficking efforts, and considering they've not been too
(05:06):
particularly cooperative. We've been watching what's been happening with these
narco terrorist boats that are being shot out of the sea.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Thatt and Yahoo knocked the Nobel
Committee after President Trump failed to win the group's coveted
Peace Prize. Quote the Nobel Committee talks about peace. President
at reel, Donald Trump makes it happen. The Israeli Prime
(05:29):
Minister's office posted on x the facts speak for themselves.
President Trump deserves it. The post in response to the
White House spokesman Stephen Chung, who suggested the committee be
played that the committee plays politics over peace. In a
side note to this, the President is going now on
Sunday to visit Israel. On Monday, he will speak before
(05:52):
the Kanessid and visit Israel ahead of the release of
these remaining hostages in Gaza, speak before the Kanesse, meet
with Prime Minister Netanyahu, and reportedly land a Bengorian airport,
and speak alongside not only the Prime Minister but President
Isaac Herzog. According to reports, following these speeches, he may
(06:15):
go meet with the hostage families. The President also promised
pitar and Egyptian mediators he's going to meet, and Turkey
leaders that he would meet as well, that Israel Israel
won't return to fighting. Well, they're not going to return
to fighting. But really that decision is going to be
in the hands of Hamas. If Amas starts firing rockets,
(06:37):
you know, it's it's it is beyond disconcerting. There was
a poll that came out of a new Quinnipiac survey
that came out forty three percent of New Yorkers favored
the Palestinians versus twenty two percent of the side with Israel.
And according to the Quinnipiac Pole, you know, the Republicans
(06:58):
favor Israel over the Palstinians fifty three to eleven. So
this is a red blue issue in many, many ways.
And you have the anti Semitic, you know, members of
Congress and the the virulent you know, rhetoric that we've
heard out of the squad members, et cetera, et cetera.
It is very, very frustrating. And this is why I
(07:19):
try to I try to cloak this argument in terms
that we can understand, because what happened on October seventh
is there is a little over nine million. A population
of nine million in Israel. It is not a big country.
It is about the size of New Jersey. And I
(07:40):
keep pointing out, and have pointed out from day one,
since October seventh, what two years, four days ago, that
if you look at the fifteen hundred Israelis that were
slaughtered that day, and I've looked at the videos the
IDF showed me in private, you know, the actual videos
taken by these murdering, you know, kidnapping, raping thugs of
(08:04):
Hamas because they were proud of what it was that
they were doing. But the level of ignorance to me
is breathtaking among some. And this is part of the problem.
I think people were sympathetic in the beginning, but they
don't really understand the magnitude of it. Because when you
compare such a small population, just compare it to America's population.
(08:25):
What's our population now lived at three hundred and sixty
million Americans, whatever the number is, compared to nine million,
that would be the equivalent of forty thousand dead Americans
in a single day. And if you ask yourself, what
would you expect your country to do if you knew
that forty thousand Americans were killed in one day, and
(08:48):
that others were taken hostage, and that others were raped,
and that others were beheaded, kiddennapped. All of these things happen,
and I have a hard time understanding, you know how
in two years time it evolved into an issue of well,
how is Israel responding? And then there's a level of
(09:08):
ignorance as to the events leading up to this. And
having been to Israel numerous times and reported from Israel
numerous times, it is frustrating that so many people they've
never been in the terror tunnel networks that I have
been in and reported from. They've never been to those
(09:30):
border towns that I have been to. One town in particular,
over ten thousand rockets fired into their one little border
town with Gaza in ten years. They've never seen the devastation.
They don't know what it's like to live life under
those conditions. And I just say, if it was ever
happening in America, I promise you would have a very
(09:51):
different perspective and a very different desire of what the
conclusion and outcome should be. And it's not like Israel
is asking as much as some people would argue, as
much from the United States as you think, yes, we
do support them, Yes they are allied. They're the only
democracy in the region. And you know, can you blame them,
(10:12):
but when their very survival is literally in jeopardy and
hanging in the balance, as they've been surrounded by enemies.
And this is what makes what President Trump pulled off
here so difficult. He had to thread one needle after another.
