Decisive Action - 4.7

Published Apr 8, 2017, 1:24 AM

President Trump has taken a lot of heat from the liberal media who, among many issues, have accused the President of not taking a clear stance on the tragedies in Syria. Ironically, many argue it was the failed policies of the Obama Administration that caused so many challenges in Syria.  Yesterday evening, President Trump and the United States responded.  Just days after chemical weapons were used on their own people, the United States launched 59 Tomahawk missiles onto Syrian military installations.  Could it be that this is the decisive action we expect to see from our leaders? The Sean Hannity Show is live weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com.    

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It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. There can be no dispute that seal Will used burned chemical weapons, violated obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and ignored the urging of the U N Security counts. Years of previous attempts at changing the lad's behavior have all failed and failed very dramatically. As a result, the refugee crisis continues to deepen and the region continues to destabilize, threatening the United States and it's lies. Tonight, I'll call in all futif nations to join us and seeking to end the slurter and bloodshed in Syria and also and caroled of all kinds and all types. We ask for God's wisdom as we face the challenge of our very troubled world. We pray for the lives of the wounded and for the souls of those who have passed, and we hope that as long as America stands for justice, then peace and harmony will in the end prevail. Good Night, and God bless America and the entire world. Thank you all right, Glad you're weather us. Happy Friday. That was the President making a statement last night after in fact, fifty nine, some fifty nine Tomahawk missiles were fired at the very launch pad of where these chemical weapons were used by Syria against men, women, and children earlier this week. You can hear a very affected, very different President Trump there, just like we heard when he was meeting with the King of Jordan Abdullah earlier this week, and that issue came up, and the issue of a red line came up over and over again. You know, I've got to say it's pretty powerful statement here. No child of God should suffer such horror. And the President said that, and I'm following the comments and the commentary, and everybody said, well, the President tweeted out that Obama shouldn't know what is he doing. Okay, that's a fair thing, but that's a fair criticism. He changed his mind after seeing dead children that had been gassed. But if we're gonna be fair and talk about changing minds and listening to things that are said to us by politicians, why don't we start the program. And I want you to think about this in the context, especially of the Iranian nuclear deal, which allows the Iranians to continue to spin their centerfuges twenty five days before we give them inspections and and they get heads up on it. We don't even get to have American inspectors, nor do we get to inspect everything we want to inspect. And the and the billions of taxpayer of dollars that he forked over to this radical Islamic regime that has declared over and over again that they want to destroy America, destroy Israel, and they want a worldwide caliphate. That has been their goal from the beginning. How right is Obama and his insurance assurances that, well, the Iranians now they're they're limited in getting nuclear weapons. Well, if we're gonna talk about Donald Trump changed his mind on the issue of whether or not there should be retaliation in the case of the use of chemical weapons against men, women, and children. You know, I'm having a hard time understanding the opposition to this is this, he did everything that Trump said he would do in terms of he didn't telegraph the move. There's no desire clearly to occupy, but it's a message stop using chemical weapons against innocent men, women, and children. That there is a line that the world cannot toligrate, which is it's bad enough. This ridiculous civil war has gone on for seven years with no resolution at all, being fomented by the way by Putin. Oh for all the talk of the conspiracy Trump and the Russians, he went dead set against Vladimir Putin last night and what the Russians wanted because they have been propping up the Assad regime that this entire time for their own political benefit, but if we're going to take the words of politicians, which this is all that CNN and and NBC is fixated on, I flipped. I can't believe this is it. Okay, let's listen to both. Let's listen to President Obama and then we'll listen to John Kerry, and then we'll listen to Susan Rice, and we'll listen to their words assuring you the American people that Obama's line in the sand got Syria and Assad to give up their chemical weapons, which clearly isn't true because he used them again this week. Listen. I think it was important for me as President United States to send a message that, in fact, there is something different about chemical weapons. Uh. And regardless of how it ended up playing, I think in the Beltway, what is true is Assad got rid of his chemical weapons, and the reason he got rid of them was, well, look, uh, if or those uh chemical uh stockpiles were eliminated, that's a lot of chemical weapons that are not right now in the hands of Isle or Nusra, or for that matter, of the regime. The President made his decision to strike, he announced his decision to strike publicly, and the purpose of the strike was to get the chemical weapons out of Syria. That's the purpose. We achieved a deal with the Russians that didn't wind up in two days of strikes that would have sent a quote message but would not have removed the weapons. We struck a deal to get all of the declared weapons out of Syria. Never before in a conflict has that ever happened, that during the conflict weapons of mass destruction are taken out of the zone of conflict. And thank god we did that because if we hadn't done that, today Isel would have those chemical weapons in large parts of the country. Because in the meantime we were able to find a solution that actually removed the chemical weapons that were known from Syria in a way that the use of force would never have accomplished. Oh, the use of They just they're wrong. Now, let's assume there is wrong about Iranian and the Iranian deal as they are about what happened in Syria. Um. Now, I understand the argument that rand Paul I, like Ranpaul, Ranpaul is a constitutionalist and if there's gonna be further escalation, you know, I understand the War Parisact, but you know, using military forces not a declaration of war. I think the hope of the president is this message gets sent, gets sent loud and clear. I think the first thing that you've got to recognize what happened last night is is the President sent a message to the entire world and Pyongyang in North Korea, and certainly the Iranians, and certainly the Russians you know outside of them, and the Syrians meaning Asad you know who is really upset about what happened last night. Is the world going to sit back and watch a modern day holocaust where children are gassed before our eyes, with the images being shown to the world, And I guess it's we're just gonna sit back and not let and just let that continue to happen and not try to stop it. I don't want America to be the world's policeman either. I don't think we have an ability he as a country anymore to fight wars because they always become politicized. But we certainly have the military technology and the ability and the strength and hopefully the moral commitment that if we see dead kids from chemical weapons, maybe we have to do a little something to stop it, especially considering we were promised, oh, there's no such thing as chemical weapons inside of Syria that, of course by Obama and Rice and carry they lied. Now let's assume they're just as wrong on Iran. Oh great, Now we've got a squared B squared equals C squared because you've got radical Islamic terrorists that believe in a worldwide caliphate now having nuclear weapons in their arsenal and a promise of pledge and a commitment to destroy Israel in the United States. That's not gonna work. And by the way, you know, with all the talk about Russia, you know, the biggest question coming out of last night's missile attack was, well, why did Russian forces on the ground failed to deploy this state of the art missile defense system that they had at that base, at that very air base. They could have at least tried to blunt the attack. And I suspect when Trump, you know, we we had an agreement where a military to military agreement that if we're about to hit something, we give them a heads up so their soldiers don't die. That we were committed by by by treaty and agreement to do that. Last night, people say, wow, they gave them my heads up. Now that's not what happened. But I think when Trump, when our military talked to their military, and Putin got that heads up that a launch was imminent, that the attack was taking place, wasn't aimed at Russian personnel, wasn't aimed at Russian assets on the ground. Well, Putin didn't want a confrontation in spite of all the rhetoric coming out of Russia today, and I think for obvious reasons. Now, you know, Kim Jong un congratulates Assad just hours before Trump's missile strike. I wonder if he's congratulating him now. He sent a letter of congratulations to Syrian President Bashar al Assad on the seventy anniversary of the country's ruling Bath Party, according to Pyongyang's news agency. Well that was sent just hours before President Trump bore the air strikes. You know this, the world sees a different America here. This is not America leading from behind. This is not America seeking the U n approval. This is America acting. This is America taking a moral stand. Uh. Nobody wants a long term conflict. Why because it will be politicized anyway, and we don't have the stature of the stamina. Were not stature we don't have the stamina, you know, the stomach in Washington to see through in any military conflict of victory. Prime Minister net and Yahoo praised Trump back Trump on the strike, as he always is a loyal and fierce ally of the United States. I don't think it's by accident that the President recently met and very very little attention was paid to his meetings with the with the King of Jordan Abdullah, and the and the President and General Alcisi of Egypt and the Crown Prince of s out of Arabia, and and of course Prime Minister net Yahoo and I've been saying that maybe the one good thing that ever came out of the Obama years in this ridiculous Iranian deal was the fact that a new alliance was created, Sunni Arab nations now aligning with with the Israelis and partnering to stand up against possible Iranian hegemony in the region, which of course is their goal. And you know, Vladimir Putin wants his stew just as Sad to stay alive. He probably needs to get him out of Damascus and get him, as my buddy Ali North wrote me last night, make him Eddie Snowdon's roommate in Moscow. 