WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 24 June 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.360 Thank you, Shari. It is a minute past nine o'clock 0:00:02.360 --> 0:00:05.960 on the east coast of Australia, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra. 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:09.200 As you can see, at a minute past seven Washington 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.680 d C Time on the East coast of the United States, 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.200 the President of the United States has just boarded Air 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:18.480 Force one. He is on his way towards the NATO Summit, 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:20.520 and that is going to be at the Hague a 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:22.640 couple of hours travel time or a few hours travel 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:25.639 time before we see him meeting with world leaders. But 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:27.760 as Shari has just been telling you, the past fifteen 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.680 minutes have been seismic in terms of how Donald Trump 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:36.320 has interpreted the events of the past few hours. Now, 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:40.720 let's just lay out here in chronological order where we 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:44.040 have been today. That at about two o'clock Australian time 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.639 is when the ceasefire between Israel and Iran was due 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:52.120 to take place. A rocket has landed in the north 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:58.279 of Israel after that period of time. Now, Iran has 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:02.280 suggested that they were not responsible for it. Israel absolutely 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:07.759 believes that they are and has promised full retaliation because 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.640 we understand that multiple people have died as that rocket 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.679 has landed now, being so early in the morning in 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.840 terms of Washington d C. Let's again go back through 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.560 the chronology. Were the first comments of the President of 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:27.160 the United States, Donald Trump, who is absolutely demanding no 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:31.200 further action between these two countries, took to truth social 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:35.920 and did so just eleven minutes ago from inside the 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:40.000 White House. He wrote this message, which was Israel, do 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:44.520 not drop those bombs. If you do, it's a major violation. 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.760 Bring your pilots home now, signed Donald Trump, President of 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.200 the United States. He is trying to send a message 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:56.280 to Israel to say, even if you believe that Iran 0:01:56.360 --> 0:02:02.040 has intentionally dropped one more missile with deadly consequences after 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.480 the ceasefire period was in time, you have to rule 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.960 a line under it. You cannot respond. Now we know 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:12.280 that the Israeli defense forces have said that because human 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:16.000 life has been taken by that missile, that they believe 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.480 that the ceasefire had been broken and they are planning 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.920 to retaliate. So the President, in all caps, the Internet 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:26.079 equivalent of shouting, has said that Israel essentially has to 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.320 rule a line under it and cannot respond to what 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:34.880 has taken place. Then the President moved his way from 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:39.000 the Residency out to the south lawn of the White House, 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.680 where he did speak to reporters. Now he did so 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.720 before boarding a helicopter, before boarding Marine one, which then 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.959 flew to where Air Force one is. So if I 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.240 can ask my team to go back and let's show 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:54.800 in full the whole tape that we have. Now, this 0:02:55.040 --> 0:03:00.560 was not shown live because of a media arrangement where 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.919 for safety reasons, apparently there is not live pictures which 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.639 always come out of that walk when they're making their 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.560 way towards the helicopter. At least that's what I understood 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:14.320 it to be in this particular case. So he did 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:18.000 make the comments. So inside the White House, truth social 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:23.560 tells Israel, regardless of what's happened, do not respond. He 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:28.800 then goes down to the reporters and says, this happy. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:29.520 That Israel's going out. 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.480 Now, there was one racket that I guess, we're aspired 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:37.360 overboard after the time limit, and at best it's targets, 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.640 and now Israel's going out. These guys got to calm 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:41.960 down ridiculously. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.560 Okay, So again he's trying to suggest here that okay, 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:49.000 a line's in the sand. Somebody. Now again we are 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.240 talking about the loss of human life here. So the 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:54.400 metaphors I'm trying to be as respectful as possible. But 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:58.880 from Trump's perspective, somebody's put a toe over the line 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:04.600 with one miss that's landed and taken life. After that 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:08.400 particular moment in time, Israel says, well, bugger, what the 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.240 original deal is You hit us after that time. You're 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.760 the one who's broken the ceasefire. We're the ones with 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:17.279 the moral obligation and right to be able to respond. 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.160 Trump is saying, at some point this has to stop 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.120 in terms of the tit for tat that this happened, 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:27.240 and this happens, this reaction, that response, and that seems 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.880 to be exactly where he is now. He's on his 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.560 way towards the NATO meeting that's over in the Hague 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:38.039 in Europe. Now, several leaders have chosen not to attend. 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:43.239 Quite interestingly, the freshly elected President of South Korea or sorry, 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.200 leader of South Korea, has said that they are not 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:50.040 going to be attending. Now, this is being interpreted by 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.760 some of the magatypes as some sort of a message 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:56.599 potentially coming back through China. Now I'll explain that in 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.919 greater detail a little later, but certainly not friendly to 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.960 position of China when it comes to things is Japan. 