American Hostage!? Iran Shoots Down Fighter Pilot as US Military Conducts Dire Search and Rescue
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Benny Johnson
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 121 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This Friday, ladies and gentlemen, and while we normally do a free-for-all Friday and we have a stacked, unbelievable show for you, there is something that is dire and tragic that is happening right now. |
| 0:11.7 | And we want to begin our show with a prayer for the downed U.S. fighter pilot, an F-15E has been downed in Iran. |
| 0:20.2 | Now, U.S. Sentcom has not confirmed this. They have denied it, in fact, |
| 0:24.6 | but there is an enormous preponderance of evidence that, in fact, a F-15E was downed in Iran |
| 0:31.5 | and the pilot ejected. Presumably the pilot and pilots are alive. This could be a two people could be piloting this aircraft. |
| 0:39.9 | We don't really know. |
| 0:41.6 | But there is an enormous amount of evidence that the jet did crash, that the pilots did escape. |
| 0:50.5 | And Iran is claiming that they have now American hostages. |
| 0:53.4 | This would be the first time that the Iranian Guard has shot down a U.S. fighter jet, and this is happening live right now. And so we're going to hand this with the utmost seriousness because it is a American life or lives on the line. Iran is now claiming their first American hostages of the war. |
| 1:13.6 | Now, this could be fake news. Iran has claimed plenty of things through official channels that |
| 1:18.1 | were completely and totally fake and wrong. It could also be that the American has already |
| 1:24.1 | been exfiltated in a dire and emergency operation that is ongoing right now in Iran. |
| 1:33.3 | Right now there are Black Hawk helicopters. |
| 1:36.0 | There are C-130s globebassers and Hercules that are flying very, very low over a remote province, mountainous region of Iran. It could also be that the jet |
| 1:46.2 | was not shot down but had a malfunction. This does happen quite regularly and that the jet had to |
| 1:53.5 | crash land and that nobody shot it down at all. It simply crashed landed. The pilots ejected. |
| 1:59.0 | And we've seen this before in this conflict. So ladies and gentlemen, that is what is the top of mind today, Friday, April 3rd, |
| 2:06.0 | 26. Iran puts bounty on American pilot. There are conflicting reports everywhere as to whether |
| 2:11.7 | this is something that is, um, as to what, what the information is truly here. Okay, so we're gonna give you everything |
| 2:18.7 | that we know right now. |
| 2:19.7 | Who will replace Pan Bondi as AG? |
| 2:21.2 | Of course, we have Tom Fitten and Brett Tolman on, |
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