March 3, 2026 • 30 mins
Sean Hannity opens with breaking news that Iran’s supreme leader and nearly 50 senior regime officials were eliminated in the opening moments of Operation Epic Fury. He details how coordinated U.S. and Israeli intelligence struck the heart of Iran’s leadership structure within the first 30 seconds of the conflict. Hannity explains the strategic precision behind the operation — from air superiority to bunker-buster strikes — and underscores that Iran rejected multiple diplomatic off-ramps, including offers for civilian-grade nuclear fuel provided at no cost. Featuring remarks from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Hannity lays out the administration’s case: Iran posed a real and accelerating threat, and preemptive action prevented greater American casualties. This hour frames the operation as a historic turning point — not regime occupation, but decisive deterrence.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks to all of you for being with us. Right
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news to get to, so much liberal hypocrisy to get to.
We're also going to play my interview with the Prime
Minister of Israel Benjamin et and Yahoo Steve Widkoff, the
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Mid East envoy who was up to his eyeballs and
negotiations with the Iranians. They they they it is spectacular
in terms of what they didn't learn after Operation mid
nine Hammer. I can't I can't believe they're that dumb,
but they really were that dumb, that arrogant, though, that radical,
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that insane. I got to tell you that with all
that we've discussed in terms of the military might, the weaponry,
the sophistication of our weaponry, with all that we've had
in terms of intelligence, I mean, we can go through
incidents incident after incident, and the fact that after Operation
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Midnight Hammer, the the insane, you know, twisted, bizarre as
Loamo radical Islamo fascist regime just demanded that they still
have the right to enrich uranium. Steve Wikoff when we
played this later, he offered them the ability to have
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you know, low enriched uranium, not weapons grade, not even
the ability to have weapons grade, and and no enrichment
facilities in Iran for civilian purposes. They offered it to
them for free, in perpetuity, and they still walked away
from that. Now, so when the first thirty seconds of
this conflict start, they took out I think it was
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American CIA intelligence and the Israelis took out the entire leadership.
Believe it or not, we actually have laws that prevent
us from targeting leadership and conflict in war, which is
insane because that means civilian targets are they're fine, but
you can't have you can't choose the leaders that are
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causing all the problems. So we took out It turns
out it wasn't forty, it wasn't just Ali Hamani and
Ahman Denijad and all the other leaders, but we had
this window of opportunity. My understanding is is that that
window came up. They had been tracking Ali Hamanid for
a long time, for weeks, just like they tracked Solamani,
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and in just with incredible intelligence, incredible military precision, we
were able to track this guy and all of these
people were meeting, probably a war council. This is where
Marco Ruby was saying. They had intelligence that said that
they were likely two pounce on us first, and they
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took them all out. You would think that in and
of itself is amazing. If you go back and you
look at fourteen bunker buster bombs, I mean phantom you know,
phantom jets were seen on an Iranian radar whatever, the
old sophisticated system. Because the air defense systems were taken
out by the Israelis. You go back to the Israelis,
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it took out a lot of their missile batteries, They
took out their air defense system, their ballistic missile batteries,
and that paved the way for Operation Midnight Hammer, and
we had full control of the skies like we have
right now over Iran. And when the President dropped fourteen
bunker buster bombs again, you would think they would have
learned a lesson. The first thirty seconds of this conflict
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begin with taking out more than forty senior Iranian leaders.
The number now is believed to be forty nine, and
so Israel has now once again along with the United States.
In this case, these are Israeli forces, because again, this
is not something legally the United States can do. Law technically,
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I'm not so sure that it holds up in court.
But anyway, so they meet, the remaining Iranian leaders, you know, meet,
you know, and the purpose of this Supreme Council meeting.
They gathered to choose a successor to the late Supreme leader,
the Ayatola Ali Hamani, and Israel struck while they were
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counting the votes for the appointment of the next Supreme Leader.
So in other words, you had the first tier of
leadership wiped out in the first thirty seconds. Then they
meet to pick a new leader. And this again just
happened in the last you know, twelve fourteen hours whenever
it was. These strike underscores just the absolute depth of
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Israeli an American intelligence and military precision. But you know,
the penetration inside Tehran one of the most dramatic military
efforts in the history of warfare. And you can add
to that some of the things that the Israelis, for example,
did when they did the pager incident with with hisba
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Llah and everybody's pagers. They knew you know, a couple
if I remember, hundreds of not thousands of people that
had pagers. They knew everyone's number, and they set them
off at the same time, and I think they just
like began to melt or whatever or whatever they did
at that time. If you think of the last operation,
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going back to last June, when they took out Iranian
nuclear scientists, the fact that they knew where they were,
which was pretty incredible, again setting the path for America
to come in with weapons that Israel doesn't have, and
those are the bunker buster bombs. It had originally been
believed that you needed two maybe three four max to
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take out the Ford Doux plant and all the other
nuclear sites that had been buried deep inside the ground
within Iran, and it just was an amazing feat and
obliterating their nuclear program. But you have more than forty
of Iran's most senior leaders in the beginning have been
killed since the operation. It's estimated forty nine eliminated in
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that first thirty seconds of Operation Epic Fury early Saturday,
fracturing the regime's command structure, dealing a crippling blow to
their military leadership. So now they're in the process where
these clerics now gather to select Iran's new Supreme Leader.
And it's unclear how many regime officials from the so
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called Assembly of Experts were gathered in the building, but
again it's believed to be over forty. And the body
includes how many or how many A confident who serves
as Iran's interim Leadership Council. You want to be the
next leader of Iran? This is probably your future anyway.
Israeli forces with that intelligence flattened the building where Iran's
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eighty eight member Assembly of Experts had gathered to select
the regime's next Supreme leader. Linda, would you like to
be the next Supreme leader of Iran? Will be glad
to send you there. I'll give you a free one
way ticket to Iran and you can go to the
next meeting. I don't think you're going to make it
out of there, of course, I would never want that
to happen to you. But you know, I'm kidding, but
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this is spectacular, this is historic.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
This.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You know, I've talked a lot about the next generation
of weaponry, and you know, at one point there were
people that were kind of mocking me and saying to me,
you don't know what you're talking about. I'm like yes,
I do, because I know many people that work in
the weapons industry. I know many people in our defense department.
