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This Is What Strong Leadership Looks Like-Trump Strikes Iran & Stuns the World · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: There are moments when you will remember exactly where you
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Speaker 1: were when something big happens in history. I will always
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Speaker 1: remember exactly where I was when I heard the news
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Speaker 1: that when you FAFO with Donald Trump, America is coming
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Speaker 1: after you. The US totally obliterated Iran's nuclear sites, Trumped
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Speaker 1: warned Tehran to make peace or there will be more coming.
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Speaker 1: After the three nuclear sites that we attacked over the
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Speaker 1: last day. JD Vance Marco Rubio making it very clear
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Speaker 1: over and over again, there will be no boots on
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Speaker 1: the ground or regime change. That is not what we're
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Speaker 1: advocating for. And what is happening in right now in Iran,
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Speaker 1: the mulla Is or the Mullahs, I should say, are defiant.
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Speaker 1: The unprecedented US strike has clearly wrecked Iran's nuclear program.
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Speaker 1: The Defense Secretary Pete Heads has said Sunday that other
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Speaker 1: officials are cautioning in Iran the extent of the damage.
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Speaker 1: The bottom line, America hit them hard, hit them in
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Speaker 1: a way they didn't see coming. And all of our
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Speaker 1: men and women involved are home safe in the United
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Speaker 1: States of America right now now, no doubt about it.
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Speaker 1: Iran is saying they are going to have revenge their present,
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Speaker 1: vowing it as again the United States of America is saying,
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Speaker 1: we are not advocating for regime change.
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Speaker 2: We are not at war with you.
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Speaker 1: But Iranian president offered a response to the use attacks
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Speaker 1: on Iran's nuclear sites by attending a rally in the
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Speaker 1: capital city of Tehran, attended by crowds chanting revenge, revenge,
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Speaker 1: also death to America. The Times of Israel reporting it
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Speaker 1: this way that Iran's presidence says the United States must
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Speaker 1: receive a response to attacks on nuclear sites in the
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Speaker 1: Islamic Republic. During a phone call with the French press Macron,
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Speaker 1: he took part in protests the President of Iran today
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Speaker 1: denouncing the US strikes and their nuclear facilities being hit
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Speaker 1: revenge revenge. The protesters shouted with her fists rays as
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Speaker 1: the president was seen making his way through the crowd
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Speaker 1: gathered in a square in central Tehran. Israel, by the way,
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Speaker 1: enjoyed a day at the beach after well, enjoying the
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Speaker 1: fact that they knew that America was able to do
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Speaker 1: what they needed to do. Iran also responding that they
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Speaker 1: might close the straight up Hormos that is a major
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Speaker 1: oil shipping port in the world, and it's twenty five
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Speaker 1: percent of all the oil that moves every day in
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Speaker 1: the world, in twenty percent of natural gas. It is
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Speaker 1: a major attempt by Iran to inflict economic pain over
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Speaker 1: the rest of the world and obviously the US, but
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Speaker 1: it would also hurt the regime itself as well as
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Speaker 1: other trading partners, specifically China.
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Speaker 2: If they chose to choke off the oil.
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Speaker 1: Exports, it would see prices rise obviously as well.
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Speaker 2: And then there's this update.
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Speaker 1: There is also pro Iran, anti Trump protests that are
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Speaker 1: happening among left wing activists right now as we speak
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Speaker 1: in New York City. I'm not joking, and there are
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Speaker 1: concerns about Iranian sleeper cells that could be in America.
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Speaker 1: How'd they get here across the open border that was
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Speaker 1: open because of the last regime in this country, the
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Speaker 1: Biden Harris administration. Now I tell you all of that
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Speaker 1: to kind of let you know where we are at
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Speaker 1: this moment, but I also want you to hear directly
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Speaker 1: from the President of the United States of America and
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Speaker 1: what he had to say as he announced this news
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Speaker 1: to the world.
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Speaker 3: A short time ago, the US military carried out massive
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Speaker 3: precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the
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Speaker 3: Iranian regime, Fordeaux, Ntance and Esfahan. Everybody heard those names
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Speaker 3: for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise.
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Speaker 2: Our objective was the destruction.
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Speaker 3: Of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the
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Speaker 3: nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor
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Speaker 3: of terror. Tonight, I can report to the world that
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Speaker 3: the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran's key nuclear
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Speaker 3: and Richmond facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran,
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Speaker 3: the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace.
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Speaker 3: If they do not, future attacks would be far greater
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Speaker 3: and a lot easier. For forty years, Iran has been
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Speaker 3: saying death to America, death to Israel. They have been
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Speaker 3: killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their
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Speaker 3: legs with roadside bombs, that was their specialty. We lost
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Speaker 3: over a thousand people, and hundreds of thousands throughout the
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Speaker 3: Middle East and around the world have died as a
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Speaker 3: direct result of their hate. In particular, so many were
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Speaker 3: killed by their general Cassem Solimani. I decided a long
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Speaker 3: time ago that I would.
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Speaker 2: Not let this happen. It will not continue.
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Speaker 3: I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister phoeb Netnyau.
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Speaker 3: We worked as a team like perhaps no team has
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Speaker 3: ever worked before, and we've gone a long way to
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Speaker 3: erasing this horrible threat to Israel. I want to thank
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Speaker 3: the Israeli military for the wonderful job they've done. And
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Speaker 3: most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American patriots
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Speaker 3: who flew those magnificent machines tonight, and all of the
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Speaker 3: United States military on an operation the likes of which
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Speaker 3: the world has not seen in many, many decades.
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Speaker 2: Hopefully we will no longer need their.
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Speaker 3: Services and this capacit I hope that's so. I also
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Speaker 3: want to congratulate the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
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Speaker 3: General Dan Raisin Kine, spectacular general, and all of the
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Speaker 3: brilliant military minds involved in this attack. With all of
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Speaker 3: that being said, this cannot continue. There will be either
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Speaker 3: peace or there will be tragedy for Iran, far greater
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Speaker 3: than we have witnessed over the last eight days. Remember,
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Speaker 3: there are many targets left. Tonight's was the most difficult
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Speaker 3: of them all by far, and perhaps the most lethal.
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Speaker 3: But if peace does not come quickly, we will go
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Speaker 3: after those other targets with precision, speed and skill. Most
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Speaker 3: of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes.
