Opportunity For Peace - March 3rd, Hour 1

down with Zolenski on Friday. The President's been talking about it today as well, and President's strategy. The fact that the media doesn't understand him or want to understand him is very predictable, but it is unforgivable at this point in my view, because they don't want to understand him.

They don't understand what's going on in Ukraine, they don't understand what's going on in Israel, they don't understand the Middle East, and their level of ignorance is it's flabbergasting on many, many levels, too many to even get into it, to be honest with you, and it's it's kind of a sad thing that happened, but let me give you where I think this is going to go, so maybe to give you some hope, and I think it's going to end this way. I think so Lindsey's coming back,

maybe sooner, maybe later. He actually made the ridiculous statement today that he thinks that this war is going to go on for years. Well if he believes that, then he has to believe that the funding for this war is going to continue. And at the United States. Maybe nobody told him, but there's a new sheriff in town, and this sheriff wants an end to the destruction and the death that has taken over Europe and his country.

And if it does go on for years, there's not going to be a country that is worthy to be saved. And I'm watching all these European leaders now following the footsteps of Joe Biden. Joe Biden, JD. Vans was right. He pounded his chest and calling Putin names, and how did that stop Vladimir Putin? It didn't do a thing.

And the best solution at this point, because Americans are not going to spend hundreds of millions more dollars in the next year with nearly forty trillion dollars in debt to fund the war that Zelenski wants to fight with our money, because that's where we are with this, and the best case scenario for him, and this was this was a three part deal. Part one should have been on Friday, and we have a lot of behind the scenes details that we'll give you in the course of

this hour. Part one was to sign the rarer mineral deals that would have benefited Ukraine for two reasons. One, it would have ensured a business relationship and a US presence in Ukraine likely for decades to come. And two, American technology would have been used to extract the minerals, which would give them, you know, billions and billions of dollars to build back their country, which would have been

a huge financial benefit for everybody involved. The President already said that he was open to the idea of European troops when he would talked to Emmanuel McCrone. He said to Macron that he's fine if European troops want to be on the ground, He's okay with that. And I'm watching, you know, Europe and their emergency meeting and the UK Prime Minister laying out a peace deal framework and welcoming

Zelenski with open You're always welcome here. I'm like, fine, if Europe wants to if they want to continue to fund this war against Russia and not come to a negotiated settlement, that would have been phase three. Phase one is the mineral deal. Phase two is a ceasefire. Phase

three is a negotiated settlement. That negotiated settlement, as I said to my interview with Zelensky a number of weeks back would include the rare Earth mineral deal to pay back the United States and also ensure an American presence there that would help them in terms of their country security.

That and number two, a ceasefire that would be very good for them right now because they don't have the manpower, and they don't have the weaponry, and they don't even have the prospects of drafting any people because they're now you know, they they're now forcing forty five year old men into the battlefield, and I doubt most forty five year old men can fight like twenty and twenty five year old guys and at that age an unexpected war.

So Europe can you know, criticize the US and act like they're the biggest Ukraine supporters of all time, and meanwhile it was the US that paid the bulk of the freight. The way Joe Biden set this up and Harris set this up, is this war starts, he's putin's of massing troops on the border. Biden's asked, well, you know what's going to happen if he invades. Most people were predicting he's not going to evade him, like that was the dumbest analysis at the time I'd ever heard.

Of course, he was planning on invade, on invading. Did you not remember the annexation of Crimean what twenty thirteen or fourteen, whatever year that occurred. You got to be pretty dumb, naive and stupid not to think that he was gonna invade after amassing all these troops along the Ukrainian border. Well, it depends if it's a minor incursion.

A minor incursion. What is a minor incursion? That means, well, we'll let him go in a little bit and we will be okay with that if it's a minor incursion, and then you know, then he starts with the handcuffs on Zolenski. At the beginning of the conflict, no, Poland can't give twenty eight megs. No, you can't use cluster bombs.