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.000 The Japanese leadership has said that they are not planning 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:11.039 to go to NATO either. The leaders that are currently 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:15.600 on the ground already speaking to reporters, among others, is 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:19.599 Emmanuel Maccron, the President of France. Now, he has said 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:25.080 tonight that he praises the ceasefire and he recognizes the 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:28.400 importance of a few days ago the decision of Donald 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.520 Trump to drop the bombs that he did, but appreciates 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:36.000 the ceasefire where it currently is. The Canadian Prime Minister 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.360 Mark Carney, who remember a week ago, about a week ago, 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:44.920 was himself hosting world leaders at the G seven summit. Well, 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.839 he too has been speaking to reporters in the Hague, 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:52.000 where he has said that he supports the President's view 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:55.440 of things here that essentially a line has to be drawn. 0:05:55.960 --> 0:06:00.040 Now again, we are expecting, and we were expecting, that 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.000 there was going to be some sort of immedia statement 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:07.880 to camera by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:12.880 this hour. Now, presumably the full ability of communications of 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.359 a United States president means a phone call has already happened, 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.719 or may well be happening as we speak, as he 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.240 prepares himself to take off as Air Force one starts 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.840 to make its way from Andrew's Air Force Base off 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:30.760 to Europe. But very much the sitting position of the 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.520 President of the United States is that it is up 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:37.400 to Israel to help draw a line under the twelve 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.920 days of conflict. Of course, twelve days ago is when 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:47.040 the Israelis decided to well take on Iran directly wipe 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.599 out as much of their military and even political infrastructure 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:54.800 as possible. There was, then, of course, before last weekend, 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.760 an expectation that Donald Trump, after leaving that G seven 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.480 meeting that was in Canada, was going to be joining 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.320 the effort, or at least was considering joining the effort 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:10.280 to hit Iran. That, of course, took place over the 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.120 weekend during a period of time that the United States 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:15.560 and through the President, of course, had said that they 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:17.720 were going to make a decision within the next two weeks. 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.640 Of course, even when that announcement had been made already 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:24.240 the final planning was underway, so effectively there was no 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.000 real attempt to move back to the negotiating table. There 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.480 was a want for the President of the United States 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:33.000 to do his bit to assist Israel, and that was 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.360 to drop those bombs in the middle of the night 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:40.920 in Operation Midnight Hammer, to take out three of the 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:46.240 significant Israeli enrichment sites. And again reading through the tea 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.280 leaves here, the expectation you would imagine of the President 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.440 is in a transactional way to be attempting to say 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:57.160 to the leadership of Israel, look, I stepped in, I helped. 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.960 I'm now asking you to help me draw a lot 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:04.400 under what is taking place. Because remember, under the temporary 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:08.520 ceasefire that was announced at the start of today that 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.600 kicked in this afternoon Australian time, that once we hit 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:17.240 SA ten pm Australian time, without any further issues than 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:22.160 that would move into a permanent ceasefire scenario. Of course, 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:26.120 during that twenty four hour period, we've had Iran strike 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.120 back at US military facilities like the ones we've been 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.840 pointing out for the past few nights that are dotted 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:36.480 all over the Middle East. Of course, Qatar Kuwait, now, 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:41.600 the leadership of Qatar is outraged that Iran had decided 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:45.680 to enter their airspace with missiles and knock out or 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:50.440 try to disrupt those American bases. But also it seems 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:54.199 that Iran had attempted on some level, perhaps because they 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.880 had no further ability to do more damage, but in 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.360 a face saving exercise, because remember, they don't care what 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.440 the world thinks of them. They care about what is 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:06.440 being consumed by their domestic population, and largely, while they 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.560 have access to the Internet generally speaking, they also have 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.319 access to things like VPNs to be able to get 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:16.600 around the Iranian news services. The Iranian news services have 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:21.240 been saying that the ceasefire only took place after Donald 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.839 Trump had begged for a ceasefire after the so called 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:29.320 destruction of the American bases. So we know that like 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:34.040 everything international leaders, they have their own domestic populations to 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:38.840 deal with. Understandably, the Israeli community wants the Israeli Prime 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.880 Minister to respond to a missile that had fallen after 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:48.400 the ceasefire had kicked in. That has taken life. From 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.120 the Iranian perspective here, and I am not suggesting moral equivalents. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.240 It's pretty obvious who the aggressor in the scenario has been, 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:57.360 and that has been, of course, Iran trying to get 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.720 a nuclear bomb with the express permission of white Israel 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.839 off the map, while they are trying to tell their 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.320 own people that they stood up for themselves, they fought 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.880 back when it came to Israel, but more importantly, they 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.360 were able to push America back into its own corner. Now, 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.560 obviously that is not true. But as you've heard in 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.760 the past fifteen minutes or so, Donald Trump essentially again 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.040 saying to the Israelis, please help me draw a line 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.920 under all of this. I helped you, so please help me. 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:30.640 But obviously, again there are people on all elements of 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:34.080 this who want to make sure that their main constituency 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:36.240 is not the international community, but about what will be 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.560 taken from home. Let's go to a full frame here 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:40.719 as we start to see the cameras move away from 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:44.080 Air Force One, as it starts to make its taxi 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:50.680 away and the journey towards yet another international meeting. Think 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:52.920 about what has happened, and this is extraordinary, Think about 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.600 what has happened in the past seven days. In the 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.280 past well twelve days, of course, is when the first 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:03.040 of the Israeli strikes on a Ran helped blow major 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:08.640 holes in their political and military infrastructure, as well as 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.280 the threat that they pose, at very least the nuclear 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:16.000 threat that they posed to other nations certainly focused specifically 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.679 in and around Israel. About a week ago, you had 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.760 the President of the United States who was in a 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.800 meeting with other world leaders in Canada. That was a 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.600 two day meeting of the Australian Prime minister scheduled to 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:32.160 be meeting on that second day, but he left after 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:36.640 the first day. Now, apparently, in part that was because 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:42.800 the Iranians had apparently delivered a direct threat through a proxy. Now, 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.800 whether that means staffers, people at the meeting, or potentially 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.760 another world leader, part of the story that we will 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:55.520 eventually learn when people are asked more questions or write 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.760 their books or anything like that in the next little while. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.600 And the direct threat was that if you come after us, 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:06.920 then we are going to come after America in America, 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:10.840 because we already have people loyal to the regime in Iran, 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:16.400 and those people will commit deadly suicide terrorist attacks. That 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.560 was the moment that Donald Trump decided I'm out. He 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.240 left that meeting of the G seven halfway through. He 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:29.480 returned to the situation room where apparently the final elements 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.800 of the planning, or at least the beginning of the 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:37.320 permission for the bunkerbuster strikes in Iran were being put 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.160 in place at the end of last week. Going into 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:44.240 last weekend, Iran believed, or at least what was being 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.440 said publicly, that they were being given a two week 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:50.480 window to talk. That was being interpreted as a two 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.520 week window to maybe move some of the stuff that 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.600 they didn't want to get blown up in those strikes 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.920 by the United States and Israel. For those things to 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.120 be moved out, there has been some footage of a 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:07.520 train load of semi trailers that were moving equipment out 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:11.680 of some of those facilities. Again, then last weekend, the 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:16.840 scenario of the US strikes where there were fourteen fourteen 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.600 of those bunker buster bombs that were dropped in three 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:23.280 separate locations, as well as our whole collection of Tomahawk 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.360 and other missiles which were being fired from, among other things, 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:31.000 submarines and carriers that were in the area, pretty extraordinary. 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:40.120 Then again, chronologically following through these incredible days, then Israel 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:44.760 decided to continue with its strikes, particularly as we were 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:47.280 live on the air. Remember things like the doors being 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:51.240 blown off at prison where political prisoners were also they 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:55.160 were taking after and moving closer towards trying to destroy 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.800 things that were part of the Iranian regime. Of course, 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:03.920 their tight control over the country. Now while obviously, when 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.200 we've been hearing about some of the missiles and ordinance 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.280 that they have been hurling towards Israel, some of them 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.880 being as old as technology from the nineteen eighties, their 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:16.560 capacity to keep throwing things seems to be very much dilapidated. 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.400 We then had the scenario where, of course, the Iranian 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.880 foreign minister went to Russia while we were on the 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.720 air last night, and the Russians have said today that 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:33.120 there best support that they could offer to Iran was 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.880 not as the former Russian president but still part of 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.360 the Security Council in Russia had said, which was to 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.360 offer a nuclear bomb already made one to the Iranians. Instead, 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:47.320 it was to support the ceasefire. Then, of course, the 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:51.960 ceasefire rolls in a missile lands in the north of Israel. 