I talk to any everybody, every place, everywhere, and you know,
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future warfare is no longer going to be fought on
a bout. I mean, there are still idiots out there
that actually think Donald Trump is going to put boots
on the ground.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
He's not.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Now they've left open the door the possibility if there
is a remote situation that might need a strategic placement,
that door is definitely open. But we're not going to
have our national treasure stepping over IEDs without up armored
humb's like Iraq and Afghanistan and have a forever war.
This won't be That is not part of the Trump
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doctrine anyway. The Assembly of Experts is elected by the
Iranian people every eight years and consists of a leadership
board of six committees. It is presided over just one
leadership transition since nineteen eighty nine, when Ali Hamani was
elevated to the position of the Supreme Leader. Remember the
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revolution took place ten years earlier in seventy nine. He's
been in charge ever since, and it's current chair, ninety
four year old Ayatola Mohammad Ali Kaman, alongside his two
deputy chairmen again Mayatolas, the ladder of which one of
which sits on the Interim Leadership Council formed in the
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wake of Hamani's death. But this guy was seen as
a hardliner who used his position, so all their leadership
and their secondary secondary leadership now is wiped out. Over
one thousand Iranian combatants have been killed in joint US
military operations so far. They have now run close to
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two thousand successful you know, targeted precision, targeted operations that
have all been effective, and the Iranian American you know,
says a strike could mark the very this is now
the end of the regime. Now, we got to go
back and look what Donald Trump has been saying and
telling us, And if you just pay a little bit
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of attention to what he's saying, it's pretty interesting. You know,
last year ARAM was threatening to attack mar A Lago
you might recall with with bomb carrying drones and you know,
these maniacs put one hundred million dollar bounty on Donald
Trump's head and Iranian official said, Donald Trump, this is
July of twenty five, could face a drone attack while
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sunbathing at his Florida mansion. Well, I know Donald Trump,
he doesn't sunbathe. He plays golf. That's about it. He's
done something that he can no longer. Somebathe at Mara
a Lago. He never I guarantee you Donald Trump never
did a sun when some bathing in his life. Now
Trump issues an Iran airstrike warning. He's actually saying this
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is nothing up to this point. He says the big
one is coming, and he about to step up strikes
on Iran, saying the big one is coming. He did
this on Monday, did this yesterday. Some other interesting things
that have evolved. I want to go back eleven years
in time and I want to play then Senator Mark
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or Rubio now the Secretary of State and listen to
how smart Marco Rubio is.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I think everything that needs to be said about the
details of this deal have already been said.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I do want to be.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Recorded for history's purposes before I know what was going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
In regards to this.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
If it goes through, Iran will immediately use the money
that it's receiving in sanctions relief to begin to build.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Up its conventional capabilities.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It will establish the most dominant military power in the
region outside of the United States, and it will raise
the price of US.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Operating in the region.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
They're going to build anti access capabilities, rockets capable of
destroying our aircraft carriers and ships. Continue to build these
swift boats that are able to come on us, these
fast boats that are able to swarm our naval assets,
and they'll make it harder and harder for US.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Troops to be in the region. They'll also work with.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Other terrorist groups in the region the target American servicemen
and women, and they may or may not deny that
they're involved, but they will target us and raise the
price of our presence in the Middle East until they
hope to completely pull US out of that region. They'll
also continue to build long range missiles, missiles capable of
reach in the United States. Those are not affected by
this deal, and they'll continue to build them as they've
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been doing. And then at some point in the near future,
when the time is right, they will build a nuclear weapon.
And they will do so because at that point they
will know that they have become.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Immune, that we will no longer be able.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
To strike their nuclear program because the price of doing
so will be too high.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Okay, that was Mark or Rubio by the way, Uh
Marco Rubio speaking. Now let's go to Capitol Hill. We
got to jump over here to center Rubio speaking before
you had been there.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
We'll listen to this real life.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Nine thousand Americans have been able to leave the region
since the start of this war. We have about fifteen
hundred Americans that are requesting assistance with departure. We have
identified and continue to identify charter flights, military flight options,
and expanded commercial flight options, meaning working with the airlines
to send bigger airplanes with more seats and the combination
of those three things. The impediment we're facing now In
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many cases, we've had a couple instances in which we
have planes in the air and on the way and
unfortunately the air space gets closed and they have to
turn back around.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
So we're working through those challenges.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Here's the message I want to deliver Americans who are
in the Middle East and the need of assistance. It
is very important and I asked this of the networks
as well. It is important for you to please put
both the website and the phone numbers on your screens
because we need people. We need to know where you are.
We need to have contact information for Americans.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That need assistance.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
They have to register with us because as these options
begin to open up, and as they open up, we
have to be able to call you, We have to
be able to reach you, we have to be able
to know where you're staying so we can get this information.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
To you and coordinate appropriately.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
And it'll be a variety of methods charter flights, military
flights and transports, expanded commercial opportunities, and in some cases
land routes that will allow them to go to neighboring
countries who might have open airports at that point. So
it's a lot of different things here that need to
happen in order to move people. But it all starts
by knowing that you're there. It all starts by knowing
that where you are and how we can get a
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hold of you. So I'm asking the networks and all
of the media outlets please publicize the two phone numbers
that we've put out as well as the website so
people can contact us and register.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
We've had, you know, thousands of people call already.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
As I said, we've identified fifteen almost sixteen hundred that
are requesting assistance with departure, but we need you to
please be able to identify that. As I came in,
I also saw the media reports about Dubai's consulate. The
last update I had with seconds before getting before these
cameras was that a drone unfortunately struck a parking lot
adjacent to the chancellery building and then set off a
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fire in that place. All personnel are accounted for, as
you're aware, we began drawing down personnel from our diplomatic
facilities in advance of this and the cases for example
of Beirut, we basically drew down to a bare bones
as well as in as in Baghdad, and in our
bill and in a couple other posts as well. So
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we've been very fortunate, obviously, but our embassies and our
diplomatic facilities are under direct attack from a terroristic regime.
With an update, I obviously were free.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
All right that Senator Marco Rubio asking the media for
their assistance to get information to people that may be
in trouble in the region. We will pass more of
that onto you as the day on folds. All Right,
we got to take a quick break. We'll come back.
We'll play my interview with the Middle East down voice
Steve Wikoff who sat across from the Iranians and negotiations
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as they sat there and demanded the right to build
nuclear weapons, especially after midnight hammer, How to tumare they?