You know, Arab nations that have wanted no part of
being involved in a solution for the region. You know,
(10:35):
he was able to get them on board and committed
to that process. The President was able to persuade the
Israelis were perfectly positioned to go in and knock out
Hamas once and for all and finish the job and
decimate the place, and the President, because of the great
relationship that he's built up with Israel, was able to
(10:56):
convince the Prime Minister not to do that. The presidents similarly,
you know, spoke very loudly, and he is respected in
that part of the world. I know because I was
with him on the trip to the Gulf States. I
sought firsthand the level of respect that they have for
this president, a respect for his strength, the fact that
(11:20):
he wants a peaceful coexistence and to have trade deals
and business deals. And you know, I mean there is
I probably do beyond the Israelis. I'll tell you the
next happiest people that are that exist in the world
that are that Donald Trump took out Iranian nuclear sites,
(11:42):
it would be the Arab world. And I just said
this yesterday. You know that he never got credit in
his first term that he created a coalition that I
never thought I'd see in my lifetime, and that was
you had intelligence sharing, cooperation.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
At a level nobody knew about.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I knew about it because of different sources that I
have and they were informing me about it. But trust me,
there's no love loss between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and
the UAE and the Kataris and the Egyptians and Jordanians,
and they all feared Iranian hegemony and a nuclear armed Iran,
(12:21):
and they partnered with the US and with israel An
intelligence sharing and there was probably you know, I think
without taking out those Iranian nuclear sides, I don't think
what happened this week would have actually happened. Now we
got to get to the phase two of this aspect,
and I think we will. By the way, you got
(12:41):
to tip your hat to the First Lady, Milania Trump
studying journalists Friday, announcing that she had an open channel
with the Russian President Vladimir Putin to secure the reunification
of kidnapped Ukrainian children with their families. Is that eight
kids have been returned to families over the past twenty
four hours, including one who was brought from Ukraine to
(13:02):
her family in Russia, and plans are already underway for
further reunifications. The First Lady wrote a letter to Putin
that was delivered at President Trump's August fifteenth, Alaska summit
with his Russian counterport counterpart. And much has unfolded since
President Putin received my letter, she said. Putin replied to
her letter and quote since the President, since President Putin
(13:26):
and I have an open channel of communication, you know,
she described several back channel meetings and calls that have
taken place. My representative has been working directly with President
Putin's team to connect children with their families. And she
accomplished that maybe she should get a peace prize too,
But you know, don't expect you know, goodness, by the way,
(13:49):
we have insane debate audio. What's going on in New
Jersey and in Virginia. Wow, these races are heating up.
I think maybe with some of the most embarrassing moments
in gubernatorial debate history, especially in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
We'll get to that. We have a lot to get
to today.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
We'll get legal analysis on the indictment of Letitia James.
Jack Chidarelli deglubinatorial candidate from New Jersey will join us.
He's really in this race. And I believe that wins
Sears is making a massive comeback as well. It's one
last thing on what's happened this week in the history
of this week, all these lawmakers demanding that have been
(14:32):
demanding a ceasefire in Gaza over the past two years,
eerily silent now since Donald Trump actually secured one with
Israel and Hamas on Wednesday. You know, well, where are
the squad members? Where's Congresswoman to leave that said, you know,
this is what happens when you refuse to facilitate a
ceasefire and help the escalate. Where's she? You know, she
(14:57):
had nothing to say about our sitting president. Leader of
the squad. Another frequent voice calling for a ceasefire? Why
is she so quiet?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Quiet?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
You know, why are Democrats in general so quiet as
Congresswoman Jayapaul, you know, call for an immediate and permanent
ceasefire on the two year anniversary of October seventh. Oopsie, Daisy,
you know she's not commented since Trump announced the deal?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Where's Congressman Omar, you know, one of the most outspoken
supporters of the Palestinian causing in Congress, issuing a lukewarm
response to the good news, saying, well, but the sake
of humanity, let's hope this will be a lasting, im
permanent ceasefire, and then demanded that Israel be punished. Unbelievable.
(15:46):
What part of forty the equivalent of forty thousand dead Americans?
Doesn't she get those sick of ignorant people. Schumer's out there?
How came Jeffries out there praising the Mid East peace deal?
