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00:00There's a lot of topics I want to discuss in the course of this opening statement, but before I do,
00:05let me ask you a question. Many of you have spouses, don't you?
00:10Many of you have boyfriends or girlfriends. Do you agree 100% of the time? It'd be kind of weird
00:17if you did, right? Maybe you agree 90, 95% of the time. That's a good marriage. And you know what
00:23else is important in a good marriage? Communication. To have basic, shared principles,
00:29values, belief systems, and communications. That's what makes a good marriage. Not to be a
00:36sycophant. And so it brings me to the media today. We have a very sick and perverse media in this
00:44country. Even some of the new media. I mean, we've got the old corporate media and then we have the
00:48corporate media at entrails like Mediaite with a now rather perverse drudge report, things of that
00:54sort. So they can't figure out who I am and what I am. First, I'm a sycophant for Donald Trump.
01:04In the recent weeks, I am a defiant usurper of Donald Trump.
01:10I don't live my life trying to figure out I'm a sycophant or usurper. I am neither. I've been on
01:22radio a quarter of a century. I've written 10 number one bestsellers. My opinions are well known,
01:27whether it's the constitution, the border, whether it's capitalism, whether it's the Middle East and
01:34Israel, whether it's Russia and Ukraine. Those are my principles. I have not changed a single principle
01:42probably since I was 13 years old. I like to think I'm relatively intelligent, but maybe I'm not.
01:49Maybe everybody else is playing chess and I'm playing checkers. For all I know, I'm playing ping pong or
01:54bocce. I don't know. But I call it as I see it. I call it as I see it. You know, I'm a big
02:03fan of George Washington. Many think he was the greatest president in American history. You know,
02:09he owned slaves. Maybe you heard that. I'm a big fan of Abraham Lincoln. Some think he was the
02:15greatest president in American history. You know, he eliminated habeas corpus in violation of the
02:21constitution. He shut down 200 newspapers in violation of the first amendment, but he won the
02:26civil war and he ended slavery. I'm a big fan of Ronald Reagan. Many think he was the greatest president.
02:33I worked in his administration for him for eight years. And he gave amnesty to several million illegal
02:40aliens. I strongly disagree with that. So I disagree with slavery. I disagree with Lincoln on the
02:45constitution. I disagree with Reagan when it came to amnesty. And so we will have our
02:50disagreements. That's called republicanism, democracy, free speech. You know, funny thing about
03:00Donald Trump. He wants different opinions. He wants a merit. He wants to understand them.
03:05He's a principled man, but he changes, you know, his application, his strategy, his tactics. That's
03:10what you do when you're making deals. And he and I talk from time to time. And we both are very good
03:19friends. I adore the man. He says he adores me. And here's the thing. Every time the media try this,
03:31every time the media try to stir the pot with he and I, it doesn't work.
03:37Then takes on Trump. Trump says this, this, this. These are grifters. They want hits. They want whatever
03:43they want. Here's the bottom line. He has said to me and I have said to him, nothing's going to come
03:52between us. You want to know why, ladies and gentlemen? He loves America. I love America. He wants
03:58what's right for the American people. I want what's right for the American people. And we know his
04:04enemies who tried to put him in prison, who tried to steal all his money and his wealth, who went after
04:09his family, who did everything they could to try and destroy the man. They're the enemy, not the
04:16adversary. They're the enemy. And if they win the midterm elections and take the house, we won't be
04:22able to save this country. You need more than two years to undo what they've done. There will be
04:27impeachments. There will be prosecutions. There will be God knows what. Endless subpoenas,
04:34investigations. The media will join in too. So we have a common enemy and we have a
04:39common love. You the people, we the people. So we're mature. This is a mature society. We can have
04:49differences of opinion. He with me and from time to time, me with him. There is no hiding the fact
04:57that I don't understand all this Qatar stuff. He's playing chess. I'm playing bocce ball, I guess. I don't
05:04understand it. That doesn't mean I think that what Donald Trump is doing is DVS, that he's trying to
05:09harm the country and so forth and so on. We just have a difference of opinion. Qatar is a terrorist
05:15state. Qatar gave safe heaven to the mastermind behind 9-11, KSM. The FBI was on his trail. They
05:23tipped him off and they helped him get out of the country and gave him a fake passport. To me, that's
05:28the enemy. Just to me. A recent report came out last week and there have been other reports
05:32before that. $29 billion in the last few years. The Qataris and the communist Chinese pouring
05:40into our country. They've destroyed many of our top colleges and universities. They're now funding
05:47propaganda against America and against Jews in K-12 schools. Now, I'm hoping as part of all
05:56these money deals and all these great activities and so forth, that in return, they've agreed
06:02to stop pouring their blood money into our country, destroying our colleges. Oh, and did
06:08I mention that they were funding Hamas, the biggest funder of Hamas that slaughtered the
06:13Israelis. No wonder the Israelis hate the Qataris. Oh, and they funded the Taliban. May I mention
06:19the Taliban? Maybe you're familiar with Tunnel to Towers. If you watch this network, you are.