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Speaker 3: There's no military in the world that could have done
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Speaker 3: what we did tonight, not even closed. There has never
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Speaker 3: been a military that could do what took place just
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Speaker 3: a little while ago. Tomorrow General Kane, Secretary of Defense
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Speaker 3: Pete Hegseth, will have a press conference at eight am
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Speaker 3: at the Pentagon. And I want to just thank everybody,
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Speaker 3: and in particular God. I want to just say, we
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Speaker 3: love you God, and we love our great military.
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Speaker 2: Protect them.
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Speaker 3: God bless the Middle East, God bless Israel, and God
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Speaker 3: bless America.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Thank you.
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Speaker 1: In President of the United States of America, making it
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Speaker 1: short and sweet, giving thanks to God and to men
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Speaker 1: and women in uniform. Now, if you go back to
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Speaker 1: what the world should learn from this moment, the big
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Speaker 1: takeaway is the Trump doctrine. It is clearly a doctrine
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Speaker 1: of FAFO. When Donald Trump says you've got sixty days
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Speaker 1: to make a deal, Donald Trump means you have sixty
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Speaker 1: days to make a deal, not sixty one days or
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Speaker 1: sixty two days.
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Speaker 2: He means sixty days.
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Speaker 1: I also love the fact that the President use the
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Speaker 1: proper word really well obliterated referring to what the goal
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Speaker 1: was for the nuclear sites. And just a point of context,
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Speaker 1: you may remember when Donald Trump posted an American flag
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Speaker 1: after taking out Iran's top general Solomani. Well, he just
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Speaker 1: did it again after the attack on the nuclear sites.
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Speaker 1: This is what strong leadership looks like. And also this
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Speaker 1: is what America voted for. We've also had so many
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Speaker 1: of you that have asked the question, how can I
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Speaker 1: help people in Israel? And we've been telling you about
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Speaker 1: the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, and the work
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Speaker 1: they are doing is incredible. They are deploying bomb shelters
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Speaker 1: as we speak to help keep people safe in Israel.
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Speaker 1: When things get bad, that is when they step up
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Speaker 1: and protect families and loved ones. And if you want
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Speaker 1: to get involved and stand with the people in Israel
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Speaker 1: right now, you can do it by giving food and
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Speaker 1: shelter to Jewish families that are under threat. As I said,
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Speaker 1: they're building bomb shelters for children. They're helping survivors of
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Speaker 1: the attacks that we're witnessing right now, and they are
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Speaker 1: doing it daily.
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Speaker 1: about just how hard it is for so many families
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Speaker 1: in Israel right now and what they're doing on the
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Speaker 1: ground and the bomb shelters that are needed. And she said,
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Speaker 1: four eight eight IFCJ. There's also another aspect of this story,
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Speaker 1: which if you've ever worked in politics, especially in Washington,
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Speaker 1: d c. Especially either on a presidential campaign or with
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Speaker 1: a White House like I've been able to do, there
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Speaker 1: are stories like this one that are truly incredible for
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Speaker 1: the fact that no one leaked the plans to the press. Now,
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Speaker 1: let me explain why I say that knowledge is power
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Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. Knowledge shows that you have access.
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Speaker 1: Knowledge shows that you are in the know and that
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Speaker 1: you are an important person. And so there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of people that leak just to show the level of
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Speaker 1: access that they have to an administration, right like they're
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Speaker 1: in the know and it makes them important. That's one
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Speaker 1: of the main reasons why people leak in DC. It's
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Speaker 1: not actually just stop something, it's just to be able
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Speaker 1: to flex their muscles and and show their political capital, like, hey,
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Speaker 1: I know what's going on. One of the most amazing
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Speaker 1: things about this administration and this second term for Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump is the fact that he has true teammates I
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Speaker 1: think this time that are working with him. I have
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Speaker 1: no doubt that this story would have leaked in the
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Speaker 1: first Bush or the first I say, Trump White House.
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Speaker 1: And the reason why I say that is because there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of people there that were not loyalist to
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Speaker 1: the president at all. And that may be one of
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Speaker 1: the most incredible parts of stories that the President said, Hey,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to make the decision within the next two weeks,
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Speaker 1: and this plan was clearly already in play and already
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Speaker 1: being worked on and already being planned out the logistics
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Speaker 1: of it. When he gave that, I guess you could
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Speaker 1: say a fake timeline to make sure he kept our
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Speaker 1: assets and Americans safe and keep Iran maybe on their toes,
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Speaker 1: but also a little bit relaxed, like all right, we've got.
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Speaker 2: Some more time here.
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Speaker 1: This is incredible and it tells you I think about
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Speaker 1: how good this cabinet is, and the Director of National
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Speaker 1: Intelligence and the DoD leadership and the CI director John
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Speaker 1: Radcliffe like they're teammates, and they're.
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Speaker 2: Acting like teammates.
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Speaker 1: And even Fox News reporter Pentagon reporter Jeffer Griffin put
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Speaker 1: it this way as she described how no one knew
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Speaker 1: that this was happening, and by the way, there was
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Speaker 1: a lot of people that knew, and no one leaked.
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Speaker 5: The other thing I can point out, Brett, is that
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Speaker 5: this is an operation. In the last eighteen years since
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Speaker 5: I've been at the Pentagon, I've never seen such operational security.
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Speaker 5: There was nobody speaking about this any of the preparations.
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Speaker 5: There was a complete lockdown, almost a blackout of information
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Speaker 5: for the last few days. I'm sitting here in the
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Speaker 5: Pentagon right now, I can tell you the hallways are
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Speaker 5: empty and all of the information is coming right now
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Speaker 5: out of the White House. That is a significant achievement
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Speaker 5: because there was there were no leaks about the timing. Now,
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Speaker 5: sometimes I think those who a lot of the flight trackers,
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Speaker 5: the open source intelligence flight trackers, that flight radar did
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Speaker 5: indicate some of the when the B twos took off
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Speaker 5: from Whiteman, But again, nobody really expected that it would
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Speaker 5: take place this evening. If you looked at the moon schedule,
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Speaker 5: you might have had a clue because it was a
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Speaker 5: waning crescent and almost a new moon on the twenty fifth,
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Speaker 5: so it would.
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Speaker 2: Have been very very dark over.
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Speaker 5: Iran tonight, and you need that in order to bomb.
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Speaker 5: That's the ideal condition for something like a B two
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Speaker 5: That is, yes itself stealth, but it still has to
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Speaker 5: be escorted in in case any Iran were to put
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Speaker 5: up any planes or there were any opportunities to fire
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Speaker 5: on those B twos, which are such valuable and very
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Speaker 5: very special planes.