But no mention of Donald Trump? I mean, this is
how petty the Democratic Party has become. And you know
(16:07):
how lacking encouraged Schumer is. He doesn't want to alienate
his radical base anymore. Anyway, The so called leader of
the Senate, he's really leader in name only issued this
statement on the amazingly good news that President Trump has
engineered this peace deal, but he didn't mention Donald Trump.
(16:28):
I mean, nowhere in Schumer's statement on this miraculous piece
deal of the words Donald Trump ever appeared, not once.
Nowhere doesn't happen. Does any of this surprise you? It shouldn't,
because this represents the radicalization of the Democratic Party today.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And it's so far worse than we ever thought, you know.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
And now Trump is embarking on this trip to the
Middle East, and you're getting worldwide praise. You are getting
some Democratic praise as well, to be fair, But he's
gonna embark on this trip, He's going to speak before
the Kanesset, and you know, you have to hope let's
see these hostages get released, Let's see phase two. I
(17:12):
think one thing you've got to understand in factor in
here is if there was any leverage that Hamas might
have had, you know, by agreeing to phase one of
this deal, that leverage will be gone. And I think
President Trump's you know, give he gave them a plain choice,
take the deal or get obliterated. Doesn't get any more
(17:35):
clear than that, not unlike what he did with Iran,
not unlike by the way what he's doing and what
he promised Vladimir putin different circumstances, different country. You know,
we're dealing with nuclear weapons as something you have to
factor in. He's taken the handcuffs off the Ukrainians. They're
(17:56):
now pounding Russian refine in a massive way. Reuters reporting
that the Russians now have have long lines and people
waiting to buy and purchase gasoline as a result of this.
The lifeblood of Russia's economy is is gas period, it's
(18:19):
oil period. And then the president putting tariffs on countries
that do business with Russia.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
It's having a massive effort.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Speaker Gingrich pointed out that when the House passed the
budget that would have kept the government open without increasing spending,
and it was blocked by the Democrats, the clean cr
what is a clean r continuing resolution that means that
you keep the government open, funding at current levels.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And once the.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Public found out about that, all of a sudden, well,
you know, nearly forty percent of Americans they blame the Democrats.
You're always going to have, you know, thirty percent of
the radical left that will blame Republicans for nothing. What
the Democrats are saying the opposite of what they have
said their entire careers, like Chucky Schumer, Oh, you can't
shut down the government. Now we're feeling the impact of
it as of really right now, I mean this is now,
(19:11):
as of next week, the paychecks stopped going out ap reporting.
The White House Budget Office said today that mass firings
of federal workers have now started in an attempt to
let people that as a result of the Schumer shutdown,
now and these these firings, according to President Trump, may
(19:34):
end up being permanent. Russ Voight, director of OMB, said
on x that RIfS have begun that means reduction enforced
plans aimed at reducing the size of the federal government.
A spokesperson for the Budget Office said the reductions are substantial,
but did not offer any more immediate details. The Education
(19:55):
Department among the agencies hit by new layoffs. A department
spokesperson said earlier today about providing more details. The Department
of laid off forty one hundred employees when Trump took
office in January. Its workforce was nearly had amid mass
layoffs in the Republican administration's first months. At the start
of the shutdown, it had twenty five hundred employees, and
(20:17):
now many of them are going.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
To be furloughed. So how long will Chuck keep going? Now?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I guess the quote of the week is, you know,
Chucky Schumer just two days ago, every day gets better
for us, you know, crowing about extending the shutdown. Now,
let me play a montage with Schumer over the years
talking about the dangers of the shutdowns, and then ask
yourself what has changed in Chucky Schumer. I can tell
(20:46):
you what it is before you hear it. It is
his desire to cling on to power, which, by the way,
he will not be successful at He's he's right now
leader in name only to begin with. But if he's
challenged by AOC, his political career is over.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
It's done.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
I'll mention a name to Chuck Schumer, one that he
will readily remember, Alfonse de Motto. That's what we beat
to become the senator in New York. He will be
Alfonse de Motto, and he will retire from the US Senate. Anyway,
here's Chucky in years gone by.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
What if I persuaded my cause to say I'm going
to shut the government down? I am going to not
pay our bills unless I get my way. It's a
politics of idiocy, of confrontation, of paralysis.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
It's sort of like this.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Someone goes into your house, takes your wife and children hostage,
and then says, let's negotiate over the price of your house.