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And you certainly deserve my pillow dot com promo code. Hannity, you will love this pillow. Take a lot of calls today. In the next half hour, we'll get to some phone calls to some of the other news. There are ongoing negotiations as it relates to healthcare. If we get any developments on that will let you know. Um, I gotta give praise where praises due. I have been very critical of Republicans in Washington. I'm still piste off that they're going away on a two week vacation, although that might change. Uh. And they still haven't got a healthcare bill done after eight years, which annoys the living daylights out of me. But um, they did in the Senate. And I've been critical of Mitch McConnell at times, but he did hold strong as it relates to not giving a vote on Merrick Garland, the number two you know today's Senate confirmation vote, Neil gors It's the final vote was fifty forty five. It wouldn't have happened had Mitch McConnell not invoked the constitutional option. Now he had no other choice from there was no choice, but you know, he could have caved, I guess, but the rules don't apply equally, and there's no reciprocity from Democrats, so he really didn't have a choice anyway. The Republican Senate votes gave every Obama Supreme Court nominee the upper down vote everyone every time Sonia saw to my arty one Elena Kagan sixty seven. Course it's fifty forty five. But for the first time in a couple of hundred years, for partisan reasons, they filibustered Neil Gorst's. Neil Gorsts will be on the Court as a Monday, So I gotta give credit where it is due. I did take a little shot on Twitter today against the never Trumper people, because you know, there was so adamant that Donald Trump is a liberal. Well, I don't think the wall is liberal. I don't think his economic plan is liberal. I don't think vetting refugees is liberal. I don't think Neil Gorsich is a liberal based on his background in his history, and Washington Post even said in an article they put out that they think his track record shows he's more conservative than Scalia. I can only hope and pray. Sometimes you don't know. David Suitor was probably the biggest disappointment in our lifetime, and probably you know, my favorite justice on the Supreme Court now is Clarence Thomas by far, and I hope that Neil Gorsuch gets into that category. UM and Tom, Clarence Thomas and and Justice Kalia. I mean, what they did for this country, it's just an enormous service that is immeasurable in terms of the damage that otherwise would have been done by people that don't have the originalist philosophy, that actually believe in separation of powers and coequal branches of government and not citing foreign constitutions and legislating from the bench or you know, coming up with crazy ideas to justify insane decisions. All right, we'll continue your calls on the other side to accountable. Sean gets the answers no one else does. America deserves and know the truth about Congress Alright now, until the top of the hour eight nine poll one show, I'm gonna get to some calls here, maybe break a little format. And we have so much on the plate. Neil Gorst's confirmed, We've got healthcare still being negotiated, debated. I hope they come back from the two week recess. That's my personal hope we had a terror attack if you missed it in literally in Sweden again five Dead will update you in the course of the program later today and then of the latest obviously on Susan Rice. Right, what you know, we have a show going on there. I see you've got your friends in there. Hello, I um, and can you at least introduce all these are the friends you told me about, right, yeah, but Julie and hold on one second, show because I just need to chat with them for a second. To give me one second, Okay, you you chat for a second and I'll just do the radio show without a producer. You go right ahead. You're very welcome. You know. I want you to think of one thing, and I don't want America. What did I say after Iraq? I was a big supporter of the Iraq conflict, Iraq war. I you know, you look at Vietnam. Fifty eight thousand Americans are our treasure, our national treasure, our sons, our daughters, fight, bleed and die, and then the war gets politicized in Washington and we don't finish the job. The word One of the worst things Obama ever did was was pulled these troops out of Iraq without finishing the job, which created the vacuum for ISIS, and that was his doing. And then of course the rules of engagement and and so on and so forth. That's why I got so angry at these these tweets that were going out today. Well, Hannity tweeted Parker and ten and I'm like, yeah, okay, Hannedy did tweet um something about yeah, something about it says glad our arrogant president is enjoying his taxpayer funded golf outing after announcing the US should take military action in Syria. And I'm like, Okay, that's beyond dumb that they're they're interpreting that as being that I'm taking a different position today because I'm not their purpose. They're playing Ted Copple to story my tweet. There's this article. The point was I was making. He's arrogant, he's lazy, and his threats are meaningless. And Donald Trump, who really does not want much military conflict, sees dead women and children because of chemical weapons, and he decides to do something about it. You know how deadly Saren gasses, you know, you know, think the gas, the chemical and and what it does to people. They have five metric tons of these things anyway, Americans asking the question, and my friend Dr Mark Siegell Sarah saren gas is colorless, it's odorless, and it kills people in minutes, and it disperses in minutes, meaning it can be blown away in the wind. It works, you know, similar to the way pesticides due by blocking the breakdown of of certain neurotransmitters leading to a rapid build up of the chemical and the body. And saren it is much more potent than any you know, insecticide that you might use, and it's found in you know, five hundred times more powerful than cyanide. It is a painful, horrific, evil way to die. It is potent, and it was used again by Syrian president by shot Alissade. So at some point you've got to say this is evil in our time. I'm here's the question I have for some of you. I know it's not World War two. I know it's not the equivalent of six million Jews slaughters and and so many millions of others slaughtered. My father fought four years in the Pacific, and I know we face evil in our time, and radical Islam is certainly at the top of that list. But do you really believe outside to say, the Russians and the Iranians and the North Koreans Pyongyang in the Syrian government under Assan, do you really think the world should just sit back and watch kids get gassed and not try to do something about it. I'm not talking about being a police state. I'm not talking about being the world's policemen. But I am talking about learning lessons here. I am talking about, you know what, what is simple right and wrong? You know, we look at some of the evil and horror throughout history, and I don't That's what inspired me to write the book deliver Us from Evil, you know, but you look at some of the evil you look at I wrote great detail about this in my book deliver Us from Evil. That they were. You know, imagine being a Nazi soldier at a death camp, pick anyone that you want to pick at those Auschwitz whatever, and your job every day is to get people off of trains, trains, keep them calm, steal the gold out of their teeth and uh and take their clothes, tell them to take in a shower, and gas them and kill your fellow human beings. That's evil, you know, seeing dead children. Gas is pure evil in our time. And you know, for all these conspiracy theories about Russia, well, the number one ally supported that has propped up the Assad regime is Vladimir Putin's Russia, you know. And you know you gotta understand a Moscow Iranian Damascus. You know, you've got this, this trio of terror RR is now on the verge hopefully of being unraveled. You know. They they're that alliance. The one thing that Obama did not intentionally, of course, is by his embracing the Iranians and not having the courage to call out radical Islam, it created a scenario that was not possible nine years ago. And that is an alliance that's been created with Israel. An alliance that has been created with Israel and the saudiast and the Egyptians and the Organians or Jordanians in other words, that alliance now and you could see it in this past week as the President met with the President of and the General of of Egypt, President Elsisi and King Abdallah of Jordan's and prior to that, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. I'm not a fan of the Saudis well, I'm not a fan of any of these countries. The bravest person in the Middle East, by the way, is General Alcissi and and his words against radical Islam, well, you know, echo through the entire world, having courage that Obama never showed. Um. By the way, we have special guests in studio today and uh Linda is going to introduce him to you, and and I want to that Julie is it's Julie right. Yeah, my friend Julius here and her dad Edit is here and we're all hanging out in the studio. That's why I can't look at you, because I gotta look at them, okay. And by the way, I want to say that their mom and wife, Julie's mom and Ed's wife, Donna, Donna Hall Lynnville passed away just recently. It's almost the same date as my father died, by the way, after a long and courageous battle with a with an illness. And uh, guys were very sorry. And uh, I know your friends with Linda. She told me all about it before you guys came in today. And and we want to just dedicate this program to your wife and to your mom today and UH send our thoughts and prayers to all of you. And I know how hard it is. It's like an emotional train wreckon and I want you to be strong and hang in there. And it's just the toughest thing in life when you lose a loved one. And thank you Sean for doing that. I don't care what they say about you. You're all right in my book. What do you mean? Just all right? And what you told me about your friends? You told me they were upset, they wanted to keep come see the show, and I said, absolutely can. They can come