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the news. Is nothing happening. London Times reporting a rand Supreme leader plans to flee to Russia if the anti regime riots get any worse. So, I mean, we're now at a moment of history where you could see the Iranian Mulla's fleeing to Russia in days or weeks. Cuba is on the precipice of falling. Maduro was in court in New York today. You know, it looks like Nicholas Maduro is not the only American enemy leader whose reign

is about to come to an end. And there's really only one person you can thank for all of this, and that would be Donald J. Trump. As we now head into what I believe is the single most important midterm election in our lifetime. And I'm going to say that a lot in the coming year. And when I say it, some of you say, Hannady, you're repeating yourself.

I'm telling you ahead of time. I will tell you and remind you daily at what is at stake here, all of the progress that you are going to now see the impact of a year's worth of economic policies driven by Donald J. Trump now literally heading into your pocket book and your wallet and your family. You're going to see lower interest rates. You're going to see the benefit of trillions of dollars in committed moneys from manufacturing make its way and fuse its way into the bloodstream

of our economy. You're going to see energy prices drop, probably to all time lows, especially in light of what has just happened in Venezuela and what's going to happen in Iran or could possibly happen in Iran. For the London Times to report that Iran's Hyatola Kamanie, you know, as a backup plan to flee the country with a close circle of twenty aids and family, and of course they'll pillage and take every penny that they possibly can out of the country, but that Plan B is very

real according to the London Times. We'll get into that as the program unfolds today. I mean, we have got Tim Walls making his announcement he's ended his re election bid bid because of all of the corruption. I love the New York Post headline from last week the Walls w w Alz close in and six days later with

you know the sheriff hot on his trail. Governor Walls has pulled the plug on his reelection bid and New York Post reporting the governor Wall said Monday at zero sadness, zero regret in ending his reelection campaign, before denouncing political actors, I don't know who the citizen journalist is. A lot of these people, you know that get a microphone, they don't really do a lot of good work. They just don't.

And a lot of them are you know, just too busy, you know, looking for clicks and figuring it out, figuring out algorithms that they can monetize, and you know, spewing you know, bizarre strange conspiracy theories and virulent anti semitism and and just division. I would argue that those people that are anti Semitic that are spewing division at a time when the Democrats are cracking up right before our eyes.

Those people, if you look at the history of their support for the mag of movement, it's not very concerns. It seems to be, you know, a matter of convenience for a lot of them. Watching them implode is actually something that's that's fairly fascinating to me in some ways. But we'll get to all that in the course of this this day, this week, this month, this year. We've got a lot to talk about. Uh, do we have to not start with how amazing, just like Operation Midnight

Hammer was taking out a RAN's nuclear sites. Do we not have to pause and thank God for the greatest military on the face of God's green Earth. And you might think, well, this, this is We've done this before. There is no such thing as a risk free military operation, this sophisticated where they captured Maduro. And you know, I'm already listening to the naysayers out there, and the you know, predictable naysayers, most of them. You're dealing with an illegitimate dictator.

He was not elected. He stole the last two elections, just like his predecessor, Hugo Chavez before him and indicted here in the United States six years ago, and a narco terrorist. It is not something that we've not seen in the history of this country before. We've seen it with Noriega and Saddam and Grenada and where was the other one? I think it was Columbia. We've seen this movie before and you know it was It's really remarkable.

You know that the corrupt state run legacy media mob and fake news CNN and MSDNC, they don't look happy about the successful military operation and developments and the end of the Maduro regime. If you look at natural resources, just the sheer volume of resources that Venezuela has in terms of oil. Now, it's not the best oil, it's not the cleanest oil. What does that mean. It's considered

dirtier oil. That means that it needs far more refiner refining than does say the oil that we're extracting here in the United States. But you have Venezuelans dancing in the streets. You have Venezuelans all over the country dancing in the streets. You have Venezuelans, you know, in my free state of Florida. They are cheering Donald Trump's decision

