March 2, 2026 • 28 mins
Sean Hannity delivers a dramatic and historic broadcast as news breaks that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has been killed in the opening moments of Operation Epic Fury. The show details how coordinated U.S. and Israeli strikes eliminated dozens of top regime figures and dismantled key military infrastructure. Hannity frames the moment as justice for decades of Iranian-sponsored terror and a turning point for the Middle East. He walks listeners through the Trump Doctrine — preemptive strength to prevent nuclear catastrophe — and argues the world is now safer because America acted decisively. The hour closes with a powerful message to the Iranian people: their long-awaited opportunity for freedom is finally at hand.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks to all of you for being with us. Right
down our toll free telephone number. You want to be
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four one Sean if you want to join us. Very
slow newsday today, Linda. Nothing happened this weekend that I
could see anything happen in your part of the world.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It very quiet and in all seriousness on Friday show,
I could just tell something had turned. I'm going to
tell you what made me read into and why I
was as I might. You even said, what do you
what are you thinking? Why do you why are you
acting like this? Remember you said that to me Friday?
I did, and because I was asking people to pray
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for our troops, and today I'm asking people to pray
for the four families that we know lost our brave
servicemen and women.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It is It is devastating. War is brutal, It is horrible.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And I'm going to get into what is what has
been at stake here, what this means and all of that.
But when Steve Whitkoff, the Middle Eastern now envoy, came
out with a statement that in fact, they're not giving
up their hopes, their ambitions for nuclear weapons. At that point,
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it was just obvious to me that those that those
negotiations had failed. I know Donald Trump, well, so I'm
adding and putting a squared B, squared C squared together.
I knew Donald Trump means what he said. He gave
him a ten day deadline. He said help was on
the way. We went through great specificity on Friday's program.
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Of all the military assets we had in the region,
they weren't sent there for no reason at all. It
was the largest military build up and since the Gulf War.
And I just was rightly reflective because anytime there is
any military confrontation, you just know there is risk as
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associated with it, even when they're doing maneuvers in practice
and so on and so forth. You were dealing with
the most sophisticated equipment on the face of this earth.
But if I would have said to you, we would
find out in very short order that Ali Hamani and
forty senior Iranian security regime figures were killed in the
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opening seconds of this operation. I don't think there's anybody, Linda,
if I told you that, would you have believed it.
I don't think anybody would have believed it. This point,
one of the most evil people in history dead. This
is not only justice for the people of Iran, but
people in the region and all over the world. Although
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I do have a lot of bones to pick with
a lot of people, including you know, some of our
so called allies, and that would be McCrone, and that
would be Starmer, Hey, Starmer, you know Winston Churchill. Let's
put it that way. Macrone pathetically weak, and it just
is it is. The world has a chance. The people
now in Iran have a chance for a better future,
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a better tomorrow. And it is all thanks to a
president that understands what we were dealing with. And this
is why towards the end of last week I kept
going through this history of the last century. And if
we don't learn the lessons of history, we are doomed
to repeat them. And I have no interest at all
this week in arguing with people that want to either
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insinuate that we did this for Israel. No, we did
this for the United States. We did it for the world.
It was we did it so we didn't have to
hand off this problem to our children and our grandchildren.
And if you don't understand what we're dealing with with
this death cult and the danger, the significant, real danger
of radical Islamo fascists that chant death to America, death
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to Israel, that have been fomenting terror in the region.
Then I'm never gonna convince you. So I'm not gonna
waste my breath and I'm not going to waste my time.
The Iranians could have wed all of this, but they are.
They were clinging to a death cult in the weeks
and days leading up to what happened this weekend late
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into Saturday morning. I mean, what's really spectacular about it
was done in the daytime and there was a window
of opportunity. As far as like everything I've been able
to put together in terms of the backstory, this was
all put together.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Very quickly.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
They just kind of they moved everything up a little bit,
a little bit quicker. It is a death cult, and
the president really tried I mean hard. They were trying hard.
Witkof was trying hard, Kared Kushner was trying hard. All
the Iranians had to get to was okay, we agree,
we will abandon our nuclear ambitions.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Whatever enriched uranium or civilian use that they might have
wanted or needed would have been given to them for
free in purpose too. I can report that today and
they even rejected that that is a death cult. And
you know the fact that Operation Midnight Hammer when Donald Trump,
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you know, he gave him a fifty day lead up
to that too, and on day fifty one, the Israeli
struck and then we obliterated. We dropped fourteen bunker buster
bombs and took out their nuclear facilities. And they have
been trying to reconstitute them. They've been rebuilding their ballistic
missile systems. They just cling to this, you know, being
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the number one state sponsor of terror and their death cult.
And this was going to have to be dealt with
sooner than later. And this is why I kept referring
to history. Now, we should have learned something from the
last century. My father, I know, spent four years in
the Pacific and he didn't enjoy any minute of it,
rarely talked about it. But if you look at Mao
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in China, Stalin and Russia, Hitler in Germany and and
Mussolini and fascism, and Tojo in Japan and Paul pot
in the killing fields, if you let evil get out
of hand, it's estimated over one hundred million human souls
were destroyed in the name of some ism. And Donald
Trump fundamentally understands that people that cling to sick, ugly, twisted,
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evil ideology, you cannot negotiate with you, you cannot have
a reasonable conversation with.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
He did give them a choice. He did go the
extra mile.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And this is what makes Donald Trump so different, transformational consequential.