every day until they feel better. Do you guys want to come every day? Oh? They're laughing. They listen every day. They might as will come here in person, come and watch. I mean, what's the difference. I look better in person right when I have you so thin, shwan, very thin and smelt and you know, like you work out on a regular basis. And your mother tell about everybody that your mother got mad after you call me man of Rexic. And first of all of all, no, no, no, no, no, my mother got mad. She's she's a rock, she like Gibralta. But she said, I can't believe he just called you a fatty didn't say you were fat. I said, fatty's in there, and where am I? I'm in here? You're not fat at all? Well, that's what i'd like to hear. There's actually nobody in that room is fat. I mean, I'm just I'm just saying it to try and be entertaining. You're very entertaining after you call me manarexic, because that's entertaining. Okay, But I work out, and I take care of myself and I don't eat. Listen, if I don't had my way, I would eat breakfast. I would have sausage and bacon and eggs and French toast and pancakes every morning when do when does the cabbage? And I had my choice, I would get what I used to get as a kid. I get like these huge roast beef, lettuce, tomato Mayo heroes, and I'd eat the whole thing myself and and for me like a normal man. I would have steak and vegetables and dessert and cookies and candies and and I did all of that. I'd love to, but I can't. I can't you because I'll be five hundred pounds. But you work out now, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It was just something happens to your body as you get older that it doesn't metabolize food like it used to. Unfortunately, See, you want to be an old skinny man, an old fat man. No, I don't. I want to be in shape, because you know I do. I do have another job on television. I don't think I can't go on the air and be nine hundred pounds, so I'll go on and be seven hundred. I's how you look good to me, brother, An, he's anyway you are. We love you well, Julian, and with all sincerity, we wish you guys the best. God bless you guys. And uh, how are your friends with this woman? I have no idea, but they have great taste. They have great taste. I agree. All right, let's get to our phones here on those Friday as I promised. All right, we're gonna start with Joseph. He's out in California, the home of the thirteen and a half percent state income tax. What's going on, Hi, Sean, thanks for taking much call, you know real quick. I just wanted to speak to your audience and let you know that my background is that we are Christians from the Middle East. I have relatives from Iraq, and I have wrote it some series where do you ask for? And let me tell you that right now, in my opinion, this is the worst thing we can do to attack the series armed forces because these the Syrian soldiers are fighting against the terrorists. And I'm not getting it from CNN. I'm not getting this from Fox News. With all due respected Fox News. I'm getting this from my relatives on the ground. The Christians are going to be the ones to suffer the most. We did this in Iraq. Remember we took sat down out of power. I have relatives that were killed by Saddam. We run away from Iraq because of Saddam. M John McCain does not have relatives that were killed by Saddam. With all due respect to McCain and with all due respect to you, Shan And I'm gonna tell with all due respect, with all due respect to you, I don't think there's anybody more in the media that has talked about Christian genocide in the entire region than us talking about the Ucedes and the Christians and what is what has really become a genocide that the world is ignored. I've talked about it at nauseum. We have non Reign and Waya on this program often to talk about it, and she's pleading with people for help and research. I agree, and I have heard you speak about the genefer and I thank you for that. I really want to thank you for that. But right now, you know, I'm a little emotional because what I see happening is the same mistakes we ammitted in Iraq. We're going to commit them in Syria. But Assad is not a good man. But let me tell you something. And if you're comparing to some of our politicians in America, he's the same as some of our politicies over here. But compared to Isid, compared to a Musta, compared to the alternatives, he's an angel from heaven. We don't know for sure who did this chemical attack. This man is a dog. Excuse me. We do we do know our hang on, We do know who did it. It was Assad. Our intelligence agencies listen. I know I've been critical of the leaking, but that's a very few people. But our intelligence agencies have been very firm and in their analysis of where this came from. They've even been able to trace the exact location and the flight plan of the plane that actually dropped the gas on these people, so we know where it came from. Um. You know, look what's happening here is you've got Moscow, Tehran, Damascus, and you've got you know, this trio of terror out there that is now close to being unraveled. The only other person I think we got to really worry about at this moment is Pyong Yang. And if if the President can somehow repair some of the damage in the relationship with China in this way, Um, you know, things can go better. If a Sad goes his Bullah will lose their logistics lifeline from Tehran through Baghdad up the Euphrates River, and there were Euphrates River Valley to Lebanon. Um. I was talking to Colonel North about all of this. So despite Nikki Haley's eloquence and so on and so forth, that the Russians will do their level best to block any meaningful action in the U N. Security Council. But look if if if let's say, the Aya Tollers threatened to to close off the straits of hor Moves or or any of these other areas, they're all gonna now get the Trump treatment. And I have no doubt that the President would have no problem bombing Iranian sights. And if Putin wants to really challenge America, well there will be consequences for him too. The world was put on notice, and I think this new emerging alliances is pretty amazing. Anyway, eight nine four one, Shawn told free telephone number. You want to be a part of the program. Let's get back to our phones, MICUs and Sarah Sota. Hey, Mike, how are you good? Sean? Thank you for everything you're doing. I got about forty they were all yours. Go. I'm a retired military officer from the Air Force and I've been involved with NBC New the Biological and Chemical for a long time. I know what it is like to suit up. The question I'm asking is the gentleman who just called. I don't think he has the understanding that we had a chemical weapons convention. No one is to be stockpiling or making these nerve agents. Uh. Susan Rice even said that there was no longer chemical weapons, and then Russia even said there wasn't these are these are a very very serious issue. It could affect the whole world, including our troops that are presently over in that area. I don't think people understand how bad chemical weapons. You just don't die right away. You suffer and suffer and suffer. I would not want to see the children in our country suffer, including the old people. America listen, America's I don't want occupation, I don't want a protracted war. I don't want boots on the ground. But I don't want America to lose all sight of what is moral and right and decent in life. And dead children killed and tortured and murdered with chemical weapons. That's a line that that I can't, that we cannot as a country ignore you. It's like ignoring a modern day holocaust and sitting there while I'm happy. Whatever the hell with everybody else. America has has to have moral clarity, alright. Eight nine one, Shawn told free telephone number. You want to be a part of the program, h John Hannity Tuesday. Syrian dictator for Sure also launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians, using a deadly nerve agent ASAD choked out the lives of helpless men, women, and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many, even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. No child of God should ever suffer such horror. To night, I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched. It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. There can be no dispute that Seill used burned chemical weapons, violated obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and ignored the urging of the U N Security counts. Years of previous attempts at changing the slot's behavior have all failed, and failed very dramatically. As a result, the refugee crisis continues to deepen and the region continues to destabilize, threatening the United States and its allies. Tonight, I'll call in all civilized nations to join us and sinking to end the slurter and bloodshed in Syria, and also to end carrolls of all kinds and all types. We ask for God's wisdom as we face the challenge of our very troubled world. We pray for the lives of the wounded and for the souls of those who have passed, and we hope that as long as America stands for justice, then peace and harmony will in the end prevail. Good Night, and God bless America and the entire world. Thank you, all right. That was the President last night announcing why he took the action that he did against Syria. I thought a very powerful statement by the President. And obviously things have changed and the world is taking notice that. Among our many top stories today, we have Neil Gorsage is now a Supreme Court justice. Also the battle over healthcare and the negotiations continue, according to sources I have on the ground. Will have an update later in the program on Susan Rice and the unmasking of people. And now apparently Peter King, the congressman from New York, is saying, well, that's because they were looking at personal information having nothing to do with national security. And we'll have more on the terror attack in Sweden that took place earlier today. Joining us now former Speaker of the House, New King ridges with us as the speaker. Um. I watched the President decisively take action last night, and I felt that, you know, if the world is not going to respond, two weapons of mass destruction, chemical biological agents being used against men, women and children, and we don't send a message that this is not something the world can accept. And he was willing to go against Russia, the ally of Syria to do this if this is and show that we have a very different mindset in the White House. I don't know what will well. I think that that's one of the reasons he had to do it. He was faced with a terrible act, and an act which involved, as he put it, beautiful babies and children and women. Um. He issued a