to remove Maduro. One of the consequences of this is we now are living in a moment where Cuba is on the brink as a result of the President's actions here. And that's fascinating to watch when you get the operational details as they become more available, and I've talked to a lot of people, very good sources. This was a very very well thought out, sophisticated military operation that was

extraordinarily dangerous. Apparently we did have CIA sources inside the Venezuelan government, which is why we were able to map out and duplicate and actually make a model of Maduro's home as we had Delta Force troops and others invade and they got to him. From the moment they got to that palace or of that home he was living in, it took them less than three minutes to get to him. That's it. That's how quick it was, and how amazing they are, And all hats off to all of them

for the great work that they've done here. Now the you know, I love the fact that the President is calling it the Donroe doctrine. We have had the Monroe doctrine and effect for a long time, and that is that we are not going to allow for an influence in our hemisphere, obviously for national security reasons. And as you go back in time and you look and you see exile Venezuelans around the world celebrating, you know, the

the removal of Maduro. Do you know nearly ten million Venezuelans had had to flee the country as a result of all of this. And do you know that Donald Trump offered this guy multiple off ramps in keeping with the Trump doctrine, give them an opportunity for peace, give them an opportunity. But it was obvious that that Meduro was just arrogant and and I guess felt that, you know,

he it was impt impenetrable, and it's not. And you know a lot of people are down there, well, President Trump is taking over the country temporarily, because why would we expend all this political effort and military effort and allow somebody to take over and and just replace Maduro and keep in place the policies that have impoverished the people of Venezuela. That would be pretty stupid. That would mean that was a waste of time, energy, effort, and

a risk for our military. No the President said, until a permanent leader can be found the US government. Yes, we'll run Venezuela until such time as we can do a safe, proper, judicious transition. One of the people, obviously that we've had on this program many times before, Maria Marshadow she's actually gonna be on TV with us tonight, would be one of the leading candidates. But Maria Marschado, she was the one if your recall, won the Nobel Peace Prize and said I don't deserve this, it really

belongs to President Trump. It will be interesting to see if she addresses that tonight when she's on with me, and I want to see what happens. But they've not had honest elections in Venezuela for a long time. Now for the short term here, the presumed successor, the Vice President, Dels Rodriguez, is a hard cored and there are rumors that she may be in Russia even now now in exile herself. But we don't know. We do know that she is a radical socialist. We do know she's a

hardline socialist who kept Maduro in power for years. And you know she's been trying to sound like she's lecturing Donald Trump and demanding the return of Maduro. She also serves as the Minister of Finance and Oil, slamming this as an atrocity that violates international law, none of which is true. It is constitutional, it is with plenty of precedents, and will have Greg Jared address the legal aspect of

all this. But if you look at her, you know she will either comply with what President Trump demands is going to happen there in the interim, or she will herself be out of power, and that'll happen very quickly. It's not going to be a long protracted negotiation with her. The Department of Justice under Pambona, the Attorney General, is vowed Madura and his wife will faith faced the full

wrath of American justice. As I said he was in court earlier today, we're hearing that the evidence against Maduro will be overwhelming, according to one federal prosecutor, Jonathan Fahi, telling Fox News that US forces captured Maduro, flew him to New York City and he's expected. He faced the arrangement earlier today and there will be a criminal trial. My guess is it would be I'd be hard pressed

to see a scenario in which he's not convicted. Although there's so many lunatics in New York now run by Marxist Kami Mamdani. I guess anything could possibly happen here. Former Attorney General Bill Barr predicting the Venezuelan President Maduro could face a sentence rivaling that a former Panamanian Dictatorman

Manuel nor Jega. And by the way, he was charged with multiple crimes by several countries, including a forty year sentence for drug trafficking in the US or seventeen years of that sentence before being expedited to France, where he served a seven year sentence for money laundering. Finally, extra dieded back to Panama for a sixty year sentence on murder and corruption charges, where he died in prison in twenty seventeen. I would imagine that will be the fate.

