1 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: Line from Vall Heartbland and the Crossroads of America. It's 2 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: Tony Katz today, White House Press Briefing. That is what's 3 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:22,960 Speaker 1: coming up next. And the room is, as one would guess, 4 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: very full, very full. 5 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 2: Indeed, Tony Katz, Tony Kats today. I'm pretty sure. 6 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: Kaitlyn Collins just walked in right there and she's taking 7 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: her seat. 8 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:45,599 Speaker 2: So special and in charge. Sit down, Caitlyn. At least 9 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 2: she's got a seat in the briefing room. She's doing 10 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 2: her job. I may not like the way she does 11 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 2: her job. 12 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: But she's doing her job. So we will hear the 13 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: latest in the briefing. 14 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:58,280 Speaker 2: We will hear what it is. 15 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: That Caroline Levitt has to discuss. We assume there'll be 16 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:10,040 Speaker 1: a fair amount about Iran. There will be a large 17 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 1: amount regarding national security and DHS funding. If they are smart, 18 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 1: they will be talking about DHS funding. They will be 19 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: talking about how Democrats are putting American families at risk. 20 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 1: They will discuss how the Democrats are putting national security 21 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: at risk. We are a nation engaged in a fight 22 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: to do away with an Islamic regime that has supported 23 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: terrorism against Americans for decades and the last thing we 24 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: need is to find ourselves hamstrung because Democrats are more 25 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: interested in politics than they are in success in defeating 26 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: the enemy. That was Listen, if Caroline Levitt needs my help, 27 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: I'm there for I am there. I As I've often said, 28 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: press secretary for a week. It's all I need, press 29 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: secretary for a week. I would be amazing. It'd be 30 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: enough time to write my book. Oh a thousand percent 31 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: over there, just thenews dot com. When we talk about 32 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: these people opposed to what's happening in Iran, they're not 33 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: the people who are having an honest to goodness conversation 34 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: of Wait a second, what is the plan? 35 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 2: What is success? What is the exit? 36 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 3: Like? 37 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: Do we know all these things? Do we need to 38 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 1: know all these things? How are we going about this? 39 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: Is there another way to go? 40 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 2: Like? 41 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:49,000 Speaker 1: That's rational. You can have people agree and disagree about 42 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: those things. You and your neighbor, you and a friend, right, 43 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: different ways to look at this. No, no, we should 44 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:56,239 Speaker 1: do this. No no, no we should do that. No no we 45 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: should partner with this person. No no, no, we needed more 46 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 1: nations over here, et cetera. I'm not a guy who 47 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 1: believes you need the United Nations for anything. The United 48 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: Nations is a failed organization that has never kept the 49 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:08,919 Speaker 1: peace and has never done away with a desk spot. 50 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: The United Nations should be tossed aside and we should 51 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: start fresh. 52 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 2: I absolutely believe this. But the larger scale. 53 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 1: Of these people protesting the war, oh, we don't believe 54 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: in war. These people are paid by the Chinese Communist Party. 55 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 2: Just the news with the reporting. 56 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: That you have Chinese state run media promoting anti war 57 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: protests that are linked to this guy, Neville Singham, who 58 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 1: is a communist who wants to see the end of America, 59 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: makes millions from his work in China. So you see 60 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: the groups like Answer Act Now to Stop Born and Racism, Communists, 61 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: the People's Forum, Marxists, you have Code Pink, really sad 62 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: lonely liberal white women, also communists, and the Party for 63 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: Socialism and Liberation. But I repeat myself, and they are 64 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,600 Speaker 1: all getting money from this guy and from these groups. 