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Speaker 2: Only the US military.
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Speaker 5: Has this kind of weaponry and this capability. No other
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Speaker 5: country in the world could have carried off what occurred
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Speaker 5: tonight at those three uranium enrichment sites in Iran.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Jen, you're exactly right on the operational security here
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Speaker 6: and the fact that there were obviously some red herrings,
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Speaker 6: and in a world where decisions are made and the
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Speaker 6: world digests the decision even before it's made because of
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Speaker 6: social media and everyone's watching everywhere, this was a pretty
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Speaker 6: amazing operation. When you start thinking that the President said
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Speaker 6: within two weeks, we are two days from within two weeks,
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Speaker 6: and this happens with a post on truth social and
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Speaker 6: no other word. Really getting out ahead of that is
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Speaker 6: pretty stunning.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this was just stunning. The great I mean
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Speaker 1: a great job to defend secretary headset on this like
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Speaker 1: this was just unbelievable. You look a that post that
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Speaker 1: came out from the President and he said, we have
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Speaker 1: completed our very successful attack on the three nuclear sites
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Speaker 1: in Iran. All planes are now outside of Iranian airspace.
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Speaker 1: A full payload of bombs was dropped on the primary site.
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Speaker 1: Four to oh all planes are safe on their way home.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations to our great American warriors. There's not another military
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Speaker 1: in the world that could have done this. Now is
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Speaker 1: the time for peace. All caps. Thank you for your
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Speaker 1: attention on this matter. The presidents made it clear and
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Speaker 1: these radical zealots of Iran I don't know if you.
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Speaker 2: Can help them.
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Speaker 1: At this point, he said, I'm not advocating for regime change.
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to get this over with.
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Speaker 1: I want to make sure that you guys understand this
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Speaker 1: was about your nuclear program. I wouldn't retaliate. If you
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Speaker 1: come after Americans, there will be hell to pay. And
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Speaker 1: if you and we have total control over your airspace
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Speaker 1: and so eye on Earth, would I Ran respond is
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Speaker 1: beyond me yet?
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Speaker 2: Okay, keyword.
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Speaker 1: Yet, we're hearing that Iran is saying, Oh, we're going
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Speaker 1: to respond, and we're going to you know, we're going
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Speaker 1: to do this. The complete package being struck is another
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Speaker 1: way it was described. I want you to hear again.
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Speaker 1: Jeffer Griffin described it as.
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Speaker 5: Well, thirty thousand pound bunker buster is dropped, It goes
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Speaker 5: into a hole that's about a radius of about twenty
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Speaker 5: five feet, I'm told, and then the second bomb is
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Speaker 5: dropped in the same hole. And so at first that
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Speaker 5: thirty thousand pound bunker buster will go down about two
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Speaker 5: hundred feet. And so what's interesting about it, Brett, is
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Speaker 5: that you would have had to have at least two
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Speaker 5: B twos. But I believe that it was likely a
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Speaker 5: package of six B twos that would be flying, they
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Speaker 5: each had two mop massive wornip penetrators on board at
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Speaker 5: the time, and they would have hit both those entrances
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Speaker 5: four doau.
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Speaker 4: The president saying.
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Speaker 5: That four doau that the complete package was struck. That
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Speaker 5: is significant because that means, as you said that, it
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Speaker 5: would probably be multiple passes and multiple bombs dropped there.
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Speaker 1: This goes back to the argument and Irana is saying, oh, well,
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Speaker 1: you didn't really hurt our nuclear facilities, and you didn't
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Speaker 1: really do that much damage, and we'd already moved our
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Speaker 1: stuff away from the site. I think America would know
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Speaker 1: that if it happened. I want to be clear. I
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Speaker 1: think America would would have hit wherever they think that
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Speaker 1: they are, wherever they moved it to. Like the idea
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Speaker 1: that this is somehow you know, like they tricked us
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Speaker 1: is absurd, and this is one you know, Oh wow,
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Speaker 1: you didn't really get us, you know.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I tell you know, you thought you got us,
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Speaker 2: but you didn't.
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Speaker 1: Like I don't, I don't believe anything the Iranians are
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Speaker 1: saying right now.
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Speaker 2: I do not.
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Speaker 1: I want to be very very very very queer about
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Speaker 1: that this was successful. And by the way, if it
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Speaker 1: wasn't successful, then we would go back and do it again.
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Speaker 2: I go back also to just the history here.
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Speaker 1: How is it that we got to the point where
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump had to do this? I'll take exactly how
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Speaker 1: because other presidents refuse to act. And I'm going to
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Speaker 1: Get this close to a nuclear weapon ever, and yet
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Speaker 2: What are you to do? Nothing?
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Speaker 1: Fast forward to George H. W. Bush or George let
21:10
Speaker 1: me rephrase that. Let me take you back to George W.
21:13
Speaker 1: Bush quote. Iran must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons, period.
21:18
Speaker 1: He said that in two thousand and six, but we
21:21
Speaker 1: didn't stop them from moving forward. You fast forward to
21:26
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen Barack Obama's present, and he said, quote, I
21:30
Speaker 1: have stated that Iran will never be allowed to obtain
21:34
Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon, but I'm going to send him over
21:36
Speaker 1: a billion dollars to help with their nuclear Programme when
21:38
Speaker 1: we sent them literally palots to cash one point four
21:41
Speaker 1: billion dollars if I remember correctly, Yeah, that was Barack Obama.
21:45
Speaker 1: So so much for Hey, I've stated it before, I'm
21:47
Speaker 1: never gonna allow them to get a nuclear weapon. Well,
21:49
Speaker 1: why did you send him over a billion dollars? Then
21:52
Speaker 1: fast forward to twenty twenty two, Joe Biden in his
21:55
Speaker 1: own words, we will not allow rand to acquire a
21:58
Speaker 1: nuclear weapon. That was clearly a lie because you got
22:01
Speaker 1: to the point where they were more than sixty percent
22:05
Speaker 1: of capacity of what you needed for a nuclear weapon,
22:08
Speaker 1: which is far beyond what you need for a peaceful program.
22:12
Speaker 1: Some of this you have to understand the science. It's
22:14
Speaker 1: very clear you don't need to have enrichment of sixty
22:18
Speaker 1: plus percent if it is for a peaceful program. When
22:21
Speaker 1: you get sixty percent above, it's for one reason, only
22:23
Speaker 1: nuclear weapons. And then you look at what Donald Trump inherited.