And by the time Biden's leaving office, he's giving Zolensky ballistic missiles that can reach Russia, and he's firing those ballistic missiles into Russia, which did raise the possibility or greater possibility of the potential of a World War III situation, because Vladimir Putin responded by changing their nuclear policy to say that any country that fires ballistic missiles into their country is now they're now able to nuke them in response. Great job, Joe, on top of the hundreds of billions

of dollars that you spent. Lindsey Graham, I love Lindsey Graham was absolutely apoplectic, and he's been a big supporter of Zelensky, but he also sees an opportunity here for peace. And then he tore into European leaders rallying behind Zelensky. Be my guest, Europe, you want to defend Ukraine from Putin, you go right ahead, he said, He said, less than twenty four hours, and which is the right position to

be in? Now? All this said, I still think that Zelensky will be back, and I think it's going to be sooner than later, because at some point reality is going to kick in. It clearly didn't kick in by the time he went on Brett Bear Show on Friday night. We have Brettbahar on Friday night. It didn't kick in any point over the weekend. Although I do have sources, I have very good sources, better sources than the state

run legacy medium on which is dead. Zelensky has been reaching out repeatedly to President Trump directly and his team directly, asking to come back and make this right. So hence my knowledgeable prediction, putting two and two together A squared B square equals C squared. I believe that Zelensky will be back now this afternoon. The President's holding a meeting on the next steps regarding the crisis with Ukraine, including the possible suspension of US military aid, according to US

official with knowledge of the meeting. According to Axios, and suspending military aid would damage Ukraine's ability to defend itself against Russia's invasion, and I think it would also had the would have the added impact of bringing Zelensky back to the table. But he's got to come back with realistic expectations here if he wants this war, as he said today, this war is going to continue for years.

If it continues for years, you don't have to have a HAVED or MIT degree to figure out there's not going to be a country left. It is going to be annihilated. It is going to be destroyed. There's going to be more refugees, There's going to be death and destruction. You know, I noticed JD Van so I'll have on Hannity tonight was forced to move his family to an undisclosed location because he had hundreds of pro Ukraine protesters swarming of vermon skivers. He's got young family and he

wanted to take him for a weekend skiing. Guy can't even go skiing. It's ridiculous. And anyway, so one little factoid that we learn. Michael Goodwin, writing for The New York Post, delivered a pretty bomb show report yesterday that President Zolensky, before he met with the President on Friday, he met with a group of congressional Democrats. He also met with ten US senators and it's his belief that these Democrats sabotage these peace negotiations. And before meeting with

the Zolensky before meeting with Trump. Rather, Zolensky met with these anti Trump Democrats who advised him to reject the terms of the mineral deal that the president was offering. According to Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, just finished the meeting with President Zelensky, he confirmed that the Ukrainian people will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets everything he wants and there is no security arrangements for Ukraine.

That was phase three, the negotiated settlement. Phase one was the mineral deal that was supposed to happen. That was supposed to be a predetermined outcome. It's the third time Zelensky said he'd do it, and the third time he backed away from it. Case you're counting now. Forty minutes later after this meeting and Zolensky arrives at the White House, he President Trump goes out to meet him, and we

all know what happened thereafter. The earlier meeting with Democrats undercuts wild claims that Trump and President van stage in Ambush. I know for a fact that wasn't. This was a predetermined outcome meeting, which happens all the time on the international stage, was supposed to be predetermined they were gonna shake hands and they were gonna, you know, smile, and

they're gonna go sign the rare earth mineral deal. The next push was going to be for ceasefire, and Zolensky was supposed to say he would support a ceasefire so they can have a negotiated settlement. That didn't happen. That was a missed opportunity. Scott Bessent revealed Zolensky turned down two earlier opportunities to sign this rare earth mineral deal with the US, and he was given a chance in Kiev by him once in Munich and Secretary of State

