>> sean: wow, look at this crowd we've got. [ applause ] welcome to hannity. >> usa! usa! >> sean: what a crowd. we live in the greatest, best country god ever gave man. thank you for joining us at home. welcome to all of you in studio. all right. we got a lot of news. we begin with big news out of the middle east. gaza city has been completely encircled by israeli forces. now less than a week into their ground operation. two days after hamas vowed to conduct terror attacks over and over and over again until israel and every citizen there are wiped off the planet. don't believe me, look with your own eyes. >> sean: as i have said many, many times, this is now a real fight for israel's very survival. according to my sources, my president, your president, joe biden, is weak in the knees and not just when he's taking steps up air force one. instead of fully supporting our ally, israel, that has been a victim of the worst terror attack in their history and leading the world with focus and moral clarity, your president reportedly now is panicking over internal polls over this very issue. his support among democrats is slipping and slipping dramatically especially among -- i call them some of the hamas apologists even inside his own party. looking at states like michigan and minnesota. democrats are saying they're getting very nervous. at a closed door campaign reception in minneapolis, biden was heckled by a deranged woke quote trans rabbi demanding a cease fire. i didn't make it up. the president responded, i'm the guy that convinced bebe to call for a cease fire to let the prisoners out. i'm the guy who spent the time talking about general asisi out of egypt to let him open the door into egypt. joe, you need to be the guy that tells israel to win the war against radical islamic terrorists that attacked their country. that's the guy you need to be. but instead you're president joe biden. he is pressuring israel to allow fuel into gaza and is sending, wants to send over $100 million in aid. sounds great. problem is, hamas has used money in the past for humanitarian purposes to build a 300 mile network of terror tunnels and of course buy the rockets they keep firing into israel. the fuel that was stock piled for rockets and terror tunnel, they're stealing that, too. the terror group can stock up and aid on other supplies in their fight against israel. where do you think the money's going to end up? it will end up in the hands of hamas. they are in control of everything. they won't even allow innocent women and children out of the country to get to a point of safety. so joe biden needs to stop being the guy who wants to, quote, put a pause on israel defending their homeland and telling the world, oh, bebe, he may not be lasting as leader as the prime minister has to fight a two front war and it may get bigger. by doing that, there's no ally to israel and to ally to the cause of liberty. you can see how quickly he caves to pressure from the radical left in this country. he's not the only spineless democrat. take a look. >> is a cease fire needed now? >> i think it is. at least in the context of both sides agreeing. for example, the release of those who have been kidnapped should be part of the immediate release. that should be the beginning of it. an effort should be made to engage in conversation between the israelis and the palestinians. >> sean: lot of democrats are pressuring israel not to defend itself and their homeland less than a month after what was the worst terror attack in their history. extrapolate out israel's population compared to our population, it would be the equivalent of 38,000 of our fellow americans killed in a day. you have hamas openly vowing to strike over and over again. democrats, they want israel to back down? and just what? wait for the next attack? 1,400 israelis from all over the world tortured, murdered on october 7th. hundreds others taken hostage. now it's leading to, what, a wave of rabied anti-semitic events all over the world and in our own country and in the halls of congress and college universities and campuses. but don't worry because joe biden just tafrbged kamara harris with a brand new mission to uproot hatred in america. not the rampant anti-semitism we have all been talking about in our country and around the world or hatred against the jewish people or the swastikas or nazi slogans. no. the administration now claims they already have a handle on all of that. really? instead kamala harris announced the administration is leading the country's first national strategy to counter islamic phobia in the midst of the most anti-semitism the world has seen since the 1930s and beyond. the administration now believes that's their top priority? at least politically they do. new commission comes as hundreds of jewish people, including american citizens, are still being held hostage by hamas. men, women, children featured on posters, torn down by vile anti anti-semites. vandalizing jewish businesses, swastikas, threatening to murder, rape jewish students on college campuses. and tonight we're not sure how the administration plans to counter the sharp rise in this anti-semitism. so harris' top mission is to switch the argument to islamaphobia? slight detour in london. a speech about ai safety. that's their top priority. or