He's not afraid to take risks, and he understands the
history that I just laid out for you, and was
taking out these threats. You know, before you know, more
innocent people were killed. There's only so many people now.
But those that don't understand the Trump doctrine, I'll try
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to explain it again. But some people just rigidly, you know,
decide that they want to use their own interpret which
is not based on reality or based on facts. But
if you go back to Donald Trump's first term, we
know that he defeated the Isis caliphate that grew and
grew and grew and grew and grew under Barack Obama
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and Joe Biden, and it was becoming an existential threat
to the world. That was the convert or Die, you know,
death cult there, and he defeated them. He defeated Solomoni.
They were following Solomoni very similar to They've been following
this guy, according to reports now for weeks and monitoring
his every move. And when they saw that all of
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his top advisors were in the same spot, they're like, okay,
let's go game on. Time to start. And that's how
this happened. Now we'll be up to the Iranian people,
as the President said, We'll get into that later. But
the President knew that they just would cling to this ambition.
If you don't understand the Trump doctrine, it is so
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obvious and trans and transparent. I don't know what you're missing.
It's very frustrating. Do you find it frustrating? You ever
turn on any other network for just like ten seconds.
I can't stand it, you know, Linda, because they have
no understanding of who Donald Trump is because they don't
want to understand him. But he took out the isis Califate.
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That is not isolationism. He took out Solamani after they
followed him for weeks and weeks and weeks, they took
out Bagdaddy and associates. They followed him for weeks and
weeks as well, they dropped the mother of all bombs
on Afghanistan, and he took out their nuclear facilities because
they were getting awfully close to a nuclear weapon. Now,
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I don't think it's very hard for people with simple, basic,
fundamental common sense to understand that Iranian radical death cult,
Mullah's Islamo fascists that think that they're doing Allah's will
and if they die in the process get rewarded with
seventy two virgins, that if they had nuclear weapons, that
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they would use them. I mean, we we now see
in the aftermath of this, I think they've attacked now
what seven eight countries just indiscriminate firing, and we don't
even know who's in charge of this particular point in time.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Uh, and we you know.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
The president decided not to let what would be similar
to Stalin and Russia build in Iran and and create
an existential threat to the world. He decided to nip
it in the bud. He decided he saw where this
was headed and had the wisdom, the insight and the
understanding that it had to be taken out and it
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had to be neutralized. And the same you know in
every other instance he's used force. What is really frightening
in this and I've been saying this now for some time.
Is we you learn who your friends are in the
end and Starmer No, he's no Winston Churchill and and
Europe has the same problem. They have an unfettered illegal
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immigration without insisting on assimilation, which is why Great Britain
now has what some eighty five Sharia courts. You know, Macrone,
another one, another loudmouth, another idiot, you know, another week appeasing,
appeas her. You know, you want to know why parts
of Europe have you know, no go zones where where
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state and local police are not allowed to go into
certain communities because they've decided to isolate themselves within the
country that they immigrated to.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
It is, it's breathtaking to me.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So you know, they've created their own dangers also by
clinging to socialism and climate alarmism and ignoring their own
national security and defense needs. It took Donald Trump to
force them to start paying their fair share of NATO
and more than double the contribution. He shouldn't have had
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to do that while they were trying to rip us off,
which is a separate issue. Hands down for an day,
so I couldn't be more grateful to the President. He
is showing a level of understanding. Unfortunately for the left
in this country. I mean, now they want to discuss
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the War Powers Act, and this is madness on their part.
But what the President had to do he did. We
can't have five hundred and thirty five commanders in chief.
It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. And you know,
at some point now it is, as the President said,
this is now going to be in the hands of
the Iranian people. We have some audio of Iranians celebrating
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after hearing about the death of Ali Hamani, the supreme Leader,
the Grand pubah Mullah of Iran. Listen, now, the it
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really does now end up in the hands of the
people of Iran. And and I'm hoping that somebody, someplace
is able to get arms to those people. The President
has been very clear to the local police and the
Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces. Either lay down your weapons. You
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will be given amnesty if you do and stand with
the people, or you will you will face certain death.
And and we're watching to see what's happened. Hopefully that'll happen.
But if you want to know the mindset of Ali Hamani,
and his henchmen around him. I mean they were just
they were just firing up, you know, rockets any which
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direction they can. Bahrain International Airport targeted by a drone.
Du Bai Media says that debris resulting from an aerial interception.
Abu Dabi Airports confirmed that an incident took place at
their airport there and it went on a RAN's Ambassador
to the UN. All bases, facilities, assets of hostile force
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shall be regarded as legitimate military targets. A RAN's Ambassador
to the UN. By the way, the UN, just like
Europe or many European countries, there were a lot of
countries that actually did step up, and I give a
lot of credit to them, and we'll go through that
list in a little bit. But the Iranian ambassador of
the UN, and of course the UN in general has
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historically always been anti Semitic, an anti American, but the
Israeli military, the US military, I mean, you're dealing with
the single greatest military forces on the face of this earth,
which thank god, you know, made this successful. Now, there's
just a lot to get to. We definitely want to
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get your calls and your thoughts on all of this
as we go through the show today, I will say
the world is a safer place. Not only will Iran
that never have nuclear weapons, but now the Iranian people
have one chance, maybe the one chance in a generation,
to get the freedom that they have wanted and desired
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for so long. But they've got to take that into
their own hands. It's not up to us to do that.