65 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: And they've all got the signs and they were all 66 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 1: perfectly printed, and they're all put together. There is nothing 67 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: grassroots about any of. 68 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 2: These people, none of them. 69 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: It is all paid for propaganda to try and destroy 70 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 1: Western civilization. I started the show today by discussing what 71 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: it is that Pete Hegseth was discussing and how the 72 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: secretary of you want to call them, secretary of Defense, 73 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 1: secretary of wars, totally up to you. 74 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 2: He started. 75 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:07,359 Speaker 1: By saying, we have complete and total domination here, every 76 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 1: step of the way. We have all of the control 77 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 1: and as sure as bloody hack not the Iranian regime. 78 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:27,160 Speaker 4: Four days into this and the results have been incredible historic. Really, 79 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:31,039 Speaker 4: only the United States of America could lead this, only us. 80 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 4: But when you add the Israeli Defense Forces, a devastatingly 81 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 4: capable force, the combination is sheer destruction for our radical 82 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 4: Islamist Iranian adversaries. They are toast and they know it, 83 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:51,040 Speaker 4: or at least soon enough they will know it. And 84 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 4: we have only just begun to hunt dismantle, And. 85 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: Of course he goes on, we're hunting, we're dismantling, We're 86 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: ripping apart. 87 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 4: Demoralize, destroy and defeat their capabilities just four days in. 88 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: And so this is all part of the of the propaganda, right, 89 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: that conversation is not for us. That conversation is to 90 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: try and de moralize the IRGC. It's propaganda war. I 91 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: mean it is what it is. The Communists want to 92 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 1: dismantle us. This is nothing new. We are not surprised 93 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 1: by this. What we don't know because we're busy living 94 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: our lives is the levels to which this is happening, 95 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 1: the money that is spent on doing this, the desires 96 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: of the Chinese Communist Party to make this happen, which 97 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:53,719 Speaker 1: is why you cannot allow anybody for the Chinese Communist 98 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: Party or no Chinese national to own land or businesses 99 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: in the United States. 100 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,839 Speaker 2: None. 101 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 1: None, because their objective is our destruction. 102 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 2: And they utilize useful idiots. 103 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: Like code Pink and like these fools who belong to 104 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: answer to move their agenda along to who they are. 105 00:07:20,520 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 2: It's what they do. 106 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: And I want to make sure everybody starts paying very 107 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: close attention and recognize that when you hear a story 108 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: on social media, your kids are talking about something on TikTok, 109 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:37,440 Speaker 1: whatever the case may be, what you see from CNN, stop, 110 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: take a moment, what is this story? Believing it off 111 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: the cup is a terrible, terrible idea, and it's something 112 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: that we discussed over the last weeks. This idea that 113 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: all this polling of everybody's negative on Trump and Trump's unpopular, 114 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: and this is unpopular, and Ice is unpopular. 115 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 2: It's not true, it's not true. 116 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: And we saw after the State of the Union his 117 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: numbers bumped up and his favorables beat his unfavorables. Now, 118 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: those numbers came out before the hit on Iran, and 119 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: what you are now going to see is the unfavorables 120 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: climb back. It's not even a question. You see this 121 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 1: over in a couple of weeks and the regime gone 122 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: see even more favorables. I mean, we should all be 123 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:40,839 Speaker 1: perfectly clear that you make a move like this as 124 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: you head towards a midterm where Republicans are behind the 125 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: eight ball anyway because of traditional movement in how people 126 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:56,439 Speaker 1: vote and in engaging this. This attack on the Iranian 127 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 1: regime is fraught, but it's the right thing to do. 128 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 1: So it's a conversation of leadership over political expediency, and 129 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:08,079 Speaker 1: I think that's a way the Republicans need to engage 130 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: it because it happens to be accurate. 