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00:01This operation, as the Pentagon describes, steady and surgical.
00:05American-Israeli forces continue striking Iran around the clock.
00:09All of this is developing very quickly.
00:12Welcome to Hannity, and we begin tonight with a Fox News alert.
00:15Operation Epic Fury is making history.
00:18Now, the joint U.S.-Israel campaign to crush the radical regime in Iran
00:23is ahead of schedule, according to President Trump,
00:26although he is warning this campaign may go on for as long as a month.
00:31Iran's chain of command, including the supreme leader, has been completely obliterated.
00:36Iranians are celebrating around the world and thanking President Donald J. Trump.
00:41But the work is far from over.
00:43In fact, both President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned
00:47the most intense strikes from the U.S. military are still on the way.
00:52Now, coming up in a moment, we'll check in with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:56He will join us for an exclusive interview, his first since this started.
01:01But first, here now with the very latest, the details from the ongoing military campaign in Washington tonight,
01:07our very own Jennifer Griffin.
01:09Jennifer, what's the latest?
01:11Good evening, Sean.
01:12We have more details on the Iranian drone strike targeting the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
01:18Two drones struck the embassy, which was basically empty at the time.
01:22Smoke and fire can be seen coming from the embassy.
01:25No injuries have been reported.
01:27Americans are being told, however, to shelter in place in cities across Saudi Arabia.
01:32In the last 24 hours, U.S. Central Command says it has sunk all 11 of the Iranian Navy ships
01:38since the operation began.
01:40Overnight, B-1 bombers from South Dakota flew roundtrip for 34 hours with a 75,000-pound payload,
01:49which it dropped on Iranian-hardened missile sites.
01:52Four B-2 bombers flew 37 hours roundtrip this weekend from the U.S. with dozens of 2,000-pound
01:59bombs.
02:00General Dan Cain said the U.S. has achieved air superiority in just 48 hours.
02:05Secretary Hegseth would not rule out having U.S. troops on the ground in Iran.
02:10Three American F-15 Strike Eagle fighter jets were shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses in a friendly fire incident
02:17today.
02:18All six American pilots evacuated safely.
02:21The death toll from that Iranian missile or drone that struck a U.S. tactical operations center is now six,
02:28after they found two American service members buried under the rubble. Sean?
02:33All right. Our prayers are with their families.
02:35Jennifer, thank you.
02:36Coming up, we will hear from Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator John Fetterman,
02:40and the U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Wyckoff.
02:44He was in the room. He was involved in the negotiations.
02:46But first, only moments ago, I sat down with America's partner in this joint operation,
02:52the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. Take a look.
02:57All right. Joining us now is the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
03:01Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for being here.
03:04I know you probably have gotten very little sleep in the last number of days.
03:10Why now? What precipitated this moment at this time?
03:15I know you have talked about it. We've known each other 30, 35, maybe more years.
03:21And why at this point was this necessary?
03:26Well, the first thing to understand is why it's necessary at any time.
03:29Iran, for 47 years, has been chanting, death to America, death to Israel, too.
03:35But you're the big Satan. We're the small Satan. Death to America.
03:39They've murdered and maimed thousands of Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan with their IEDs.
03:47These are roadside bombs. They've bombed your embassies.
03:51They tried to assassinate Donald Trump, the President of the United States, twice.
03:56They've murdered their own people. They massacred so many.
04:00And they spread a worldwide web of terror.
04:03So this is a regime committed to destroying the United States of America.
04:08It's the only country on the planet that says so openly and works tirelessly to achieve that goal.
04:14The reason that we had to act now is because they were, after we hit their nuclear sites and their
04:22ballistic missiles program, you'd think they learned a lesson.
04:25But they didn't because they're unreformable.
04:28They're totally fanatic about this, about the goal of destroying America.
04:33So they started building new sites, new places, underground bunkers that would make their ballistic missile program and their atomic
04:42bomb program immune within months.
04:45If no action was taken now, no action could be taken in the future.
04:49And then they could target America. They could blackmail America.
04:53They could threaten us and threaten everyone in between.
04:56So action had to be taken.
04:58And you needed a resolute president like Donald J. Trump to take that action.
05:03And we are his very strong and able partners.
05:08And our alliance today is so strong.
05:11We had to take the action now.
05:13And we did.
05:13Otherwise, the Iranian mass murder regime would have immunity from future action.
05:20Steve Whitcoff made this statement, the Middle Eastern envoy.
05:24And he made it last week that they absolutely are clinging to their ability to to build out a nuclear
05:33weapons program.