Mark or Rubio. And anyway, Thescent went all the way to Kiev because he thought it was important the president send him back there, you know, because of the shared economic interest. And they had a private meeting, you know, and at one point they wouldn't even they wouldn't even wake the guy up for a meeting. And he sat there, sat there, sat there, and then finally sent him out of here. And why should he say, but he was supposed to sign it. That was the predetermined outcome or

what there was supposed to be. At the end of the meeting, he said I'm not signing this. I said at the end of the meeting, do you want to go out and tell the press? He said, uh, because I don't want to go out and show the Russians that there's daylight between us. And he said, well, I'm going to go out and say I'll sign it in Munich. That didn't happen anyway. So and by the way, if you want to know where the Ukrainian people are, we've

got a poll number, you know, out from November. Callup polled the people of Ukraine on whether they want to keep fighting Russia versus ending the war now with the negotiated settlement by a fourteen point whopping majority. The people

of Ukraine want the war to end through negotiations. And as far as the American people, Gallup had a plurality of Americans that support a quick end to this Ukrainian war, even if it means Russia gets to keep some of the territory they now occupy, which probably would have been part And I brought this up in my interview with him. You know, you're not going to be a member of NATO. But the President was open to European troops being on Ukrainian soil and the business relationship with the US would

be a pretty powerful message. So we're going to find out what happens, Tulsea gabbered. The new DNI director you know, pointed out Zelenski has canceled elections, taken over the media, imprisoned opponents, and shut down churches. This guy not exactly, you know, mister Pope innocent here by the way, I know the Pope is on a ventilator and our prayers are with him and anybody that's sick for that matter. Not fun the White House now, Democrats, he's become He's

an arm of the Kremlin. He's a putent puppet. This is the most ridiculous thing ever. Why don't you call him evil and Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin? Because, as the President explained on Friday, okay, I'll follow the idiotic, dopey media's pressure and give in and call Putin names. That's what Joe Biden did for years. How did that work out? And then he ended up funding a proxy war with the US that has cost US hundreds of

billions of dollars. You know, Donald Trump's trying to make peace here to save Ukraine from total destruction and to end the death. And maybe maybe Speaker Johnson's right, maybe Zelensky's not up to that job. I don't know. Well, we'll find out soon enough. Well, no, well know, this is a sad story. I mean, I guess now the president until and the President's going to address the name should amid the Ukraine uncertainty. And he really was very he was very short on Friday when he said that

he can come back when he wants peace. I don't think that message is going to change. And of course we'll hear a lot more at the State of the Union addressed tomorrow. We are in DC. We do have jd Vance, the Vice President. We'll get a first hand a count from him where he thinks this is all going. Why why he thinks this devolved into what it evolved into? Why did Zelensky act this way? And again, this to me was supposed to be largely ceremonial. It was not.

By the way, here's a sad state of affairs. New York Post Gallup poll. Thirty three percent of Democrats survey said they had a favorable view of Israel. Sixty percent said they viewed Israel unfavorably. The first time. Ever, a Gallup survey showed up majority of members of a main US political party having a negative opinion of the Jewish State.

I say to anybody, any of the respondents here, what part of murder, rape, kidnapping, torture, beheading did you not understand what happened on our coverer of the seventh The equivalent of forty thousand Americans died in a day. What are you missing here? All right? Quick break from the swamp. Jdvans tonight on Hannity. We'll continue when fake news gives you lies, Hannity supplies the truth. Sean Hannity is on right now, all right, twenty five now till the top

of the hour. Eight hundred ninety four one shown is on number. You want to be a part of the program, as we come to you from the capital, our nation's capital. No, you don't get a point for that. By the way, as we come to you for a nation's capital. We're here. We're going to have Vice President JD. Van's on tonight to talk about his first hand experience on Friday in the Oval Office with President Trump and Zelensky in the showdown that took place, and also my prediction. We'll get

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the modern error. This is where I keep saying, he has the opportunity to be to be the most transformational, consequential president in the last hundred plus years, if he if he is able to successfully get Republicans, because I'm not I'm assuming Democrats are just going to hate on him, but if he can get for the sake of the American people, the Republican Party to stand true to principles

of constitutional order, limited government, greater freedom. If he fulfills his promise to secure our borders and get rid of known terrorists, gang members, cartel members, murderers, rapists, violent criminals, and people that are harming our fellow citizens. That will be a dramatic shift from where we have been the last four years. You know, if he's going to continue to identify tens and tens and tens of billions of dollars in waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption, that is going

to benefit every single American. We ought not be advancing the radical green new leftist deal worldwide and promoting and paying billions of dollars for DEI programs, wokeism, transgenderism, LGBTQ plus while the American people have nearly forty trillion dollars in debt. We're stealing from our children and grandchildren, and we've got to be better stewards of their money and

for the sake of our children. Also, we need to bring back law and order and safety and security and eliminate the madness of no bail laws and this insanity of defund and dismantled police, no refund them.