131 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:14,839 Speaker 2: But it is fraught. A lot can go wrong, a lot. 132 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: Now you've already killed the Ayatota, You've already been able 133 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,839 Speaker 1: to destroy a large amount of their leadership, A lot's 134 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 1: gone in your favor. Well, right now we have six 135 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 1: dead Americans and it's horrifying. Agreed, But you don't spend 136 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,439 Speaker 1: your days counting like that. That's how the left is 137 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: going to do it. What is the better tomorrow? What's 138 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 1: the better future? If there's anything the administration needs to sell, 139 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 1: it's that and a future that has a terrorist not 140 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: being paid to be terrorists. 141 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 2: That's a better future for me and for you, and 142 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 2: for the. 143 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 1: Left and for the progressives and for those COMMI low lifes, 144 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: whether they know it or not, but they're commies. 145 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:01,240 Speaker 2: I mean, what actually do they know? I'm Tony Katz. 146 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 2: This is Tony Katz. 147 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 5: Today they chant death to America and fund other radical 148 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 5: terrorists who attack our country and are seeking to destroy 149 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 5: Western civilization itself. These terrorists seized our embassy and took 150 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:20,559 Speaker 5: sixty six Americans hostage in Tehran. They slaughtered two hundred 151 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,360 Speaker 5: and forty one US service members with a truck bombing 152 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 5: in Beirut. They killed and maimed hundreds of American service 153 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:30,760 Speaker 5: members in Iraq. And this is just a small fraction 154 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 5: of their blood soaked record. 155 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:34,319 Speaker 6: Prior leaders have. 156 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 5: Been too weak and ineffective to address this threat. Some 157 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 5: like Barack Hussein Obama even sent palettes of cash that 158 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 5: ultimately financed this terrorist crusade against the United States and 159 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 5: our people, while signing stupid and naive deals that put 160 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:55,320 Speaker 5: Iran on the path of developing nuclear bombs. After years 161 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 5: of endless appeasement and empty statements from politicians on both 162 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,720 Speaker 5: sides of the political isle in this town, President Trump 163 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 5: is finally the man of action. 164 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 2: That is Caroline Levitt. 165 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:09,160 Speaker 1: This is the White House Press briefing happening as we speak, 166 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 1: Tony Katz, Tony Kats to say, good be with you. 167 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 2: Let me bring it back to Caroline Levitt. 168 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,560 Speaker 5: Of Americans. We'll look to this moment as the moment 169 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:21,439 Speaker 5: where the specter of a nuclear arm irand armed Iran ended. 170 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 5: At the beginning of Operation Epic Fury, launched last weekend, 171 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:29,320 Speaker 5: President Trump laid out clear objectives to the American people 172 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 5: on what the US military seeks to accomplish through these 173 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 5: major combat operations. Number one, destroy the regime's deadly ballistic 174 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 5: missiles and completely raise their missile industry to the ground. 175 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 5: Number two, annihilate the Iranian regimes navy, and so far 176 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 5: we have destroyed more than twenty Iranian ships, including their 177 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 5: top submarine last night using a torpedo. For the first 178 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 5: time since World War II, there is not a single 179 00:11:56,280 --> 00:12:00,439 Speaker 5: Iranian ship underway and the Arabian Gulf Straight of Remus 180 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 5: or the Gulf of Oman. Number three, Operation Epic Fury 181 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 5: will ensure the regime's terrorist proxies in the region can 182 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 5: no longer destabilize the region or the free world and 183 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 5: attack our armed forces, and thus far Iran's proxies are 184 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 5: hardly putting up a fight. Number four, this mission will 185 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 5: guarantee that Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon. 186 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 6: It's safe to say that thus. 187 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:30,440 Speaker 5: Far, Operation Epic Fury has been a resounding success. American 188 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 5: forces have struck more than two thousand targets, destroying hundreds 189 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 5: and hundreds of ballistic missiles, launchers, and drones. As the 190 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:40,600 Speaker 5: Department of War said this morning, we expect to have 191 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 5: complete and total dominance over Iranian airspace in the coming hours, 192 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:49,000 Speaker 5: clearing the skies for our brave warriors to continue achieving 193 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 5: these noble and long sought after objectives. 194 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: So we now know what the purpose of this press briefings, 195 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: be sure to set the goals and the parameters for 196 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: why we are there and what we're trying to achieve. 