And my interview with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin the Yahu.
Straight ahead, All right, let's go back Marco Rubio, so
good with the media and with Democrats. He's so smart,
and he's so clever, and he's so calm. It just is,
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and the depth of his knowledge is so beyond impressive.
Let's go back to this little gaggle before he goes
in to brief the Gang of eight for.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
The Department of War.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Suffice it to say that our objectives remain as they've
been identified from the beginning, and by the President how
clearly yesterday. Iran can never have a nuclear weapon, and
we will now not allow iron to hide behind the
immunity of a massive short term ballistic missile inventory or
the ability to make them or launch them. And so
Sentcom and Adjoint Operations is carrying out a systematic destruction
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of their missile belt, destruction of their launchers, and destruction
of their ability to make these as well as.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
The destruction of their navy.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
From what I've been told by the Department of War,
everything is on or ahead of schedule and proceeding on
these objectives. We have every confidence in the world that
these objectives will be achieved. The last point I would
make is, and I said this yesterday, and I repeat,
what's about. You know you're about to see. You know,
we're going to unleash chang on these people in the
next few hours and days. You're going to really begin
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to perceive a change in the scope and in the
intensity of these attacks. As frankly, the two most powerful
air forces in the world take apart this terroristic regime
and defang it and take away its ability to threaten
its neighbors or hide behind a zone of unity that
allows them to develop their nuclear ambitions. This terroristic, radical,
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clerical led regime cannot be ever allowed to have nuclear weapons.
We saw what they were willing to do to their
own people. They were willing to slaughter their own people
in the streets. Imagine what they would do to us.
Imagine what they would do to others. Under President Trump,
that will never ever happen. All right, yes, yes, about Israel,
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Secretary struggle.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
These guys, I can't hear them allus.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yes, yesterday you told us that Israel was going to
strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Today the President said.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
That Iran was Again, yeah, your statement is false. So
that's not what I was asked, very specifical.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Were you there yesterday? Yes? Okay? No?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Did you Were you the one that because somebody asked
me a question answered did we go in because of Israel?
And I said you were asked me from that follow
up and I said no, I.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Told you this had to happen anyway.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
The President made a decision, and the decision he made
was that Iran was not going to be allowed to
hide behind its ballistic missile program, was not going to
be allowed to hide behind its ability to conduct these attacks.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
That decision had been made.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
The President systematically made a decision to systematically destroy this
terroristic capability that they had, and we carried that out.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I was very clear on that answer.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
This was a question of timing of why this had
to happen as a joint operation, not the question of
the intent.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Once the President made.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
A decision that negotiations were not going to work, that
they were playing us on the negotiations, and that this
was a threat that was untenable. The decision was made
to strike them. That's what I said yesterday. And you
guys need to play it, and you're going to play
these statements. You need to play the whole statement, not
slip it to reach the narrative that you want to do.
All right, go ahead, what do you make up the
War Powers resolution?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
That team consider it.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Here in part I mean, the Congress votes on those
they can if they want. There's mechanisms for it. We've
complied to the War Powers Act, even though we believe
it's unconstitutional, as has.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Every other administration.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Every other president has found the War Powers Act to
be unconstitutional. Nonetheless, we notified Gang of Eight, which was
an appropriate mechanism by which to notify Congress. We sent
the notification within forty eight hours away. The law requires
I'm here today to have I don't know, my six
or seventh briefing before the entirety of the House and Senate,
which is far more than I ever got from any
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administration in the time that I was here, certainly when
I was a member of the Gang of Eight. And
so we've complied with all we've over complied with the
law and what it requires. This is an action by
the president to address a real threat, a real threat.
This is hostilities designed to eliminate a threat to the
safety and the security of the United States and to
our allfs in place to evacuate Americans before we attacked.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Well, that's the plan we're trying to carry out.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
The problem is, or the challenge we are facing as
airspace closures. If a country closes their airport, for example,
in some cases the airports have been hit, so the.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Airport and Kate was hit.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
So if an airport's been attacked or the airspace is closed,
then we can have the planes lined up to go,
but we can't get them to land because we don't
have the permissions to land there.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
So that's the challenge.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
But rest assured, we are confident that we are going
to be able to assist every American. As I told you,
right now, we have about a little over fifteen hundred,
maybe closer to sixteen hundred Americans requesting assistance, and we
know that we're going to.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Be able to help them.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
It's going to take a little time because we don't
control the airspace closures. That said, there may be more
people out there than need help. We need to know
who you are, so please, I'm asking the media publicize
the phone numbers in the website because we need people
to call in. So we have their name, we have
their contact information, we have their location and their requests,
so as these opportunities begin to open up, we can
act very quickly to reach them and get them out
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of harmless way.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I want to just clarify what you Saidify, because clarify,
but you have to read if you're going to read the.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Whole state your quote is about, we knew that there
was going to be an Israeli action, We knew that
would precipity in tech.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, no, I understand.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
But listeners said, all right, we got let me understand
that I would, but I had a very specific question
from that gentleman.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Right, president said, The President said, well, down on a second,
I asked the Air Force Israeli. Okay, but let me
answer because this is my press conference. Okay, you asked me.
I was asked very specific question.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
So you guys can be misrepresentative, but I was asked
a very specific question yesterday. The bottom line is this, we,
the President determined we were not going to get hit first.
It's that simple, guys. We are not going to put
Americans troops in harms way. If you tell the President
of the United States that if we don't go first,
we're going to have more people killed and more people injured,
the President's.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Going to go first. That's what he did. That's what
the President will always do.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
He will always put the safety and security or a
men and women in uniform and of all Americans before
anything else. He's always going to do that, and that's
what he did here. In addition to that, I would
argue that this threat from Iran, they are hiding behind
these missiles and hiding behind these drones.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
They wanted to reach a point where.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
You couldn't touch them and then they could do whatever
the hell they wanted with their nuclear program. And there
was no way in the world that this terroristic regime
was going to get nuclear weapons, not under Donald Trump's.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Want me to do it.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
In this operation, there's a general question of why the
President gave the green light, and then there's a question.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Of why did it have to happen this weekend?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Are you saying it had to happen this weekend because
of that Israeli act no this week and presented a
unique opportunity to take joint action against this threat. And
I've just found we wanted this to have maximum success.