22:27
Speaker 1: A I ran that was days or weeks away from
22:31
Speaker 1: a nuclear capability, a country that is saying over and
22:35
Speaker 1: over again, we want to kill you, and a country
22:38
Speaker 1: that is more than happy to sponsor terrorists that will
22:40
Speaker 1: kill you in Iraq and Afghanistan.
22:42
Speaker 2: We saw it.
22:43
Speaker 1: Hamas has Blot and the list goes on and on.
22:46
Speaker 1: They're terrorist proxies around the world. Hell, we're worried about
22:49
Speaker 1: sleeper sells in America tonight as And by the way,
22:52
Speaker 1: I do believe that's real.
22:53
Speaker 2: We had a wide open border.
22:54
Speaker 1: We know that a lot of people from the Middle
22:56
Speaker 1: East came across our southern borders. I have no doubt
22:59
Speaker 1: that there's a Ranian sleeper selves in this country right now.
23:01
Speaker 1: It's the same reason why I said this on TV
23:03
Speaker 1: and people look at you like you're crazy when you
23:05
Speaker 1: say it, And I'll say it again here. This is
23:07
Speaker 1: exactly why you should be packing heat. This is why
23:11
Speaker 1: I carry a firearm with me virtually everywhere I go.
23:15
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be caught in a situation, whether it's
23:17
Speaker 1: in church or at a movie or at a mall
23:20
Speaker 1: where I'm a sitting duck. I'm just not gonna do it.
23:24
Speaker 1: And I encourage others. But you look at Donald Trump
23:26
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, what does Donald Trump say quote
23:30
Speaker 1: RAN's key nuclear enrichment facility has been completely and totally
23:34
Speaker 1: obliterated thank you for your attention to this matter. The
23:38
Speaker 1: difference between him and the and Bill Clinton and George W.
23:41
Speaker 1: Bush and Barack Obama and Joe Biden is he actually said,
23:43
Speaker 1: here's a sixty.
23:44
Speaker 2: Day deadline for you.
23:45
Speaker 1: You want you want to you wanna FAFO, fine, but
23:47
Speaker 1: I'm giving you sixty days to come to the table
23:49
Speaker 1: and get this done, and let's be done with it.
23:51
Speaker 2: I mean. And the other thing is the left is
23:53
Speaker 2: falling all.
23:54
Speaker 1: Over themselves today, all over themselves, trying to act like
23:58
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is now putting you in danger. Like the
24:02
Speaker 1: same people that say that Iran that we shouldn't take
24:04
Speaker 1: out the nuclear facilities are now telling that you should
24:07
Speaker 1: be afraid of Iran and what they're going to do
24:09
Speaker 1: to us now like that, I mean, that is liberal logic,
24:11
Speaker 1: one on one.
24:12
Speaker 2: So let me get this straight.
24:13
Speaker 1: You're fine with Iran getting a nuclear weapon, but now
24:15
Speaker 1: you're saying we should be afraid of Iran because we
24:17
Speaker 1: took out their nuclear program. Tell me that's not liberal
24:20
Speaker 1: logic and total insanity. And what are they doing. They're like, well,
24:25
Speaker 1: Iran really isn't that bad. I say that I'm going
24:28
Speaker 1: to play for you a perfect example. Former Obama official
24:33
Speaker 1: who led counter terrorism communications for Obama set on MSNBC
24:39
Speaker 1: that quote Iran chanting death to America doesn't really mean
24:44
Speaker 1: they don't like America. You cannot make this stuff up.
24:47
Speaker 1: Listen carefully, well, the Chairman.
24:49
Speaker 7: Of the Joint Chiefs says, I mean your point that
24:53
Speaker 7: you made before, Katie.
24:54
Speaker 2: It speaks to this, which.
24:56
Speaker 7: Is that he's not explaining what the issues are for America.
25:00
Speaker 2: Are the issues for America?
25:01
Speaker 7: Why? Why shouldn't why do we?
25:03
Speaker 2: Why is it a.
25:04
Speaker 7: Foundational issue for Trump that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon?
25:09
Speaker 7: Why is this something that the US should be involved in?
25:11
Speaker 7: Why are we allied with it?
25:13
Speaker 2: Because they chant death to America?
25:16
Speaker 7: They chant death to America. I went to Iran in
25:18
Speaker 7: twenty fourteen. I was sitting at a rally. These young
25:22
Speaker 7: guys with chanting death to America had a minder.
25:25
Speaker 2: I said, what are they saying? The saying death to America.
25:27
Speaker 7: They finished the chance and two young men came over
25:29
Speaker 7: and said, are you American? I said yes, we want
25:31
Speaker 7: to welcome you to our country. We love American culture
25:34
Speaker 7: and love American movies.
25:35
Speaker 2: They wanted to talk about all these things.
25:37
Speaker 7: Iran is the most Western nation in the whole Middle East.
25:41
Speaker 7: We have much more in common with them with a
25:42
Speaker 7: lot of than a lot of countries that we do
25:44
Speaker 7: have alliances with.
25:45
Speaker 4: Well.
25:46
Speaker 7: The huge X factor too, is what Ben Rhades, Obama's
25:49
Speaker 7: security guy, described as what we could have as a
25:52
Speaker 7: catast I.
25:54
Speaker 2: Just sat there.
25:55
Speaker 1: This is how crazy are Oh really, they don't really
25:58
Speaker 1: mean it? No, I mean, yeah, yeah, they're killing American
26:02
Speaker 1: troops in rack in Afghanistan. They're helping the roadside bombs
26:04
Speaker 1: and they're and they're killing and it's Jews and helping
26:07
Speaker 1: with the training of the attack on Israel. And they
26:09
Speaker 1: chanted from death to Israel and depth to America.
26:11
Speaker 2: But they don't really mean it. No, no, they don't really
26:12
Speaker 2: mean it.
26:13
Speaker 1: That is how out to lunch and how psychotic. This
26:16
Speaker 1: former Obama official who led literally led counter terrorism communication
26:20
Speaker 1: says Iran channing death to America doesn't really mean they
26:23
Speaker 1: don't like America. Oh no, no, they're westernized. No, they're not.
26:27
Speaker 1: Before the shaw of Iran felt they were more westernized
26:31
Speaker 1: or not. Right now they're under like sadistic leadership. And
26:36
Speaker 1: then you look at these other groups, the United Nations.