197 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: That's what Caroline Levitt just did. There will it take? 198 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 1: That's a different conversation nuclear sites. 199 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 5: Yet, the terrorist Iranian regime has remained fully committed to 200 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 5: rebuilding its nuclear program. How do we know this because 201 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 5: Iran has pursued this path of war and violence despite 202 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 5: President Trump dispatching two of his top and most trusted 203 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 5: negotiators to engage in exhaustive and good faith negotiations to 204 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:29,319 Speaker 5: try and reach a deal. 205 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 6: And the world knows this. 206 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 5: President's preference is always peace and diplomacy. 207 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:34,680 Speaker 6: First. 208 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 5: Look no further than the eight additional global conflicts he 209 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 5: has ended in the past year as proof. Unfortunately, the 210 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 5: terrorist Iranian regime refused to negotiate in good faith. They 211 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 5: chose this path of violence and destruction, and they are 212 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 5: reaping the consequences of their horrible decision. 213 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:56,319 Speaker 6: The regime did what they always have done. 214 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 5: They'd lied, They delayed, They tried to string the United 215 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 5: States of America along. They wanted to buy themselves time 216 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 5: to continue building ballistic missiles and other deadly weaponry that 217 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 5: could harm our US personnelit and troops in the region, 218 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 5: and to continue aggressively pursuing their unacceptable nuclear ambitions. US 219 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 5: negotiators offered to lift crippling sanctions on Iran and even 220 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 5: provide nuclear fuel to Iran at no cost to support 221 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 5: a civil nuclear power program. 222 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 6: They additionally had the opportunity to. 223 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 5: Accept US support as an investor in potential projects to 224 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 5: develop peaceful nuclear energy together under a mutually agreed upon framework. 225 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 5: Yet in response, Iran would have to forfeit their enrichment 226 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 5: capacity once and for all. 227 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 6: But Iran rejected. 228 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 5: They accepted none of these generous and unprecedented offers by 229 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 5: the United States. Simply put, they refused to say yes 230 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 5: to peace, and their refusal made clear that their number 231 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 5: one priority was building a nuclear weapon with which to 232 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 5: threaten the United States of America, again, the country they 233 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 5: have been chanting death to for nearly five decades. Let 234 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 5: me state this again clearly, Iran rejected the path of 235 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:13,800 Speaker 5: peace because the terrorists in charge of this regime wanted 236 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 5: to build nuclear weapons to use against Americans and our allies. 237 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 5: President Trump made the determination, a courageous determination and decision, 238 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 5: that the path the United States was on with Iran 239 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 5: had only one outcome, massive death and destruction at the 240 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 5: hands of a nuclear armed, terroristic regime. That path of 241 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 5: death and destruction and threats against the American people have 242 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 5: ended with Operation Epic Fury. Operation Epic Fury has forged 243 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 5: a new path that will better ensure the security of 244 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 5: the United States and our people. 245 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 1: I'm in favor of it, but this is the wrong 246 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 1: way to talk. It's not done. Don't do mission accomplished stuff. 247 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 1: We saw this from George Bush. It was a mistake. 248 00:15:57,160 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: Stop making the mistakes, stupid people. We are fighting. We 249 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: will fight until it is over. We will fight until 250 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: we win. We will win. We will stay at it. 251 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 1: This president is committed. Our military is the best trained 252 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 1: and that's that. 253 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 2: That's the way you handle this. 254 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 5: Who possess the most sophisticated capabilities this world has ever known. 