We want this operation to be successful at achieving its objectives.
I'll repeat the objectives the President laid them out yesterday.
Iron cannot have a nuclear weapon. It cannot have and
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therefore it cannot have the things that was hiding behind
to have a nuclear weapons program.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
What are those things? Number One, we.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Are going to destroy their missiles and their missile launchers.
We are going to destroy their capability to make these
missiles in these launchers, and we are going to.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Destroy their navy. Those are the objectives.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
And this weekend, acting at this time gave us the
highest probability of success and achieving those objectives. And as
the Department of War will brief you, we are on
or ahead of schedules to do that. The US attack
would have happened, no matter what the US attack about,
no matter what is Israel's planning to do, was going
to act with the President had already made a decision
to act on the timing. Now the President acted on
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the timing that gave us the highest chance of success.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
And that's what you're seeing play out right now. You're
seeing it player, and you'll see it in the days
to come.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
We will systematically take apart the missile program. We will
destroy their ability to sponsor terrorism by the way, we
will destroy their factories, we will destroy their navy. Those
objectives are going to be met. We're well on our
way to meeting them. They will not be easy. There
will be a price to pay for it, but that
is a much lower price to pay than having a
nuclear arm to run.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I gotta go through these guys.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I mean, just spectacular. Maybe one of the best gaggles ever, Linda,
that I've ever heard. Marco Rubio going into the Ganga
aid to update them yet again. The big headliner of
the day is there was a meeting of Iran Supreme Council.
The purpose of the meeting was to choose a successor
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of the late Supreme leader, Ayatola Ali Hamani, and Israel,
you know, along with American intelligence, knew this meeting was
taking place, and Israel struck while they were counting the votes,
as many as eighty eight people other leaders, on top
of the forty nine others that they took out in
the first thirty second of this campaign. You know, Iranian Americans,
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says the strike could mark the beginning of the end
of this regime. The regime is done. It's just a
matter who will ultimately replace it, which we'll get into
later in the program. But you know, Operation Epic Fury
marks the largest US firepower in a generation. And now
we have about fifteen hundred Iranian combatants killed, including their
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top leadership. We don't even know who's making any decisions.
That's why every country in the region has been hit
by Iranian ballistic missiles. What they're able to get off,
and most of them are being taken out of the air.
But US is sending more forces to the area. US
Central Command reports two days ago the Iranian regime had
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eleven ships in the Gulf of Oman. Today they have zero.
They're all gone. UN Nuclear Watchdog says Iran's nuclear plans
sustain some recent damage, not much fall from that. The
Secretary of State mentioning they're going to do everything possible
to get the fifteen to sixteen hundred Americans in the
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region out of the area, obviously caring about American lives.
As the conflict continues, Iran did claim the Straits or
Hormuz or closed, they're not. The US destroyed eleven ships there.
The Iranian internet blackout passes sixty hours, leaving citizens cut off.
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But hopefully in time, when the time is right, hopefully
we can even get arms into the hands of those
Iranians that need to fight back against the Iranian Revolutionary
Guard and remaining police and CUDS forces that might exist.
Hamani's wife is dead after the Saturday strike, apparently died
after sustaining injuries in the air strikes that killed their husband.
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I mean, there's so much news. The Kataris shot down
two of Iran's Russian built supersonic bombers, and this operation
is about as close to flawless as you could ever expect.
And it just, you know, every American should be proud
of our military and the decision of this president to
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insist that ram will never get nuclear weapons. And Trump
Trump did rebuff Iran's recent request to restart negotiations. He said,
it is too late. They want to talk, I said,
too late. The US is now using Iran's own drone
technology to deliver retribution against the Iranians. The chairman of
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the Joint Chief Raising Kane says the US has achieved
the air superiority now over the Iranian skies. I mentioned
that Mahablud ah Medenajad is dead. US air strikes have
sunk the entire Iranian Navy, according to the Daily Wire.
I mean, this is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
By the way, Iranians all over the world they're celebrating, Linda.
I don't know if you saw the videos of their
liberation by doing the Trump dance, knows his YMCA dance,
which is pretty funny. This is a moment where we
should all be grateful that we have a president that
understands the nature of evil and taking it out before
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it becomes an even bigger problem. When Steve Wickcoff shocked
me last night when he said we even offered them
low grade civilian used uranium that we would give to
them for free in perpetuity, and they turned it all down.
And this strike today is beyond spectacular. You know remember
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how we got here, Hillary Clinton, who in two thousand
and a claimed if I'm president, I will strike Iran. Okay,
And by the way, it's not the time to defund
the DHS, is it for you? Idiot democrats out there,
because yeah, we have over you know, twelve million plus
illegals under Harris and Biden and majorcis that came to
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this country from over two hundred countries, including countries with terroritize.
You know, Barack Obama gives one point seven billion in
cash and other currency from cargo planes that was used
to fund the nuclear program in Iran and terror in
the region. In twenty fourteen, Iran released videos showing the
beheading of American journalist James Foley and Steve Sotloff and
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later aid worker Peter Kassig. President Obama answered by giving them,
you know, cargo planes full of cash and other country
another currency. It's unbelievable. President Trump actually put out a
picture we know who's responsible for Iran's nuclear program with
a picture of Obama. You know, last night I asked
the I asked the Prime Minister of Israel there, what
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do you say to those people that claim that, oh, Israel,
you know forced Donald Trump bbe. I don't think I've
ever seen him laugh in an interview like that. I'm like,
I've known from thirty years. Nobody tells Donald Trump what
he's gonna do or not do. That question is asinine,
and it's usually given by people that don't know Donald Trump,
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don't know his mindset. The President saying that we will
find out the retaliation a Ram will face, and he's
very clear in saying the worst, the more aggressive tactics
are coming. You know, anyone saying Israel sucked us into
this war does not understand Donald Trump and the arguments
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that he has made. You know, in the last century,
we got to learn from history. When we didn't take
on the likes of Stalin and Hitler and Mussolini and
Tojo and Paul Pott, well, one hundred million human souls
were taken according to estimates. Marco Rubio confirming a Ram
was about to try and kill Americans, Democrats would have
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been grilling him on Capitol Hill if we didn't strike.