strong condemnation, the Secretary of State issued a strong condemnation. But then you got to a point of saying, Okay, how's that different from Barack Obama? And if he had done nothing by this weekend, all the talk shows would have been that he's as weak as Obama. And so I think he calmly had General um h Armic Master and in the Secretary of Defense matters figure out an appropriate combat capability for a direct, immediate, relatively narrow strike. And as he had said all through the campaign, the key is not to announce it, let it happen, then describe it. Uh. And I thought it was very telling that it didn't negotiate or asked the Russians for permission. They told the Russians on a military to military basis, we're coming in. You need to get out of the way. Uh And the Russians did get out of the way. So I thought it was as the first step. It reminded me a great deal. In the newsletter I'm writing today, um a game which productions is on the compared the parallel between what happened with Ronald Reagan and the Gulf of Sidra where we shot down to Livian aircraft and sending a signal that we were back, and what Trump did this week in sending the signal that we're back. In both cases you have presidents following week liberal Democrats who talked a lot but did nothing. And in both cases it sent a signal to the world of action, not just talk. And I think in that sense that Trump has probably rattled a lot of people. Well, I think certainly North Korea, China, certainly Iran was watching. Here's what's fascinating. I wanted you to answer this question after I played these cuts for you through the prism of the promises that the president then President Obama made about this horrible deal with the Iranians that this will prevent them from getting nuclear weapons. Because I'm gonna play back to back here both Barack Obama and John Kerry saying that President Assad of Syria got rid of chemical weapons because of the Red Line. Listen to both of them. And by the way, Susan Rice even said, but we'll just play these two. I think it was important for me as President United States to send a message that in fact, there is something different about chemical weapons. Uh. And regardless of how it ended up playing, I think in the Beltway, what is true is Assad got rid of his chemical weapons, and the reason he got rid of them was, well, look, uh, if or those uh chemical uh stockpiles were eliminated, that's a lot of chemical weapons that are not right now in the hands of Isle or Nusra, or for that matter, of the regime. The President made his decision to strike, he announced his decision to strike publicly, and the purpose of the strike was to get the chemical weapons out of Syria. That's the purpose. We achieved a deal with the Russians that didn't wind up in two days of strikes that would have sent a quote message but would not have removed the weapons. We struck a deal to get all of the declared weapons out of Syria. Never before in a conflict has that ever happened, that during the conflict weapons of mass destruction are taken out of the zone of conflict. And thank god we did that, because if we hadn't done that, today Aiel would have those chemical weapons in large parts of the country. Very telling how wrong they were. Now, let's assume that they're wrong on a ran for a minute, and the Iranians Mullah's radical Islamis get nuclear weapons because of this ridiculous deal using the billions that Obama gave him. That First of all, one of the things I think that motivated uh Trump and motivated his team was that both the Syrians and the Russians had lied. Remember, the Syrians had promised that they had gotten rid of all the chemical weapons. The Russians promised that they had investigated. In a sense, the Russians put their honor on the line and said, trust us, we're telling you that the Syrians are now free of chemical weapons. So you had clear evidence that both governments had lied. You then had this terrible attack, killing children and babies, and and and women, um and and saring gas is a horrible way to die. Uh, and so um, I think it was in that context that they operated. There. There are two parts. That one is liberals have a capacity to lie to themselves endlessly about reality. Whether it is Chamberlain lying about Adolf Hitler, whether it is the Clinton administration lying about North Korea. Uh. This this wilful self to exception. And of course, the the Iranian dishonesty UH dwarfs the uh Syrian dishonesty in terms of John Kerry and Barack Obama just being totally distant. You know, I think they probably lie to themselves. I think they may even believe the lies because that's so deeply embedded in their psyche. Uh. But what you have now, and I thought it was a fascinating week. You you had the President of Egypt come in, You had the King of Jordan come in meeting with the president talking about the Middle East. You know, both those conversations included Assad, included Syria. You have the President taking a decisive action. Uh. He takes it and announces it while he is in dinner involved with uh the Chinese Prime minister who's there for dinner. Uh. So to whatever today the Chinese. One of the signal signal that the US was back and that we were strong and that we were doing things would hardly have been more vivid um and I think you'll notice it around the world. There have been very positive reaction. Saudi Arabia has been positive, Jordan has been positive, Turkey has been positive, most of the Europeans have been positive. Egypt has been positive. So there's a there's a pretty big reference. The Iraqis came out today and we're positive there's been a pretty big referendum saying you know, if you're not Syria, Russia or North Korea, you probably Iran. You probably think this is a pretty good idea. All right, hang on, we'll continue more with Speaker Gangwich on the other side of this break care as we continue on this Friday. All right, as we continue with former Speaker of the House, New King Ridge is with us um your reaction as some of the other news that's going on today. Neil Gorst's, of course, the constitutional option used by Mitch McConnell and the Republicans in the Senate. I give them a lot of credit for standing up to what was the first partisan filibuster in over two hundred years on a Supreme Court justice. So by the way, you know, it's really funny. Schumer closes is out and the wallstre Journal is a great job with a toy on this. He closes out his final speech talking about the bipartisanship of the founding fathers. Well, Jefferson presides over the Senate for four years as the Vice President. Jefferson writes Jefferson's Manual, which is the original rule book of parliamentary procedure. In Jefferson's era, there was no cloture. It was all done by simple majority. And in fact, Jefferson, we are told during this period they didn't keep records, so we don't know for sure, but we are told that if you talk too long, Jefferson was simply ruled that you aren't being Germaine and shut you up. I mean, so when when people say, oh, look at the filibuster, I'm writing a piece on this for next Tuesday as my my newsletter next Tuesday that because it turns out it is Calhoun in defense of slavery who develops the filibuster, not until eighteen forty one. What do you think of getting rid of culture as it relates to the legislative movement in the Senate. I favorite, I didn't favorite till I started doing this historical research. The con stept of a supermajority to end debate occurs in nineteen seventeen. From from seventeen eighty nine to nineteen seventeen, we did not have the requirement for a supermajority. In nineteen seventeen they formalized the system. It's lasted exactly a hundred years, and frankly, it's made it very hard for the Senate to function. Now. I know the senators won't like that because they're used to the relative power that it gives individual senators. But from the country's standpoint, I think it might be good to go back to operating the way it did under Jefferson. And I said, ironically, you know, it's Schumer who's quoting the Founding Fathers because he doesn't know anything about history. But the Founding Fathers had a Senate which operated on a simple majority. But you know, you know, the great irony and all of that is you got show more all over the place depending on who's in power at any particular moments. So but you know what, the Democrats don't play by the same rules. I mean Republicans, they allow an up or down vote for somebody like Elina Kagan as Sonia saw to Mayora Ruth pader Ginsburg, knowing they're getting a left wing radical activists on the court. That same courtesy is not extended to the Republicans. So I don't think they have any option. Democrats don't play fair, don't play by the same rules. So any argument that all this is going to come back to haunt you is meaningless. But it would really alter the legislative side of this if in fact they could do healthcare without worrying about reconciliation or needing culture right. Well, it's exactly and by the way, an easy way to think of it is this, Republicans look for principles to explain rules. The Democrats look for power to explain rules. So Democrats change rules to fit the needs of power. The Republicans get trapped into arcane arguments about about principle that have no relationship to power. So one of the places that I am most offended by the Center rules is the whole idea of reconciliation for healthcare, that that simple principle that you have to fit into some weird straight jacket in order to pass something with with fifty votes plus the vice president. That principle has totally screwed up trying to write a serious health bill because they keep trying to fit it uh into an arcane Washington legislative mess that simply doesn't work. And all of it's a myth. It doesn't have to be that way. I keep hearing that there's these ongoing negotiations as it relates to healthcare, and they might be close to a deal. Um, it's not going to be ideal, especially from my perspective. Um, but at this point, is it something you start and then begin the process of making it better and better or is it better to wait and and as you say, take away the whole culture debate an issue altogether. Well, if if I mean, I'd like to get it done as quickly as possible for a lot of different reasons, one of which is, just as Obamacare keeps collapsing, it's gonna hurt more and more people. Mean, there there are now entire communities that have no effective insurance, and and so there's a very profound reason to try to get this thing fixed. But at the same time, I would say to conservatives. It is never going to get better than the House bill. You're not going to go to the Senate under the current rules and get a