255 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 5: Forty nine incounting of the most senior Iranian regime leaders, 256 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:26,760 Speaker 5: including the Supreme Leader, have already been wiped off the 257 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 5: face of the earth. Make no mistake, killing these brutalists, 258 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 5: brutal terrorists is good for America and makes the world 259 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 5: a much safer place. I want to also extend our 260 00:16:38,280 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 5: prayers and condolences to the families of the six US 261 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 5: military service members who have been lost in Operation Epic Fury. 262 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 5: These heroes represent the very best among us. They laid 263 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 5: down their lives in defense of our country, and we 264 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 5: will never forget their legacy or their sacrifice. As the 265 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 5: President said, we grieve for these American patriots and their 266 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 5: families as we continue the righteous mission for which they 267 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 5: gave their lives. President Trump intends to attend the dignified 268 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 5: transfer of these American heroes to stand in grief alongside 269 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,639 Speaker 5: their families. I understand the Department of War is working 270 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 5: on scheduling this transfer, and we will provide updates at 271 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 5: the appropriate time. Finally, to the Trump Administration is also 272 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:24,680 Speaker 5: doing everything within our power to protect Americans in harm's way. 273 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 5: Since the launch of Operation Epic Fury, more than seventeen thousand, 274 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:33,359 Speaker 5: five hundred Americans have safely returned home from the Middle East, 275 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:36,919 Speaker 5: with over eighty five hundred American citizens returning home to 276 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 5: the United States just yesterday alone. If you are a 277 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 5: US citizen in the Middle East looking to return to 278 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 5: the United States, the Secretary of State asks that you 279 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,800 Speaker 5: please register with the State Department at step dot State 280 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 5: dot gov. 281 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 6: The State Department will identify where. 282 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 5: You are and provide travel options directly to you. The 283 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 5: Administration is already rapidly chartering flights free of charge and 284 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 5: booking commercial options, which we expect to become increasingly available 285 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 5: as time goes on and the success of this mission 286 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,879 Speaker 5: further comes to fruition. I know the President and Secretary 287 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:12,919 Speaker 5: of State Rubio have been in touch as well with 288 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 5: our allies in the region directly about this problem, making 289 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:18,879 Speaker 5: it clear that it is a priority of the United 290 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 5: States of America to bring every American home. 291 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:23,640 Speaker 6: The Trump administration will not. 292 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 5: Rest until every American is home safely and until the 293 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 5: terrorist threat from Iran has been completely destroyed. 294 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 6: With that, I'll take your questions, Eric, why don't. 295 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 7: You can that's interesting to be here, and as you mentioned, 296 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:40,959 Speaker 7: Iran's regime, its leadership has largely been decimated. We have 297 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:43,880 Speaker 7: a sense right now who is actually calling the shots 298 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 7: in Iran. We're also here, and reports that the Supreme 299 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,360 Speaker 7: Leader's son may be named his successful to give any 300 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 7: more information about that, I've said a. 301 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 2: Quick follow up as well. 302 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 5: Sure we've seen those reports as well, of course, and 303 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 5: this is something that our intelligence agencies are closely monitoring 304 00:18:58,280 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 5: and looking at. 305 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:01,640 Speaker 6: The true says We'll have to wait and see. 306 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 5: The President has said repeatedly that the objectives of Operation 307 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 5: Epic Fury are the four military objectives that I laid 308 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 5: out for you previously. To destroy Iran's navy, to destroy 309 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 5: their ballistic missile capacity, to ensure their proxies in the 310 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 5: region can no longer harm Americans. 311 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 6: And to also ensure that they can never bring out 312 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 6: what it is the objectives next war Iran. 313 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:47,400 Speaker 5: The President has said, and ultimately we hope. February eleventh, 314 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 5: the US Department of State Consular Affairs shared a list 315 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:54,359 Speaker 5: of countries with level four do not travel advisories. You 316 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 5: can't be much more clear than that, do not travel 317 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,640 Speaker 5: to these following countries. On February twenty third, the US 318 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 5: Embassy in Lebanon ordered non emergency government personnel and family 319 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 5: members to leave Lebanon due. 320 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,000 Speaker 6: To safety risks, and we help them do that. 321 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:11,199 Speaker 5: On March second, the State Department urged US citizens to 322 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 5: depart Lebanon immediately with respect to Iran. On February twenty seventh, 323 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,760 Speaker 5: the Secretary designated Iran as a state of sponsor of 324 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 5: wrongful detention and stated no Americans should travel to Iran 325 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:27,480 Speaker 5: for any reason. And again on February twenty seventh, the 326 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 5: US Ambassador to Israel warned Americans to leave Iran, and 327 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 5: they provided travel advisory alerts through the US Embassy in Jerusalem. 