Think about that. That's all true too when it comes
to strike King Iran. Donald Trump has been consistent for
forty seven years. We found a clip of him. I
wish I had time to play it. But there's never
been a president like this, one that knows history, that
understands history, and that is preventing you know, the possibility
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of potentially millions to be harmed by this radical death cult,
which is what their state admission has been for many years.
Thanks to all of you for being with us. Right
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We're also going to play my interview with the Prime
Minister of Israel Benjamin et and Yahoo Steve Widkoff, the
(00:22):
Mid East envoy who was up to his eyeballs and
negotiations with the Iranians. They they they it is spectacular
in terms of what they didn't learn after Operation mid
nine Hammer. I can't I can't believe they're that dumb,
but they really were that dumb, that arrogant, though, that radical,
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that insane. I got to tell you that with all
that we've discussed in terms of the military might, the weaponry,
the sophistication of our weaponry, with all that we've had
in terms of intelligence, I mean, we can go through
incidents incident after incident, and the fact that after Operation
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Midnight Hammer, the the insane, you know, twisted, bizarre as
Loamo radical Islamo fascist regime just demanded that they still
have the right to enrich uranium. Steve Wikoff when we
played this later, he offered them the ability to have
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you know, low enriched uranium, not weapons grade, not even
the ability to have weapons grade, and and no enrichment
facilities in Iran for civilian purposes. They offered it to
them for free, in perpetuity, and they still walked away
from that. Now, so when the first thirty seconds of
this conflict start, they took out I think it was
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American CIA intelligence and the Israelis took out the entire leadership.
Believe it or not, we actually have laws that prevent
us from targeting leadership and conflict in war, which is
insane because that means civilian targets are they're fine, but
you can't have you can't choose the leaders that are
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causing all the problems. So we took out It turns
out it wasn't forty, it wasn't just Ali Hamani and
Ahman Denijad and all the other leaders, but we had
this window of opportunity. My understanding is is that that
window came up. They had been tracking Ali Hamanid for
a long time, for weeks, just like they tracked Solamani,
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and in just with incredible intelligence, incredible military precision, we
were able to track this guy and all of these
people were meeting, probably a war council. This is where
Marco Ruby was saying. They had intelligence that said that
they were likely two pounce on us first, and they
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took them all out. You would think that in and
of itself is amazing. If you go back and you
look at fourteen bunker buster bombs, I mean phantom you know,
phantom jets were seen on an Iranian radar whatever, the
old sophisticated system. Because the air defense systems were taken
out by the Israelis. You go back to the Israelis,
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it took out a lot of their missile batteries, They
took out their air defense system, their ballistic missile batteries,
and that paved the way for Operation Midnight Hammer, and
we had full control of the skies like we have
right now over Iran. And when the President dropped fourteen
bunker buster bombs again, you would think they would have
learned a lesson. The first thirty seconds of this conflict
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begin with taking out more than forty senior Iranian leaders.
The number now is believed to be forty nine, and
so Israel has now once again along with the United States.
In this case, these are Israeli forces, because again, this
is not something legally the United States can do. Law technically,
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I'm not so sure that it holds up in court.
But anyway, so they meet, the remaining Iranian leaders, you know, meet,
you know, and the purpose of this Supreme Council meeting.
They gathered to choose a successor to the late Supreme leader,
the Ayatola Ali Hamani, and Israel struck while they were
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counting the votes for the appointment of the next Supreme Leader.
So in other words, you had the first tier of
leadership wiped out in the first thirty seconds. Then they
meet to pick a new leader. And this again just
happened in the last you know, twelve fourteen hours whenever
it was. These strike underscores just the absolute depth of
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Israeli an American intelligence and military precision. But you know,
the penetration inside Tehran one of the most dramatic military
efforts in the history of warfare. And you can add
to that some of the things that the Israelis, for example,
did when they did the pager incident with with hisba
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Llah and everybody's pagers. They knew you know, a couple
if I remember, hundreds of not thousands of people that
had pagers. They knew everyone's number, and they set them
off at the same time, and I think they just
like began to melt or whatever or whatever they did
at that time. If you think of the last operation,
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going back to last June, when they took out Iranian
nuclear scientists, the fact that they knew where they were,
which was pretty incredible, again setting the path for America
to come in with weapons that Israel doesn't have, and
those are the bunker buster bombs. It had originally been
believed that you needed two maybe three four max to
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take out the Ford Doux plant and all the other
nuclear sites that had been buried deep inside the ground
within Iran, and it just was an amazing feat and
obliterating their nuclear program. But you have more than forty
of Iran's most senior leaders in the beginning have been
killed since the operation. It's estimated forty nine eliminated in
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that first thirty seconds of Operation Epic Fury early Saturday,
fracturing the regime's command structure, dealing a crippling blow to
their military leadership. So now they're in the process where
these clerics now gather to select Iran's new Supreme Leader.
And it's unclear how many regime officials from the so
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called Assembly of Experts were gathered in the building, but
again it's believed to be over forty. And the body
includes how many or how many A confident who serves
as Iran's interim Leadership Council. You want to be the
next leader of Iran? This is probably your future anyway.
Israeli forces with that intelligence flattened the building where Iran's
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eighty eight member Assembly of Experts had gathered to select
the regime's next Supreme leader. Linda, would you like to
be the next Supreme leader of Iran? Will be glad
to send you there. I'll give you a free one
way ticket to Iran and you can go to the
next meeting. I don't think you're going to make it
out of there, of course, I would never want that
to happen to you. But you know, I'm kidding, but
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this is spectacular, this is historic.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
This.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You know, I've talked a lot about the next generation
of weaponry, and you know, at one point there were
people that were kind of mocking me and saying to me,
you don't know what you're talking about. I'm like yes,
I do, because I know many people that work in
the weapons industry. I know many people in our defense department.
I talk to any everybody, every place, everywhere, and you know,
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future warfare is no longer going to be fought on
a bout. I mean, there are still idiots out there
that actually think Donald Trump is going to put boots
on the ground.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
He's not.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Now they've left open the door the possibility if there
is a remote situation that might need a strategic placement,
that door is definitely open. But we're not going to
have our national treasure stepping over IEDs without up armored
humb's like Iraq and Afghanistan and have a forever war.