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.440 The President says, let's rule the line under it. Israel 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.640 says they are set to respond, and we could hear 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.440 something any moment now. But as you can see, Air 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.040 Force one is making its journey from the United States 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:07.440 to the Hague in Europe for another meeting of world leaders. Again. 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:13.320 Seven days in the world, twelve thirteen days in the 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:17.560 Middle East that we've all seen play out live on 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:21.400 our televisions, morning, noon, and night, no matter where we are, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.720 all the way around the world. But the message from 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.400 the President of the United States before getting on that 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:31.120 plane was, Israel, do not drop those bombs. I do 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:35.160 not respond to what had taken place. If you do, 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:39.520 it is a major violation. Bring your pilots home. Now 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.800 as we speak, we are searching for all of the 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:45.560 usual sources for information from the Israeli government, be it 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.360 the Defense Minister, the political officials, or the office of 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.680 the Prime Minister. Again, suggestions were that he was to 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.800 make a statement at some point in the next few minutes. 0:15:56.120 --> 0:16:01.640 But again, Donald Trump, the direct message here to Benjamin 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:05.640 Netanyahu and the Israeli military leadership has helped me draw 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.680 a line. Let's make the ceasefire come true. By not 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:13.520 responding to the Iranian missile that fell after the ceasefire 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:17.320 had kicked in at two o'clock Australian Eastern Standard time. 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.120 We basically have two countries that have been fighting so 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.920 long and so hard that they don't know what the 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:25.920 they're doing. 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:31.000 Okay, even tougher stuff that is being said here and 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.800 certainly a frustration from the President. One of the things 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:37.320 about Donald Trump when it comes to these situations is 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.720 he doesn't hide. We know what he's thinking. Middle of 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.000 the night, middle of the day, He'll bang it out 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.160 on social media. He'll then go to a press conference, 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.760 make it very clear, and then step in essentially to 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:53.880 say in a very direct way, the cooler heads need 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:58.040 to prevail at this particular moment. Now, our plan this 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:02.080 evening is to talk Togiel Farrage, of course, the potential 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.400 future Prime Minister of the UK man of course leading 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.800 the Reform Party. In between, we will be going to 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:11.719 lots of other locations around the country. We will also 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.360 be having more conversations if we can fit them in, 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.200 in and around Australian domestic politics. But for obvious reasons, 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:22.600 real time, real moments. Now again, I'm going to have 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:26.359 to send a message live to the team behind the scenes, 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.080 is that, if possible. Obviously there's an F word in there, 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.280 but I'd like to see the longest version of the 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.080 comments that the President made while he was leaving the 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:39.479 White House because generally speaking, all world leaders, Australian leaders 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.240 as well. They may want to get a message out, 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:46.359 which means they only answer one question. The theatrics in 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.199 and around an American president and this was perfected by 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:51.919 Donald Trump in his first term, practiced by Joe Biden 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.640 in the second term, and space is sparsely but still 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:58.359 used by Donald Trump in his second term, which is 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:02.160 to make comments on the So the southern lawn of 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:04.199 the White House, the one that is closer towards the 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.320 Washington Monument, then of course the view that is available 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:11.440 from Pennsylvania Avenue. And because of the whirring sounds of 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:15.160 the helicopter, often when people are trying to ask questions, 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.800 the president could pretend not to hear. But in this scenario, 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.679 the president not to only slowed down, he turned, he 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.520 moved to the reporters. He clearly wanted to be asked 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.560 as many questions as possible. He didn't just answer one, 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:33.000 he answered multiple and included the little le f bomb. 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.600 So again, I don't know if I can play the 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:37.600 full amount of it here if we have a full 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.240 tape to turn around. We don't have it right now, 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:41.879 but we will get to it in a moment or 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:45.480 two time. Also worth noting about what has been taking 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:51.840 place about the Israeli position before in and around the 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:56.520 six o'clock hour on the Australian Eastern side of things, 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:00.720 was that the Israeli Prime Minister had apparently put some 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:02.920 sort of another statement out here and I'm going to 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:04.800 read it for you here breaking news on and off 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:08.040 of the glasses. I reported to our security Cabinet that 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:11.360 Israel achieved all of our war goals in the operation, 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:15.760 including removing the threat of Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs. 