05:34And the president, as he said, he wanted a peace deal, gave them every opportunity for peace like they did
05:42before Operation Midnight Hammer.
05:43And they steadfastly refused in the first 30 seconds.
05:49I've never seen anything like this in my life.
05:51The Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah, Ali Khamenei and his top 40 leaders were wiped out.
05:58Ahmadinejad among them.
06:00That is incredible intelligence.
06:03And wow.
06:04I'm sure this will be studied for centuries to come, not decades.
06:10Well, you know, when America, the indispensable ally for Israel and the greatest power in the world and Israel, America's
06:20model ally, as the National Security Council just called it.
06:23When we work together, amazing things happen.
06:27We work together and amazing things happen.
06:30But I have to tell you that it wouldn't happen without the leadership of President Trump, because he just, you
06:38know, I met him in Mar-a-Lago.
06:40You may remember this because I think you live close by and I saw you at that time.
06:44I remember.
06:44Right before his reelection.
06:46Okay.
06:47And, or before he was inaugurated the second time.
06:51And we met.
06:52We met in Mar-a-Lago.
06:54And the first thing that Donald Trump said to me, he said, you know, we have to prevent Iran from
07:02getting nukes.
07:03As simple as that.
07:04He said that because he saw that as a clear and present danger to the security and well-being of
07:12the United States.
07:13To have a regime like that, so fanatic, that it just defines itself by destroying America, exporting revolution, exporting terrorism,
07:23exporting the worst Islamist fanaticism that attacks Arabs, attacks Israelis, attacks Americans, attacks everyone, everyone inside.
07:31They just fired now their ballistic missile site around in the Middle East, including Cyprus and Europe.
07:38To have a regime like that, that plans to eradicate the United States, have the weapons of mass death, would
07:45have been the greatest threat that America would face in the coming decades.
07:49And so he said to me right off the bat, I didn't say to him, he said to me, we
07:54have to make sure they never get the nukes.
07:56And that's what he did.
07:57We tried first to take them out in Midnight Hammer and Rising Line operation.
08:03And we took out their missile sites.
08:05But then they started again, their missile and nuclear sites.
08:08They didn't learn the lesson.
08:09He tried to get negotiations.
08:11He negotiated with them.
08:12They didn't get it.
08:13They tried to string them along.
08:14So action had to be taken.
08:17And we took it.
08:18President Trump repeated over and over and over again.
08:23And I would argue that the leadership that is now dead was a death cult and an existential threat, not
08:31just to the region, not just to Israel, death to Israel, death to America.
08:35But I am very convinced and have been convinced, as you have been for decades, that if they ever got
08:41nuclear weapons, that they would, you know, along with their fanaticism, it would cause them to use it.
08:46That that that is what that death cult would cause them to do.
08:52Is this now the culmination of decades of your work and your belief and your passion that these radicals needed
09:00to be defeated?
09:01And what is next for Iran?
09:04You know, we talk about while the regime's changed, but we don't know into what yet.
09:09What are your thoughts?
09:11Well, you're right.
09:12I did have spoken about it for decades.
09:14And I try to try to persuade successive American administrations to take firm action.
09:21And President Trump, in his first term, did.
09:23He got out of the disastrous Iran deal right off the bat.
09:27And he he did everything he could to prevent them from going into the nuclear program that they seek to
09:35build atomic bombs to threaten us and you and ultimately to attack both of us and to destroy as much
09:42as they can, because this is what these people do.
09:44They they basically are in the business of mass death.
09:48And you're right to call them a death cult.
09:49So I worked with several presidents.
09:53I always appreciated the fact that we had, well, forthright discussions.
09:58Often we agreed, but often we didn't.
10:01We disagreed.
10:02And I appreciated that we kept the alliance going.
10:05But I want to tell you something.
10:06I'm not a youngster.
10:07So I've been around.
10:09There's never been a president like Donald J. Trump.
10:13His resoluteness, his decisiveness, his clarity of thinking, the way he gets things gets right to the crux of things.
10:24It cuts through all the fluff, cuts through the chase, gets down to the main point.
10:29And it gets down to the main action that needs to be taken.
10:32And I think I think for Israel and I think for the countries of the free world, let me tell
10:38you, I think for the world, it is we're very lucky to have him as the leader of the free
10:44world.
10:45And in fact, the leader of the world, he's brought America back to being the leader of the world.
10:50And it makes a huge difference.
10:52And I can tell I'm talking to America's allies in the region just one by one by one.
10:58And I can't quote from these conversations, but I can tell you they all share this and they all say,
11:04thank God that Donald Trump is here.
11:07Thank God that you act the two of you are acting together to remove this threat, not only to you,
11:12but to us.
