WEBVTT - The Late Debate | 26 June 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.640 General Man, welcome wait debate. 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:07.840 Well, good evening and welcome to the Late Debate. I'm 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:10.440 James Macpherson with FREYE. Leitch and Caleb Bond. As you 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:12.719 would have heard Paul Murray say, we're waiting at any 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.680 moment to go live to the Pentagon, where US Defense 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.720 Secretary Pete Hegseth is due to give a report, presumably 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:22.919 about how those bombing raids in Iran went and the 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:26.120 damage done to Iran's nuclear facilities, which of course has 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.440 been a subject of great contention. Licks from the Pentagon 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:33.440 suggesting that the damage was only minor and set Around's 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:37.000 nuclear facilities back just a few months, of course, Donald 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.720 Trump saying that they've absolutely obliterated it. 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:41.080 So where did it go? 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.199 There any moment you can see in the bottom of 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:45.760 your screen there that the press are all assembled and 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:49.639 waiting for the Defense Secretary to arrive. Just while we're 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.240 waiting for him to appear, and will go there straight away, Caleb. 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.000 This is a pretty important statement from him to clear 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.640 up exactly what happened, what the US achieved, particularly in 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.000 light of the fact, and we'll talk about it soon. 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:05.039 The Ayatola has made a statement today explaining that the 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.640 US have been defeated, that Israel have been smashed, and 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:12.680 that Iran remains fully intact. So there's a lot of 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.880 different versions right now. Pete heg Seth will give some clarity. 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:19.320 I presient the Ayatola has been drinking the kool aid. 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.640 There's no I mean, he said, I offer my congratulations 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:27.800 on the victory over the fallacious Sionist regime, amongst other things. 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.840 I mean, he's acting like they've won the war. Mate, 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:33.680 there's and you can you can that's in French there. 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.360 I wonder if it's the Ietoller himself who bangs these 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.440 things out online. But of course, you know he has 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.080 to try and save face at home to some degree, 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.160 dos Aniso. He has to look like that he's winning 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.360 this war. Of course, the reason we have a ceasefire 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.520 on the Iranian end anyway is because they bloody will 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.400 needed one. I mean, as I said the other night, 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:57.440 the only way that the regime can survive is if 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.400 they have a cease fire, because otherwise, you know, eventually 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.440 get punneled into the ground and then you'll have the uprising. 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:03.960 That'll get rid of them. 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.440 But as to this pressor that we are about to see, 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:10.560 hopefully we will have answers to the questions that many 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:12.799 of us have had, because, of course, as I was 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.519 saying the other night, the data, the stuff that came 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.920 out from the International Atomic Energy Agency was showing there 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:20.959 was no radiation emitting from. 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:22.000 The sites that were struck. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.640 You've had the reports in CNN and The New York 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.040 Times that of course came from a leak within the 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:32.200 defense community, suggesting that there was no real distruction of 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.799 the three sites that were hit. So hopefully we get 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:38.200 some real detail tonight, because even if you think that 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.359 the reports out of CNN, etc. Were treasonous, as Donald 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:45.760 Trump said, there are legitimate questions to be asked about 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.920 how successful this was because we don't know, we've not 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.160 been told to this point anyway, how much enriched uranium 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.280 might have been removed from these sites before they were struck. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.120 We know that these bunker busting bombs, of course, can 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.120 do a lot of damage underground, we don't know exactly 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.359 how much damage they've been able to do. We've only 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:06.080 been able to see the above ground aerial shots that 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:09.000 show they've closed off intrigue points to these sites. But 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.400 we don't know what's happened to the equipment, et cetera. 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:13.840 So hopefully some of that stuff will be cleared up 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.840 tonight because they are the questions that many people will 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:18.519 be wanting to know exactly. 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.360 And the CIA has also come out because that report 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.120 was from the Defense, So what was the intelligence some 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.320 intelligence agency which is different to the CIA. 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.639 So I mean it is important to note. 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:35.480 That there are generally different and conflicting reports coming from 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.320 in different intelligence communities depending on this. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.200 All right, we're going to go live to the Pentagon 0:03:40.240 --> 0:04:03.800 now the US Defense Secretary about to address the media. 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:05.360 Well, good morning, everybody. 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:10.920 Just arrived last night back from NATO two days apart 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:11.920 from my battle buddy. 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.320 So it's good to see him this morning. Good to 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:14.400 see him as chairman. 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.200 Where there was a historic outcome. I want to start 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:18.919 with that real quick. 