328 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: So the estate that is a White House Press Secretary 329 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: Caroline Lovett saying, Hey, we know we have Americans in 330 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:42,400 Speaker 1: these places and they haven't been able to get back. 331 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 1: We brought back seventeen thousand. We believe we have another 332 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,119 Speaker 1: six thousand people out there based on who has registered. 333 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 1: But we've had these travel warnings. We've been telling people 334 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:53,440 Speaker 1: for a while not to go. Now that's that's a 335 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: little bit of playfulness. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, no 336 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 1: one was expected like the Spanish inquisition. No one will 337 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 1: expecting bombs to drop on I Ran Ben Gurion Airport 338 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 1: in Tel Aviv, to stop flying, and other places across 339 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 1: the Mediterranean and in the area to no longer be 340 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: able to have any travel. That wasn't something that was expected. 341 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:17,560 Speaker 1: Heightened tension, sure American Israel leading the charge to take 342 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: out the Iranian regime this past weekend. 343 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 2: Not on everybody's Bengo card. 344 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 1: Tony Katz, Tony Kats today, good wee with you, let's 345 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: bring it back to the question from Jackie Heinrich from 346 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: Fox News to Caroline. 347 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 5: Levincantomy and the cost of oils spiking. 348 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 6: Is there a need to start those maybe escorts in 349 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 6: the straight up foremus now to sort of blunt the 350 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 6: impact people. And also, because Spain is a member. 351 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 5: Of the EU, does that at all put a wrinkle 352 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 5: in the President's plan for a trade and bargo with them. 353 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 5: With respect to Spain, I think they heard the President's 354 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 5: message yesterday loud and clear, and it's my understanding over 355 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:58,439 Speaker 5: the past several hours of they've agreed to cooperate with 356 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 5: the US military, and so I know that the US 357 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 5: military is coordinating with their counterparts and Stain. 358 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:04,960 Speaker 2: Well, that's new. 359 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 1: Trump said he was going to end trade with Spain 360 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,919 Speaker 1: because Spain got all up at ease long because I 361 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 1: mean the United States, but all they are what they 362 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 1: are to they support the Palestadian state. They're they're radically progressives, 363 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 1: but radical progressives. But I had not heard that that's 364 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 1: new information that Spain was here at home now all 365 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:23,600 Speaker 1: of a sudden saying hey, we'll help. 366 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 5: Them thing that Secretary Bessett, Secretary right the National Economic 367 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,920 Speaker 5: Council of Energy that is led by Governor Burger. Secretary 368 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,880 Speaker 5: Burgham excuse me, has been long working on and well 369 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,720 Speaker 5: in advance. Yesterday, President Trump announced the US Development Finance 370 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:41,639 Speaker 5: Corporation will provide political risk insurance at a very reasonable 371 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:45,199 Speaker 5: price for crude carriers and cargo ships operating in and 372 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 5: around the Gulf. And as you pointed out, Jackie, the 373 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 5: President said, if necessary and win appropriate, the US Navy 374 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 5: will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Her Moves. 375 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:57,919 Speaker 5: I think it speaks to why this action was so 376 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 5: necessary that ultimately the end energy industry is going to 377 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 5: benefit from the President's actions with respect to Iran, because 378 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,400 Speaker 5: Iran will no longer be controlling the Strait of Her 379 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 5: Moves and restricting the free flow of energy, which, as 380 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 5: you all know, controls twenty percent of the world's global 381 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 5: oil supply. 382 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 6: Thank you for sure, Thanks Caroline. 383 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 8: The President said yesterday there wasn't time to make evacuation 384 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 8: plans because this all happened so quickly. 