He's not having stake in his palace right now as we speak. That's not going to happen. Look, you have predictable reaction, and then there was some unpredictable reaction, which I'll get to. And obviously the anybody that believes in liberty and freedom now a lot of people saying, well, well, how is this not nation building, Hannity, How is this not a forever war. It's not going to be a forever war. There's no conflict going on right now. There's

nothing happening. The only thing that is happening is this president is making sure that all these American companies. Remember they nationalized all of the oil industry in Venezuela. When they did that, they stole all of the equipment from American companies that had built out. And I'll go through the details of this. Their economy, their energy industry, and they did it with great skill and precision, and that's why it should be one of the richest countries on Earth.

And I'll never forget the scene when Jorge Ramos and I've debated Hoge Ramos. I actually like him a lot personally. He's a nice guy, and he went to Venezuela, a country that should be so rich. They have the second largest oil reserves in the entire world. End not the best oil, but oil that can be refined. But it would take US companies to do it and US refineries to do it. And I'm sure they can build them in Venezuela. They can bring the oil here and that

will help make the people of Venezuela rich. Also, those companies can recoup the money that was stolen from them when these oil industry was nationalized. And I would imagine, knowing Donald Trump, that probably will be a financial windfall for this country as well. But it was the right thing to do, as this guy is pure evil. And

that's the thing I mean. I've heard commentary by some well, if things in Venezuela are just wonderful and there's no rape, and there's no crime, and there's okay, it's when you kill American citizens by being a part of a narco terrorist organization that profits off the death of American citizens. Why is that not a moral imperative to every human being to make sure that comes to a swift end. Anyway,

those people are barely worth discussing. Look, there are some of you still suffering under the Biden Harris economic disaster. Although taxes are lower as of four days ago, well five days ago, and that means that you'll be paying less. Interest rates now down a full point. We have a new FED share coming in May. That means interest rates will go down further. That means sales or pre existing

homes will go up. That means new home construction. We're down some six million homes that are needed in this country. They will be built. And if you're a homeowner and maybe you're living paycheck to paycheck, or maybe you're putting bare necessities on credit cards with twenty one twenty five percent interest rates, but you still want to hang on to your home. You know your low interest rate that

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on the web it's American Financing dot slash Hannity. And yeah, prosperous times are on the way, thank God. The one big beautiful bill now in effect. All right, twenty five now until the top of the hour. Eight hundred and nine to four one Sean is our number, and happy New Year to all of you and your families. I think is going to be the most important midterm election

in our lifetime. We will lay out the case of what is at stake in the days, weeks, months ahead, and I'm just urging all of you to make a resolution this new year to be ready for a battle and be prepared and prepare yourself that you are not going to let this country be set on the wrong

path again. Too many times we get too complacent. And if people are complacent in this midterm, you know you run the risk at all the progress in the last year, all the benefits that we're going to reap this year year from the progress of last year, both around the world and domestically and economically. And I have been predicting by the third quarter of this year, probably way before it, but I want to give enough runway for the economy

to make a full recovery. All the pieces are in place, urgest tax cut in history, no tax on tips, overtime social security, energy prices now the lowest they've been in five years, and they're probably going to get lower interest rates now coming down. That's going to spur economic activity, sal of pre existing homes, new home construction, all of that, trillions of dollars in manufacturing dollar moneies that are now dedicated to the country. We've never had all of this combined.

And it's going to benefit every single American. And just watch. We got the first indication of this with the last GDP report, which came out just after I've got on vacation, was a four point three percent GDP growth. We've not seen that in forever. Remember we had Biden inflation nine percent. It was insane. Let me first deal with the oil issue. And if you look at the the countries with the largest oil reserves by far, it's Venezuela and Saudi Arabia,

Venezuela topping Saudi Arabia. I mean, it is a massive amount of energy, oil reserves that they have in this little country. It should be one of the wealthiest countries on earth. But yet the people have suffered. They've suffered needlessly, and they had suffered greatly, you know, with you know reserves, if you look at all the political and economic turmoil.

