April 17th, 2026

Rough transcription of Hour 1

Segment 1
Also the great one Mark Levin. It’s a new impression I’m working on. It’s been sharing my videos. She appreciates comedy and doesn’t give in to that. Woke right? Neofascist. Right wing Nazi capos. These people are. Obsessed with genitalia for some reason. Well, great Nazi infiltrators in the conservative movement. When destroy this country, they want to destroy the Constitution. These people are impostors. They’re parasites. Latching on to the success of Donald Trump, this great president. My president and I stand by the president smearing the president. They’re trying to weaken the base in the coalition. Beautiful coalition that this president has built. They don’t want us to fight the far left. They are the far left. That’s right. I said it pretty good, don’t you think, Rick? So great comedian, Abby Kozak. I’m a huge fan of his. I don’t know him. I don’t know him. But he really is spectacular. And I like to post him when I find his stuff. I like to post it. Just fantastic. He’ll be on HANNITY tonight, really, in the first segment, close to 9 p.m. Eastern, if you’d like to watch it. We have two tremendous shows this weekend, 8 p.m. Eastern, Life, Liberty and Levin. I hope you all set your DVR. If you’re not sure, you’ll be home for Saturday and Sunday. There’s a lot going on. And even today, the president has been posting on true social. The enemy has been putting out some stuff. Our ally, the prime minister of Israel, has been putting out some stuff. Basically, the president feels they’re very close to a deal. He has said that we’re winning on all issues. The enemies, foreign minister. Are. Throughout some points there where he says, no, we we want some reparations. We want this and that. I don’t believe him, but nonetheless, I believe that’s what they want. There’s also leakers that go to Axios, which is a rotten left wing operation. I would not pay attention to leakers, anonymous sources and stuff like that. They’re not relevant. And they’re so wrong so often. And of course, the prime minister of Israel has put out some points. Now, the president says that the Strait of Hormuz is open forever. And that the enemy is helping us find the mines. And that the enemy will not support or fund terrorism anymore through surrogates and some other points. Something that has me very concerned is when the president put out a statement basically saying that Israel could not. Bomb in Libya any more. Just to make something clear, there was a cease fire there. It was signed in 2024. The Lebanese government and Lebanese army were supposed to enforce it. They were supposed to disarm Hezbollah. They don’t have the ability to do that. They’re not strong enough, nor do they have the desire to do it. They’ve shot 6700 rockets and missiles into Israel over the last few months. So Israel went back in. They said enough is enough. They essentially had them surrounded and they were called off by our government to get a peace deal, a cease fire, and then a peace deal between the Israeli government and the Lebanese government. Now, what’s the problem with that? Israel is not at war with the Lebanese government. Israel is not at war with the Lebanese army. Israel is not at war with the Lebanese people. Israel is fighting a defensive military action to protect its towns and cities from Hezbollah. Watch Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a terror organization that is killed. God knows how many Americans, including civilians and military. And it is a offshoot. A a wing of Iran in Iran has been desperately seeking to protect it. So I was a little surprised and taken aback by that posting. And then there was an update to that posting. I just noticed because the agreement with Israel was that they could take defensive measures. In other words, you don’t have to wait to get hit. And the administration put out a clarification just a little while ago and said no, if. If it’s a defensive measure, they are free to do it, of course. But if Israel is not going to disarm Hezbollah, if the Lebanese government and their army doesn’t have the will or a way. Then I guess we are. And I don’t know how we’re going to do it. How are we going to do that, Mr. Producer? It’s not going to happen. So I just wanted to bring that up. That was a concern to me also. Let’s be honest with each other. Can we? I mean, straightforward. The president’s going to get a hell of a deal. The enemy is now worried about the president. But the enemy is the enemy. They see things beyond election cycles. They see things beyond a four year period. They see the world beyond Donald Trump’s presidency. And here’s what they know. Until Donald Trump, not a single American president, did anything effective. To stop them. Post Donald Trump. If the Democrats are elected, they’re not going to do anything effective to stop him, though. They’ll give him money. And most Republicans would do the same, not all, but most. The more