civil society. or something else. i don't know who is struggling more cognitively, is it kamala or joe? how about we let you decide. >> i do believe that the voice that we have offered in this global discussion has been significant. it has been a priority, for example, for us to ensure civil society have an equal choice at the table. as i said in my speech yesterday civil society has always played a very unique and important role in holding public and private sector to account. as we are thinking about in particular safety issues and defining safety, defining risk and defining who is vulnerable in that context civil society has an important voice to add to the policy that will be developed. >> this administration is a dumpster fire. at the top we have a cognitively struggling, morally bankrupt politician and his backup, the vice president, doesn't seem to have a firm grasp on basically anything. together, they are failing our country day in and day out. they're failing the world. we now know what the world looks like when america abdicates its role of leadership on the world stage. make no mistake. the atlantic and pacific oceans, it's not enough to protect us from the chaos that is now erupting overseas. we've got two major wars. iranian backed terrorist fighting proxy wars for iran. attacking american soldiers on a daily basis. 27 attacks in about two weeks. officials now are concerned about the risk of a cyber security attack carried out by iran. really? putin pulled russia out of the nuclear test ban treaty. russia's wegner group is threatening to take systems to shoot down u.s. planes in the region. even "the new york times" is now admitting the latest conflict could threaten the fragile global economy. you think? it's only been a few years, but we are far removed from pwhafs the peace, prosperity, yeah mean tweets that some people didn't like from the last administration. the media mob, they don't seem to care. lock at this. maga and christian nationalism is a bigger threat to america than hamas could ever be. exactly. now want don't you tell that to families being held hostage by hamas and others who were murdered or tortured and raped by terrorists october 7th. or the american soldiers getting attacked every day in syria and iraq by iranian proxies. or the americans witnessing massive rallies in our cities where masked men are waving flags from another country and calling for revolution antifata against our way of life. this as prime minister netanyahu said is now a clash of civilizations and a fight for israel's survival. there will be no cease fire until hamas and hezbollah are no more. here with reaction former secretary of state fox news contributor. let's give a warm welcome to mike pompeo. [ applause ] mr. secretary. why would joe biden, as israel has now begun the ground operations, why would he be calling for a temporary cease fire? why would the president not stand with israel and say, go defeat your enemy and win the war? >> sean, there's no logical explanation. if you put america first, you definitely want prime minister netanyahu to do both his duty, to destroy hamas and to complete that mission in its entirety. you don't need him having a second front here in america. you're fighting hamas. now you're fighting the biden administration. a biden administration that's simply lost its way. it forgets just short of four weeks what actually happened there and is trying to restrain them. to hear senator durbin talk about a cease fire in exchange for hostages. we want all the hostages home. we want every american home. we've had americans killed. make no mistake about it. if netanyahu were to take that deal and get the hostages out in exchange for hamas to continue to threaten israel, it would only result in the death of more israelis and more americans. lastly, sean, i heard president biden speak today. i heard secretary blinken speak today. neither identified the real problems here which is iran. they continue to coddle. giving them $7 billion. it has fueled, set the context for the barbaric actions about which you've spoke and prime minister netanyahu has spoken. to give iran more time more money. >> . >> sean: how bad can this get? we already see possibility of a two front war. hamas, gaza, hezbollah, lebanon, the huttis, the rebels in yemen declaring war against israel. syria firing rockets into israel. now turkey threatening to get militarily involved. and iran, they're doing the sabre rattling. how bad can this get? what is worst case scenario, in your mind? >> there's enormous risk that this expands. it expands in ways that causes arab states to check out because they don't feel like the united states has their back because president biden called the crown prince a paroraha. this could spread not only to the greater middle east. you could not only have cyber attacks but cells in europe, cells that may be in the united states. we heard our fbi director talk about that just this past week. if the united states doesn't lead, if we don't re-establish the deterrence the trump administration had in place for four years. nothing like we have seen in these three years have happened. there was no war in europe or the middle east for four years. if we lose that deterrence. if america is viewed as weak, this could expand dramatically. we