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.800 I think there's so much news, so many things happening, 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:28.480 that oftentimes big momentous moments get missed. What President Trump 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:33.160 accomplished in NATO yesterday was game changing and historic, a 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:38.880 shift in burden sharing to European responsibility in NATO that 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.279 most would have said was impossible at the beginning of 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.400 his term, but he said NATO. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:45.200 Needs to pay up. 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:49.080 They started in the first term, and here in his 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:53.480 second term, we've accelerated that thirty two NATO countries committed 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:56.400 to spending five percent of their GDP on defense, on 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:58.920 actually investing in the NATO alliance. 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:03.200 With all the ink spilled, all of your. 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:08.560 Outlets, find the time to properly recognize this historic change 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.920 in continental security that other presidents tried to do, other 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:13.960 presidents talked about. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.600 President Trump accomplished it. It's a huge deal. 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:22.120 I see we're here this morning because in hunting for 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.600 scandals all the time, in trying to find wedges and 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:31.560 spin stories, this press corps and the press corps miss 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:36.400 historic moments. You miss historic moments like five percent at NATO, 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.760 which when you hear I was in the closed door briefing, 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:40.480 I wish there could have been cameras in there when 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.000 you heard the prime ministers and presidents of other countries 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.320 to a man and to a woman looking at President 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.880 Trump and saying, this never could have happened, never would 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:51.839 have happened, seemed impossible five years ago, two years ago, 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:55.400 eight years ago. But here we are because of your leadership. 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.360 If you ask them the question, I bet. 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.800 They'd say the same thing. For scandals. 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:05.400 You miss historic moments like recruiting at the Pentagon, historic 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.880 levels in the Army, the Air Force, and the Navy. 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.000 Yeah, maybe there'll be a little mention here or there. 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:13.880 But because it was under President Trump's leadership, because it 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.400 was because Americans are responding to him as commander in chief, 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.560 the press corps doesn't want to write about it or 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.359 bring us to the topic of the moment and the 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:28.640 highly successful strikes in Iran. Let me read the bottom 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:33.760 line here. President Trump directed the most complex and secretive 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:38.040 military operation in history, and it was a resounding success, 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:42.200 resulting in a ceasefire agreement and the end of. 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.039 The Twelve Day War. 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.359 There's been a lot of discussions about what happened to 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:47.040 what didn't happen. 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:48.279 Step back for a second. 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:52.400 Because of decisive military action, President Trump created the conditions 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:59.520 to end the war, decimating, choose your word, obliterating, destroying 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.640 Iran's nuclear capabilities. 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:03.880 I want to. 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:07.000 Read some of the assessments that have been provided, because 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:12.400 whether it's fake news, CNN, MSNBC, or The New York Times, 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.720 there's been fawning coverage of a preliminary assessment. 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:17.680 I've had a chance to read it. 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:23.560 Every outlet has breathlessly reported on a preliminary assessment from DIA. 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.240 I'm looking at it right now. Again. 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.480 It was preliminary, a day and a half after the 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.320 actual strike. When it admits itself in writing that it 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.800 requires weeks to accumulate the necessary. 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.720 Data to make such an assessment, it's preliminary. 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.240 It points out that it's not been coordinated with the 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:41.760 intelligence community at all. 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:44.440 There's low confidence in this. 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.640 Particular report, it says in the report. There are gaps 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:49.320 in the information. It says in the report. 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:55.040 Multiple lynchpin assumptions are what this assessment a lynchpin assumption? 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:55.760 You know what that is. 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.800 It means your entire premiss is predicated on a lynch pin. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.840 If you're wrong, everything else is wrong. And yet still 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:07.240 this report acknowledges it's likely severe damage. Again, this is preliminary, 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.520 but leaked because someone had an agenda to try to 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.680 muddy the waters and make it look like this historic 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.200 strike I wasn't successful. I'm going to get to the 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:16.840 chairman in a moment, because he's going to lay out 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:20.880 the particulars for you based on his professional military experience. 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:24.000 But here's what other folks are saying. THEDIA that put 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.280 that report out says that this is a preliminary low 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.800 confidence report and will continue to be refined as additional 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:36.560 intelligence becomes available. How about the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission. 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:41.080 The devastating US strikes on Fourdeaux destroyed the site's critical 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:45.280 infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:47.040 Have any of these quotes made their. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.160 Way into the New York Times or The Washington Post, MSNBC, 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.920 CNN any of these quotes? How about this one? This 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.040 is a new one from the UN. The United Nations 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.280 no friend of the United States or certainly Israel. 0:08:59.320 --> 0:08:59.640 Often. 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:04.040 Here's the head of the UN Atomic Energy Agency this morning, 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:10.040 Raphael Grossi. US and Israeli strikes caused enormous damage to 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:11.720 Iran's nuclear sites. 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:13.720 Don't take my word for it. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.440 How about the IDF's chief of staff. 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.720 I can say here that the assessment is that we 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.479 significantly damage the nuclear program, setting. 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.960 It back by years. I repeat years. 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:29.000 The Iranian Foreign minister the spokesman, our nuclear instrations have 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:30.839 been badly damaged, that's for sure. 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:32.920 I'm sure that's an understatement. 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.960 John Radcliffe, the director of the CIA, putting out a 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:40.480 statement just last night, CIA can confirm that a body 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:45.400 of credible intelligence indicates Iran's nuclear program has been severely 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:49.640 damaged by recent targeted strikes. This includes new intelligence from 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:55.480 a historically reliable, very different than preliminary assessment with low confidence. 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:59.520 He's saying, historically reliable and accurate source of method that 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:05.120 sever key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:09.720 to be rebuilt over the course of years. CIA continues 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:15.319 to collect additional, reliably sourced information to keep appropriate decision 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.000 makers fully informed. 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:19.120 How about DNI. 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:23.440 Telsea Gabbard Yesterday, she writes, and I quote, new intelligence 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:28.320 confirms what POTUS has stated numerous times. Iran's nuclear facilities 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:34.920 have been destroyed. Institute for Science and International Security President 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:39.880 David Albright. Overall Israel and US attacks have effectively destroyed 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:46.680 un Iran's centrifuge enrichment program time and time again. I 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.920 can go down the list those that understand, those that see, 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:55.600 those that do proper assessments recognize that what the United 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:59.120 States military did was historic and again before I pass 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:05.520 it to the chairman, because you, and I mean specifically 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:10.360 you the press, specifically you the press core because you 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:14.640 cheer against Trump so hard. It's like, in your DNA 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.880 and in your blood cheer against Trump because you want 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:18.480 him not to. 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:19.760 Be successful so bad. 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.000 You have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes. 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.520 You have to hope maybe they weren't effective. Maybe the 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.320 way the Trump administration is represented him isn't true. So 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:36.800 let's take half truths, spun information, leaked information, and then 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.440 spin it, spin it in every way we can to 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:44.600 try to cause doubt and manipulate the mind, the public 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.000 mind over whether or not are brave. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:48.880 Pilots were successful. 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.840 How many stories have been written about how hard it 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.080 is to, I don't know, fly a plane for thirty 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:59.200 six hours. Has MSNBC done that story, as Fox? Have 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:01.360 we done the story how hard that is? Have we 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.920 done it two or three times so that American people understand? 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:04.880 How about how difficult it is. 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.280 To shoot a drone from an F fifteen or sixteen 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.520 or F twenty two or F thirty five, or what 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.040 it's like to man a Patriot battery, or how hard 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.960 it is to refuel mid air, giving the American people 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:18.560 an understanding of how complex and sophisticated this mission really was. 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.880 There are so many aspects of what our brave men 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.440 and women did that because of. 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:25.480 The hatred of this press. 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:29.880 Corps are undermined because your people are trying to leak 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:36.200 and spin that it wasn't successful. It's irresponsible, and folks 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.079 in this room are privy to that information because of 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.400 the proximity here in the Pentagon. It's an important responsibility. 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:46.400 And time and time again, classified information is leaked or 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.880 pedled for political purposes to try. 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:49.840 To make the president look bad. 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.800 And what's really happening is you're undermining the success of 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:56.280 incredible B two pilots and incredible F thirty five pilots, 0:12:56.360 --> 0:13:00.640 and incredible refuelers and incredible air defenders who pomplish their 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.360 mission set back a nuclear program in ways that other 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:05.520 presidents would have dreamed. 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:07.200 How about we celebrate that. 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:10.560 How about we talked about how special America is that 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.559 we only we have these capabilities. 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:14.800 I think it's too much to ask. 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.600 Unfortunately for the fake news, so we're used to that, 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.000 but we also have an opportunity to stand at the 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:23.320 podium and read the truth of what's really happening. And 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:25.400 the reality is you want to call it destroyed, you 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.080 want to call it defeated, you want to call it obliterated. 