11:13And Iran today just bombed with these ballistic missiles, these weapons of mass death, these weapons of terror, their terror
11:21weapons.
11:21They bombed all these countries. They bombed Cyprus, which is Europe.
11:26I've said it won't take very long.
11:28They're bombing us, they'll bomb Europe.
11:30And when they develop the intercontinental ballistic missiles and the nuclear wars to fit on these ballistic missiles, they'll threaten
11:38you and eventually they'll bomb you.
11:40This is what President Trump understood.
11:42And alone among U.S. presidents that I've worked with, he took action.
11:47And we're all very, very lucky that he did.
11:53I think that history will, through the prism of history, he will be viewed very favorably by recognizing a threat
12:01in the last century.
12:02You're a historian, Mr. Prime Minister, you know, between Mao, China, Stalin, Russia, Hitler, Germany, Mussolini, fascism, Tojo, Japan, Pol
12:12Pot, the killing fields, estimated over 100 million human souls slaughtered in the name of some ism.
12:19Now we see a president and a prime minister partnering together to stop a threat before it emerges and becomes
12:28unstoppable, which I've got to give you both so much credit for.
12:33It is transformational.
12:34It is consequential.
12:36I guess I want to look forward a little bit.
12:40We had in his first term the Abraham Accords.
12:42I know that there are countries in your region of the world that have been looking for a window of
12:52opportunity.
12:52I'm talking about the likes of Saudi Arabia and the UAE and Dubai and Egypt and Jordan, etc.
13:01Do you see a path to a long lasting peace in the region, which we've not seen in forever?
13:12Yes, I do.
13:13In fact, I hear the people are saying, we're going to have an endless war here.
13:17You're not going to have an endless war.
13:18Because we've been in Iran, this terror regime in Iran is the weakest point that it's been here since it
13:28hijacked Iran from the brave Iranian people 47 years ago.
13:32So this is going to be a quick and decisive action.
13:37And we're going to create the conditions first for the Iranian people to get control of their destiny, to form
13:44their own democratically elected government, which will make Iran a different Iran altogether.
13:49Because Iran has been the main engine of war over these years.
13:53It's just 95 percent of all the problems you see in the Middle East are generated by Iran.
13:58And the worldwide terror network that they built is generated and orchestrated from Iran.
14:04So when you take away Iran, when you let the people of Iran have the opportunity to act to liberate
14:11themselves, free themselves from the yoke of this terror machine, you get a different future.
14:16I think that will open up the way for many peace treaties with other Arab countries, with Muslim countries.
14:21I think it changes the world.
14:23Now, of course, it's up to the people of Iran in the final count to to change the government.
14:29But we are creating America and Israel together are creating the conditions for them to do so.
14:34I think that if we if we go through what we plan to do, I think it will create conditions
14:41for peace.
14:41This is not an endless war. This is, in fact, something that will usher in an era of peace that
14:47we haven't even dreamed of.
14:49You know, the president said to the people of Iran, the hour of freedom is at hand.
14:55And, you know, you've been asking America for years to do this.
15:00And now your window is here. You know, siege this moment. Don't let it pass.
15:06It might be the only opportunity you have in a generation. And I'm hopeful that that's true.
15:12I have in a conversation with Senator Lindsey Graham.
15:15He said to me that he believes that probably one of the key countries in all of this would be
15:21Saudi Arabia and MBS.
15:23Do you specifically see path there? A path for peace?
15:29Yeah, well, I think I think Saudi I think Saudi Arabia will have a lot to gain.
15:34I think all these countries around Iran are threatened by Iran.
15:38I think they want to see this regime go down, even if they don't publicly say that they've just been
15:43targeted by Iran.
15:44So obviously, if Iran is removed, that's a great boon to Saudi Arabia, a great boon to these other countries.
15:50And I think peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia would be really possible and probably very close once this thing
15:59happens.
16:00So this is a gateway for peace, for a broader peace. And I believe that that we can achieve it.
16:06The most important thing to understand is that when we work together, President Trump and I, we achieved, in fact,
16:14four breakthroughs for peace.
16:16Brokered by President Trump, working together with me, we brokered, we brought forward the Abraham Accords, which was four peace
16:23treaties with four Arab countries.
16:25And now working together against Iran, we'll be able to bring many, many more peace treaties.
16:31So this is not this is not an endless war. This is a gateway to peace.
16:36It's the exact opposite of what people are saying.
16:39Mr. Prime Minister, I think history will study this military effort and it'll be, as I said, be studied for
16:48centuries.