better deal than you're gonna get in the House. So, uh, concertings need to be aware that I need to think very carefully because the end game is not the House, it's not even the Senate. The end game is a conference committee of the two bodies to send something back that can then be passed by both bodies and go to the President. Unless you think about that first, you have no idea what what you're doing in all right, Mr Speaker, you're back from vacation. Are you still on vacation working? Oh no, No, I'm busy with work right here in Washington, d C. Oh. I'm glad you're back. Well, hopefully we'll see it tonight on TV. Mr speaker, thank you so much. Eight nine four one Sean toll free telephone number. We continue all our stories today, the latest on the serious strike. When we get back the terror attack in Sweden once again, we'll have an update on that when we continue. Susan rice Gate healthcare debate continues. Neil Gorst He is on the Supreme Court as a Monday, we'll continue America Desserts and know the truth about Congress alright now till the top of the hour. One Shawn is our toll free telephone number if you want to be a part of the program. So there was another terror attack, more tragedy in Sweden, and this another car bomb attack, and you have example after example. We have gone over the statistics about how migrant crime and violence has been soaring all over Europe and in Germany and in France, and in Great Britain and in Belgium, and the statistics are shocking, and you talk about it. For example, of the two D fifty one thousand criminal suspects across the state in Germany, uh one and seven. Of the two D and fifty one thousand more foreign, and a lot of those were asylum seekers, and many of them were refugees. In other words, this is a preview of coming attractions of America doesn't get control of its borders and vet refugees that come from countries and cultures that directly contradict our culture, our values are more rays as a society. And I know some come with the best of intentions and they want to They certainly want to uh, assimilate in the country, and they want the benefits of America. But you know, let me start with you. Remember, here's another attack in Sweden today. And remember when Donald Trump went out there and declared that, hey, pay attention, there are attacks in Sweden, and the media mocked him and made fun of him and said, oh, he got that from Tucker Carlson. This is what he had said at the time. Here's the bottom line. We've got to keep our country safe. You look at what's happening. We've got to keep our country safe. You look at what's happening in Germany. You look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden, they took in large numbers to having problems like they never thought possible. You look at what's happening in Brussels. You look at what's happening all over the world. Take a look at Nice. Alright, So the media made fun of it. Later that week, there was another attack in Sweden, and it had been happening all throughout Europe, but the media just jumped on on Donald Trump. Now we also knew on this program because Ammy Horowitz went to Sweden and literally was attacked by immigrants when he was trying to interview them. Listen, do you think that Sweden has a responsibility to adapt to the immigrants culture coming in? Definitely should a woman when they come here, address you know modestly, you know, with pants and with with sleeves. Is that important if you come drinking? Be obviously everybody he said, dist you know, offer sometimes I said, we go to scare scar. Is it dangerous here? Sometimes? Sometime? Yeah. We found out exactly how dangerous when while we were setting up a shoot at a neighboring location, we were approached by five minute told to leave. While my crew took off, I stayed to simply ask why we had to leave because I was still wired. We have the sound of what happened next, but how do we the problem to film here? I don't want to know why? What's the what's the why? Anything? Look? Look show me, let me show me what you got. I let you let go, I don't let go help. I was not the first person assaulted by gangs of immigrants, nor will I be the last. But women are taking the brunt of the explosion of violence across Sweden. Alright, So that was AMMI Horowitz and he joins US now along with Patrick pull Amy is a documentarian, Patrick national security correspondent for PJ Media and Amy this was you literally now have made numerous trips. You joined the refugees that we're going into Europe at one point. Then you did go to Sweden, you did talk, you did go to these migrant camps, you did talk to a lot of people, and you are chronicling the violence long before the president made his remarks. And then the terror attack that happened that very weak, and then of course the one that happened today. Yeah, listen, I take no joy in being president. I really don't. But the handwriting has been on a wall, not just not just in Sweden but all over Europe. Uh. It's it's clear, it's absolutely crystal clear. This, this violence that we're seeing is due to the increasing immigration into the European countries. Well, uh is not an offense. And and even today you were here calls for people in Sweden saying this has nothing to do with the immigration policy. Uh, it's it's it's it bores the pathological and there really is no answer to it. I don't fully understand it. Yeah, Now, Patrick Pool we've been chronicling, You've been chronicling all of all of the danger that exists for the citizens all across Europe as a result of the migrant crisis. And we have our own statistics here in this country. And the President has been trying to institute some type of vetting of refugees from overseas and extreme vetting for people to come from countries whose values directly contradict ours, and he has met fierce resistance and a strategy of judge shopping so that they can stop his his constitutional authority and statutory authority of protecting the country, which is his main mandate. Sean. I recall here, just right after Thanksgiving, we had a ramming attack, just like we saw in Stockholm today, just a couple of miles from you, on the campus of Ohio State University. And the suspect in net case was a Somali refugee who would come to the United States just a couple of years ago, and that kind of illustrates the problem. Sean. You might recall back last summer we talked about and I actually ran the numbers in Europe. We were looking at a terror attack every four hours um and we talked about that on your program. Now we're seeing a terror attack nearly every day. Uh. This week we've had St. Petersburg, we had an incident in Paris were a refugee through a Jewish woman off the balcony. We had the ramming attack in Israel. Yesterday they killed an id F soldier. Uh, there was a snabbing attack in Australia. In today we have Stockholm, and yet the authorities, not just in Europe but even through the United States. UM, there's just no recognition of how bad the problem is. We know how bad the problem is because we have the statistics and illegal immigration is not far behind either. And you know, it's amazing to me as we debate these very simplistic methods of protecting our homeland. You know, I don't understand where the fierce resistance is when you know, when I sit through a security briefing that Obama himself should have been sitting through in in Texas with those brave men and women that secure borders, and they describe a seven year period of time where crimes including the most heinous, including some murders and some rapes, some petty crimes, a lot of drug crimes, are are perpetrated against just the people of Texas. You would think people would take notice and realize, you know what, protecting our border, vetting people before they come in here is just simple, basic common sense. You know, when you interview the mothers who lost their sons or the fathers that lost their sons and daughters because of illegal immigrants that had even been in jail before. And I think of one father in particular who lost his son and his son was working overnight in a convenience store and then we find out that the guy was an illegal immigrant that had spent a lot of time in jail for kidnapping and raping a woman, kidnapping her for an entire week. To me, unless you're the victim, I guess it's easy to sit on the sidelines and say, oh, let's let's let's be kind and loving. And this is racist and xenophobic. I mean, um, you're seeing and chronicling real violence. Both of you are mean in your document. Nies. Yeah, listen, here's the thing, and I think you hit it on the head. The issue is why is the left condemning the reaction that we're having, And the reason is very confusing at all. It goes against their narrative of cultural relativity. And if you're gonna say that bringing in large amounts of let's say, refugees from Syria is gonna have a delarious offenior society that's specifically going against their narrative cultur relativity. How can you say that we're all the saying. They're saying every single culture, moral difference between the culture is the problem bringing in more as Syrian is lava refugees, refugees or whatever. So that's why they're so so certainly, Yeah, we're losing to you on a Patrick, Why don't you pick it up. We'll give your last thoughts here, then we'll get to our phone calls eight D nine one, Sean, go ahead, Sean. Last night I ran the numbers, and since January twenty, we've admitted another one thousand, three h Syrian refugees. And and we know that this extreme vetting process has massive holes. And as we saw in the case served with the Ohio State Atchech, I mean that refugee, Somali refugee had been subjected to extreme vetting. Three years later, he's running down people on you know, one of our largest college campuses. This is a problem that's not going away. It's expanding, and that's what we're seeing in Europe here this week. You know, we could just warn people so much. I mean, we're sitting here on the sidelines and and we get brutalized all over social media because we want to keep the American people safe. I mean, we'll give you the last word. I think we've got a better line. Yeah, Well, hopefully the reality is just like like I said before, it goes against the narrative of the left, that of cultural relativity, and therefore they cannot fit abide by us saying as a problem with bring in refugees. If all culture the same, all cultures have the same morality, there shouldn't be any problem with bringing in here refugees. That's the problem. That's the narrative that they're they're they're portraying, and that's the narrative have to flit against. Al Right, guys, thank you both for all that you're saying and taking a strong stand