isolationist related Republicans will. We know who they are. So my concern is perhaps the behavior when Donald Trump is president. Perhaps. I mean, they’re called terrorists for a reason, right? They have violated everything they’ve signed for a reason. Right. Their mentality is not the same as the West. An agreement is just a a means by which to get an ends. But they’re going to play longer ball than an election cycle in the United States. And they’re not going to sit still. They’re just not. They may wait two and a half, three years, but they’re not going to sit still. And so my view is we’ve got the military there. We’ve choked them off economically. A little bit of patience. A little more time, maybe two, three, four weeks. And it would resolve itself. And there’s another big issue. What is that, America? Big, big issue. What about the Iranian people? What about the Iranian people? Now what’s happening? We’re getting some reports to this effect is that the president of Iran, who’s not part of the. You know, the Republican Guard, as they call themselves, is not a good guy. Please don’t mistake what I’m saying. But I’m just saying he’s not part of that. The. He’s getting in arguments with that. And there seems to be some arguments brewing between the regular Army and the I.R.S., this Republican Guard. The Republican Guard exists like the SS for Hitler. It’s big. It’s a militia. It’s there to protect the regime. It’s a security force. It can be a military force. But it was set up by the first Khomeini. To enforce. Support for the regime or to eliminate any opposition whatsoever. Another one’s going around slaughtering people, by the way. They end a militia they’re bringing in from, say, Iraq and so forth. There seem to be some from fraying of of of issues between them too so. We have our hands around the throat of their military, such as it is. We have our hands around the throat of their economy. So just don’t let go for a while. Just don’t let go for a while. Now, I know now the Arab states are saying let’s get a peace deal. I know the Europeans say let’s get a peace deal. And know the communist Chinese want their oil out of Iran. So all the pressure. Naito The Arabs, the Communist Chinese. The Democrats. Are media wimpy Republicans. All the pressure is to capitulate. Except for Israel. The Israeli people want to finish this off. They’re tired of running into bomb shelters every every few hours. They’re trying to bring in their children up this way. And nobody’s lost more people in this war than the Israelis, except Hamas, of course, maybe the Iranians. So it’s not as if they’re not fighting their own wars. Of course they are. And here’s the bottom line. The people of Israel want victory. And what’s happening is the left in Israel and the left of center parties pretending to be right of center parties, as I’ve explained before. They’re attacking Netanyahu for being our lapdog, for being Trump’s lapdog, for not doing what needs to be done to finish this war. And they don’t mean a peace agreement. They mean finish it. There’s the irony. You’ve got people like Third Reich admitted felon. Bloated Bannon. On his podcast, The Horror Room. Going on and on about Israel today. See that Trump put them in his place. But they clarified the administration that Israel, in fact, can use military force for defensive actions and preventative action if they see Hezbollah organizing and so forth. That was the cease fire deal. And so that clarification must really upset. The neofascist among us. The woke right president also put out another statement maybe to, as I recall, Mr. Producer laying in to Carlson Kelly. Jones, and I want just blistering them. Blistering them. They deserve every every bit of it. We’ll be right back.

Segment 2
There’s Hakeem Jeffries on the payroll of the Islamic Nazi regime in Tehran. Now, I say that tongue in cheek. Now he’s a volunteer. He’s doing it for free. Giving aid and comfort to the enemy with his every breath. Cat one Go. Donald Trump’s reckless war of choice, which we had an opportunity to stop through our War Powers Resolution. But unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of House Republicans have chosen to stick with Donald Trump, as they always do, and support this reckless and costly war of choice. Why is it reckless? Why is it reckless? Iran’s military is essentially defeated. Me. Can’t do anything. Its nuclear ambition has been crushed. Don’t mean don’t try again, but this is exactly my point. If the Democrats, God forbid, take the White House. And the Iranian regime reconstitutes itself a regenerates. And goes right back at it with the help of the communist Chinese and the inbred in in North Korea. Do you think that Democrats are going to do anything to stop them? Oh, no. They’ll do something else. They’ll fund them the way Biden did. They’ll lift sanctions, they’ll give them billions, and maybe they’ll do what Obama did sign an agreement that ensures they get nuclear weapons. That’s