16:49But, you know, also you took out their their air defense systems, their missile defense system, ballistic missile systems.
16:55You know, you got the 10, the 10 top guys in Hamas.
17:00You got Nasrallah, who'd been in power for 30 some odd years.
17:03You had the Pager incident.
17:05Donald Trump dropped 14 bunker buster bombs and took out and obliterated their nuclear facilities.
17:13I mean, I know there's war, war colleges.
17:16Just all of these incidents combined will be a lifetime worth of study, in my view.
17:23And I want to ask you this.
17:25You know, there are people that say, well, the prime minister of Israel dragged Donald Trump into it.
17:30And as somebody that's been friends with him over 30 years, nobody drags Donald Trump into anything, number one.
17:36But I want to get your reaction to that.
17:42Well, you're right.
17:43I mean, that's that's ridiculous.
17:46Donald Trump is the strongest leader in the world.
17:48He does what he thinks is right for America.
17:52He does also what he thinks is right for future generations.
17:55And frankly, we're partners in that effort because I've devoted my life to securing the life of the one and
18:03only Jewish state.
18:04And believe me, it's been a struggle.
18:06I've known the pangs of war.
18:08I lost a brother in war and in battle.
18:11I myself fought terrorists and was wounded in liberating hostages from a hijacked plane.
18:18I held a fellow soldier in my arms when I was 18 and he died in my arms.
18:26I know the cost of war, but I know sometimes that war is necessary to protect us from the people
18:32who would destroy us.
18:33And that's what free societies have to understand.
18:36Freedom is precious, but it has to be protected.
18:40And we have to understand that we're fighting here.
18:43We're fighting here.
18:44The bad guys were the good guys.
18:47These people massacre their own people.
18:50Imagine what they would do.
18:52These people would chant death to America if they had ballistic missiles and the nuclear warheads to deliver to every
18:59American city.
19:01Do you want to wait?
19:03Do you want to bet your future on whether they would do it or they would not do it?
19:07I mean, look, nobody stopped North Korea, so they now have ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads.
19:14But they don't say death to America.
19:16Iran is 50 North Koreas.
19:19Iran is committed to your destruction.
19:22And whether people understand it or not, the leader has to understand it.
19:26Donald Trump understands it.
19:28You don't have to drag him into anything.
19:31And nobody would do it anyway.
19:33He does what he thinks is right.
19:35And this is right.
19:36And let me tell you.
19:37I visited today a town in Israel.
19:40Okay?
19:41This town, yesterday, a ballistic missile.
19:44It's like a truck.
19:45You know, it's like a bus full of TNT.
19:48Comes in at Mach 8 and slams right into a synagogue.
19:52Okay?
19:53And right around there, nine people murdered.
19:56So here's the difference between us.
19:59These mass murderers in Tehran, they target civilians.
20:03We in Israel and America target the mass terrorists.
20:07That's a nutshell of the difference.
20:10And we have to protect our world against these people.
20:15And if these people have the weapons of mass death, these mass murderers,
20:19then you'll have mass death.
20:20And then people will ask, well, why didn't you act in time?
20:23Why didn't you do something about it?
20:25You know, Winston Churchill called, he called this the slumber of democracies.
20:29He said they slumber.
20:31They go to sleep.
20:32And they wake up only when the jarring gong of danger wakes them up.
20:37Well, I think in this case, President Trump and I think differently.
20:41We don't have to sleep.
20:43We don't have to slumber.
20:44We don't have to look askance, look aside and say there is no danger.
20:48There is great danger.
20:49And it's time to act.
20:51The good guys need to act early enough.
20:53And there are those leaders, so-called leaders, who don't see it.
20:58And they just sit back and they, you know, they say, oh, well, it's a terrible thing.
21:02No, it's not a terrible thing.
21:04To protect humanity, to protect America, to protect Israel, to protect the free world from
21:08these, this theological thuggery, these fanatics who don't care.
21:13We just export death, mass death everywhere.
21:16Build terror armies to, you know, to strangle the people of Lebanon and the people of, the
21:23people of Gaza and the people of other people.
21:26That's what they do.
21:27So to act against them is not a bad thing.
21:30It's a good thing.
21:31And it's high time that the people of the free societies understood that they have to
21:37act to protect their freedom and our way of life.
21:39We're fighting barbarians.
21:41Israel is at the front light of this battle against barbarism.
21:46And America, America under President Trump, has entered this fight to protect our civilization
21:52and to protect our common future.
21:55Well, I hope the people in Europe are listening.
21:58And very specifically, Macron and France and the leader in Spain.
22:03And I can tell you this, a Starmer is no Winston Churchill.