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.280 Choose your word. 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.800 This was an historically successful attack and we should celebrate 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:34.559 it as Americans. 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.840 And it gives us a chance to have peace, chance 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.320 to have a deal, and an opportunity to prevent a 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:42.920 nuclear Iran, which is something President Trump talked about for 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.960 twenty years and no other presidents had the courage to 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.640 actually do so. With that, I want to hand it 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:51.040 over to the Chairman of Joint Chiefs. They've done technical 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:55.000 analysis on this, not just on the strike, but also 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.720 on our patriot defenders, on all you did, and mister 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:58.760 Chairman will hand it over to you. 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.720 Good morning, Thank you, Man Strictery, and good morning and 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:03.840 all of you. Thank you, thank you for being here. 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.320 As a follow up to my comments on Sunday's press conference, 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.720 I wanted to give you a few updates this morning 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.960 on something I'm honored to do as a chairman, and 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.280 that's a chance to get to talk about some of 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.079 our service members and the incredible things. 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.120 That they do on behalf of our nation. 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.720 And I apologize ahead of time for the length and 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.240 the detail. Today I'm going to brief you on a 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.440 couple of things. First, I'm going to talk about our 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:31.400 air defenders at Aludd in Katar and their actions on Monday. 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.280 Then I'm going to walk you through a little bit 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:37.080 about the academics that went into the attack against four dah, 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.800 the massive ordnance penetrator weapon, and we're going to show 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:45.560 a video that highlights the effects that that weapon has. 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.960 Of course, nobody was down inside the target, so we 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:52.600 don't have video from the target first. On Monday, as 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.360 the President has stated, on Monday morning, we began to 0:14:55.400 --> 0:15:00.760 receive indications and warnings that Iran intended to attack US 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:04.520 bases in the region that morning. Building on the work 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.640 that Sencom Commander Eric Carilla had done and on the 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:12.880 orders of the President, al at Alude'd Airbase and Katar 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.280 and around the region, we assumed a minimum force posture. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:19.160 Most folks had moved off. 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.560 The base to extend the security perimeter out away from 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:27.320 what we assessed might be a target zone. Except for 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:32.200 a very few Army soldiers at Aluded at that point, 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:37.440 only two Patriot batteries remained on base. Roughly forty four 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:43.040 American soldiers responsible for defending the entire base to include 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:47.920 Sencom's forward headquarters in the Middle East, an entire air base, 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:52.720 and all the US forces there. The oldest soldier was 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.200 a twenty eight year old captain. The youngest was a 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.360 twenty one year old private who'd been in the military 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.680 for less than two years. So let's put ourselves out 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:07.440 there for a second. Imagine you're that young first lieutenant. 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:11.120 You're twenty five or twenty six years old, and you've 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:15.360 been assigned as the tactical director inside the command and 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:16.320 Control element. 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:18.800 You at that age. 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:24.040 Are the sole person responsible to defend this base. Listening 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.280 next to you is your early warning operator, whose job 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:31.000 is to notify you of imminent attack. There's five people 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:35.080 inside a vehicle and five people outside of a vehicle 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.960 around these a total of, as I said, forty four. 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.680 By the way, you've sat in the Middle East for years, 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:49.480 deployed over and over again, extended multiple times, always being prepared, 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:53.640 but unsure of when that particular day will come that 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:57.760 you must execute your mission and not fail at doing it. 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.680 In this case, these Patriot Cares were deployed from Korea 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:05.119 and Japan as part of our US forces there to 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:08.480 ensure that we had the most capable missiles in the 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:10.760 Sencom area of responsibility. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:12.720 As the day. 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.840 Continues, you start to hear more and more chatter in 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:20.040 the information space about an appending attack, and as the 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:24.439 sun starts to set in the west, you get orders 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.320 from your higher headquarters to make sure that your missile 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:31.000 batteries are pointed to the north. There are just a 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:35.080 few other teammates. It's hot, you're getting nervous, and you 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:40.840 expect an attack outside of those Patriot vehicles. Your hot crew, 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:44.680 which is one NCO and four additional soldiers, turns a 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:48.320 key and relinquishes control of those missiles to that young 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:53.960 lieutenant inside the vehicle, and you wait. You know that 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.320 you're going to have approximately two minutes, one hundred and 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:02.119 twenty seconds to either succeed or fail. And then at 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:07.719 approximately twelve thirty pm on Monday, that's seven thirty pm 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.080 in Katar, as the sun sets in. 