my fear. That’s my fear. And this guy proves it. He underscores it. So, moron, go ahead. Henry to me. Since Donald Trump has gotten America in a war which has now cost the lives of more than 12 different brave servicemen. Oh, wow. He was really concerned about that. When Biden surrendered in Afghanistan in the most horrific way. Humiliating way. And 13 brave men and women. Men and women, extraordinary individuals died. Died because of that. Go ahead. Injured hundreds seriously and cost the American taxpayer billions of dollars at the same time that Democrats don’t care about money. I mean, Elon Musk proved that with them. Chris Ruffalo’s proving it with them. They just spend and spend and spend. And then when it comes to something like national security or defeating a a would be nuclear regime. A suicide bombers. All of a sudden they’re worried about the. The purse strings. They don’t care otherwise. No, they give money to illegal aliens. Give it to illegal aliens for having a breast enhancement or transgender with their genitalia. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cut to go. With respect to this war, there was no intelligence to suggest that Iran presented an imminent threat. Okay. Hakeem Jeffries is a liar because even the Biden regime said there was. And when you’re dealing with hypersonic missiles, supersonic technology. What is imminent even mean. What does it even mean? Now this word imminent. Has a a legal meaning. It also has a meaning given to it by the Defense Department. But it’s not a condition precedent to doing what Donald Trump did. Donald Trump believes that Iran is a threat. He believes that he needs to take preventative action. His envoys come back and they tell him, Hey, these guys said. That they can make 11 nuclear bombs in ten days. He’s supposed to ignore that. Keep that in mind, America. That’s where Hakeem Jeffries is coming down. Even when the enemy says we can build nuclear bombs in two weeks. His view is that’s not imminent. We’re going to take a short break soon and I want to talk about. The vote that took place in the United States Senate, 59 to 40. I want to talk about the 40 Democrats. Who voted against not giving Israel selling to Israel, things like. Well, things like. I’ll explain in a moment. Specialized bulldozers to clear out minefields. Seven individuals born Jewish voted against against allowing Israel to purchase those from us. I’ll be right back.

Segment 3
Why would you vote not to sell defensive weapons to Israel? In other words, why would you do the work of Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, terrorist organizations and terrorist states? Now, the specialized military bulldozers are used not to kill anybody, but to save lives, to save the lives of, among others, IDF soldiers. They’re used to clear minefields. They’re used to clear minefields. That’s all they do. And that was part of the package. A significant part of the package that the Israelis wanted to purchase from us. 40 Democrats voted no. Every Republican voted yes. Let them buy it. Including Rand Paul. Kudos to Rand Paul. I salute you. I salute you. Now of the 40 Democrats who voted no. Seven are Jewish. Now, I know this is confounding people who aren’t Jewish, but it confounds me too. You don’t have to be Jewish, not Jewish. Michael Bennett. Voted no. Jon Assaf four years ago or six years ago, ran. He’s very pro-Israel. He voted no. Bernie Sanders, a Marxist pose. Brian Schatz. And Hawaii voted no. Adam Schiff. When a Swalwell’s pals voted no. Elissa Slotkin, who very much ran as a moderate Democrat, very much ran, as did the now governor of Virginia. Slotkin is a liar. She is a narcissist. She’s a carnivore, very much like the governor of Virginia. And by the way, if you’re registered to vote in Virginia, you need to vote and vote no on that damn gerrymandering constitutional amendment. You can’t let this stuff slide anymore. You got to get got to get involved in it. Just a vote. That’s all it takes. And Ron Wyden of Oregon is a freak fraud and a phony if there ever was one. Bennett. Ossoff. Who’s up for reelection. Sanders. Schatz. Schiff. Slotkin. Who wants to be president, by the way. She’s unqualified and widen. That guy Looks like he’s been in a sci fi movie or five. Frightening freak there. Frightening. Fetterman voted with the Republicans. In fact, a handful of Democrats did, including Schumer. So this guy, Roxana. This. This punk, this sleazeball. Who want the Temple University Law School, as I did, I believe. Then he moves out west. He holds a seat in and around Silicon Valley. And he ran as another moderate. All frauds, phonies, all of them. He’s not going to vote for defensive weapons like with the Iron Dome to sell anything to Israel. Not these bulldozers. Nothing. Now he is, of course, flip switch. All of them have almost all of them have in the course of two or four years. Because the party’s gone nuts. It’s the party of Hassan Puka. It’s the party of Hassan Puka. That’s