22:07I hope they hear, they have allowed, they have let their guard down when it comes to national
22:13security and national defense.
22:16They have allowed unfettered illegal immigration without assimilation, resulting in, what, 80-some-odd
22:24Sharia courts in Great Britain and no-go zones in other parts of Europe.
22:29I hope they watch and witness and learn from President Trump and from you, Mr. Prime Minister.
22:37I pray for all the people in the region and I pray for a lasting peace.
22:42That would be my dream, my prayer for everybody in the region.
22:45And we do appreciate your time tonight, sir.
22:48Well, thank you.
22:49And it's called peace through strength.
22:51It's not a slogan.
22:53It's the most basic reality, the basic rule in a very unkind world.
22:59You have to be strong to protect freedom.
23:01You have to be strong to protect your values.
23:03And you have to be resolved to take action.
23:06I said it could be quick and decisive.
23:08It may take some time, but it's not going to take years.
23:11It's not an endless war.
23:12In fact, it's an effort right now to achieve the peace that we all yearn and pray for.
23:19And I think, together, we'll achieve it.
23:22I pray you're right.
23:23Mr. Prime Minister, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, thank you.
23:28Thank you, Sean.
23:30All right, coming up, the very latest from Iran as Operation Epic Fury continues.
23:35Steve Witkoff, the ambassador to the Middle East, will join us.
23:39He was in the room.
23:40He was involved in negotiations.
23:42He'll tell us all about it.
23:43Also, Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator John Fetterman as we continue.
23:51All right, this is a Fox News alert.
23:53President Trump is back at the White House tonight after a historic weekend from his command center at Mar-a
23:59-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.
24:00Thanks to this president, the skill, the bravery, the sacrifice from America's service members.
24:06The world's number one state sponsor of terror is getting dismantled right before our very eyes is history in the
24:13making.
24:13This is the very same regime that tried to assassinate President Trump not once but twice.
24:18They have now lost their supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and almost everyone else in his inner circle.
24:2540 total.
24:26Trump told ABC, quote, I got him before he got me.
24:30They tried twice.
24:31I got him first.
24:32Here with more on what led up to this Operation Epic Fury, our special envoy to the Middle East, friend
24:39of the program, Steve Witkoff, is with us.
24:41All right, you're in the room with these negotiators.
24:44And I know you.
24:45You are a deal maker.
24:46The president wanted a deal.
24:48You had a lot of latitude in that room.
24:50Bring us inside that room.
24:55First of all, Sean, thanks.
24:57Good night.
24:57Good evening.
24:58And thanks for having me.
24:59So just to give you a little bit of a taste for how these three days of negotiations went three
25:06separate times.
25:07Jared and I opened up with the Iranian negotiators telling us they had the inalienable right to enrich all their
25:17nuclear fuel that they possessed.
25:19That's how they opened up.
25:20We, of course, responded that the president feels we have the inalienable right to stop you dead in your tracks.
25:28They then went on to say that beyond the inalienable right to enrich that that was going to be their
25:39starting point.
25:40And Jared and I just sort of looked at ourselves flummoxed and said, well, we're really in for it now.
25:48Well, let me let me let me get a little in the weeds if we can.
25:52My understanding was you got to a point where you were discussing enriched uranium at much at very low levels
26:00for civilian purposes.
26:01Although I don't think they really need it because they have all the energy they'd ever want.
26:05But did that come up?
26:08Was that offer made to them?
26:12We discussed with them 10 years of no enrichment whatsoever.
26:17And we would pay for the fuel.
26:19And it was flatly rejected.
26:21And the president sent us in there to have a good faith negotiation.
26:25Pardon me?
26:26You're saying that we would give it to them?
26:30And they rejected that?
26:31We actually had that and they rejected that, which told us at that very moment that they had no no
26:38notion of doing anything other than retaining enrichment for the purpose of weaponizing.
26:45You made a statement last week and when I heard it and I've known you for a long time and
26:51you are a friend.
26:51And when you made the statement that, in fact, they may be a week away from from possibly having capability
26:59at that moment, I interpreted that to mean it's go time.
27:04It's over.
27:04Was I wrong?
27:06It was at the moment that it was over.
27:09Well, I don't know if that exact moment it was over, but I know this.
27:13They have 10,000 roughly kilograms of fissionable material that's broken up into roughly 460 kilograms of 60 percent enriched
27:24uranium, another thousand kilograms of 20 percent enriched uranium.
27:29And the balance is at three point six seven.
27:32They manufacture their own centrifuges to enrich this material.
27:37So there's almost no stopping them.
27:40They have an endless supply of it.