there. Well. The full coverage of the very latest on Hannity Tonight tent Eastern on the Fox News Channel, bringing jobs back to America and getting America back door Shaw al Right, News round up information overload, busy newsday today. If you're just joining us, getting in your car headed on home, Happy Friday. I don't even think we have time for our Friday concert series with Florida, Georgia Lime. We'll try, We'll think about it. Neil gore Citch is now on the U. S. Supreme Court the Constitutional option. Major props. Kudos to uh Mitch McConnell and the Republicans in the U. S. Senate. I mean, I'm very critical when they don't have a backbone, so I might as well say they did everything right here, starting with not going forward with Merrick Garland, which would have been a disaster. Other big news were following up on the serious strike from last night, very successful decisive action by President Trump. The hell Care bill is not dead. My hope is they come back during their two week recess and try and get this done. Considering if they come back on the twenty four, they've got to deal with a quote government shutdown crisis on the twenty eight, so that wouldn't be good timing. And we are also as you know, from the last hour, we were talking about what was happening in the terror attack in Sweden, but one thing we can't get off the table today is the follow up to the Susan Rice scandal. I mean it just at this point the admission, I mean Peter King now coming out with his his information, and others now saying they weren't interested, that this wasn't the amasking by Susan Rice that she admitted to, which he didn't admit to two weeks ago when she said she knew nothing. The fact that she is unmasking people that had nothing to do with national security proves the point that I've been making for a long time. Under the guise of national security, this was an attempt to literally weaponize the intelligence gathering of our agencies and politicized intelligence for political purpose. The reports at the center of the unmasking controversy were detailed, and as Peter King said, they almost resembled a private investigator's file. And he goes on to say, you know, according to him, he's being familiar with the documents. He said, the information about their everyday lives. Well, why would that need any type of unmasking? What Peter King is saying, and he's on the House Intelligence Committee, he said, it's sort of like a divorce case. Whether the lawyers are hired, investigators are hired just to find out what the other person's doing morning until night and then you try to piece it together later on. Well, what is he saying there. He's saying that it has nothing to do with national security. He's saying this is an abuse of intelligence gathering. He's saying that this was done for personal vendetta reasons, and that is information about the everyday live so they were talking with orhere they were meeting, where they were going to eat, really nothing of any substance of value, unless you're just trying to, uh, you know, lay out a dacier in somebody, sort of like in a divorce case where a lawyers are highed or investigating a high to just find out why the person is doing the morning to night and then you try to piece it together later on. Alright, So joining us now to get into this one of our other top stories tonight, Susan Rice, Where does this go? Lieutenant Colonel Buzz Patterson, Remember he carried the nuclear football for President Clinton and worked with Susan Rice for two years. Kirk Weeby is with US former senior analysts for the n S A. Nick Irvine is with us, author of Way of the Reaper, my greatest untold missions in the art of being a sniper, former Army ranger. His unit, by the way, is currently in Syria. And uh, thank you all for being with us, um buzz, because you worked with her and you said he's dishonest and based on what she said two weeks ago, now that we know she's admitted to unmasking and requesting the unmasking of Donald Trump and transition team members, and then Peter King's comments, what do you interpret from that? Well, you talked about before yesterday time. She's just the political operative um and she's very just honest led throughout her career, going back to my time in the White House having to work for her. You know, she's just lying about whether or not the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania had appropriate amount of security. Of course, she stall outside bomb and killed hundred people in those embassies. She's also the person to eventum Donald's I'm sorry Bill Clinton not to take some of them laden that a testied back. You know what happened to that place five years later. So she's beat the political opposity. In fact, if you go back and look at her educational background for someone who brings to be a national security expert. Her degrees um are actually in philosophy in history, and she's been running point policy campaign for Democratic candidates in president now on on the base though uh they're very flimsy liberal arts degrees. All right, let me go to you because I think what you're saying is really really important. I mean, she's probably the least qualified, but approves our point. She's a political operative through and through always has been. Never had the background or experienced actually do this job and do it right, and it answers a lot of questions about how things have spuns so out of control and spiraled out of control. All right, So, as a former analyst Kirk for the n S A, can you can you you know this process? We're talking about raw intelligence gathering and we're talking about individuals within an administration purposely seeking out that information about political opposition a candidate Trump and a president elect Trump and his transition team. Um, can you think of any reason why they would do this other than it being political? Absolutely not? Uh? Sean it Uh, it's absolutely clear to me that that there's a conspiracy at work here. I know, people don't like that word. But ever, if there ever was one, we're looking at it. It would take three to five people working with her to pull this off. In terms of getting people to break their personal obligation ooths to uphold the constitution. We have people actually processing voice data phone calls. And when I say processing, that means listening to it, usually through headphones, and then typing out the conversation or a summary of a conversation, any share able form, probably a computer software something like Microsoft Word or a government equivalent, and putting it in a database to be shared with others. Now, what we've heard is that there are so many restrictions and constraints and procedures. How in the world would that happen with the cooperation of a small number of people. Well, it has to be Remember remember Sarah Carter's reporting on this is that they loosen the rules as of eleven as it relates to unmasking. And then I think the the change in the language and the ability to share with sixteen additional agencies fourteen days before brock Obama left office that allowed the widespread dissemination of this information. And I think we know because they wanted to create this narrative about Russia, and and obviously they did it. But if somebody went into a secure area, and I think this is most important, Kirk, and they did seek to get information, raw intelligence and listen to it. And let's say it was on a political opposition party or a transition team, and they did unmask the individuals involved. How frequent was that an occurrence when you were there? Um, I cannot speak to that directly, Sean, as I did not work directly in that particular area. But I would tell you that the whole purpose of the intelligence community is to answer to a specific list of national intelligence requirements n r L N s r l S, National second Requirements listing. These are put together by bureau crats at the most senior levels, including representatives of the White House, to ensure that the military, that the political people get what they need. In the way of intelligence. You just don't pick up the phone and say hey, I need this now. You might be able to get away with that in a wartime scenario where you have stuff moving quickly, but when you have a standing requirement to monitor something over weeks and months, as we know what happened here with the Trump transition team, going back what a year. We know there would have to be a standing requirement unless you have people cheating the system. And you're saying also that it had to be the This had to be at the level of either say Brennan or Clapper. It had to be with their knowledge and approval. It's it's not possible without right, right, And and what are the odds that the president got briefed on all of this? Not good? It's not good that he You mean he probably did well, he got briefed about the cheating, but not that, not when it was happening. No, it was all hidden. Yeah, probably true? All right? You know, Nick, I know as the your greatest untold missions the art of being a sniper. Uh, you fascinate me. I mean the fact that you can have that calm under pressure and and do such important work that save so many American troops in their lives. Um, do you use a lot of intelligence gathering in the process of doing that job? Correct? Exactly? Tons of it? All right? So you know something a little bit about this process? Well, can you tell us? Uh? From my job and what we do is there's something called building a pattern of life, and we do that to two bad guys, terrorists, and that involves, you know, watching and listening to everything that they do day in and day out, day until night for a certain amount of time until we get a certain pattern on that individual in case I have to go out or my team has to go out and intercept that target by a long range shot, are by up close and personal, we know exactly what that person is going to be at what specific time. They've built a pattern of life, and that's you can you can change it up whatever way you want to. But it's kind of hard to beat this system. And we do that to two bad guys. Yeah. How how far is the longest shot you kill? Shot you've ever made? My furtherest shot ever made was on the steel target at two thousand and twenty two yards one point one two miles my furthest shot in combat was just over a half a mile five yards over. Wow, unbelievable. UM, you know how real when we watch movies like American Sniper? How real is that? Um? I think it captures the mindset and the position many of the guys are put in when they do get out. Um, we talk about the v A and healthcare system and stuff like that. I have a guy, UM, a former team leader who's currently going through that transition