Episode #2233 - Hammer and Nigel Full Show

**Nigel** (0:00)
Hammer and Nigel.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:01)
Do you believe these characters? They're weirdos.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:03)
So let's rock it.

**Jason Hammer** (0:06)
You know what I don't hear anymore?
Donald Trump saying, huge, huge, Y-U-G-E, used to be a staple of Donald Trump's vocabulary, but you don't hear it that much anymore. Now you kind of get Donald Trump dropping the occasional F-bomb. They don't know what the bleep they're doing, but you don't get a huge.
Today would be grounds for a huge, if the old orange man would still say it. Huge day in Washington, DC. A lot of stuff going on. It's The Hammer and Nigel Show. I'm Jason Hammer. Big Nige is here. Hello! Trump meeting with not only BB today, BB Netanyahu, but Zelensky. Separate meetings in DC. All the while, they're playing tribute to late Senator Lindsey Graham.

**Nigel** (1:05)
Yes.
Yeah, that, I mean, you've got Netanyahu and Zelensky, of course, presumably Netanyahu and Trump discussing that ongoing war with Iran, Israel's involvement or non-involvement with that. And then peace talks and patriot missiles with Zelensky and Ukraine.

**Jason Hammer** (1:26)
Now, let's start with Netanyahu here, because we're getting conflicting stories. And again, leave it to the Iranians to not be the ones that are really coming out, being transparent.
But most everybody says talks are going to be happening between the United States and Iran. There's even going to be a third party. Like, Oman has volunteered to be a mediator among others.

**Nigel** (1:52)
Is that right?

**Jason Hammer** (1:53)
But the Iranians are like, I don't know what you're talking about.
No talk scheduled here. We're just abiding by the ceasefire. They're not firing on us. We're not firing on them. So we've got a little he said, she said going on. Now, earlier this morning, President Trump called in to Fox and Friends, and they asked President Trump, hey, you've got your buddy Netanyahu, you know, your BFF. He's coming over to visit you later today.
He's saying that Iran is fortifying Pickaxe Mountain. They haven't given up on their nuclear plans. Are you aware of that? Here is how the president responded.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:35)
Paving new access roads, satellite imagery and intel indicates that Iran is actively constructing and fortifying Pickaxe Mountain. How will we respond?

**SPEAKER_6** (2:45)
Well, I don't need BB to tell me that. BB is telling me that because he wants me to stay involved. I mean, I don't necessarily. We have the finest because of the Space Force. We have the greatest cameras in the world focused on. We know exactly what's going on.
But, no, I heard BB announce that. I said, why don't you just tell it to me? Why do you have to announce it to the world? I know exactly what's going on at Pickaxe. It's not a big problem. We took out their nuclear sites, and we'll have to take out Pickaxe if we don't make a deal. If we don't make a deal, we'll take it out very easily.

**Nigel** (3:16)
Yeah, Pickaxe, it's deep underground.
It's buried, and it's strategically important because it's generally considered one of the hardest Iranian nuclear sites to target militarily. So that's why they're talking about. And leave it up to the Iranians to have islands and mountains that sound like main locations in slasher films.

**Jason Hammer** (3:36)
Pickaxe Mountain.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:37)
Khorg Island.

**Nigel** (3:40)
What if it turns out all the nuclear enrichment stuff was shipped to Epstein Island instead? Oh, ee.

**Jason Hammer** (3:46)
Listen, just listening to Trump's voice right there, I know you couldn't see him, but it feels like the body language says, yeah, I'm already aware of this. You're not breaking any news. And frankly, I don't really give a damn what Bibi has to say.
They just want us to stay in this thing. That's the vibe that I caught.

**Nigel** (4:06)
Me too, yeah. I mean, he all but said it.

**Jason Hammer** (4:10)
The other big meeting was with the little guy, Zelensky. Zelensky came over and it sounded like their conversation was more in the positive direction about possibly getting some sort of peace plan together.
Zelensky told a paper in Kiev that they had a, quote, good meeting in the Oval Office, and the two leaders discussed efforts to reinvigorate diplomacy.

**Nigel** (4:37)
I'll believe that when I see it in terms of Russia and Ukraine.

**Jason Hammer** (4:42)
Zelensky in that Kiev newspaper, quote, I thank President Trump for everything we're doing together to protect the lives of Ukrainians and achieve peace. First of all, I expressed my condolences on the passing of Lindsey Graham. He was a true friend of Ukraine.
Well, you ain't just whistling Dixie right there. Graham Nastee loved, loved, loved, loved giving your tax money to Ukraine.