Quick break right back, We'll continue eight hundred and nine
four one, Shawn on number if you want to be
a part of the program. One of the things that
I've been reading about it all weekend is under Biden
Harris Mayarcus, in spite of the big lie that the
borders closed, the borders secure, we knew it wasn't that.
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Among those people from over two hundred countries, we know
at least twelve million plus we don't know the exact
number because of quote got aways. But among the people
that they allowed into this country unvetted included known terrorists
and murderers and rapists and child molesters and other violent
criminals and cartel members and gang members. And now we
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don't know how many sleeper cells, maybe sympathetic to the
Iranians might be in this country. There was an incident
that took place outside of an Austin, Texas bar on Sunday.
In the end, fourteen people were injured, three killed if
you include the gunmen. And here's audio of what happened
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outside that Austin bar.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Oh god, oh my god, right, what is going on?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Because and Senator Ted Cruz ways that weighed in on this, saying,
we don't you know for sure, you know know that
this is related to terrorism. But here's what he said
on CBS Sunday morning or with Margaret Brennan.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Is there are reports of three people dead more than
a dozen injured following a mass shooting in that city.
The FBI is saying this morning that their Joint Terrorism
Task Force has joined the investigation. Is there any nexus
to terrorism or anything that is going on in regard
to the worldwide caution?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
At this moment, we don't know for sure.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
That there are some early reports that this shooting may
be connected to terrorism, but we need to follow the
evidence and see in particular what motivated the shooting. We
are certainly Heidi and I are praying for those who
were wounded in the families of those who were killed,
but at this point, we don't know what the evidence
will show in terms of whether this was an act
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of terrorism.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Now we do have other Texas politicians Democrats. Apparently she's
now winning. There's a primary in Texas tomorrow. That's the
one with Ken Paxton and John Cornyn. But on the
Democratic side you have Jasmin Krockett apparently leading by double digits.
Here's what she said about the Iranian strikes. Listen, Congress
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was not asked about this.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
No, we were not. And that's the problem. You know,
there are people that will land on all sides of
this conflict and what should be happening or shouldn't be happening.
But the one thing that I want to remind the
American people of is that we have a constitution, and frankly,
as members of Congress, we shore an oath to the
Constitution as well as the president. And right now what
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we are clearly witnessing is lawlessness yet again from this administration.
And my question to my colleagues, in a very serious way,
is will you put aside your loyalty to this Orange
man and actually focus on your loyalty and your oath
to the Constitution, which says that only Congress has the
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power to declare war.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I personally am indorising Chasmin Crockett to get the Democratic
nomination in the great State of Texas. God blows Texas anyway,
looking into any possible connection. Is the current Attorney General
of Texas currently running for Senate Ken Paxton is back
with us. First, our thoughts, our prayers are loved being
sent to people in Texas. God blows Texas not something
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that happens frequently there. But you you know, the specific
motive remains unknown, but you have to wonder, don't you.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Yeah, and I appreciate your prayers for the victims' families
and those that were injured. Yeah, it was a horrible situation.
But think about this. I suit Joe Biden. I think
it was at least twenty times whever illegal limigration policies
that he was pushing for that were absolutely unconstitutional. One
of those we fought him on was criminal just criminals
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being in the country. He fought us on bringing criminal
to this country. It's kind of hard to believe, but
that's actually what he did. And now we have I
don't know, fourteen fifty million people that are unvetted. We
have no idea who they are. And then you see
this guy who has some you know, has this T
shirt that has the Ranium flag on it and something
about Allah, and I'm concerned. I'm concerned that there are
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sleeper cells here. There's no doubt that that could have
been planned and under Joe Biden, would have been easily done.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Well, I've got to be honest.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I mean, when you see that, you almost have to
come to the conclusion and have deep suspicion that it's connected.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Right, Oh, absolutely, I mean it was my first thought
when I saw his connection. And then they after they
shot him, they went to his with a search part.
They went to his place and they find, you know,
pictures of Iranian leaders and an Iranian flag. I mean,
how can you not be concerned. I certainly am, and
I certainly am making connections that this he could have
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been connected to other people. Certainly I hope that we
find out.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Well, I mean, this is where the job of you know,
law enforcement really matters, and this is the difference between
a state like Texas. Let's go back in time when
all of this was unfolding during the Biden Harris years
and majorcas years, and they were just flat out lying
to us. They were lying about Joe's cognitive state number one,
but maybe more importantly, you know, we had you know,
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known terrorists crossing that border. There was no vetting at
the border. We had murderers, rapists, child molest there's other
violent criminals all crossing that border, and they were allowed
in the country now at the time. And I'll give
them credit again today your governor, Governor Abbot, you know,
he said, okay, well, we're not a sanctuary state. We
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don't have sanctuary cities in Texas. We're not going to fine.
We're going to put these people on a bus or
a plane and we're going to send them up to
a sanctuary city or state like New York. My Governor
Ron de Santas did the same thing. And how unfortunate
that the taxpayers in Texas had to bear the brunt
of all of this. But I blame all of this
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on them. And there's been a lot of death and
a lot of mayhem. And last year alone, they've got
twenty one hundred convicted or charged murderers that are illegal,
accused of killing or found guilty of killing Americans, fifty
four hundred biden illegals that were found guilty of either rape,
or other sexual assault or charged with with such, and
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it's like, what is it going to take to wake
people up?