into the v A, And there's an ongoing process right now um from being molested by the v A. And this guy still you know, practices his medical and treatments to patients, and my guy, amongst and other guys have been molested by him. Um. These are the type of things that we go through when we come back, and I think American Sniper does capture that mentality and the demons that we all face. Well. No, in other words, if if literally you spend a year and you're you're in that stress situation seven six those days, and then you go back home, it's like you've entered a new world that you don't even barely remember in many ways, and all that adrenaline doesn't stop pumping through your body and whatever thoughts create, whatever feelings that you've been living on you know. Oh yeah, my best friend Tyler Gray, former Delta first, former Army ranger as well. Um, he put it the best way I've ever heard it. We've been trained in condition to operate in a hectic, violent environment and be calm under becalm in that environment. We get back home into a calm environment, and we don't know how to integrate into that two. I mean, if you add up the numbers, we estimated about two and fifty thousand guys have had real big struggles because of long deployments, many deployments, and it's been very hard on everybody. All right, guys, I want to thank you all. Lieutenant Colonel Buzz Patterson, Thank you Kirk weby, thank you Nick. Always good to talk to you. We'll continue more news we've got, of course, of course it's is now on the Supreme Court. More on the serious strike. We're gonna check in with Colonel Oliver North. General McInerney will join us at the bottom of the hour. Healthcare is still alive even though the House Republicans are now on recess. We'll have more on Susan Rice, and then more in that terror attack in Sweden that we're following today. Eight nine for one Shaun is a toll free telephone number, bite sized the show that you can take with you. To sign up today for Hannity headlines, go to Hannity dot com. Right as we continue on this Friday, Colonel North and General mac and earning on the strike against Syria. At the bottom of this hour will update you. Let's get to our phones in the meantime. Roman is in Texas. Roman, Hi, how are you glad you called? Happy Friday? What's going on? Sean? It's hordered to talk to you. I had two questions I wanted to ask you, first off being what are you going to move out of New York down here to Texas? I'd move tomorrow, but my job keeps me here, and um, it just is what it is right now for this part of my life. I listen. I certainly hope one thing. You know, if I die in New York, they take another bide at the apple, they get ten percent of whatever money I've saved. After they've taken ten percent my entire working adult life and the government takes now hopefully I live beyond when Donald Trump gets rid of the state tax. But you know, it's really sad that New York is has broken down, dilapidated and decrepit as it has become, especially the infrastructure, and they have you paid, you know, twelve dollars. If you cross a bridge or a tunnel New York each way, and they still can't fund the bridges and tunnels, then you have a ten percent income tax and you have a city tax on top of it A three. I mean they take you every which way in sideways and if you go to Texas, the infrastructure is a thousand times better. Does that make sense to you? Oh? Yeah? Hey? And on my second question, uh, I'll always hear you tell us what you think should be on our healthcare bill. But I kind of wonder what what would be the perfect healthcare bill that would collaborate all the ideas from all the different coalitions in the Republican Party. That would I know it wouldn't be the best overall, but what do you think would be guaranteed the path get all the different coalitions to go for it. I don't know. Look, I know they're still working on it. I know that those of us that are conservative believe in the free market, competition, buying across state lines, portability, health care savings accounts, especially for younger people, that they can build up this fund their entire life that's tax deductible. UM. I love the idea. I've really bought into these medical cooperatives with catastrophic care, like like Dr Rumber is doing down in in Wichita, Kansas. I just think there are a million ways to tackle this that can work. You know. Look, but at the end of the day, this is what we need. We don't need a top down system. We need a free market system. We need as much competition as possible. We need to Look, I know, the President, We're not gonna have people that are having heart attacks but don't have health insurance being turned away. It's not gonna happen. Um. Then it gets into the issue. Why should somebody that is fifty years old, takes care of themselves, is is fit and works out and lives a healthy lifestyle, doesn't drink too much or smoke too much. Why should he be in the same rate pool as somebody that you know eats himself to death, drinks himself to death, smokes themselves to death, and doesn't do any exercise. So it gets complicated. I mean, at the end of the day, I don't think anything is going to be perfect. But it was much better before, it was much cheaper before. And if we institute and apply these free market principles to the health your system, that competition is going to ensure that we get lower prices, lower premiums, lower deductibles, and better care and a better bank for a Buck. Catastrophic plans are inexpensive with high deductibles, and they take care of the real emergencies a heart attack, cancerer of a bad accident. But anyway, I gotta take a break. We'll come back, Colonel North and General McInerney as we continue. We know you never want to miss the Sean Hannity Show, and now you never have to. Just sign up for Hannity Headlines, a bite sized version of the show that you can take with you on your laptop, your mobile phone everywhere you go, even to your liberal in law's place in Vermont. So um yeah, and after a few hours of that, you'll be glad you've brought Shawn along. To sign up today for Hannity Headlines, go to Hannity dot Com. Tuesday, Syrian Dictator for Sure Alosa launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians. Using a deadly nerve agent. ASSAD choked out the lives of helpless men, women, and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many. Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. No child of God should ever suffered such horror. Tonight, I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched. It is in this vital national security interest of the United States to prevent and to terr the spread and youth of deadly chemical weapons. There can be no dispute that still used burned chemical weapons violated appligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention and ignored the urging of the U n Security counts. Years of previous attempts are changing the slots behavior have all failed, and failed very dramatically. As a result, the refugee crisis continues to deepen and the region continues to destabilize, threatening the United States and its allies. Tonight, I call in all civilized nations to join us and seeking to end the slurter and bloodshed in Syria, and also to end carrolls of all kinds and all types. We ask for God's wisdom as we face the challenge of our very troubled world. We pray for the lives of the wounded and for the souls of those who have passed, and we hope that as long as America stands for justice, then peace and harmony will in the end prevail. Good Night, and God bless America and the entire world. Thank you. All right, that was the President last night from Mara Lago making his statement, and no child of God should ever suffer such horror and joining us. Now we have General Thomas McInerney and Colonel Oliver North, the host of War Stories on Fox News and Fox Business, discussing the tactics, the methodology, the message that was sent. Here. Gentlemen, welcome back to the program. And Colonel North, let me begin with you about the President's actions last night and responds to the use once again of chemical weapons against innism and women and children. Well, Sean, if you want to send a message, excuse me, you can send flowers, and if you want your message to matter, you can send fifty nine cruise missiles, which is what the President did. And I think the message that was sent was spot on and a little message. If you're listening to Vladimir Putin, if you want your stooge Busher Alisad to stay alive, get him out of Damascus, bring him to Moscow where he can become a roommate for Eddie Snowden, because they deserve each other. I think that's really well, said General McInerney. Well, it was brilliant, It was decisive. There was no agonizing on it. He told the world that we will do business. We will not accept that kind of behavior. Kim Jong un should be where as well as he did it at a dinner when he had the presidency sending a signal about the islands at President g is building an army out there in violation in the national law. So it set the tone. Allah President Reagan of the Trump administration seawan, Well, I think you know, how do you think, Colonel North? I mean, because this, to me was a message that this is a line in the sand, which is what the President had said in the press conference with King Abdullah or Alia this week. This is a lot more than a red line. It's it's way beyond that. And the message to me is that there's a new sheriff in town, and the new sheriff is not going to sit back and watch innocent men, women and children get gassed without reacting or without there being consequences. Now, you know, I know that the President wasn't for this at the time, but to me, I think being in the office seeing those images, you could hear it in his voice both during that press conference and last night that he was deeply moved at what was, you know, crimes against humanity in our lifetime. Oh no, there's no doubt this guy is a war criminal. And and as General mcner and he just pointed out, the message goes beyond Damascus, the message goes straight to Moscow. And what what we've been seeing happen is that there's been what I call the Troyka of terror among Moscow, Tehran and Damascus. And as of last night, that is very close to coming unraveled because even at point Yang they have no friends other than little dictatorships. Putin is in a very bad spot. Now. I know he sent one of his battle group ships out of the Black Sea into the Mediterranean, but they would be nuts to go after a US vessel at this point. I don't know, I don't see that happening. And and by the way, Russia was was not exactly fully supportive either. You know, they even said earlier this week their support