26:40
Speaker 1: The United Nations is siding with Iran. I'm gravely alarmed
26:44
Speaker 1: by the use of force by the United States against
26:47
Speaker 1: Iran today. This is a dangerous escalation in the region
26:51
Speaker 1: already on the edge, and a direct threat to international
26:55
Speaker 1: peace and security. So let me get this straight. A
26:58
Speaker 1: country that wants a nuclear web and to then kill us.
27:01
Speaker 1: The UN is now putting out a statement saying that
27:05
Speaker 1: the real threat is now that we hit their nuclear
27:07
Speaker 1: sites when they say they want to kill us. Now,
27:10
Speaker 1: this is somehow America's fault.
27:12
Speaker 2: Quote. There's a growing risk that.
27:13
Speaker 1: This conflict could rapidly get out of control, with catastrophic
27:17
Speaker 1: consequences for civilians the region of the world. Well, imagine
27:20
Speaker 1: what would happen they had a nuclear weapon and then this.
27:23
Speaker 1: I call a member states to de escalate and to
27:26
Speaker 1: uphold their obligations under the UN Charter and other rules
27:29
Speaker 1: of international law. At this perilous owl hour, it is
27:33
Speaker 1: critical to avoid a spiral of chaos. There's no military solution.
27:38
Speaker 1: The only path forward is diplomacy. The only hope is peace. Okay,
27:43
Speaker 1: So Antonio Gutierrez putting that out there, Secretary General of
27:47
Speaker 1: the United Nations, this is the guy that we're supposed
27:52
Speaker 1: to think is going to bring the world together and
27:54
Speaker 1: everything's going to be totally fine now, God help us.
27:57
Speaker 1: Like this organization is totally and utterly worthless. The headquarters
28:06
Speaker 1: of the UN I'm being serious. I mean that, I'm
28:10
Speaker 1: not joking, should move to Tehran?
28:13
Speaker 2: Why not? Why?
28:14
Speaker 1: I mean really, why not? Why not just have the
28:18
Speaker 1: headquarters of you in move to Iran? Because this is
28:24
Speaker 1: if you're putting out this type of propaganda and saying this,
28:28
Speaker 1: and you're the Secretary General and saying there's no military solution.
28:31
Speaker 1: The only path forward is diplomacy. The only hope is peace.
28:34
Speaker 2: Like we're not. I mean, it's not only is it disgraceful,
28:38
Speaker 2: it's sick because.
28:39
Speaker 1: The aim of the United Nations in twenty twenty five
28:42
Speaker 1: is apparently to defend the terrace Iranian regime, push climate disinformation,
28:47
Speaker 1: prop up globalist elites, erase borders and attack an undermine
28:51
Speaker 1: America and Western values. At ever return, they are completely
28:57
Speaker 1: and utterly useless. So, as the President of Iran responds
29:02
Speaker 1: saying the US and this rally in Tehran revenge, revenge
29:06
Speaker 1: that to America, I believe them. I actually think that
29:09
Speaker 1: they do want to kill us. They every chance they
29:13
Speaker 1: get to kill Americans.
29:14
Speaker 2: They do it.
29:15
Speaker 1: Every chance they get to finance somebody that will kill Americans,
29:18
Speaker 1: what do they do?
29:20
Speaker 2: They do it.
29:21
Speaker 1: So this idea as we are sitting here, this somehow
29:26
Speaker 1: these people are logical or saying or that these people
29:30
Speaker 1: are going to like want to work with us. No,
29:33
Speaker 1: And that's why Donald Trump has said it again over
29:37
Speaker 1: and over and over again. I want to be peaceful.
29:43
Speaker 1: I don't want to escalate this thing. I want to
29:45
Speaker 1: de escalate. But you guys have got to understand saying
29:48
Speaker 1: I have to protect and I have to defend the
29:53
Speaker 1: United States of America and our allies.
29:55
Speaker 2: And that is exactly what he did here.
29:58
Speaker 1: And it's so vitally important that we say thank you
30:00
Speaker 1: to having actually having a president Okay, like thank you
30:05
Speaker 1: that we actually have a president of the United States
30:10
Speaker 1: of America. We have a president of the United States
30:13
Speaker 1: that cares about America and his word actually means something.
30:18
Speaker 2: You don't think Iran. The rest of the world now understands.
30:21
Speaker 1: Like, hey, if he gives you sixty days, you better
30:23
Speaker 1: be ready because you already know what the outcome is.
30:25
Speaker 1: He's not bluffing, unlike all these other presidents that I
30:28
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier who didn't have the guts, didn't have the
30:32
Speaker 1: conies to actually do their damn job.
30:34
Speaker 2: It's incredible.
30:37
Speaker 1: I also want to play for you something else, and
30:39
Speaker 1: this just goes back to just how scumbaggy the media is.
30:43
Speaker 1: Margaret Brennan had on her Sunday morning show Marco Rubio,
30:49
Speaker 1: and she tried to act like she is some expert
30:54
Speaker 1: on Iran, that she knows more about Iran than Marco
30:56
Speaker 1: Rubio knows about Iran right now with an I gotcha question.
30:59
Speaker 2: It did not.
31:00
Speaker 1: Go well, but but I want to play this for
31:02
Speaker 1: you just for you to understand like they're not rooting
31:05
Speaker 1: for America. They're rooting for Donald Trump to to be
31:09
Speaker 1: wrong or to get it wrong, or there to be
31:12
Speaker 1: some disaster that they can report on. You know, when
31:15
Speaker 1: all these planes come back.
31:18
Speaker 2: And this is how just messed up the left is.
31:20
Speaker 1: Right now and they land and the President puts out
31:22
Speaker 1: a tweet that our men and women in uniform are
31:24
Speaker 1: home safely, that those those amazing pilots that flew all
31:28
Speaker 1: the way around the world and back right without without stopping.
31:31
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable what these bombers did and the men and
31:34
Speaker 1: women that were that were coordinating and the refueling in
31:37
Speaker 1: the air, just everything that had to go right.
31:40
Speaker 2: And I'm sure that.
31:41
Speaker 1: There are those on the left that like wish there
31:43
Speaker 1: would have been some sort of problems they could be
31:45
Speaker 1: see Donald Trump screwed it up, and Americans that it
31:47
Speaker 1: costs them.
31:48
Speaker 2: Their lives and no, no, no, no, no, like they're that's sick.