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:20.359 Israel also damaged Iran's military leadership and several government sites, 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:24.399 and achieved control over Tran's skies. So that statement was 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:27.199 made when the assumption was everyone's going to hold the 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.639 line when it comes to the ceasefire. Then missile falls 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:35.160 into the north of Israel again in between about six 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:38.760 thirty I think it was Australian Eastern Times, the Sydney, Melbourne, 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:45.720 Brisbane and Canberra. Then immediate announcement from the defense officials 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.560 in Israel was that they were going to respond with 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:51.720 maximum force. So it wasn't just going to be a 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:54.679 one for one missile exchange, but it was going to 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:59.240 be a full and punishing response because this particular missile 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:05.680 has taken human life. Therefore, the President, and you've seen 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.600 his anger and you've seen his frustration, is that you 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:13.720 had a scenario where both of the players in terms 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:17.320 of Israel and Iran, had in and around that ceasefire 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:19.640 time said that they had achieved everything that they had 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:24.000 wanted to achieve. An Iranian missile lands in the north 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:27.879 of Israel, and that throws everything into chaos again. No 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:31.960 other formal response from the Israeli government. Sophie Ellsworth is 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.919 the europe correspondent for News Corps. She has spent some 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:37.960 time in Israel in the past week. It is a 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:41.159 febriar situation always, but certainly when the President of the 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:45.200 United States is throwing f bombs in frustration, we are 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:48.439 at a very interesting moment in time. In fact, I 0:20:48.480 --> 0:20:50.040 know we played at once. I want to play it 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:52.480 again so you can hear it. I know you were 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:54.680 setting up as well. So but here is the President 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:58.400 expressing deep frustration, yes, with both sides, but in this 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:02.359 hour a frustration with Israel, essentially appealing to them to 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.280 help him hold the cease fire in place. Here were 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:07.440 his comments on the South Lawn again. I hope to 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:09.520 play you the full exchange, which goes for a couple 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:12.399 of minutes on the other side of this conversation with Sophie. 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:13.840 But let's hear what he had to say. 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:18.399 We basically have two countries that have been fighting so 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:21.200 long and so hard that they're don't know what the 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:22.200 they're doing. 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:26.439 All right, Sophie, again, you know this part of the 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:29.720 world well, but you also know that the Americans have 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:33.480 been nothing but supportive when it comes to Israel. The leadership. 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:36.240 The reference, of course, with Donald Trump referring to the 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:38.959 partnership that he was having basically is I think in 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:41.439 one of the previous social posts he referred to a 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:44.840 great team that he and Benjamin Ettnie who had made well. 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:46.720 He's annoyed with his teammate tonight. 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:52.159 He absolutely is, Paul. You can see the frustration. You 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:56.960 can hear the frustration. His words speak for themselves. Obviously, 0:21:57.000 --> 0:22:00.159 this is a situation is moving so quickly. But just 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:03.520 a few days ago, Paul, we were talking on your 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:06.679 program and I was showing you those giant signs in 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:09.240 the background on a freeway. I was standing that said, 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:13.879 thank you, mister President. Israelis were so happy with his 0:22:14.000 --> 0:22:17.800 actions that resulted in those you know taking out the 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:23.600 new clip you know, positions in Iran, and they were 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:26.680 very grateful for that. But this has moved so quickly now. 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:30.400 Just earlier this morning, I was in northern Israel when 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:33.920 those alerts went off. I got one on my phone saying, 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:36.800 run to shelter. I was on a freeway in a car, 0:22:37.280 --> 0:22:40.520 had to quickly pull over and find a safe room 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:43.480 in a bunker. But this is extraordinary that Donald Trump 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:45.840 has come out and made these comments. I was talking 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:48.840 to Israelis when I was in this bunker, and they're 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:51.800 sort of saying to me, well, you know, the ceasefires 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:54.879 only a few hours in. It takes time. Now it 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:59.400 happened about ten thirty local time. We're seven hours behind 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:04.240 in his So this situation is so volatile. But I 0:23:04.240 --> 0:23:07.439 can certainly tell you, Paul, there's many people who still 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:10.959 remain very nervous of where this will go next. And 0:23:11.000 --> 0:23:15.440 it appears perhaps this cease fire is failing and failing fast. 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:19.800 Now again the frustration of the President, because his emotions 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:22.280 in all of this are key, no doubt. Of course, 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:26.720 a very ongoing communication that's happened between Israel and the 0:23:26.800 --> 0:23:29.040 United States leader to the leader, and then obviously up 0:23:29.040 --> 0:23:33.840 and down the military chain. Normally, in moments like this, 0:23:33.920 --> 0:23:37.399 we're able to see pretty fast response from Israel and 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:40.560 its government in real time via a whole collection of 0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:43.720 social media. Yet again we're seeing a scenario where at 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:46.879 this moment there seems to be radio silence coming from 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:48.439 the Israeli government. 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:53.000 Well, this has only just happened, Paul, Donald Trump has 0:23:53.040 --> 0:23:55.720 only made these comments a short time ago. But yes, 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:59.399 the Israeli government are always very quick to respond. 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:01.160 They're prolific on. 0:24:01.200 --> 0:24:05.480 Social media, and they're updating, you know, their various channels, 0:24:05.880 --> 0:24:08.640 you know, minute by minute, so you know it won't 0:24:08.640 --> 0:24:11.600 be long before they hit back. But I can't imagine 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:17.200