should all be reminded. president xi is watching our actions. the chinese communist party is hoping the united states will show it is impotent and unprepared to do the things to protect its own citizens, not on abroad but its own southern border. >> sean: i was speaking to a skeptical interviewer tonight. i brought up the issue that i believe when you and president trump at the time put together a coalition, i didn't think i'd see this coalition in my life time. that included the united states, israel. it included egypt, jordan. it included the saudis, the emeritz. led to the abraham accords. that was unprecedented all standing against iran in that region. all standing against a nuclear armed iran. all of that seems to have fallen apart. to what extent did your peace through strength policy, your policies and president trump's policies make a difference? and how do you think these world actors are reacting to both presidents? >> sean, we were pretty clear. we were going to put america first. when we drew red lines, we were going to force them. when general sulmani was threatening soldiers in iraq, we made sure he didn't kill one american. we didn't sepb the 82nd air borne we used america's power. we isolated the bad guys. iran was never as isolated as it was in the four years of the trump administration. that let the israelis, saudi, bahrainians, all join together to say america is gonna be with us if we have a bad day. it gave them capacity to push back against the largest state sponsor of terror, the ayatollah. we're just a couple days past the anniversary when that same regime held americans in tehran at our embassy. today the president spoke of prisoners. these aren't prisoners. these are hostages being held inside the gaza strip. the united states weakness has provided the context which hamas felt like it could do this with absolute impunity. now you have democratic leaders demanding that impunity be granted to them. >> i have no idea why the biden administration wants to give billions of dollars to iran. it makes no sense. or allow them to sell their oil and become an oil rich nation when they're the number one state sponsor of terror. secretary pompeo, great to have you. thank you, sir. this brings us to the dire threat posed by our own wide open border. look at this. in fiscal year 2023 more illegal immigrants successfully entered this country more than the population of 11 different states. this includes thousands of, quote special interest aliens from the middle east including a lot from syria and a lot from iran. now tonight senator chuck grassley is sounding the alarm about the terror threat posed by drones that are operated by illegal immigrants or mexican cartels just across our border. here now with more senior adviser to president trump steven miller. [ applause ] what do you make of this, steven? >> thank you. >> sean: what do you make of -- why would iranians come all that way to get to our border? why would syrians come all that way? why would tens of thousands, according to reports, communist chinese nationals. why would they be making their way to our southern border? russian nationals, why would they be coming to our border? >> because the red flags in their backgrounds would be so obvious and so glaring, that if they attempted to apply for a visa, they would be rejected even under the last standards of this administration. that's the point i want to get across. if you're an iranian, you can apply for a student visa under the biden administration. you can apply for a green card. but if you're not doing that, it's because you have something in your history, in your background that makes it so you know you would be denied that benefit. so you're coming through the border illegally working with criminal cartels. any foreign adversary in the world, any foreign entity in the world can get anyone they want to through that southern border working hand in hand with the cartels. joe biden has created a situation that is so dangerous, so untenable, so catastrophic, we are truly at the world of the world's worst actors. >> sean: i am 100% certain, but i pray i'm 100% wrong, out of the 8 million estimated, including got aways, illegal immigrants that have entered this country unvetted under joe biden, that among that 8 million, maybe 10 million by the end of the year, that there are terror cells that have set up inside our country. i don't have any doubt that i'm wrong. but i pray that i'm wrong. am i wrong? >> no, you're not wrong. there's simply no way that the people that want to hurt america and kill americans, terrorist entities and organizations around the world knowing that our border is open. knowing those numbers, that joe biden is resettling millions of unvetted illegals in this country, that they would not fully exploit that situation. criminals and terrorists will exploit any weakness they can find. this is the greatest national security weakness in the history of our country. president trump said all the time immigration security is national security. what joe biden has done is betray the security of this entire nation. >> sean: that would mean they're plotting, they're planning, scheming another 9/11 or even worse. i pray that i'm wrong. stephen miller, thank you. 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