06:24Have you seen all the men and women? All the men and women who have suffered at the hands
06:28of the Taliban? Oh, and they're best friends with Iran. And they don't want us bombing Iran.
06:35Like we give a damn what Qataris says. So we have a difference on Qatar. That's okay.
06:40It's okay. Look at Iran. Iran. We don't want to bomb Iran. This is what the isolationists tell us.
06:48We don't want to bomb Iran. It'll start a war. We don't want to bomb Iran. Well, I can't wait
06:52to see the plan that's going to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. We don't want to bomb
06:59Iran. But we just bombed the hell out of Yemen. We bombed the hell out of Yemen. Was it 30 days
07:05or 60 days? And we proudly, the president proudly, the secretary of defense proudly proudly said
07:10we've been bombing the hell out of these guys. We're going to crush them. They're going to keep
07:14those lanes open no matter what. We're going to send a message to the Iranians too. And we bombed
07:20them. And we bombed them. And then we bombed them some more. And then we're told they surrendered.
07:25Except when it comes to Israel. Israel, you're on your own. But don't worry. We bombed them.
07:33But not Iran. No, no, no. That's taboo. That's taboo. Everybody's talking about if they don't
07:42make a good deal, then we'll bomb them. I could be dead wrong. I don't think that's the case. I could
07:50be dead wrong. The isolationists, the self-hating Americans in many respects, you know, they say,
08:00so what if Iran gets a bomb? Qatar doesn't want Iran bombed. Saudi Arabia doesn't want Iran bombed.
08:06Little Israel. Little Israel. Who cares about little Israel? I mean, we give them some arms and so forth and
08:13so on. They're going to have to go along with the program. Netanyahu, you know, Biden tried to take
08:20him out. The Democrats tried to take him. This guy is an immovable force. Just because he wants to save
08:25his country. Just because he wants his people to live. Just because he wants to destroy Hamas,
08:30which slaughtered 1,200 people. You know, al-Qaeda slaughtered 2,200, 2,400 of our people.
08:36We didn't say, I don't think. Let's have a ceasefire, did we, with al-Qaeda? No, we didn't.
08:44So why should Israel have a ceasefire with Hamas? They shouldn't. I'm just throwing some things out
08:50there with you. Now, let's set the table right here. The Biden regime funded Iran, funded their
08:58nuclear program, appeased Iran, took all the Trump restrictions off Iran. So Donald Trump has handed
09:04a horrible, a horrible situation here. We're at the 11th hour. Thanks to the Democrats. Thanks to
09:11Biden. And that's why Trump is a thousand times better than they'll ever be on Iran. And I want to
09:19say. I support the president's statements 100%. 100%. I always have. And so do 52 out of 53 Republican
09:29senators and 80% of the Republicans in the House of Representatives, including the vast majority of
09:35the largest conservative group there, the study committee. And in the Senate letter that was sent to
09:41the president, I think it was on Wednesday, we write to express our strong support for your efforts to
09:46secure a deal with Iran that dismantles its nuclear program and to reinforce the explicit warnings that
09:53you and officials in your administration have issued that the regime must permanently give up any
09:58capacity for enrichment. This is every single Senate Republican, except for Rand Paul, who's kind of out
10:04there, you know, sort of the Soros Coke stuff. During your first term, you withdrew the United States
10:11from the deeply broken joint comprehensive plan of action, the Obama plan, and imposed maximum pressure
10:17on the regime. As you said then, a fatal flaw of the deal was that it, quote, allowed Iran to continue
10:25enriching uranium and over time reached the brink of a nuclear breakout. The letter goes on. The scope and
10:31breadth of Iran's nuclear buildout have made it impossible to verify any new deal that allows Iran
10:36to continue enriching uranium. That's the deal. Those spinning centrifuges, that's what the Senate
10:42Republicans are talking about. That's what Donald Trump was talking about. They cannot continue to spin
10:49because to go from spinning centrifuges that may not necessarily be used for nuclear arms to spinning
10:57centrifuges for uranium for nuclear arms is like that. We had General Keane on the program a couple of
11:06weeks ago. He said it takes two weeks. Every expert I've brought on here said, no, no, no, no, no,
11:11no. If they're of the mind to get a nuclear weapon, they'll get a nuclear weapon. No spinning
11:16centrifuges. The United States has to go in there, remove them, and destroy them, as we did with Libya.