27:41The 60 percent materials, Sean, can be brought to 90 percent.
27:48That's weapon grade, weapons grade in roughly one week, maybe 10 days at the outside.
27:53The 20 percent can be brought to weapons grade inside of three to four weeks.
27:59And let me say this because I forgot this small little detail.
28:03In that first meeting, both the Iranian negotiators said to us directly with, you know, no shame that they controlled
28:14460 kilograms of 60 percent.
28:17And they're aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs.
28:21And that was the beginning of their negotiating stance.
28:25So that's that's they were they were proud of it.
28:28They were proud that they had evaded all sorts of oversight protocols to get to a place where they could
28:34deliver 11 nuclear bombs.
28:36What I wouldn't do to be a fly on the wall in that room, because, Steve, you're a negotiator.
28:44You've run the most successful businesses, built some of the most beautiful golf courses.
28:49It defies all logic and reason for them to sit there as if midnight hammer never happened and dictate to
28:57you that the one thing that President Trump insisted on, they can't get a nuclear weapon.
29:03They're going to go forward anyway.
29:04How stupid are they were they?
29:06They're done.
29:07They're gone now.
29:08Well, well, it was pretty silly, but they thought they could strong arm us.
29:12You know, President Trump sent me and Jared there to to really determine on his behalf whether they were serious
29:19about doing a deal that that addressed his objectives,
29:24which are elimination of their of their missile program, elimination of their advocacy and support for proxies, which is destabilizing
29:35the entire Middle East, elimination of their Navy so we can have freedom of the seas and not be threatened
29:42with the shutdown of the Gulf of Hormuz.
29:45And finally, no nuclear enrichment that can get them to weapons grade, which means no nuclear bomb.
29:52And we went in there and tried to make a fair deal with them.
29:55And it was it was it was very, very clear that it was that it was going to be impossible
30:01probably by the end of the second meeting.
30:03But we then went back to the third meeting just to give it the last college try.
30:07And of course, they thought they wanted us to report positivity.
30:13It was it was not positive that meeting.
30:16Oh, Steve Whitcoff, I know you've been flying all over the globe and, you know, at your on your own
30:22dime.
30:23I think people do need to know that if you don't mind me telling people serving your country, serving the
30:28president, doing your best to bring peace to the world.
30:31They brought this this action on themselves.
30:34You gave them every opportunity to take the exit ramp off.
30:39They decided not to.
30:40But we really appreciate you sharing all that with us.
30:43Steve Whitcoff, Middle East Envoy.
30:44Thank you, sir.
30:46All right.
30:47My next guest is baffled that so many of his fellow Democrats are unwilling to support President Trump's decisive action
30:54in Iran.
30:55He's now asking his colleagues in the Senate to pick a side.
30:59Empty sloganeering or a commitment to global security.
31:03Here with more Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman is with us.
31:06Senator, I've been watching, paying attention.
31:09Seems like almost everybody else in your party wants to have a battle over, you know, the War Powers Act,
31:14something they never asked of Barack Obama or or Joe Biden when they engaged in military efforts.
31:20I can put a list up on on the screen.
31:23Why is it just because it's Donald Trump and is the world not a safer place?
31:29I mean, I think I summed up my my sentiments in just that in that tweet that I put out.
31:36It's like I mean, every single member of the Senate has agreed that we can never allow Iran to acquire
31:44a nuclear bomb.
31:45And clearly they were actually intending to do that.
31:49So are you really committed that, you know, are you willing to just put out tweets and have some harsh
31:55language?
31:56Or are you really going to support the one someone's that actually produced that?
32:01And now let's look at this condition now now after what the president decided to do.
32:06And I truly don't understand why people can't just be energized and just actually celebrate.
32:12You know, they killed forty nine members of their leadership in just in one day.
32:19And now they are sinking all of their ships now to this is just this is a significant development of
32:27regional peace in that.
32:29So I just can't understand. I mean, for me, it's it's a country over party.
32:34I'm proud to stand with our military. And now I don't understand.
32:39It's like if you really believe that they should never acquire these kinds of nuclear weapons or these kinds of
32:45longer range kinds of missiles, you know,
32:48and if somebody decides to do that and make sure that that's not going to happen, why can't we all
32:52just acknowledge that that's a good thing for it's a good thing for the region?
32:56It's it's a good thing for Israel. It's good for America. And so for me, that's why that's stand stand
33:04with the country over perhaps what the base may demand.
33:10You know, it's inexplicable to inexplicable to me, Senator.
33:13I don't really understand it for the first time since 1979.