what it is. That’s what it is. It’s the party of the Islamo Nazi regime in Tehran. It’s the party of Hamas. It’s the party of Hezbollah and the Houthis. In a sick way. That sounds like a band, doesn’t it? Hezbollah and the Houthis, I don’t know. Whatever. Not funny. That’s what they did. I mean, I’ve got Adam. Adam Smith, a Democrat from Washington State. A complete. The complete loser named after a great economist. Who wrote a great deal. Really? When wandering around. When our nation was founded. Yeah. Are. You’ve got Fetterman on CNN today. There’s Fetterman. Fetterman is worth all the attention we give him. Cut! Five. Go. Who in your party do you believe is cheering for Iran? I’m saying it’s like if you are. You are making it seem that that we’re you know, America is not the force of good in the world. Criticizing America, criticizing Israel. You know, you have Iran, what they’ve done, you know, the kinds of outrage, you know, with Iranians massacring tens and tens of thousands of Iranians just just recently for that. Now, if you’re going to continue to vote against our military, if you’re proud to vote against defensive kinds of systems like Iron Dome for for Israel, you know, and you can continue to vote down something that, you know is going to fail, you know, that actually must absolutely excite Iran to see, you know, the way that many people, you know, in the Democratic Party, you know, doesn’t back the attempts to try to break and destroy the Iranian regime to acquire a nuclear bomb. It’s a very courageous man. He knows he’s putting his neck on the line politically. He knows him. And I have to say I’m going to give a lot of support to this man. I am. I’m going to give a lot of support to this man. Does he agree with us on everything? Of course not. But he’s very brave. And he’s right on. And he and I have had a couple of private discussions. He’s contacted me. He’s the person. He’s actually incredibly nice. He’s an incredibly nice man. He just is. Cut six. Go, Chin But considering the way that you have talked about your party in an interview, I have to ask you this. Do you see this this forum? CNN is just trying to stir the pot. She wants him to trash all the members of his party so he can’t even sit in in their caucuses anymore. That’s what she’s up to. She’s trying to teach him a lesson. But he resists it. Go ahead. God, are you You’re committed to being a Democrat despite everything you’ve just laid out? Well, of course. Yeah, I am. I am absolutely a committed Democrat and absolutely. And I like, you know, I vote the 91, 92% Democratic line, but I am the only Democrat now that’s proud to consistently stand with Israel. And I’m going to do that. And that’s that’s been very damaging. It was my standing as a Democrat. But what’s necessary? I’ll be the last man standing with Israel. I’m really proud of this man. Really? How he’s come back from from his medical issues. And there he is. Now compare this to Adam Smith, the representative from Washington State. Cut. Go. I agree with John Bolton, your previous guest. The president is desperate to get out of this. He got into it not knowing where he was going. He’s not getting the concessions out of Iran that he wants. Does that desperately. Trump can do no good for these guys. They want him to take, quote unquote, an exit ramp. They want him to get out. If he had bombed the hell out of them. And brought them to their knees. They wouldn’t like that either. Their party subsidized their nuclear program. Their party paved the way for them to get nuclear weapons. And here’s Donald Trump. He’s having to deal with what he inherited, a boat full of crap from these guys. And all they can do. If he moves in this direction, they attack mean if he moves in that direction, you got to be flexible. You got to be flexible in how you’re dealing with these people and so forth and so on. My view is finish it. Finish them off. But look, I’m not the president. I didn’t run for president. He’s the president. And he’s made pretty damn good decisions up to now, don’t you think? So this back bencher, this clown, they just look for trouble. Go ahead. Still he can or does it lead him to escalate? It’s really hard to say. And certainly he’s not telling us the truth repeatedly. I mean, he’s telling us the truth. He wants a deal and he wants an ironclad deal. And it just is a matter of. Whether you think this enemy. Whether a deal can be enforced, he believes, depending on where he comes down. That it can be. Now, what do I mean? Depending on where it comes down? These are. That’s the nature of negotiations. You know, some of us believe I believe give it three or four or five more weeks and they’ll collapse. They’ll certainly be much weaker. But he knows things that we don’t know. And I trust the man. To make the best judgment he can. I don’t trust these guys. These lightweights, these losers. Her giving aid and comfort to the enemy every damn day they go on TV. All right. We’ll be right back.