This won't be That is not part of the Trump
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doctrine anyway. The Assembly of Experts is elected by the
Iranian people every eight years and consists of a leadership
board of six committees. It is presided over just one
leadership transition since nineteen eighty nine, when Ali Hamani was
elevated to the position of the Supreme Leader. Remember the
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revolution took place ten years earlier in seventy nine. He's
been in charge ever since, and it's current chair, ninety
four year old Ayatola Mohammad Ali Kaman, alongside his two
deputy chairmen again Mayatolas, the ladder of which one of
which sits on the Interim Leadership Council formed in the
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wake of Hamani's death. But this guy was seen as
a hardliner who used his position, so all their leadership
and their secondary secondary leadership now is wiped out. Over
one thousand Iranian combatants have been killed in joint US
military operations so far. They have now run close to
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two thousand successful you know, targeted precision, targeted operations that
have all been effective, and the Iranian American you know,
says a strike could mark the very this is now
the end of the regime. Now, we got to go
back and look what Donald Trump has been saying and
telling us, And if you just pay a little bit
(09:54):
of attention to what he's saying, it's pretty interesting. You know,
last year ARAM was threatening to attack mar A Lago
you might recall with with bomb carrying drones and you know,
these maniacs put one hundred million dollar bounty on Donald
Trump's head and Iranian official said, Donald Trump, this is
July of twenty five, could face a drone attack while
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sunbathing at his Florida mansion. Well, I know Donald Trump,
he doesn't sunbathe. He plays golf. That's about it. He's
done something that he can no longer. Somebathe at Mara
a Lago. He never I guarantee you Donald Trump never
did a sun when some bathing in his life. Now
Trump issues an Iran airstrike warning. He's actually saying this
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is nothing up to this point. He says the big
one is coming, and he about to step up strikes
on Iran, saying the big one is coming. He did
this on Monday, did this yesterday. Some other interesting things
that have evolved. I want to go back eleven years
in time and I want to play then Senator Mark
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or Rubio now the Secretary of State and listen to
how smart Marco Rubio is.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I think everything that needs to be said about the
details of this deal have already been said.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
I do want to be.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Recorded for history's purposes before I know what was going
to happen.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
In regards to this.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
If it goes through, Iran will immediately use the money
that it's receiving in sanctions relief to begin to build.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Up its conventional capabilities.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It will establish the most dominant military power in the
region outside of the United States, and it will raise
the price of US.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Operating in the region.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
They're going to build anti access capabilities, rockets capable of
destroying our aircraft carriers and ships. Continue to build these
swift boats that are able to come on us, these
fast boats that are able to swarm our naval assets,
and they'll make it harder and harder for US.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Troops to be in the region. They'll also work with.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Other terrorist groups in the region the target American servicemen
and women, and they may or may not deny that
they're involved, but they will target us and raise the
price of our presence in the Middle East until they
hope to completely pull US out of that region. They'll
also continue to build long range missiles, missiles capable of
reach in the United States. Those are not affected by
this deal, and they'll continue to build them as they've
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been doing. And then at some point in the near future,
when the time is right, they will build a nuclear weapon.
And they will do so because at that point they
will know that they have become.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Immune, that we will no longer be able.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
To strike their nuclear program because the price of doing
so will be too high.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Okay, that was Mark or Rubio by the way, Uh
Marco Rubio speaking. Now let's go to Capitol Hill. We
got to jump over here to center Rubio speaking before
you had been there.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
We'll listen to this real life.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Nine thousand Americans have been able to leave the region
since the start of this war. We have about fifteen
hundred Americans that are requesting assistance with departure. We have
identified and continue to identify charter flights, military flight options,
and expanded commercial flight options, meaning working with the airlines
to send bigger airplanes with more seats and the combination
of those three things. The impediment we're facing now In
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many cases, we've had a couple instances in which we
have planes in the air and on the way and
unfortunately the air space gets closed and they have to
turn back around.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
So we're working through those challenges.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Here's the message I want to deliver Americans who are
in the Middle East and the need of assistance. It
is very important and I asked this of the networks
as well. It is important for you to please put
both the website and the phone numbers on your screens
because we need people. We need to know where you are.
We need to have contact information for Americans.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
That need assistance.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
They have to register with us because as these options
begin to open up, and as they open up, we
have to be able to call you, We have to
be able to reach you, we have to be able
to know where you're staying so we can get this information.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
To you and coordinate appropriately.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
And it'll be a variety of methods charter flights, military
flights and transports, expanded commercial opportunities, and in some cases
land routes that will allow them to go to neighboring
countries who might have open airports at that point. So
it's a lot of different things here that need to
happen in order to move people. But it all starts
by knowing that you're there. It all starts by knowing
that where you are and how we can get a
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hold of you. So I'm asking the networks and all
of the media outlets please publicize the two phone numbers
that we've put out as well as the website so
people can contact us and register.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
We've had, you know, thousands of people call already.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
As I said, we've identified fifteen almost sixteen hundred that
are requesting assistance with departure, but we need you to
please be able to identify that. As I came in,
I also saw the media reports about Dubai's consulate. The
last update I had with seconds before getting before these
cameras was that a drone unfortunately struck a parking lot
adjacent to the chancellery building and then set off a
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fire in that place. All personnel are accounted for, as
you're aware, we began drawing down personnel from our diplomatic
facilities in advance of this and the cases for example
of Beirut, we basically drew down to a bare bones
as well as in as in Baghdad, and in our
bill and in a couple other posts as well. So
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we've been very fortunate, obviously, but our embassies and our
diplomatic facilities are under direct attack from a terroristic regime.
With an update, I obviously were free.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
All right that Senator Marco Rubio asking the media for
their assistance to get information to people that may be
in trouble in the region. We will pass more of
that onto you as the day on folds. All Right,
we got to take a quick break. We'll come back.
We'll play my interview with the Middle East down voice
Steve Wikoff who sat across from the Iranians and negotiations
(15:23):
as they sat there and demanded the right to build
nuclear weapons, especially after midnight hammer, How to tumare they?
And my interview with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin the Yahu.
Straight ahead, All right, let's go back Marco Rubio, so
good with the media and with Democrats. He's so smart,
and he's so clever, and he's so calm. It just is,
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and the depth of his knowledge is so beyond impressive.