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.480 The west, Iran attacks. 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:18.560 As the targets were detected, Round after round of Patriot 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:23.040 missiles are ejected from their canisters by an initial launch charge. 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:27.040 Then the main solid rocket motor ignites. You can feel 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.240 this in your body if you've ever been around a 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:33.000 Patriot taking a shot, and round after round goes out 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:37.680 and guides against those missiles coming inbound. We believe that 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:43.080 this is the largest single patriot engagement in US military history, 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.360 and we were enjoy We were joined in this engagement 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:50.479 by the Katari patriot crews. I'm not going to tell 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:52.479 you how many rounds were shot, but it was a 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:57.199 bunch because of classified purposes, and we're aware that something 0:18:57.280 --> 0:18:59.879 there's reports of something getting through. What we do know, 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:04.760 there was a lot of metal flying around between attacking 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:09.160 missiles being hit by patriots, boosters from attacking missiles being 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:13.359 hit by patriots, the patriots themselves flying around in the 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.639 debris from those patriots hitting the ground. There was a 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:19.960 lot of metal flying around, and yet our US air 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:25.440 defenders had only seconds to make complex decisions with strategic impact. 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:30.000 These awesome humans, along with their Katari brothers and sisters 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:34.399 and arms, stood between a salvo of Iranian missiles and 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:38.400 the safety of value. Deed, they are the unsung heroes 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.760 of the twenty first century United States Army. And I 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:44.200 know a lot of you have seen the videos online 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:48.240 and the excitement as those Patriots departed their launchers and 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:54.040 went up and guided. This really demonstrates the combat capability 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:59.160 and capacity of our Army. Air defenders simply stated, they 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:04.240 absolutely crushed it if you'd flip this over, thanks. Let 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:09.080 me Let me next move to a walkthrough of the 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:14.760 GBU fifty seven Massive Ordnance Penetrator weapon and share a 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.920 little bit about the planners who did this and their 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:20.840 work on the weapon. First, let me set the stage 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:25.720 for you. There's an organization in the US called the 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:30.960 Defense Threat Reduction Agency DITRA. DITRA does a lot of 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:35.600 things for our nation, but DITRA is the world's leading 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:41.080 expert on deeply buried underground targets. In two thousand and nine, 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:45.919 a Defense Threat Reduction Agency officer was brought into a 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:50.000 vault at an undisclosed location and briefed on something going 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:53.320 on in Iran. For security purposes, I'm not going to 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.560 share his name. He was shown some photos and some 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:59.960 highly classified intelligence of what looked like a major can 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:03.840 instruction project in the mountains of Iran. He was tasked 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:07.480 to study this facility, work with the intelligence community to 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:11.400 understand it, and he was soon joined by an additional teammate. 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:15.000 For more than fifteen years, this off cer and his 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:19.720 teammate lived and breathed this single target four dough, a 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:25.720 critical element of Iran's covert nuclear weapons program. He studied 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:28.800 the geology. He watched the Iranians dig it out. He 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:33.280 watched the construction, the weather, the discard material the geology, 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:37.080 the construction materials, where the materials came from. He looked 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:40.240 at the vent shaft, the exhaust shaft, the electrical systems, 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:44.920 the environmental control systems, every nook, every crater, every piece 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:48.560 of equipment going in and every piece of equipment going out. 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:53.840 They literally dreamed about this target at night when they slept, 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:56.920 They thought about it driving back and forth to work, 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:00.639 and they knew from the very first day is what 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:04.600 this was for. You do not build a multi layered 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:09.520 underground bunker complex with centrifuges and other equipment in a 0:22:09.560 --> 0:22:13.960 mountain for any peaceful purpose. They weren't able to discuss 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:17.360 this with their family, their wives, their kids, their friends, 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:20.520 but they just kept grinding it out, and along the 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:23.520 way they realized we did not have a weapon that 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:28.000 could adequately strike and kill this target. So they began 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:31.679 a journey to work with industry and other tacticians to 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:36.000 develop the GBU fifty seven. They tested it over and 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:40.320 over again, tried different options, tried more. After that, they 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:44.840 accomplished hundreds of test shots and dropped many full scale 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:51.600 weapons against extremely realistic targets for a single purpose, kill 0:22:51.640 --> 0:22:56.240 this target at the time and place of our nation's choosing. 0:22:57.440 --> 0:23:00.880 And then, on a day in June of only twenty five, 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:04.120 more than fifteen years after they started their life's work, 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:06.280 the phone rang and the President of the United States 0:23:06.359 --> 0:23:10.240 ordered the B two force that you've supported to go 0:23:10.320 --> 0:23:11.760 strike and kill this target. 0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:12.640 Yesterday. 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:15.639