33:16The Persian people, the people of Iran have a chance to live in freedom, not under this rigid, you know,
33:24violent, you know, number one state sponsor of terror theocracy, which is a death cult.
33:30They clearly the people wanted it because they were taking to the streets.
33:34You know, what happened? What happened to the Democratic Party with this rise of anti-Semitism in the halls of
33:41Congress on college campuses?
33:42Where were those same protesters? Where were those same voices when Iranians took to the streets and they were being
33:50slaughtered by the the, you know, theocratic leaders of Iran?
33:54Why? Exactly. You know, the Iranians may have killed up to 30,000 of their young people.
34:00Not a peep, not a peep on any of the university campuses or complaining about all that.
34:07Not not not at all. And this is this is the thing.
34:10So, I mean, you know, why? Why can't we all just celebrate that one of the most evil men ever
34:17that lived in this region have been eliminated?
34:21That's a great thing. And then, you know, I just salute our military and what we've accomplished partnering with Israel.
34:30Now, if you want real peace, you know, tweets and harsh language isn't going to work, you know, because definitely
34:37all the other things didn't either sanctions, treatings, negotiating, you know, it's like they haven't worked.
34:44And now after after since 1979, look what happened, you know, and that's why I think this is a this
34:54is a great thing.
34:55And that's why it should be a bipartisan thing. You don't have to agree on everything necessarily.
34:59But why can't we all just say the world is better now after after this operation?
35:09So I'm proud. I'm proud to stand with the military. I'm proud to stand with the Iranian people now that
35:16they have the opportunity to have real peace.
35:19You know, and I'm again, unapologetic supporter of Israel. And that's why. Yeah, I just I I'm just baffled, honestly,
35:29why there are not more.
35:30I can't just celebrate just like all those people on your screen.
35:34See, it's certainly better than dropping off cargo planes with billions of dollars in cash and currency, begging the mullahs
35:42in Iran, oh, please be nice and don't get a nuclear weapon.
35:45You know, this is now a once in a generation opportunity. I hope and I pray that the people in
35:51Iran rise up to the occasion and take their lives back and become the great culture they once were.
35:58Senator Fetterman, thank you for standing apart. And I'm sure you're probably going to take heat for it.
36:02But I don't really think you care, which I admire about you.
36:06All right. When we come back, the Ayatollah is dead. The Iranians around the world are celebrating.
36:10Many of our so-called allies in Europe are nowhere to be found. That is pissed off.
36:16Senator Lindsey Graham, he will respond to Europe's pathetically weak world leaders as Hannity continues this breaking news edition straight
36:24ahead.
36:27Now, earlier today, Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Capitol Hill to brief the Gang of Eight on the ongoing
36:33military operations in Iran.
36:35His briefing comes as Democrats are now demanding a war powers vote on the strikes.
36:41Our very own Bill Malusian has the very latest interesting bill.
36:45Democrats, when military action was taken by Obama and Biden, they didn't ask for that war powers resolution.
36:52Just just a matter of fact. No, they didn't.
36:54And back in 2011, Sean, Nancy Pelosi said Obama didn't need any congressional authorization.
36:59So quite a quite a change from these days. But back to today, as expected, Democrats in the Gang of
37:05Eight felt that Secretary Rubio's classified briefing for them this afternoon was inadequate.
37:11Answers completely and totally insufficient. In fact, at least to me, that briefing raised many more questions than it answered.
37:20But Secretary Rubio pushed back. We did notify members of Congress. We just can't notify five hundred and thirty five
37:26people.
37:27That's not possible. But we did the Gang of Eight twice.
37:29I briefed them last week and then I called them the night before the operation.
37:33Now, Sean, all of this is happening as DHS remains unfunded for its third week.
37:38Now, with TSA, FEMA, Secret Service and Coast Guard employees all missing paychecks and a potential terror attack in Austin
37:45over the weekend.
37:46Fox News has obtained photos of the mass shooter wearing a property of a law sweater.
37:51And then underneath that, he had an undershirt on with the Iranian flag on it.
37:56Republicans say it's time for Democrats to end their blockade on DHS funding.
38:00But Democrats continue to dig in.
38:03The Republicans are saying that because they launched an illegal, disastrous war in Iran,
38:10we should give them permission to continue using ICE to murder American citizens.
38:17And Sean, the House does plan to vote on a war powers resolution later this week, likely on Thursday.
38:22That is being forced to the House floor by Congressman Thomas Massey and Ro Khanna.
38:26But there's a chance it's going to fail because a handful of Democrats have already said they're not going to
38:31support it.
38:31We'll send it back to you. All right, Bill Malusian, thanks for that report.