31:51
Speaker 1: And if you look at listen to to Margaret Brennan
31:54
Speaker 1: here on CBS Face the Nation, she Rubio does an
31:59
Speaker 1: amazing to responding to a terrible and also an ignorant
32:04
Speaker 1: attempt at a quote I got your question from the
32:08
Speaker 1: network because they're not actually rooting for our safety. They
32:12
Speaker 1: just want Trump to fail at all costs. This is
32:14
Speaker 1: Trump derangement syndrome.
32:15
Speaker 8: One oh one, listen, oh on a phrase, you just
32:18
Speaker 8: word weaponization ambitions. Are you saying there that the United
32:23
Speaker 8: States did not see intelligence that the Supreme Leader had
32:27
Speaker 8: ordered weaponization.
32:29
Speaker 9: That's irrelevant. I think that question being asked on the media,
32:32
Speaker 9: that's an irrelevant question that.
32:34
Speaker 8: Met in US intelligence assessment.
32:36
Speaker 7: You know no, it's not.
32:37
Speaker 8: Yes, it was political.
32:39
Speaker 9: I know that better than you know that, and I
32:41
Speaker 9: know that that's.
32:41
Speaker 2: Not the case.
32:42
Speaker 9: But whether the order was given, and the people who
32:44
Speaker 9: say that it doesn't matter if the order was given.
32:47
Speaker 9: They have everything they need to build nuclear weapons. Why
32:49
Speaker 9: would you bury Why would you bury things in a
32:51
Speaker 9: mountain three hundred feet under the ground. Why would you
32:54
Speaker 9: bury six Why do they have sixty percent in enrich uranium?
32:56
Speaker 9: You don't need sixty percent in rich area. The only
32:58
Speaker 9: countries in the world that have uranium at sixty percent
33:01
Speaker 9: are countries that have nuclear weapons, because it can quickly
33:04
Speaker 9: make it ninety. They have all the elements they have.
33:06
Speaker 9: Why are they Why do they have a space program?
33:08
Speaker 9: Is Aron going to go to the moon? No, they're
33:10
Speaker 9: trying to build an ICBM.
33:11
Speaker 2: No, But that's a question.
33:12
Speaker 8: That's a question, that's a question of intent. And you
33:14
Speaker 8: know in the intelligence assessment that it was that Iran
33:18
Speaker 8: wanted to be a threshold.
33:19
Speaker 2: See you know use this.
33:20
Speaker 8: I'm talking about what the intelligence March assessment. And that's
33:24
Speaker 8: why I was asking you if you know something.
33:25
Speaker 4: More from it.
33:26
Speaker 9: That's also an inaccurate representation of it. That's inaccurate representation
33:30
Speaker 9: of it. That's not how intelligence is read, that's not
33:32
Speaker 9: how intelligence is used. Here's what the whole world knows.
33:35
Speaker 9: Forget about intelligence with the IAEA knows they are enriching
33:39
Speaker 9: uranium well beyond anything you need.
33:42
Speaker 2: For a for a for a civil nuclear program.
33:45
Speaker 9: So why would you enrich uranium at sixty percent if
33:48
Speaker 9: you don't intend to one day use it to take
33:50
Speaker 9: it to ninety and.
33:50
Speaker 5: Build a weapon.
33:51
Speaker 9: Why why are you developing ICBMs? Why do you have
33:54
Speaker 9: eight thousand short range missiles in two to three thousand
33:57
Speaker 9: long mid range missiles that you can take you to develop?
34:01
Speaker 9: Why do you do all these things? I have everything
34:03
Speaker 9: they need for a nuclear weapon. They have the delivery mechanisms,
34:05
Speaker 9: they have the enrichment capability, they have the highly enriched.
34:08
Speaker 4: Uranium that is stored.
34:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all we need to see, right, Well, the regime,
34:12
Speaker 1: that's our Thank you Marco Rubio for calling her out
34:17
Speaker 1: the way that he called her out there. And I
34:20
Speaker 1: go back to the people who are obsessing of Iran's
34:22
Speaker 1: response and fear mongering. Are the same idiots that weren't
34:27
Speaker 1: afraid of Iran getting a nuclear weapon? Tell me how
34:30
Speaker 1: messed up that is? Like, it's it's just truly incredible.
34:34
Speaker 1: And by the way, you want to talk about the
34:36
Speaker 1: real threat now, there is a real threat now of
34:41
Speaker 1: Iran sleeper cells in this country. Did you know under
34:44
Speaker 1: Joe Biden there was one thousand, two hundred and seventy
34:49
Speaker 1: two nationals of Iran that were released into the country
34:53
Speaker 1: after crossing the border illegally that we caught and then released.
34:57
Speaker 1: That doesn't count all the Iranians that got across that
34:59
Speaker 1: are got aways. Tom Homan talking about that on Fox
35:03
Speaker 1: News Channel, the real possibility of sleeper cells in America.
35:08
Speaker 10: So I put numbers this morning just from a CBP
35:10
Speaker 10: under Joe Biden, who was one two hundred and seventy
35:14
Speaker 10: two nationals Iran releasing the country between Ofo And and
35:18
Speaker 10: the Borbatrow. And you compare that to the Trump administration zero right,
35:22
Speaker 10: zero releases and right now, because of President Trump's leadership,
35:25
Speaker 10: we have the most secure border in my lifetime, most
35:27
Speaker 10: secure border in history of this nation. So we have
35:30
Speaker 10: a secure border. So that was a President Trump's big
35:33
Speaker 10: win on secure in this nation. So we're not releasing
35:35
Speaker 10: people in this country, especially in Aliens aren't cross that
35:38
Speaker 10: border undetected. But under Joe Biden, we had over ten
35:41
Speaker 10: million people cross that border. But my biggest concern from
35:44
Speaker 10: day one, beyond the fat and all beyond the sex trafficking,
35:46
Speaker 10: women and children were the two man known godaways. Over
35:50
Speaker 10: two million people cross that border. We don't know who
35:52
Speaker 10: they are, where they came from, because they got away,
35:55
Speaker 10: because Borbatrol was so overwhelmed with the humanitarian crisis that
35:58
Speaker 10: Biden created that over two million people cross the border
36:01
Speaker 10: and got away. That is my biggest concern. And that's
36:04
Speaker 10: where it created the biggest national security vulnerabilly this country's
36:07
Speaker 10: ever seen.