Segment 4
Hello, hello, hello. I don’t think I owe you anything doing Rich. Does your wife call you Rich or Richard? When she’s mad, what does she call you? I mean, Richard Wright. Tom Barrack is our ambassador to Turkey. And that’s exactly right. He’s a turkey. He’s a disaster. Absolute disaster. This guy. He’s got a big mouth. He pops off. And he keeps endorsing and defending these authoritarian regimes, whether they’re monarchies or dictatorships. And he’s constantly trashing, of course, Israel and Netanyahu, but he’s a skinhead, literally. He’s got a skinhead. You know, he’s bald like me. I don’t mean a Nazi. I mean a moron. It really is poison. And here he is at the Antalya Democracy Forum yesterday. Hat tip, open source Intel, cut three. Go. I mean, you can take the Gulf. And by the way, the Gulf countries are are so good and these beneficial monarchies worked. If you if you looked at the region and again, I’ll be criticized for saying this because it’s anti-democratic. The only thing that’s worked. The only thing are these powerful leadership regimes, either benevolent monarchies in kind of a monarchy, monarchy or monarchical. Look at everything else. This Arab Spring just faded away and evaporates. Countries that have put on this cloak of democracy or that we’ve gone after for human rights have failed. So prosperity at the end. Israel aligning its interests with the Gulf with these strong civilizations. I mean, Syria is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. You’re not aligning with civilizations. You just said you’re aligning with strongmen dictators. Now, this guy, just so you understand America, he’s a lapdog for Erdogan in Turkey. And he’s our guy. And so Turkey is a perfect example that had a wonderful democracy prior to Erdogan. Erdogan is a national socialist Islamist. Get it? And he’s destroyed that democracy that was created by Ataturk. He created a secular democracy. And Erdogan came in and destroyed it. Lebanon was a functioning democracy. It was a majority Christian country. They had an elected Christian president who was assassinated by Hezbollah at the direction of Iran. And now it’s a majority Muslim country, about 35, 37% of the population being Christian. Now, some countries can handle democracy and some can’t. There’s no question about that. But Turkey can. Lebanon could. And probably some of the others. But that’s not the point. Is it? So Israel, you see, has to. Figure out how it can align its interests with dictators. Now, it’s already been doing that and trying to do that, of course. But why are you celebrating this? I’m going to get in trouble for saying this. He never gets in trouble. It’s a big mouth. He never gets in trouble, but he does Erdogan’s bidding. And you’ll notice he brought up Syria. He does Syria’s bidding under their new president. How about 3 seconds ago as a terrorist? And he complained bitterly when Netanyahu send the IDF in there to protect the Christians. He said it was provocative. They were bombing Syria. And Netanyahu said bombing Syria, we’re trying to protect the Christians, the Druze and other minorities there. If we don’t do it, who’s going to do it? That’s this guy, Tom Barrack. I’m going to get in trouble if I say this. No, you’re wrong. No, you won’t. Another guy tape a guitar tape with turkey. It’s amazing how some of these guys love these dictatorships, is it not, Rich? They get along with them because they can sit by one guy who snaps his fingers and something gets done. Unlike our system, you can snap your fingers all you want. People start dancing. They think you want music. You don’t get a lot done. Certainly not that fast. But nobody pays attention to this guy. But he is a wrecking ball. Nobody here pays attention to him, but he’s a wrecking ball, in my view, overseas. I’m not a fan. Not in the least. I don’t believe in giving aid and comfort to two Erdogan. To Erdogan or some of these other knuckleheads. Well, congratulations, New Jersey. You have a new Congress. Mark says Islamist. You know that. Nikki? Cheryl. She won her. Mickey. Mickey. Who cares? She’s the governor now. Another loser, another disaster. And. Guess who replaced her? A complete nut job. And now Lilia mejia. She’s the winner in a heavy Democrat district. And I understand, America, that there’s a lot of Jewish people in this district. And she hates Israel and she cottons up immediately to the Hamas wing of the Democrat Party. Don’t ask me to explain this. Don’t ask me to explain this. It’s disgusting. I’ll be right back.