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Yeah, well, look, there's no doubt that Biden knew that
some of these people were criminals because we were fighting
him the court and together. No only did what you
were talking about busting people out, but he was trying
to put up fences. He was trying to defend our state.
He was we were sending we were spending billions of
dollars that was being authorized by the legislature, and the
governor was access think to put our own people on
the border and try to help help the forces that
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were there. But when you have a policy that says,
to the cartels, which Joe Biden announced on his first
day in office, I'm not going to deport anybody, feel
free to come here. We're going to help you. I mean,
that's where we got in trouble. He opened the borders
on purpose, and now we have you know, we have
enemies that no doubt sent people here.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I know this is probably a day that you have
planned to go out and campaign, but I'm assuming this
has taken up the majority of your day. Considering the
level of importance we got to find out if this
guy's connected to other Terracelle members. I would assume that
investigation is going on.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
There's no doubt, and what my euse is always available
to help thosecause there's the subtle FBI other state agencies
are involved, and we're here to help in any way
we can. So, yes, we are definitely available and accessible
for those investigations.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
All right, we'll be watching Texas very closely tomorrow. We
appreciate your time. Thank you, Ken Paxton, the Age of
the great State of Texas.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Yeah, and I encourage your people to get on vote tomow.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
So now, President Trump, by the way, says that you know,
they were very close to getting this nuclear weapon, far
more far closer than we knew. Now, after Operation mid
nine Hammer, we did discover one thing that we had
not known, which does not surprise me, because we did
obliterate those nuclear facilities.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
So the enriching part stopped.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
What didn't stop was the fact that they had already
previously enriched uranium. But if you remember, in the lead
up to this, Ali Hamani was was out there saber
rattling and showing, you know, images of uranium missiles taken
out US ships around the country and trying to you know,
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scare America out of any type of military action. Proclamations
made by the Iranian government that Donald Trump will be
in a coffin and just months the President responded to
that yesterday after you know, it was confirmed that we
had taken out Ali Company before the Islamic Republic Supreme
Leader was able to assassinate him, apparently telling Jonathan Carl
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I got him before he got me. They tried twice,
he said about previous attempts on his life, Well, I
got him first. And Trump also claimed Saturday's attack on
the regime was so successful knocked out most of the
candidates who would have been expected to succeed Hamani. And
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you know, it's not going to be anybody that we
were thinking, because they're all dead, including ah Medenisjodd. How
long have how long has it been so we talked
about ah Medenisjod.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
It's been a while. It's too soon. I can't stand
here in his voice or his name.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
He dead now, And I would imagine hell's a little
bit more crowded these days.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Just my thought.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Now, the three sentence response that would shut down any
critic of Trump's Iran liberation. I really don't have any
appetite desire at all to talk to people that have
taken on this conspiratorial tone that this is not an
America first in America's best interest, long term strategic interest,
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especially in light of history in the last hundred years.
I'm just I don't have any patience for it. And
I know they're out there. I know they're all over
social media, these keyboard warriors in their underwear and their parents'
basement or they're naked in their parents' basement. I don't
know what they're doing, but you know the stuff. Sweet
baby James actually showed me my own ex account this weekend, Lindon.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I was reading, you.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Know, I put up a post, as you know, to
pray for our troops when this all started. And but
then you read people, we're doing the bidding of Israel. No,
we're not doing the bidding of Israel. We're doing the
bit This is in America's first best interest. I mean,
if you had an opportunity, through the prism of history
to change anything that the world did in handling Stalin
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and Russia, Mao or Mussolini or Tojo in Japan or
Polepot and the killing fields. Would you not have learned
from this? We had a regime that led people in
chance of death to America? What part of that did
you miss? On a regular basis? And they've been doing
it for forty years and they were getting so close,
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as the President described earlier today, they were getting so
close to a nuclear weapon. And when people chant death
to your country, death to America, and it's a national motto.
And you know, they're getting closer with each each passing
day to successfully building nuclear weapons along with missiles that
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would carry them to the US and Europe. You know,
I mean, what do you think Donald Trump was supposed
to do? And do you not think that history if
in fact he did nothing? And in fact, these people
did achieve their sick, ugly desire and they became a
nuclear power and one day used them. Who do you
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think would get the blame for it? Do you really
think that Iran Supreme Leader Ali Hamani had no intention
of using these weapons? I mean, are you that dumb
and stupid and naive? And for those of you that are,
I can't help you. I can't argue with you. You know,
you think they were joking with their death to America chance.
Do you think they their constant threats to assassinate President
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Trump and dozens of other top US officials.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Do you think this was a game to them. No,
they meant it.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
All those thousands of rockets they and their proxies were
firing into Israel, culminating on what happened October seventh, which,
based on Israel's population size versus ours, you know, would
be the equivalent of forty thousand dead Americans in the day,
this intervention, this weekend, And that's where that was the
trajectory we were on. Without this happening, we were looking
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at the your possibility of your children, your grandchildren, maybe
us in the next couple of years, you know, potentially
being wiped out, and learning from the lessons of history,
we decided to act preemptibly after giving them every opportunity,
including low grade enriched uranium for civilian use in perpetuity.