38:35Earlier today, South Carolina senator posted on X, Lindsey Graham, slamming the government of Spain after they said that bases
38:42cannot be used for the Iranian strikes.
38:44Senator Graham called out Spain's reluctance to condemn the terrorist regime in Iran while criticizing the U.S.
38:52Democrats. Anyway, Senator Lindsey Graham, South Carolina is here with more.
38:56It's not just it's not just Spain.
38:58It's Macron.
39:00Starmer's no Winston Churchill.
39:01I'll tell you that.
39:03And, you know, the Great Britain now is what?
39:06Eighty some odd Sharia courts, no go zones in other parts of Europe.
39:09They've given up on national defense and they have unfettered immigration without assimilation.
39:15Not good.
39:15Not good.
39:16No, it's not.
39:17You know what's really not good for democracies not to want to associate themselves with the Iranian people?
39:23What are the Iranian people asking for not to have their daughters taken off a bus and beat to death
39:30because they don't wear a scarf?
39:31What are the Iranian people asking for an economy that they can survive?
39:37To live in a country not ruled by a religious Nazi?
39:41To live in a country that's not terrorizing the entire neighborhood in the world?
39:45To my European friends, you've lost your way.
39:48You should embrace the protesters.
39:51They represent the best of humanity.
39:53You used to be this way.
39:55If you polled Europe, who's worse for the world, Trump, Bibi, or the Ayatollah, the Ayatollah would finish third.
40:03This hatred of Israel and Trump is insane and dangerous to our friends in Spain.
40:10You don't want to associate yourself with bringing down the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world.
40:17You don't want to associate yourself with trying to stop a regime who's killed 32,000 people simply wanting a
40:24better life.
40:25That's pretty pathetic.
40:26So what I would say to the American people, our president sees it differently.
40:32And thank God he does.
40:34We just had the prime minister on.
40:37He talked about the possibility of a lasting peace in the region.
40:41Steve Woodcock brought us into the room with negotiations.
40:44The Iranians would never give up their ambition for nuclear weapons.
40:50And then there's only one Democratic senator with some common sense.
40:54That's John Fetterman.
40:55Good luck to you every day.
40:56You're in the cloakroom.
40:58Well, John Fetterman's big enough to be three Democratic senators.
41:02He's going to be seen in history as a very common sense guy.
41:06John Fetterman loves his country, and he's not afraid to say Israel's the good guy and the Ayatollah's the bad
41:11guy.
41:11Democrats are associating themselves with opposing a military operation to take down the largest state sponsor of terrorism, which they've
41:20opposed in the past.
41:22V.B. and Trump are the modern Roosevelt Churchill combination.
41:27V.B. and President Trump are Roosevelt Churchill.
41:31Two great wartime leaders working together to bring down evil.
41:36Iran would kill Americans in large numbers if they could.
41:40If they could build a missile to hit us, they would hit us.
41:43If they had a nuclear weapon, they would use it.
41:46They're proxies.
41:48Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis have American blood on their hands.
41:52Hezbollah killed 220 Marines and 18 sailors in 1983.
41:57So these people are religious Nazis.
41:59You could no more convince the Ayatollah to give up his religious Nazi views than you could convince Hitler to
42:06stop killing all the Jews.
42:08Normalization's the big prize.
42:10When this regime falls, and it will, I'm going to do everything I can to restart negotiations between Saudi Arabia
42:16and Israel.
42:17The biggest change in a thousand years would be if the keeper of the holy mosque, Saudi Arabia, the center
42:24of Islam, would recognize the one and only Jewish state effectively ending the Arab-Israeli conflict forever.
42:33And there will be one person responsible for that, President Donald J. Trump.
42:37Your legacy, my friend, is beyond Reagan, and it's going to go to the stratosphere.
42:42If you can bring about normalization, peace between Saudi Arabia and Israel, ending the Arab-Israeli conflict that's been going
42:49on for hundreds if not thousands of years,
42:52you will have done something no other president has ever done.
42:55And quite frankly, no other world leader has done.
42:57I've never been more proud of President Trump than I am right now.
43:00He saw evil, he confronted it.
43:03Those hundred million people who died that you mentioned in your opening monologue, they died because people ignored the evil
43:09and they let it get out of hand.
43:10And President Trump, you did the right thing, my friend.
43:14Between the president and the prime minister, the beauty is President Trump took out that threat before millions of people
43:20would die.
43:21Senator Lindsey Graham, thank you. Coming up, much more.
43:25Operation Epic Fury, including the very latest on the ground, will also bring you reaction from around the world.
43:30Daybreak is just moments away in Iran.
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