You know, we could do the same thing on immigration,
because we believe strongly in immigration reform. We could say
we're shutting down the government. We're not going to raise
the debt ceiling until you pass immigration reform. It would
be governmental chaos. Speaker McCarthy needs to stop letting the
(22:00):
MAGA radicals drive his decisions and do the obvious and
sensible thing, follow the Senate's lead and pass a bipartisan
cr to prevent this reckless shutdown. We do not want
to let a Trump temper tantrum governor policies will caused
the shutdown of a government which everyone on both sides
(22:21):
of the isles knows is the wrong idea.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
No, that was then, this is now and Chuck Schumer again,
leader in name only, is scared to death of the
radicals that run his party. What a change, Pretty dramatic.
I want to go to the Senate debate. I'm sorry
the gubernatorial debate. Sorry about that because we have Jack
(22:46):
Chidarelli at the top, and then later we'll talk more
about this. There were two remarkable exchanges in this debate
that took place in Virginia between Abigail Spanberger and Lieutenant
Governor Wins some merl sears, and I'm beginning to think
that the house of cards for Abigail Spamberger is now
(23:08):
collapsing in the in the Commonwealth of Virginia. One exchange,
they had to ask her four times about the issue of,
you know, allowing biological boys in girls' locker rooms. To
listen to how she won't answer the question.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Focusing on a K through twelve school system, should transgender
girls who are biological males be allowed to use girls'
bathrooms and play on girls sports teams? You have sixty seconds.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
I'm a mother of three daughters in Virginia public schools,
and nothing is more important to me than their safety
and their experience in schools. I'm also a former federal agent,
and I work to investigate crimes against children, and so
nothing is more important to me than the safety of
all of our children. And that work, in part has
(24:07):
earned me the endorsement of Virginia's police benevolent.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Associations talking find.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Issues related to what's happening in our schools in each
individual community. I think it's important that we have parents
and teachers and administrators making decisions about their individual schools,
not politicians. And if we are talking about the safety
of our children, I would ask why my opponent continues
(24:36):
to support efforts to defund public safety, an effort carried
on continually by this expoundation.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Once again, the question was should transgender girls who are
biological males be allowed to use girls' bathrooms and play
on girls sports teams? In K through twelve? You have
fifteen seconds to clarify.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
In cases across Virginia. I think it's incumbent upon parents
and educators and administrators in each local community to make
decisions locally.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
That's what this is about.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
There should never be really in lockness.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
We finally have her saying that, but you voted for that.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Up now you won't answer the question now, Jay Jones,
the guy that's running for AG is a Democrat exposed,
including messages wishing the death upon the former of Virginia
House Speaker Todd Gilbert and his family, and then span
Berger is asked for four separate times to clarify if
(25:41):
she still endorses the guy.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Again, she won't answer.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
Will you continue to endorse Jay Jones to be the
next Attorney General of Virginia? And were you aware of
these text messages before they released? You have thirty seconds.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
In fact, it appears that it was those who released
the text messages and held them for years, so the
public was unaware who had knowledge of these text messages
for many of us. You do these text messages the
day that they came out, and I denounced them as
soon as I learned of an importantly at this point,
(26:18):
as we move forward, the voters now have this information,
information that was withheld for them. You're running, presumably for
polit affairs reasons, but the voters now have the information
and it is up to voters to make an individual
choice based on this information.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Miss Memory, I understand what you're saying about the voters,
But for you yourself, do you still continue to endorse
Jay Jones? Fifteen seconds? Yes or no?
Speaker 5 (26:43):
We are all running our individual races.
Speaker 7 (26:45):
I believe my opponent has said that about her Lieutenant
governor nominee. Affairs and up their every person to make
their own decision. I am running my race to serve
Virginia and that is what I intend to do.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Thank you, missus vam Berger. We just want to clarify
you know what you're saying is that as of now,
you still endorse Jay Jones as attorney General.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
I'm saying, as of now, it's up to every voter
to make their own individual decision. I am running for governor.
I am accountable for the words that I say, for
the acts that I take, for the policies that I
have put out.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I can't take it. It's so frustrating. We'll get back
to that later. Now these races seem to be in play.
Virginia get voting, New Joysey get voting. We have Jack Chidarelli,
the gubernatorio candidate, coming up,
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