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That was part of the deal, if you can believe it,
and they said no. They decided to fight for their death.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Cult
Thanks to all of you for being with us. Right
down our toll free telephone number. You want to be
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four one Sean if you want to join us. Very
slow newsday today, Linda. Nothing happened this weekend that I
could see anything happen in your part of the world.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It very quiet and in all seriousness on Friday show,
I could just tell something had turned. I'm going to
tell you what made me read into and why I
was as I might. You even said, what do you
what are you thinking? Why do you why are you
acting like this? Remember you said that to me Friday?
I did, and because I was asking people to pray
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for our troops, and today I'm asking people to pray
for the four families that we know lost our brave
servicemen and women.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It is It is devastating. War is brutal, It is horrible.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
And I'm going to get into what is what has
been at stake here, what this means and all of that.
But when Steve Whitkoff, the Middle Eastern now envoy, came
out with a statement that in fact, they're not giving
up their hopes, their ambitions for nuclear weapons. At that point,
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it was just obvious to me that those that those
negotiations had failed. I know Donald Trump, well, so I'm
adding and putting a squared B, squared C squared together.
I knew Donald Trump means what he said. He gave
him a ten day deadline. He said help was on
the way. We went through great specificity on Friday's program.
(01:30):
Of all the military assets we had in the region,
they weren't sent there for no reason at all. It
was the largest military build up and since the Gulf War.
And I just was rightly reflective because anytime there is
any military confrontation, you just know there is risk as
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associated with it, even when they're doing maneuvers in practice
and so on and so forth. You were dealing with
the most sophisticated equipment on the face of this earth.
But if I would have said to you, we would
find out in very short order that Ali Hamani and
forty senior Iranian security regime figures were killed in the
(02:16):
opening seconds of this operation. I don't think there's anybody, Linda,
if I told you that, would you have believed it.
I don't think anybody would have believed it. This point,
one of the most evil people in history dead. This
is not only justice for the people of Iran, but
people in the region and all over the world. Although
(02:37):
I do have a lot of bones to pick with
a lot of people, including you know, some of our
so called allies, and that would be McCrone, and that
would be Starmer, Hey, Starmer, you know Winston Churchill. Let's
put it that way. Macrone pathetically weak, and it just
is it is. The world has a chance. The people
now in Iran have a chance for a better future,
(03:01):
a better tomorrow. And it is all thanks to a
president that understands what we were dealing with. And this
is why towards the end of last week I kept
going through this history of the last century. And if
we don't learn the lessons of history, we are doomed
to repeat them. And I have no interest at all
this week in arguing with people that want to either
(03:25):
insinuate that we did this for Israel. No, we did
this for the United States. We did it for the world.
It was we did it so we didn't have to
hand off this problem to our children and our grandchildren.
And if you don't understand what we're dealing with with
this death cult and the danger, the significant, real danger
of radical Islamo fascists that chant death to America, death
(03:48):
to Israel, that have been fomenting terror in the region.
Then I'm never gonna convince you. So I'm not gonna
waste my breath and I'm not going to waste my time.
The Iranians could have wed all of this, but they are.
They were clinging to a death cult in the weeks
and days leading up to what happened this weekend late
(04:10):
into Saturday morning. I mean, what's really spectacular about it
was done in the daytime and there was a window
of opportunity. As far as like everything I've been able
to put together in terms of the backstory, this was
all put together.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Very quickly.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
They just kind of they moved everything up a little bit,
a little bit quicker. It is a death cult, and
the president really tried I mean hard. They were trying hard.
Witkof was trying hard, Kared Kushner was trying hard. All
the Iranians had to get to was okay, we agree,
we will abandon our nuclear ambitions.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Whatever enriched uranium or civilian use that they might have
wanted or needed would have been given to them for
free in purpose too. I can report that today and
they even rejected that that is a death cult. And
you know the fact that Operation Midnight Hammer when Donald Trump,
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you know, he gave him a fifty day lead up
to that too, and on day fifty one, the Israeli
struck and then we obliterated. We dropped fourteen bunker buster
bombs and took out their nuclear facilities. And they have
been trying to reconstitute them. They've been rebuilding their ballistic
missile systems. They just cling to this, you know, being
(05:35):
the number one state sponsor of terror and their death cult.
And this was going to have to be dealt with
sooner than later. And this is why I kept referring
to history. Now, we should have learned something from the
last century. My father, I know, spent four years in
the Pacific and he didn't enjoy any minute of it,
rarely talked about it. But if you look at Mao
(05:56):
in China, Stalin and Russia, Hitler in Germany and and
Mussolini and fascism, and Tojo in Japan and Paul pot
in the killing fields, if you let evil get out
of hand, it's estimated over one hundred million human souls
were destroyed in the name of some ism. And Donald
Trump fundamentally understands that people that cling to sick, ugly, twisted,
(06:20):
evil ideology, you cannot negotiate with you, you cannot have
a reasonable conversation with.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
He did give them a choice. He did go the
extra mile.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And this is what makes Donald Trump so different, transformational consequential.
He's not afraid to take risks, and he understands the
history that I just laid out for you, and was
taking out these threats. You know, before you know, more
innocent people were killed. There's only so many people now.
But those that don't understand the Trump doctrine, I'll try
(06:53):
to explain it again. But some people just rigidly, you know,
decide that they want to use their own interpret which
is not based on reality or based on facts. But
if you go back to Donald Trump's first term, we
know that he defeated the Isis caliphate that grew and
grew and grew and grew and grew under Barack Obama
(07:14):
and Joe Biden, and it was becoming an existential threat
to the world. That was the convert or Die, you know,
death cult there, and he defeated them. He defeated Solomoni.