Let's go back to this little gaggle before he goes
in to brief the Gang of eight for.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
The Department of War.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Suffice it to say that our objectives remain as they've
been identified from the beginning, and by the President how
clearly yesterday. Iran can never have a nuclear weapon, and
we will now not allow iron to hide behind the
immunity of a massive short term ballistic missile inventory or
the ability to make them or launch them. And so
Sentcom and Adjoint Operations is carrying out a systematic destruction
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of their missile belt, destruction of their launchers, and destruction
of their ability to make these as well as.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
The destruction of their navy.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
From what I've been told by the Department of War,
everything is on or ahead of schedule and proceeding on
these objectives. We have every confidence in the world that
these objectives will be achieved. The last point I would
make is, and I said this yesterday, and I repeat,
what's about. You know you're about to see. You know,
we're going to unleash chang on these people in the
next few hours and days. You're going to really begin
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to perceive a change in the scope and in the
intensity of these attacks. As frankly, the two most powerful
air forces in the world take apart this terroristic regime
and defang it and take away its ability to threaten
its neighbors or hide behind a zone of unity that
allows them to develop their nuclear ambitions. This terroristic, radical,
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clerical led regime cannot be ever allowed to have nuclear weapons.
We saw what they were willing to do to their
own people. They were willing to slaughter their own people
in the streets. Imagine what they would do to us.
Imagine what they would do to others. Under President Trump,
that will never ever happen. All right, yes, yes, about Israel,
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Secretary struggle.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
These guys, I can't hear them allus.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yes, yesterday you told us that Israel was going to
strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Today the President said.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
That Iran was Again, yeah, your statement is false. So
that's not what I was asked, very specifical.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Were you there yesterday? Yes? Okay? No?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Did you Were you the one that because somebody asked
me a question answered did we go in because of Israel?
And I said you were asked me from that follow
up and I said no, I.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Told you this had to happen anyway.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
The President made a decision, and the decision he made
was that Iran was not going to be allowed to
hide behind its ballistic missile program, was not going to
be allowed to hide behind its ability to conduct these attacks.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
That decision had been made.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
The President systematically made a decision to systematically destroy this
terroristic capability that they had, and we carried that out.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I was very clear on that answer.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
This was a question of timing of why this had
to happen as a joint operation, not the question of
the intent.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Once the President made.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
A decision that negotiations were not going to work, that
they were playing us on the negotiations, and that this
was a threat that was untenable. The decision was made
to strike them. That's what I said yesterday. And you
guys need to play it, and you're going to play
these statements. You need to play the whole statement, not
slip it to reach the narrative that you want to do.
All right, go ahead, what do you make up the
War Powers resolution?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
That team consider it.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Here in part I mean, the Congress votes on those
they can if they want. There's mechanisms for it. We've
complied to the War Powers Act, even though we believe
it's unconstitutional, as has.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Every other administration.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Every other president has found the War Powers Act to
be unconstitutional. Nonetheless, we notified Gang of Eight, which was
an appropriate mechanism by which to notify Congress. We sent
the notification within forty eight hours away. The law requires
I'm here today to have I don't know, my six
or seventh briefing before the entirety of the House and Senate,
which is far more than I ever got from any
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administration in the time that I was here, certainly when
I was a member of the Gang of Eight. And
so we've complied with all we've over complied with the
law and what it requires. This is an action by
the president to address a real threat, a real threat.
This is hostilities designed to eliminate a threat to the
safety and the security of the United States and to
our allfs in place to evacuate Americans before we attacked.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Well, that's the plan we're trying to carry out.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
The problem is, or the challenge we are facing as
airspace closures. If a country closes their airport, for example,
in some cases the airports have been hit, so the.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Airport and Kate was hit.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
So if an airport's been attacked or the airspace is closed,
then we can have the planes lined up to go,
but we can't get them to land because we don't
have the permissions to land there.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
So that's the challenge.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
But rest assured, we are confident that we are going
to be able to assist every American. As I told you,
right now, we have about a little over fifteen hundred,
maybe closer to sixteen hundred Americans requesting assistance, and we
know that we're going to.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Be able to help them.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
It's going to take a little time because we don't
control the airspace closures. That said, there may be more
people out there than need help. We need to know
who you are, so please, I'm asking the media publicize
the phone numbers in the website because we need people
to call in. So we have their name, we have
their contact information, we have their location and their requests,
so as these opportunities begin to open up, we can
act very quickly to reach them and get them out
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of harmless way.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I want to just clarify what you Saidify, because clarify,
but you have to read if you're going to read the.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Whole state your quote is about, we knew that there
was going to be an Israeli action, We knew that
would precipity in tech.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, no, I understand.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
But listeners said, all right, we got let me understand
that I would, but I had a very specific question
from that gentleman.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Right, president said, The President said, well, down on a second,
I asked the Air Force Israeli. Okay, but let me
answer because this is my press conference. Okay, you asked me.
I was asked very specific question.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
So you guys can be misrepresentative, but I was asked
a very specific question yesterday. The bottom line is this, we,
the President determined we were not going to get hit first.
It's that simple, guys. We are not going to put
Americans troops in harms way. If you tell the President
of the United States that if we don't go first,
we're going to have more people killed and more people injured,
the President's.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Going to go first. That's what he did. That's what
the President will always do.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
He will always put the safety and security or a
men and women in uniform and of all Americans before
anything else. He's always going to do that, and that's
what he did here. In addition to that, I would
argue that this threat from Iran, they are hiding behind
these missiles and hiding behind these drones.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
They wanted to reach a point where.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
You couldn't touch them and then they could do whatever
the hell they wanted with their nuclear program. And there
was no way in the world that this terroristic regime
was going to get nuclear weapons, not under Donald Trump's.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Want me to do it.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
In this operation, there's a general question of why the
President gave the green light, and then there's a question.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Of why did it have to happen this weekend?
Speaker 3 (21:55):
Are you saying it had to happen this weekend because
of that Israeli act no this week and presented a
unique opportunity to take joint action against this threat. And
I've just found we wanted this to have maximum success.
We want this operation to be successful at achieving its objectives.
I'll repeat the objectives the President laid them out yesterday.
Iron cannot have a nuclear weapon. It cannot have and
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therefore it cannot have the things that was hiding behind
to have a nuclear weapons program.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
What are those things? Number One, we.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Are going to destroy their missiles and their missile launchers.