for Syria. Now they've been the biggest booster and protector of of this, this murdering dictator thug assad but they said it's not without conditions. This is not nonconditional support, unconditional support. Looking I don't believe anything I hear coming out of Poofing or he was spokesman. I do know that these people are not fools. And the idea of him being able to be supportive of Poigyang in the in the the business that's been going on between poign Yang and Tehran on the development of I C b ms and nuclear weapons just got a wake up call. There has been a wake up call delivered to anybody who wants to who's those kinds of mass destruct weapons of mass destruction anywhere in the world. And so if you're sitting in poy Yang right now, you're thinking, maybe we better rethink this little joint venture that we've got going on with the Aetolis. And this has salutary benefits that go well beyond getting rid of Assad. Best of all, think about what happened in the last ten days. The President of the United States has met with in most cases very privately except for a few moments of the press, King Abdullah from Jordan's Alice al c c from President of Egypt, and he's talked to our allies in the area, to include Israel. Now I can see a scenario developing here when Roca falls and it will when Mostel is liberated, and it will be eventually at horrendous cost. By the way, at the end of the day, somebody is going to have to maintain some kind of peace in Syria. This is a remarkable opportunity because the two men that met with President Trump from that part of the world are capable, with US support, to be able to be the peacemakers and peacekeepers inside Syria. At your take, General McInerney, absolutely, Colonel north spot on Sean, all right, let me ask you guys this, what what do you think, if any is the response, because you always got to prepare anytime there's military action that there's a potential that there's going to be some some response. I mean, we see earlier today that a Russian warship is moving into the area. But should we take that seriously? Also, the Russian said, you know, all all games are off and that Russia now has lived and said, the possibility the agreement we had that we would not shoot down each other's planes that is no longer in effect. What if you're the president, how do you react to that? Colonel north Well, Look, the President said a couple of weeks ago in conversation about this whole issue out there. It is now time for things like safe zones. Well that requires somebody besides the United States to police them. Number two, there ought to be and I know Tom's talked about this a lot. Excuse me, General McInerney has talked about this a lot. Everyone. I got out of hand, sir, I'm sorry, smiling. I think I think this is time for a serious discussion about no fly zones. I mean, these were air delivered munitions that killed all those men, women and children with sara and gas, which is a horrendous way to die. I mean, the president you could tell, was choked up having seen those visions, those images and the vision of all those children choking to death just absolutely appalling. And I believe that the world is going to be behind this president on these kinds of things. There can be no tolerance for it. And as General McInnerny pointed out, and you said it yourself, that this president didn't sit around and give her in the set room with pictures being taken and people staring at the screen. He he took his the advice of his chairman, of his Joint chiefs of Staff, his Secretary of Defense, the battlefield commanders, and he was fifteen cruise missiles. Apparently, by the way, apparently there was one that did not go where it was supposed to. You can bet one of the reactions it's going to be it killed one of Basher Alisad's granddaughters or something. Yeah, you know, General McInnerny, I think that the best thing that happened here is in two things have come true here. Number one, I think it shows that America is back. Another important aspect is we're not telegraphing or military moves. I've always felt that that is a mistake. I know that Senator Ram Paul thinks any military strike is some type of declaration of war. It is not. Um Whether or not there's going to be ongoing action will probably be dependent on how the Syrians and the Russians react to this thing. But you know, if if the world can coalesce behind stopping the use of these types of weapons against innocent civilians, then at the u n as a body is useless, and any other country that doesn't support stopping this type of treatment of human beings, then you're just basically willing to allow a modern day holocaust to unfold before your eyes. Is there any difference. No, You've got it spot on again. Look, Sean, this president didn't go and agonize and go to the Congress and talk to people. He made decisive decisions that are important decisions that needed to be made. And so he is now telegraphing to our advers series. Beware, you're not going to get a second warning. And just like when President Reagan attacked Kadafi in April fifte six, uh, it sent a signal around the world to terrorists. Ali remembers that very well because he was in the NSC at the time. But that sent a clear signal. And that's what I believe that President Trump is doing. He is sending clear signals to our adversaries and particularly radical Islam and the others that there is, as you said, a new sheriff in town. But more important, our values and what we value to our national security or national interest we will protect. We will be a strong ally, you know. General. One of the things you mentioned, of course, was the Olivia raid, uh, and we lost two U. S Airmen, as you know, from an F one eleven that went down during that strike. The wonderful thing about America's technology and the Americans America missiles that were developed way back then. They're really a lifesaver for Americans. Another a point, General to something you know about and we can't talk much about. But there's a very vital air base in Turkey, and that air base, as the General knows and Sean you can probably guess, has some really important stuff at it. And Urdwan has been prancing around and dancing with Putin now for the better part of a year. They set up a joint command center to make sure that they didn't bomb each other and all that garbage. The bottom line of it is Urduwan just got a message last night, Urduans. The message to Urduwan is think twice about what you've been doing, because the dance music just stopped, and and he's got to realize if he wants to stay around, if he wants his country to be halfway tranquil. The outcome of what happens in Syria now, which is a wonderful opportunity, is a consequence of what the president did last night is very much going to affect Turkey. All Right, I gotta take a break, care guys, and I really appreciate your input. Don't forget Colonel North on what time you played in airing this weekend. Colonel, Well, we're there in the Okinawa MacArthur and the Hurkan Forest attles of World War two and O'kinala battle, of course, is the last one that was going on right now at this time. All right, thank you for being here, both of you. We appreciate your expertise. But first I gotta remind you, in this day and age, we all have cell phones, and maybe you get a new cell phone you want to donate or resell the old one. Be very careful now. These thieves that purchase old phones, they apply scanning technology to find personal information that they can use to recreate the identities and open brand new accounts. If you're gonna get rid of an old phone, take the time the five minutes, remove the SIM card, the SD card, encrypt your data, wipe it clean with bleach bit like Hillary, because it's gonna be time well spent. All right, let's get back to our busy phones. I know a lot of you have been wanting to weigh in on this military action. Uh, let's say hi to Robin Is in Johnston, Pennsylvania. Robin, Hi, how are you glad you called? How are you. I'm good. What's happening? Uh? Crazy world. Yeah, it's really glad that he made these moves. I think this Russian narrative this, you know, the Russians influence this and that. I talked to my friends. You know, influence is a huge word. And you know, even my own husband and his family, who were lifelong Democrats, they didn't know who Podest was. They weren't paying attention to half of that. Influence is a big word, and it just frustrates me and the constant. You know, Donald Trump is so nice to Russia. I think Donald Trump was trying to create a segue to have a conversation that was muted and had the opportunity to be progressive and maybe make some headway. I don't know what he's done nice, and I think he just took decisive action to last night and did what we needed a president to do for gold. I mean, there's such a dramatic difference red line in the sand. Okay, you do nothing, you do absolutely nothing, And you know here's a president that said this went beyond the redline, did something. And I'm gonna tell you what a predict is gonna happen. Nothing they're gonna stop using chemical weapons because if they don't stop using chemical weapons, it's gonna happen again. And last night, remember every Tomahawk missile, all all eighteen feet long, two feet wide missile is a thousand tons of AMMO and explosives in this thing. Well that's you know, all of that tonnage got dropped last night in a very short period of time. It is just a pinprick of what America and America's military is capable of. Now, do we want occupation? Do we want ground forces? Is it America's role to to fix the the unfolding civil war in Syria and the and the human wreckage that has been caused by this The answer is no. We don't have the ability to be the world's policeman. But there are certain moments and times in history where it is the right thing to do. And I think there also is a message sent to the rest of the world. I mean, there's been a lot of saber rattling out of Iran and a lot of say were rattling out of North Korea, and I think that now people need to understand that we have somebody that a recognize as evil in our time be will use military action, doesn't agonize over the decision. Uh. In a case that's so black and white like this, you just have to make that choice. Anyway. That's gonna really wrap things up today. I wish we had more time. All Right, We'll have Hannity tonight the very latest on all of this, and the latest on Susan Rice and much much more. What a busy news week. Neil Gorst's confirmed. That's all coming up ten Eastern Live Hannity on the Fox News Channel. Have a great weekend, and we will see you back here on Monday. See it tonight at ten

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