They were following Solomoni very similar to They've been following
this guy, according to reports now for weeks and monitoring
his every move. And when they saw that all of
(07:35):
his top advisors were in the same spot, they're like, okay,
let's go game on. Time to start. And that's how
this happened. Now we'll be up to the Iranian people,
as the President said, We'll get into that later. But
the President knew that they just would cling to this ambition.
If you don't understand the Trump doctrine, it is so
(07:56):
obvious and trans and transparent. I don't know what you're missing.
It's very frustrating. Do you find it frustrating? You ever
turn on any other network for just like ten seconds.
I can't stand it, you know, Linda, because they have
no understanding of who Donald Trump is because they don't
want to understand him. But he took out the isis Califate.
(08:17):
That is not isolationism. He took out Solamani after they
followed him for weeks and weeks and weeks, they took
out Bagdaddy and associates. They followed him for weeks and
weeks as well, they dropped the mother of all bombs
on Afghanistan, and he took out their nuclear facilities because
they were getting awfully close to a nuclear weapon. Now,
(08:40):
I don't think it's very hard for people with simple, basic,
fundamental common sense to understand that Iranian radical death cult,
Mullah's Islamo fascists that think that they're doing Allah's will
and if they die in the process get rewarded with
seventy two virgins, that if they had nuclear weapons, that
(09:02):
they would use them. I mean, we we now see
in the aftermath of this, I think they've attacked now
what seven eight countries just indiscriminate firing, and we don't
even know who's in charge of this particular point in time.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Uh, and we you know.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
The president decided not to let what would be similar
to Stalin and Russia build in Iran and and create
an existential threat to the world. He decided to nip
it in the bud. He decided he saw where this
was headed and had the wisdom, the insight and the
understanding that it had to be taken out and it
(09:38):
had to be neutralized. And the same you know in
every other instance he's used force. What is really frightening
in this and I've been saying this now for some time.
Is we you learn who your friends are in the
end and Starmer No, he's no Winston Churchill and and
Europe has the same problem. They have an unfettered illegal
(10:01):
immigration without insisting on assimilation, which is why Great Britain
now has what some eighty five Sharia courts. You know, Macrone,
another one, another loudmouth, another idiot, you know, another week appeasing,
appeas her. You know, you want to know why parts
of Europe have you know, no go zones where where
(10:22):
state and local police are not allowed to go into
certain communities because they've decided to isolate themselves within the
country that they immigrated to.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
It is, it's breathtaking to me.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So you know, they've created their own dangers also by
clinging to socialism and climate alarmism and ignoring their own
national security and defense needs. It took Donald Trump to
force them to start paying their fair share of NATO
and more than double the contribution. He shouldn't have had
(10:54):
to do that while they were trying to rip us off,
which is a separate issue. Hands down for an day,
so I couldn't be more grateful to the President. He
is showing a level of understanding. Unfortunately for the left
in this country. I mean, now they want to discuss
(11:15):
the War Powers Act, and this is madness on their part.
But what the President had to do he did. We
can't have five hundred and thirty five commanders in chief.
It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. And you know,
at some point now it is, as the President said,
this is now going to be in the hands of
the Iranian people. We have some audio of Iranians celebrating
(11:40):
after hearing about the death of Ali Hamani, the supreme Leader,
the Grand pubah Mullah of Iran. Listen, now, the it
(12:29):
really does now end up in the hands of the
people of Iran. And and I'm hoping that somebody, someplace
is able to get arms to those people. The President
has been very clear to the local police and the
Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces. Either lay down your weapons. You
(12:50):
will be given amnesty if you do and stand with
the people, or you will you will face certain death.
And and we're watching to see what's happened. Hopefully that'll happen.
But if you want to know the mindset of Ali Hamani,
and his henchmen around him. I mean they were just
they were just firing up, you know, rockets any which
(13:13):
direction they can. Bahrain International Airport targeted by a drone.
Du Bai Media says that debris resulting from an aerial interception.
Abu Dabi Airports confirmed that an incident took place at
their airport there and it went on a RAN's Ambassador
to the UN. All bases, facilities, assets of hostile force
(13:35):
shall be regarded as legitimate military targets. A RAN's Ambassador
to the UN. By the way, the UN, just like
Europe or many European countries, there were a lot of
countries that actually did step up, and I give a
lot of credit to them, and we'll go through that
list in a little bit. But the Iranian ambassador of
the UN, and of course the UN in general has
(13:56):
historically always been anti Semitic, an anti American, but the
Israeli military, the US military, I mean, you're dealing with
the single greatest military forces on the face of this earth,
which thank god, you know, made this successful. Now, there's
just a lot to get to. We definitely want to
(14:16):
get your calls and your thoughts on all of this
as we go through the show today, I will say
the world is a safer place. Not only will Iran
that never have nuclear weapons, but now the Iranian people
have one chance, maybe the one chance in a generation,
to get the freedom that they have wanted and desired
(14:37):
for so long. But they've got to take that into
their own hands. It's not up to us to do that.
Quick break right back, We'll continue eight hundred and nine
four one, Shawn on number if you want to be
a part of the program. One of the things that
I've been reading about it all weekend is under Biden
Harris Mayarcus, in spite of the big lie that the
borders closed, the borders secure, we knew it wasn't that.