36:08
Speaker 1: He's right, under Joe Biden, there is one thousand, two
36:13
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy two nationals of Iranian descent that were
36:17
Speaker 1: released into this country after crossing the border illegally, and
36:20
Speaker 1: we don't know who they are. We also know that
36:23
Speaker 1: other Iranians got across the border that are got aways.
36:26
Speaker 1: And under Joe Biden, they said, oh no, no, no, you're
36:28
Speaker 1: from Iran, come on in. And now what is the
36:31
Speaker 1: biggest concern. What is our biggest worry right now? That
36:36
Speaker 1: Iran's going to do what Arena has always done. I Rana,
36:38
Speaker 1: by the way, is a massive history of targeting Americans.
36:41
Speaker 1: Nineteen seventy nine US embassy hostage crisis in Tehran, sixty
36:45
Speaker 1: six Americans held for one.
36:46
Speaker 2: Hundred and forty four days by Iranian.
36:49
Speaker 1: Student backed by the new leader of Iran.
36:54
Speaker 2: So that happened in seventy nine.
36:56
Speaker 1: Fast forward in nineteen eighty three US embassy bombing in Beiru,
37:00
Speaker 1: seventeen Americans killed by hes Blah, where they declare Islamic
37:04
Speaker 1: jihad who backed them, Iran who paid for it, Iran
37:09
Speaker 1: who trained them?
37:10
Speaker 2: Iran That was nineteen eighty three. Go back to.
37:14
Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty three be Route Marine Derek's bombing. Two hundred
37:16
Speaker 1: and forty one US servicemen primarily Marines killed by HESBLA
37:20
Speaker 1: truck bomb who were they backed by.
37:22
Speaker 2: The Iranian Revolutionary Guard?
37:25
Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty four US Embassy am X bombing in Beirut,
37:29
Speaker 1: two Americans killed by HESBLA with Iranian backing. Nineteen ninety
37:33
Speaker 1: six you had the bombing in Saudi Arabia where nineteen
37:36
Speaker 1: US airmen killed by hes Blah with Iranian support. Nineteen
37:40
Speaker 1: ninety eight US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzanaia twelve
37:46
Speaker 1: Americans killed by Al Qaeda with hesbload Iranian tactical support.
37:51
Speaker 1: Tactical support twenty twenty one to twenty twenty attacks on
37:55
Speaker 1: US forces in Afghanistan thirty plus US personnel killed injured
37:59
Speaker 1: by Tabiban it with Iranian aid. Twy three twenty eleven
38:02
Speaker 1: attacks on US forces in Iraq, Hundreds killed by Shia
38:06
Speaker 1: militia's using Iranian supplied devices that blew up bombs. I
38:12
Speaker 1: have another page and a half of this I could
38:14
Speaker 1: read for you. Do you understand when Iran says they
38:17
Speaker 1: want to kill Americans and they'll do it.
38:18
Speaker 2: They mean it.
38:19
Speaker 1: They mean it, folks, they mean it. Something else happened,
38:24
Speaker 1: and you may not have seen this. There was an
38:26
Speaker 1: early morning press conference seven o'clock central eight eastern AM,
38:31
Speaker 1: and you had Dan Raisin Kine just gave the most
38:35
Speaker 1: detailed description of the attacks that happened. It was named
38:39
Speaker 1: Operation Midnight Hammer. The Defense Segretary Pete Headseth introducing him,
38:44
Speaker 1: and I want you to hear how amazing this attack
38:47
Speaker 1: was and how afraid the world has got to be
38:51
Speaker 1: right now with the President United States of America because
38:53
Speaker 1: of what we just pulled off.
38:54
Speaker 2: Listen carefully for specifics.
38:57
Speaker 11: Thank you, Miss strick Terry, thanks for recognizing all of
39:01
Speaker 11: our folks out there doing our nation's work. And nice
39:04
Speaker 11: to see everybody on this early Sunday morning. Last night,
39:07
Speaker 11: on the President's orders, US Central Command, under the command
39:11
Speaker 11: of General Eric Killa, executed Operation Midnight Hammer, a deliberate
39:16
Speaker 11: and precise strike against three Iranian nuclear facilities. This was
39:21
Speaker 11: a complex and high risk mission carried out with exceptional
39:24
Speaker 11: skill and disciplined by our joint force. I want to
39:28
Speaker 11: thank every service member, planner, operator that made this mission possible.
39:33
Speaker 11: Their actions reflect the highest standards of the United States
39:37
Speaker 11: Armed Forces. This operation was designed to severely degrade RAN's
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Speaker 11: nuclear weapons infrastructure.
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Speaker 4: It was planned and executed across multiple.
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Speaker 11: Domains and theaters with coordination that reflects our ability to
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Speaker 11: project power globally with speed and precision. At the time
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Speaker 11: and place of our nation's choosing, this was a highly
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Speaker 11: c classified mission, with very few people in Washington knowing
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Speaker 11: the timing or nature of this plan. I'll refer you
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Speaker 11: to the graphic on the side as I walk you
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Speaker 11: through some of the operational details. At midnight Friday into
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Speaker 11: Saturday morning, a large B two strike package comprised of
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Speaker 11: bombers launched from the continental United States as part of
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Speaker 11: the plan to maintain tactical surprise.
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Speaker 4: Part of the package proceeded.
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Speaker 11: To the West and into the Pacific as a decoy,
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Speaker 11: a deception effort known only to an extremely small number
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Speaker 11: of planners and key leaders here in Washington and in Tampa.
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Speaker 11: The main strike package, comprised of seven B two Spirit bombers,
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Speaker 11: each with two crew members, proceeded quietly to the east
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Speaker 11: with minimal communications. Throughout the eighteen hour flight into the
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Speaker 11: target area. The aircraft completed multiple inflight refuelings. Once over land,
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Speaker 11: the V twos linked up with escort and support aircraft
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Speaker 11: in a complex, tightly timed maneuver requiring exact synchronization across
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Speaker 11: multiple platforms in a narrow piece of airspace, all done
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Speaker 11: with minimal communications.
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Speaker 4: This type of.
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Speaker 11: Integration is exactly what our Joint force does better than
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Speaker 11: anyone else in the world. At approximately five pm Eastern
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Speaker 11: Standard time last night, and just prior to the strike
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Speaker 11: package entering Iran, a US submarine in the Central Command
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Speaker 11: Area of responsibility launched more than two dozen Tomahawk land
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Speaker 11: attack cruise missiles against key surface infrastructure targets at Esfahan.