According to the the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, I mean oil reserves, I mean, is it is over twice what we have in the US and we have healthy oil reserve. They have about four times actually about four times what we have, and Saudi Arabia a far behind them, and that's why the Saudis are an oil rich nation. But they have the world's largest oil reserves. We built, meaning the United States of America built up

their oil industry. We bought it, we paid for it, we built it, and they prospered When America was partnering with Venezuela. The people of Venezuela partnered, but we built up their entire oil industry. US oil companies spent untold billions of dollars building up their oil industry and then they nationalized it and stole it, and then by doing so, they were stealing from oil companies in this country. Now

this is going to be rectified. It's going to take some time to rectify it, and it's going to be American companies that are investing billions more. And that's why the President said, yes, they will until there is a transition. I would imagine elections is what's going to take place, and a new leadership. They'll be I'm sure they'll be very friendly with the United States. But if you go back, American oil companies have been operating in Venezuela since the

nineteen twenties. It wasn't until nineteen seventy six Jimmy Carter Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez nationalized the oil industry, taking control of American and other foreign oil assets in the country and American companies. Once this got nationalized, they had invested all of this money and they lost all of

this money. The State Department cable at the time from the American ambassador to Venezuela said that nationalization is going to come in any case, and that it was the official position of the US government at the time that it was against becoming involved in negotiations of that kind

that the government is conducting with oil companies. Remember, Hugo Chavez two thousand and seven took another bite at the apple and nationalized all remaining foreign oil assets in the nation, which resulted in Exon Mobile, Conico, Phillips all leaving, you know, completely Exon Mobil and Standard Oil predecessor of Standard Oil from New Jersey. Exon and Mobile. You know, they operated, you know, throughout all of these years, and it helped

make Venezuela one of the richest countries on Earth. And they can be again and probably in a very short period of time, which is the upside. Now, Chevron, you know, Gulf Oil is one of the original companies operating in Venezuela. They acquired at NI. Chevron acquired that in nineteen eighty four, and they received a billion dollar payout, which is nothing compared to the amount that they had put into it. So you know, that's the history of that part, that

aspect of it. I want to deal a little bit with the legal aspect. You're listening to these idiots on television and online and social media. You know, the more and more I read social media, the less inclined I am to pay attention to pretty much anybody. Although there was one real good citizen journalist who did a great job of going to the quote daycare centers that were getting billions of dollars in the Somalia community in Minnesota

and did a great job exposing it. We'll hit that later in the program when we check in with James Comer, but you know, and we'll talk to Greg Jarrett in the next hour about the legal aspect of all of this. Remember it was Joe Biden that offered twenty five million dollar reward from Maduro's arrest. I don't know if that means that Donald Trump and the US military are going to get a twenty five million dollar ward ward, but

that was Joe Biden's policy. And anyway, in almost in Unison, you hear the demer this is illegal, unjustified, and unconstitutional. And all these protesters in Mamdani's New York demanding that Maduro be set free and sent back to Venezuela. What to make the people suffer more and to let him produce more drugs and send him into the United States. And what was an organized narco terrorist crime organization. Oh that's a good idea, that's brilliant. But they have, you know,

long been poisoning our citizens. You know, roughly to two hundred and fifty metric tons of cocaine shipped out of Latin America annually, and with it, you know, fentanyl laced cocaine is killing Americans every single day. We can't even count how many people have died of these drug overdoses. And it's it's part of the Maduro regime, which is

why under Biden's watch he was indicted. But the president, under Article two, Section two of our Constitution, vests with him inherent powers to unilaterally order armed forces into military action. His command authority is supreme. As Greg Jarra pointed out in his column, He'll join us later. He may conduct campaigns and deploy operations by his own judgment, and short of a formal declaration of war, President does not need

prior authorization from Congress to act. And those people that are saying so don't know what the hell that they're saying. They just make it up as they go along, and they apply it selectively. You know, the US has captured criminal suspects in foreign countries, including Momar Kadafi, Libya, but it's sought to consent to local authorities, and the administration