(15:00):
Among those people from over two hundred countries, we know
at least twelve million plus we don't know the exact
number because of quote got aways. But among the people
that they allowed into this country unvetted included known terrorists
and murderers and rapists and child molesters and other violent
criminals and cartel members and gang members. And now we
(15:21):
don't know how many sleeper cells, maybe sympathetic to the
Iranians might be in this country. There was an incident
that took place outside of an Austin, Texas bar on Sunday.
In the end, fourteen people were injured, three killed if
you include the gunmen. And here's audio of what happened
(15:42):
outside that Austin bar.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Oh god, oh my god, right, what is going on?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Because and Senator Ted Cruz ways that weighed in on this, saying,
we don't you know for sure, you know know that
this is related to terrorism. But here's what he said
on CBS Sunday morning or with Margaret Brennan.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Is there are reports of three people dead more than
a dozen injured following a mass shooting in that city.
The FBI is saying this morning that their Joint Terrorism
Task Force has joined the investigation. Is there any nexus
to terrorism or anything that is going on in regard
to the worldwide caution?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
At this moment, we don't know for sure.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
That there are some early reports that this shooting may
be connected to terrorism, but we need to follow the
evidence and see in particular what motivated the shooting. We
are certainly Heidi and I are praying for those who
were wounded in the families of those who were killed,
but at this point, we don't know what the evidence
will show in terms of whether this was an act
(17:00):
of terrorism.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Now we do have other Texas politicians Democrats. Apparently she's
now winning. There's a primary in Texas tomorrow. That's the
one with Ken Paxton and John Cornyn. But on the
Democratic side you have Jasmin Krockett apparently leading by double digits.
Here's what she said about the Iranian strikes. Listen, Congress
(17:23):
was not asked about this.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
No, we were not. And that's the problem. You know,
there are people that will land on all sides of
this conflict and what should be happening or shouldn't be happening.
But the one thing that I want to remind the
American people of is that we have a constitution, and frankly,
as members of Congress, we shore an oath to the
Constitution as well as the president. And right now what
(17:45):
we are clearly witnessing is lawlessness yet again from this administration.
And my question to my colleagues, in a very serious way,
is will you put aside your loyalty to this Orange
man and actually focus on your loyalty and your oath
to the Constitution, which says that only Congress has the
(18:06):
power to declare war.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
I personally am indorising Chasmin Crockett to get the Democratic
nomination in the great State of Texas. God blows Texas anyway,
looking into any possible connection. Is the current Attorney General
of Texas currently running for Senate Ken Paxton is back
with us. First, our thoughts, our prayers are loved being
sent to people in Texas. God blows Texas not something
(18:31):
that happens frequently there. But you you know, the specific
motive remains unknown, but you have to wonder, don't you.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Yeah, and I appreciate your prayers for the victims' families
and those that were injured. Yeah, it was a horrible situation.
But think about this. I suit Joe Biden. I think
it was at least twenty times whever illegal limigration policies
that he was pushing for that were absolutely unconstitutional. One
of those we fought him on was criminal just criminals
(19:02):
being in the country. He fought us on bringing criminal
to this country. It's kind of hard to believe, but
that's actually what he did. And now we have I
don't know, fourteen fifty million people that are unvetted. We
have no idea who they are. And then you see
this guy who has some you know, has this T
shirt that has the Ranium flag on it and something
about Allah, and I'm concerned. I'm concerned that there are
(19:23):
sleeper cells here. There's no doubt that that could have
been planned and under Joe Biden, would have been easily done.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Well, I've got to be honest.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I mean, when you see that, you almost have to
come to the conclusion and have deep suspicion that it's connected.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Right, Oh, absolutely, I mean it was my first thought
when I saw his connection. And then they after they
shot him, they went to his with a search part.
They went to his place and they find, you know,
pictures of Iranian leaders and an Iranian flag. I mean,
how can you not be concerned. I certainly am, and
I certainly am making connections that this he could have
(20:01):
been connected to other people. Certainly I hope that we
find out.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Well, I mean, this is where the job of you know,
law enforcement really matters, and this is the difference between
a state like Texas. Let's go back in time when
all of this was unfolding during the Biden Harris years
and majorcas years, and they were just flat out lying
to us. They were lying about Joe's cognitive state number one,
but maybe more importantly, you know, we had you know,
(20:27):
known terrorists crossing that border. There was no vetting at
the border. We had murderers, rapists, child molest there's other
violent criminals all crossing that border, and they were allowed
in the country now at the time. And I'll give
them credit again today your governor, Governor Abbot, you know,
he said, okay, well, we're not a sanctuary state. We
(20:48):
don't have sanctuary cities in Texas. We're not going to fine.
We're going to put these people on a bus or
a plane and we're going to send them up to
a sanctuary city or state like New York. My Governor
Ron de Santas did the same thing. And how unfortunate
that the taxpayers in Texas had to bear the brunt
of all of this. But I blame all of this
(21:10):
on them. And there's been a lot of death and
a lot of mayhem. And last year alone, they've got
twenty one hundred convicted or charged murderers that are illegal,
accused of killing or found guilty of killing Americans, fifty
four hundred biden illegals that were found guilty of either rape,
or other sexual assault or charged with with such, and
(21:33):
it's like, what is it going to take to wake
people up?