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Speaker 11: As the Operation Midnight Hammer Strike package entered Iranian airspace,
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Speaker 11: the US employed several deception tactics.
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Speaker 4: Including decoys.
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Speaker 11: As the fourth and fifth generation aircraft pushed out in
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Speaker 11: front of the strike package at high altitude and high
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Speaker 11: speed sweeping in front of the package for enemy fighters
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Speaker 11: and surface to air missile threats. The strike package was
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Speaker 11: supported by US Strategic Command, US Transportation Command, US Cyber Command,
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Speaker 11: US Space Command, US Space Force, and US European Command.
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Speaker 11: As the strike package approached for DOE and NATANCE, the
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Speaker 11: US protection package employed high speed suppression weapons to ensure
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Speaker 11: safe passage of the strike package, with fighter assets employing
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Speaker 11: preemptive suppressing fires against any potential Iranian surface to air threats.
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Speaker 11: We are currently unaware of any shots fired at the
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Speaker 11: US strike package on the way in. At approximately six
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Speaker 11: forty pm Eastern Standard time two ten am Iran time,
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Speaker 11: the lead B two dropped two GBU fifty seven massive
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Speaker 11: ordnance penetrator weapons on the first of several aim points
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Speaker 11: at four doh. As the President stated last night, the
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Speaker 11: remaining bombers then hit their targets as well, with a
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Speaker 11: total of fourteen mops dropped against two nuclear target areas.
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Speaker 11: All three Iranian nuclear infrastructure targets were struck between six
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Speaker 11: forty pm and seven h five pm Eastern time. Again,
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Speaker 11: that's about two ten in the morning local time in Iran,
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Speaker 11: with the Tomahawk missiles being.
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Speaker 4: The last to strike at Esfahan.
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Speaker 11: To ensure we retain the element of surprise throughout the operation.
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Speaker 11: Following weapons release, the midnight hammer Strike package exited Iranian
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Speaker 11: airspace and the package began its return home. We are
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Speaker 11: unaware of any shots fired at the package on the
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Speaker 11: way out. Iran's fighters did not fly, and it appears
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Speaker 11: that Iran's surface to air missile systems.
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Speaker 4: Did not see us.
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Speaker 11: Throughout the mission, we retained the element of surprise. In total,
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Speaker 11: US forces employed approximately seventy five precision guided weapons during
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Speaker 11: this operation. This included, as the President stated last night,
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Speaker 11: fourteen thirty thousand pounds GBU fifty seven massive ordnance penetrators,
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Speaker 11: marking the first ever operational use of this weapon. I
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Speaker 11: know that battle damage is of great interest. Final battle
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Speaker 11: damage will take some time, but initial battle damage assessments
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Speaker 11: indicate that all three sites sustained extremely severe damage and destruction.
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Speaker 11: More than one hundred and twenty five US aircraft participated
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Speaker 11: in this mission, including B two stealth bombers, multiple flights
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Speaker 11: of fourth and fifth generation fighters, dozens and dozens of
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Speaker 11: air refueling tankers, a guided missile submarine, and a full
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Speaker 11: array of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft, as well as
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Speaker 11: hundreds of maintenance and operational professionals. As the Secretary said,
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Speaker 11: this was those largest B two operational strike in US
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Speaker 11: history and the second longest B two mission ever flown,
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Speaker 11: exceeded only by those in the days following nine to eleven.
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Speaker 11: Well prior to the strike, General Carilla elevated force protection
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Speaker 11: measures across the region, especially in Iraq, Syria, and the Gulf.
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Speaker 11: Our forces remain on high alert and are fully postured
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Speaker 11: to respond to any Iranian retaliation or proxy attacks, which
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Speaker 11: would be an incredibly poor choice. We will defend ourselves.
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Speaker 11: The safety of our service members and civilians remains our
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Speaker 11: highest priority. This mission demonstrates the unmatched reach, coordination, and
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Speaker 11: capability of the United States Military. In just a matter
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Speaker 11: of weeks, this went from strategic planning to global execution.
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Speaker 4: This operation underscores the.
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Speaker 11: Unmatched capabilities and global reach of the United States military.
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Speaker 11: As the President clearly said last night, no other in
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Speaker 11: the no other military in the world, could have done this.
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Speaker 11: I joined the President and the Secretary and being incredibly
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Speaker 11: proud of the air crews, naval forces, cyber operators, planners
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Speaker 11: and support teams and commanders who made this mission possible.
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Speaker 11: It is their skill, discipline, and teammate teamwork that makes
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Speaker 11: this operation possible. Particularly proud of our discipline related to
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Speaker 11: operational security, something that was of great concern to the President,
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Speaker 11: the Secretary General, Carilla and me, and we will continue
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Speaker 11: to focus on this. As we stand here this morning,
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Speaker 11: many assets are still airborne and we have hundreds deployed.
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Speaker 11: I asked that we keep our warfighters on their way
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Speaker 11: home and our deployed service member in our thoughts. Our
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Speaker 11: joint force remains ready to defend the United States, our troops,
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Speaker 11: and our interests in the region.
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Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: Truly incredible.
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Speaker 1: You listened to Raisin Cain there just gave the most
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Speaker 1: detailed description of that attack. There was a single shot
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Speaker 1: fired at our men on the way in or the
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Speaker 1: way out. That how that's just how unexpected this operation
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Speaker 1: was to Iran. Quote initial battle damage assessments indicate that
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Speaker 1: all three sites have stayed extremely severe damage and destruction regards.
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Speaker 1: Ardless of the propaganda that you're hearing from Iran. You
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Speaker 1: look at this over one hundred and twenty five US
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Speaker 1: military aircraft for var involved large B two strike package
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Speaker 1: left the continental US on Friday. On midnight Friday, part
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Speaker 1: of the package went east, the other went west as
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Speaker 1: a decoy. The main strike package was comprised of seven
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Speaker 1: B two bombers, which flew.
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Speaker 2: For eighteen hours into the target area.
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Speaker 1: Fourteen bunker buster bombs were dropped, seventy five precision guided
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Speaker 1: weapons were used during the operation, and more than one
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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five US aircraft participated in the mission.
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Speaker 1: Multiple fighters of the fourth and fifth Gen fighters, dozens
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Speaker 1: of air refueling tankers, a guide that missiles, a submarine,
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Speaker 1: and a full array of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft,
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Speaker 1: as well as hundreds of maintenance and operational professionals. God
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Speaker 1: bless America.
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Speaker 2: It's amazing.
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