11:22That was the Libya plan that Bush put in place. If Bush can do the Libya plan, I believe Donald Trump
11:28could do the Libya plan in Iran. Bush got it done. Trump could get it done, too. And it goes on.
11:36In its most recent report published on February 26th of this year, the International Atomic Energy
11:42Agency confirmed that because of Iran's activities over the last four years, quote,
11:47the agency has lost continuity of knowledge in relation to the production and current inventory
11:52of centrifuges, rotors, and bellows, heavy water, and UOC, which it will not be possible to restore.
12:00You and your administration said 52 out of 53 Republicans in the Senate have therefore correctly
12:07drawn a red line against any deal that allows Iran to retain any enrichment capability. So I agree
12:15with the president. I agree with the president on Iran. Your national security presidential memorandum
12:23on Iran stated that, quote, Iran's nuclear program, including its enrichment and reprocessing related
12:30to capabilities and nuclear-capable missiles, poses an existential danger to the United States
12:36and the entire civilized world, quote, unquote. Notice Netanyahu's not in there. Israel's not in there.
12:43The Jews and the neocons are not in there. This is a threat to the United States of America.
12:49And you recently said that the only, quote, full dismantlement of those capabilities would be
12:56acceptable. Special presidential envoy Steve Whitcoff has made it clear in that context of
13:02negotiation that for any final arrangement to work, quote, Iran must stop and eliminate its nuclear
13:08enrichment and weaponization program. The president has my 100 percent support. He's got 100 percent
13:16support from 52 out of 53 Republican senators. He's got 80 percent or more of the Republican House
13:22members, and he's got you, the American people, who do not want Iran to get a nuclear weapon
13:29and do not support a deal that will allow them to get a nuclear weapon, period.
13:35You're not pacifists. You're not isolationists. You're red-blooded Americans. You remember what
13:43happened on 9-11. Qatar remembers it was involved. Saudi Arabia remembers it was a principle involved.
13:52You remember. I remember. You see what's going on in the streets of the United States in our colleges
13:57and universities. That's communist China. And Qatar, that's right. Al Jazeera, remember them?
14:05Praising Hamas for what they did to the Israelis. Al Jazeera, which in the language, the Arabic language,
14:12is constantly attacking the United States, trashing the United States. In fact, the monarchy in Qatar
14:17constantly does it. It spokespeople do it. Nothing goes on in Qatar without them controlling it.
14:22But you wouldn't know unless you go to a site called memory.org, M-E-M-R-I.org,
14:27because they have translators who tell us what they're saying. Over in Iran, same thing.
14:33They say one thing to their people and their terrorist friends and another thing to us.
14:39Yet here's this piece in the Thursday NBC News website.
14:45Ali Shankhani, a top political military and nuclear advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
14:55is one of the most senior Iranian officials to speak publicly about the ongoing discussions.
15:00He said Iran would commit to never making nuclear weapons, getting rid of its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium,
15:06which can be weaponized, agree to enrich uranium only to the lower levels needed for civilian use
15:12and allow international inspectors to supervise the process in exchange for the immediate lifting of all economic sanctions on Iran.
15:19The sanctions are hurting them. But this is what caught my attention.
15:22Agree to enrich uranium only to the lower levels. That's Obama.
15:26That's what he did. That's what every expert who's come on this show, military or scientific,
15:36or any expert who knows anything about nuclear power and nuclear weapons has said
15:41is an Achilles heel to any agreement. That is, if their centrifuges keep spinning.
15:49Now, the argument that they have made, the Iranians, is, hey, look, you know,
15:55we have a civilian population and we need energy for us, too.
15:58Well, they're selling enormous amounts of oil to communist China.
16:01And, by the way, they will sign anything, which is why it's very important to understand
16:06what it is, this potential deal is.
16:11And I want to support the president. I support him right now.
16:14Because, as far as I know, this remains his position.
16:18And his position is supported by the vast majority of the American people,
16:22almost every Republican in Congress, supported by me and the millions of people
16:26who listen to my programs. We're 100% behind him.
16:30And no matter what happens, I want the media to understand,
16:35I support Donald Trump.
16:38You don't believe me. Take a look at the show I did last Saturday.
16:41But I can have my disagreements.
16:46This is a big deal, whether Iran gets a nuclear weapon today, tomorrow, or 10 years from now.
16:52It's a big deal.
16:53And I'm sorry.
16:55But, again, maybe I'm not playing chess.
16:58Maybe I'm playing ping pong.
16:59But I don't understand this Qatari thing at all.
17:03He's the president.
17:04He's got facts that I don't have.
17:06And he does.
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