Jeffries and Chucky Schumer's directive to use the president's address to showcase democratic resistance. Resistance to what Waltz. Voters don't see. Democrats are inviting He's so dumb. He's like the dumbest guy on earth. Jeffries and Schumer want members to attend the speech. Some are not going to intend. You know, it's I want to go in their plaze. I'll take their seat, you could, you know. Chris Murphy said he's leaning against attending because when Trump does it it's not

a serious event. Okay. Other lawmakers said they will take their spouses as is common. And you know, nearly a dozen House and Senate Democrats said they are leaning against attending. Or let's see how many Democrats are going to be lined up in the aisle seats for the twelve hours prior to the State of the Union that want to shake his hand and get a selfie with the president. Because that's what happens in spite of their stated, you know, vitriol and hatred of Donald Trump. You know, but look,

the there was a great article. Where was this today? I forgot it was Politico today, That's where it was. And it was written by Adam Wrenn and the headline is centrist Democratic group railing against leftist identity politics and purity tests. I mean, this is why people. And he'd be nuts to do this, our friend Steve and I Smith, he'd be nuts. He has no idea what would await him. On the other side of that, I would be forced into a position to have to just.

maybe Linda's Senator Fetterman. And when it comes to voting, he hasn't shown me enough, you know, enough commitment to really being the moderate he professor to be.

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every modern Democrat you know. Taxpayer funded sex change operations of running mate, taxpayer funded college tuition for illegals, gender affirming care for minors without parental consent, as if parents don't have any rights at all, anymore anyway. So and they go on to say one of their comprehensive and sweeping, you know, election loss they centered on the party's disconnect with the working class, weak messaging and communication, no failed policies.

They're wrong again on point two and their failure to prioritize economic concerns. Well, they lied to us as a party with abandonment about the borders, about economy, about Joe's cognitive state, why would we trust them now? And over emphasis on identity politics that defines this party. They're not going to eliminate that. And the attachment to unpopular institutions

like academia, media, government, bureaucracy, Well they have a chance. Now, what democrat is not screaming constitutional crisis because we're finding hundreds of billions of dollars of waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption. You know, if Trump's first term might have energized progressives, it looks like the early signs the second term is going to do the same. In spite of what Politico

is saying about this small group of Democrats. Now they say, well, with the selection of Senator Slogan of Michigan to deliver the response to the nation after Donald Trump, Okay, those gathered laid out twenty solutions, embraced patriotism, community, traditional American imagery. They're acknowledging that they don't so what They're going to fake it because it's not real. If it was, patriotism comes out. It is raw, it is natural, it is is unapologetic. You don't need a note from a group

of moderates in your party. Let us embrace patriotism and community and traditional imagery that is Americana. I'm like, how stupid are these So let's fake it. Let's act like people would not. Candidates should get out of elite circles and into real communities and go to tailgates and gun shows and local restaurants and churches. Well, they haven't exactly been the biggest supporters of the Second Amendment, and they

haven't been the biggest supporters of freedom of religion. And we know the party's position against Israel, and if they go to a church, it's basically solds to the polls, which has been always a big part of the democratic strategy during presidential election years. They need to own the failures of the democratic governance in large cities and commit to improving. Oh decades and decades of failure. That part

I agree with. Are they going to admit that their policies on law and order and safety and security and borders and energy are out of touch with where the country is and that lying to the American people and having their allies in the media do the lying for them failed spectacularly too. I don't think so this is all you know what? This is smoke and mirrors. How can we Basically, it should have been a document that says, how do we deceive the American people into believing that

we're something that we really are not. That's what the article should have said.