We are going to destroy their capability to make these
missiles in these launchers, and we are going to.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Destroy their navy. Those are the objectives.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
And this weekend, acting at this time gave us the
highest probability of success and achieving those objectives. And as
the Department of War will brief you, we are on
or ahead of schedules to do that. The US attack
would have happened, no matter what the US attack about,
no matter what is Israel's planning to do, was going
to act with the President had already made a decision
to act on the timing. Now the President acted on
(22:52):
the timing that gave us the highest chance of success.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
And that's what you're seeing play out right now. You're
seeing it player, and you'll see it in the days
to come.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
We will systematically take apart the missile program. We will
destroy their ability to sponsor terrorism by the way, we
will destroy their factories, we will destroy their navy. Those
objectives are going to be met. We're well on our
way to meeting them. They will not be easy. There
will be a price to pay for it, but that
is a much lower price to pay than having a
nuclear arm to run.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I gotta go through these guys.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
I mean, just spectacular. Maybe one of the best gaggles ever, Linda,
that I've ever heard. Marco Rubio going into the Ganga
aid to update them yet again. The big headliner of
the day is there was a meeting of Iran Supreme Council.
The purpose of the meeting was to choose a successor
(23:40):
of the late Supreme leader, Ayatola Ali Hamani, and Israel,
you know, along with American intelligence, knew this meeting was
taking place, and Israel struck while they were counting the votes,
as many as eighty eight people other leaders, on top
of the forty nine others that they took out in
the first thirty second of this campaign. You know, Iranian Americans,
(24:04):
says the strike could mark the beginning of the end
of this regime. The regime is done. It's just a
matter who will ultimately replace it, which we'll get into
later in the program. But you know, Operation Epic Fury
marks the largest US firepower in a generation. And now
we have about fifteen hundred Iranian combatants killed, including their
(24:25):
top leadership. We don't even know who's making any decisions.
That's why every country in the region has been hit
by Iranian ballistic missiles. What they're able to get off,
and most of them are being taken out of the air.
But US is sending more forces to the area. US
Central Command reports two days ago the Iranian regime had
(24:46):
eleven ships in the Gulf of Oman. Today they have zero.
They're all gone. UN Nuclear Watchdog says Iran's nuclear plans
sustain some recent damage, not much fall from that. The
Secretary of State mentioning they're going to do everything possible
to get the fifteen to sixteen hundred Americans in the
(25:07):
region out of the area, obviously caring about American lives.
As the conflict continues, Iran did claim the Straits or
Hormuz or closed, they're not. The US destroyed eleven ships there.
The Iranian internet blackout passes sixty hours, leaving citizens cut off.
(25:28):
But hopefully in time, when the time is right, hopefully
we can even get arms into the hands of those
Iranians that need to fight back against the Iranian Revolutionary
Guard and remaining police and CUDS forces that might exist.
Hamani's wife is dead after the Saturday strike, apparently died
after sustaining injuries in the air strikes that killed their husband.
(25:52):
I mean, there's so much news. The Kataris shot down
two of Iran's Russian built supersonic bombers, and this operation
is about as close to flawless as you could ever expect.
And it just, you know, every American should be proud
of our military and the decision of this president to
(26:13):
insist that ram will never get nuclear weapons. And Trump
Trump did rebuff Iran's recent request to restart negotiations. He said,
it is too late. They want to talk, I said,
too late. The US is now using Iran's own drone
technology to deliver retribution against the Iranians. The chairman of
(26:37):
the Joint Chief Raising Kane says the US has achieved
the air superiority now over the Iranian skies. I mentioned
that Mahablud ah Medenajad is dead. US air strikes have
sunk the entire Iranian Navy, according to the Daily Wire.
I mean, this is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
By the way, Iranians all over the world they're celebrating, Linda.
I don't know if you saw the videos of their
liberation by doing the Trump dance, knows his YMCA dance,
which is pretty funny. This is a moment where we
should all be grateful that we have a president that
understands the nature of evil and taking it out before
(27:22):
it becomes an even bigger problem. When Steve Wickcoff shocked
me last night when he said we even offered them
low grade civilian used uranium that we would give to
them for free in perpetuity, and they turned it all down.
And this strike today is beyond spectacular. You know remember
(27:42):
how we got here, Hillary Clinton, who in two thousand
and a claimed if I'm president, I will strike Iran. Okay,
And by the way, it's not the time to defund
the DHS, is it for you? Idiot democrats out there,
because yeah, we have over you know, twelve million plus
illegals under Harris and Biden and majorcis that came to
(28:03):
this country from over two hundred countries, including countries with terroritize.
You know, Barack Obama gives one point seven billion in
cash and other currency from cargo planes that was used
to fund the nuclear program in Iran and terror in
the region. In twenty fourteen, Iran released videos showing the
beheading of American journalist James Foley and Steve Sotloff and
(28:27):
later aid worker Peter Kassig. President Obama answered by giving them,
you know, cargo planes full of cash and other country
another currency. It's unbelievable. President Trump actually put out a
picture we know who's responsible for Iran's nuclear program with
a picture of Obama. You know, last night I asked
the I asked the Prime Minister of Israel there, what
(28:49):
do you say to those people that claim that, oh, Israel,
you know forced Donald Trump bbe. I don't think I've
ever seen him laugh in an interview like that. I'm like,
I've known from thirty years. Nobody tells Donald Trump what
he's gonna do or not do. That question is asinine,
and it's usually given by people that don't know Donald Trump,
(29:10):
don't know his mindset. The President saying that we will
find out the retaliation a Ram will face, and he's
very clear in saying the worst, the more aggressive tactics
are coming. You know, anyone saying Israel sucked us into
this war does not understand Donald Trump and the arguments
(29:30):
that he has made. You know, in the last century,
we got to learn from history. When we didn't take
on the likes of Stalin and Hitler and Mussolini and
Tojo and Paul Pott, well, one hundred million human souls
were taken according to estimates. Marco Rubio confirming a Ram
was about to try and kill Americans, Democrats would have
(29:53):
been grilling him on Capitol Hill if we didn't strike.
Think about that. That's all true too when it comes
to strike King Iran. Donald Trump has been consistent for
forty seven years. We found a clip of him. I
wish I had time to play it. But there's never
been a president like this, one that knows history, that
understands history, and that is preventing you know, the possibility
(30:16):
of potentially millions to be harmed by this radical death cult,
which is what their state admission has been for many years.
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