Speaker 6 (21:36):
Yeah, well, look, there's no doubt that Biden knew that
some of these people were criminals because we were fighting
him the court and together. No only did what you
were talking about busting people out, but he was trying
to put up fences. He was trying to defend our state.
He was we were sending we were spending billions of
dollars that was being authorized by the legislature, and the
governor was access think to put our own people on
the border and try to help help the forces that
(21:59):
were there. But when you have a policy that says,
to the cartels, which Joe Biden announced on his first
day in office, I'm not going to deport anybody, feel
free to come here. We're going to help you. I mean,
that's where we got in trouble. He opened the borders
on purpose, and now we have you know, we have
enemies that no doubt sent people here.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I know this is probably a day that you have
planned to go out and campaign, but I'm assuming this
has taken up the majority of your day. Considering the
level of importance we got to find out if this
guy's connected to other Terracelle members. I would assume that
investigation is going on.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
There's no doubt, and what my euse is always available
to help thosecause there's the subtle FBI other state agencies
are involved, and we're here to help in any way
we can. So, yes, we are definitely available and accessible
for those investigations.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
All right, we'll be watching Texas very closely tomorrow. We
appreciate your time. Thank you, Ken Paxton, the Age of
the great State of Texas.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Yeah, and I encourage your people to get on vote tomow.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I hope.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
So now, President Trump, by the way, says that you know,
they were very close to getting this nuclear weapon, far
more far closer than we knew. Now, after Operation mid
nine Hammer, we did discover one thing that we had
not known, which does not surprise me, because we did
obliterate those nuclear facilities.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
So the enriching part stopped.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
What didn't stop was the fact that they had already
previously enriched uranium. But if you remember, in the lead
up to this, Ali Hamani was was out there saber
rattling and showing, you know, images of uranium missiles taken
out US ships around the country and trying to you know,
(23:47):
scare America out of any type of military action. Proclamations
made by the Iranian government that Donald Trump will be
in a coffin and just months the President responded to
that yesterday after you know, it was confirmed that we
had taken out Ali Company before the Islamic Republic Supreme
Leader was able to assassinate him, apparently telling Jonathan Carl
(24:10):
I got him before he got me. They tried twice,
he said about previous attempts on his life, Well, I
got him first. And Trump also claimed Saturday's attack on
the regime was so successful knocked out most of the
candidates who would have been expected to succeed Hamani. And
(24:31):
you know, it's not going to be anybody that we
were thinking, because they're all dead, including ah Medenisjodd. How
long have how long has it been so we talked
about ah Medenisjod.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
It's been a while. It's too soon. I can't stand
here in his voice or his name.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
He dead now, And I would imagine hell's a little
bit more crowded these days.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Just my thought.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Now, the three sentence response that would shut down any
critic of Trump's Iran liberation. I really don't have any
appetite desire at all to talk to people that have
taken on this conspiratorial tone that this is not an
America first in America's best interest, long term strategic interest,
(25:16):
especially in light of history in the last hundred years.
I'm just I don't have any patience for it. And
I know they're out there. I know they're all over
social media, these keyboard warriors in their underwear and their parents'
basement or they're naked in their parents' basement. I don't
know what they're doing, but you know the stuff. Sweet
baby James actually showed me my own ex account this weekend, Lindon.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I was reading, you.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Know, I put up a post, as you know, to
pray for our troops when this all started. And but
then you read people, we're doing the bidding of Israel. No,
we're not doing the bidding of Israel. We're doing the
bit This is in America's first best interest. I mean,
if you had an opportunity, through the prism of history
to change anything that the world did in handling Stalin
(26:04):
and Russia, Mao or Mussolini or Tojo in Japan or
Polepot and the killing fields. Would you not have learned
from this? We had a regime that led people in
chance of death to America? What part of that did
you miss? On a regular basis? And they've been doing
it for forty years and they were getting so close,
(26:24):
as the President described earlier today, they were getting so
close to a nuclear weapon. And when people chant death
to your country, death to America, and it's a national motto.
And you know, they're getting closer with each each passing
day to successfully building nuclear weapons along with missiles that
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would carry them to the US and Europe. You know,
I mean, what do you think Donald Trump was supposed
to do? And do you not think that history if
in fact he did nothing? And in fact, these people
did achieve their sick, ugly desire and they became a
nuclear power and one day used them. Who do you
(27:06):
think would get the blame for it? Do you really
think that Iran Supreme Leader Ali Hamani had no intention
of using these weapons? I mean, are you that dumb
and stupid and naive? And for those of you that are,
I can't help you. I can't argue with you. You know,
you think they were joking with their death to America chance.
Do you think they their constant threats to assassinate President
(27:28):
Trump and dozens of other top US officials.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Do you think this was a game to them. No,
they meant it.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
All those thousands of rockets they and their proxies were
firing into Israel, culminating on what happened October seventh, which,
based on Israel's population size versus ours, you know, would
be the equivalent of forty thousand dead Americans in the day,
this intervention, this weekend, And that's where that was the
trajectory we were on. Without this happening, we were looking
(27:59):
at the your possibility of your children, your grandchildren, maybe
us in the next couple of years, you know, potentially
being wiped out, and learning from the lessons of history,
we decided to act preemptibly after giving them every opportunity,
including low grade enriched uranium for civilian use in perpetuity.
(28:23):
That was part of the deal, if you can believe it,
and they said no. They decided to fight for their death.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
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