describes Maduro as an illegitimate indicted leader. In nineteen eighty nine, the US arrested General Manuel Noriega, the leader of Panama, in similar circumstances. Noriega had been indicted on drug related charges. If this sounds familiar, and Washington said it was acting to protect the US citizens after Panamanian forces had killed

the US soldier the US. You know, we can't even count how many Americans have died because of the importation by this organized crime Narco terrorists, you know, syndicate into this country. You might recall the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, was extradited to the US in twenty twenty two, later convicted drug related charges, sentenced to forty five years in prison. It was a good article in the Wall Street Journal, and that said, the Noriega precedent

for Moduro's capture and prosecution. Trying a dictator has already been tried, and courts rejected all of his legal defenses. The only thing different is this time it's Donald Trump, and the President said, lawmakers camping, how do you notify Chuck Schumer? How do you notify members Democratic members of Congress that hate Trump that you're about to engage in military action. You don't think that's gonna leak, and you don't think that that is going to endanger American troops

in such a delicate military operation. You know, I'd love Chuck Schumer. Let's go back to Chuck Schumer in twenty twenty. This is what he said.

people for democracy. Well, if you look at the timeline of Joe biden Is comments and actions as it relates to Venezuela while he was president, you know, he tells US senators the US will recognize you know, somebody else as the legitimate president. He said he won't negotiate with Maduro wink and Tony Blinken, you know, speaks with the opposition leader and discusses a return to democracy. What happened in the four years nothing Biden administration warrened Venezuela not

to accept weapons shipments from a range. What happened weapons shipments from Iran came in is like you know, Obama and Biden, them, both of them, you know, said oh, we if we give you lots of money, the iranium mullows and we dropped you know, cargo planes full of cash and other currency, will you please not make nuclear weapons?

A lot of good? That did. Biden failed to take any meaningful action the entire four years, and then chiallenge Trump, Oh, Trump would never do any They did nothing, if anything that they had not only failed to take any meaningful action. In twenty twenty two, US officials traveled to Venezuela for a welfare visit focusing on the imprisonment of several oil executives. And nothing happens. It's, i mean, just a colossal failure.

And then we have you know, we have tape of Joe Biden going back delivering a message from the Democratic Party calling on President Bush to top the flow of drugs into the country. What happened to that party pretty amazing. You know, we're gonna run a country, and Donald Trump said that we're going to run this until such time as we can do a safe, proper, judicious transition. That's it. There's no forever war here. It isn't keeping with the

Trump doctrine, and it's in America's best interest. It's in our hemisphere, and it's a direct threat to you know, pretty much everyone in the country now, predictably of the likes of AOC and others. You know, Donald Trump wouldn't have pardon one of the largest narco terrorists. Blah blah blah, nicro. You know, this is about oil, ranking Democrats, says Trump's actions, it's you know, created more chaos and instability. Well, the Venezuelan people and Venezuelans around the world don't seem to

feel that way. And you know, watching Schumer and Jeffrey's demand the meeting is a joke. But there are somehow Democrats that actually took the other side of this, and actually some surprising names that you'll recognize Debbie Wasserman Schultz was one of them. Numerous House Democrats praised Trump's capture of Maduro Venezuelans deserved the promise of democracy. I nearly fell off my chair when I read from Adam Kinsinger Donald Trump made the right call, but then of course

adds a warning. What's the warning? Oh, okay, you broke it, you own it? Well, I think Donald Trump ooning that oil is a good thing. Then you have other Democrats want to impeach Trump for arresting the Narco terrorists, New York State democrats citing I'll released them a narco terrorists. Now Kamala Harris same thing. And by the way, when President George H. W. Bush moved to depose Manuel Noriega instantly received bipartisan support. That's how corrupted this Democratic party

has become. Now run by Mom Donnie AOC, Jasmine Crockett, and Grandpa Bernie