385 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,400 Speaker 6: Given how critical the President. 386 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:30,439 Speaker 8: Has been of the chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan. 387 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:34,480 Speaker 4: By all, that's to go why we're of a focus 388 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:39,400 Speaker 4: on evacuation plans at. 389 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 8: Least put in place ready to go before the strikes 390 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:42,879 Speaker 8: this weekend. 391 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 5: Again, I just laid out for you that there have 392 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,400 Speaker 5: been plans in place and that the State Department has 393 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 5: been very clear to the American people traveling within this 394 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 5: region not to travel to these regions. We gave notices 395 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,439 Speaker 5: to leave immediately the countries where these Americans were within, 396 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 5: and unlike the previous administration, we actually have a number, 397 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 5: We actually have identified the number of people in the 398 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 5: region who have requested help. We are in direct contact 399 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:10,679 Speaker 5: and engagement with them. And you have to keep in 400 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 5: mind there's a few thousand people who have requested assistance 401 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 5: to come home in comparison to the millions who we 402 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 5: understand are in the region. So we will help every 403 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 5: single American who wants to come home if they're making 404 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:23,879 Speaker 5: that request of the State Department. 405 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:27,000 Speaker 8: Americans who called the State de Forman hotline as recently 406 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,879 Speaker 8: as last night, we're. 407 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,000 Speaker 6: Being told we can't help you, you have to make 408 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 6: your own plans. 409 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:34,919 Speaker 5: Well, the line was updated, and I expect every single 410 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 5: person in this room to report on that accurately so 411 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,119 Speaker 5: that information can be relayed appropriately to your audiences and 412 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,679 Speaker 5: to the American people. I think as journalists, you all 413 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 5: have a responsibility to let them know that the line 414 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:49,560 Speaker 5: has been updated accordingly with the proper guidance, because I 415 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 5: saw many people in this room very quick to do 416 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 5: selfie videos with the line yesterday, but not so quick 417 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 5: to report on the corrected message today. So that is 418 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:00,479 Speaker 5: something the administration quickly worked to address, and we have 419 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,639 Speaker 5: fixed that problem. However, we're also pointing to people to 420 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,919 Speaker 5: the website again to register so that we know exactly 421 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,119 Speaker 5: where you are, so when there are commercial flights moving 422 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,360 Speaker 5: into that area, when there are chartered flights moving into 423 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,120 Speaker 5: that area, we can get Americans on planes. 424 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 1: As far as freaks us down a little bit, the 425 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 1: argument being made by the leftist press corps is we 426 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:24,200 Speaker 1: can't fault you. We can't go after how you're handling 427 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 1: taking out. 428 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:29,680 Speaker 2: The Iranian regime. 429 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 1: So let's go at you on this. People are still 430 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:40,560 Speaker 1: out there now. If you had given the warning, you 431 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:45,920 Speaker 1: would have given the warning to Iran. If you had 432 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: made other moves, you might have given them too much information. 433 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 1: I don't disagree that you've got people out there, American 434 00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 1: citizens out there, but if the argument is hey register here, 435 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 1: register there, we're coming to get you. 436 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 2: We've got the flights, we'll coordinate this, we'll do that good. 437 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:08,880 Speaker 1: What the Left is doing is trying to figure out 438 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: where their angle is. That was not a comparing it 439 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 1: to Afghanistan, not an honest question at all. 440 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 5: Eliminate Ourn's ballistic missile threat, destroy their naval capability, distrupt 441 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 5: missile and jone production infrastructure, sever their pathway, and end 442 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 5: their pathway to nuclear weapons. And I can report, as 443 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 5: you all saw from the Pentagon today, that thus far 444 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,719 Speaker 5: this operation has been remarkably successful. Again, we're moving towards 445 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:42,240 Speaker 5: complete and total control of Iranian airspace. We have continuous 446 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:45,119 Speaker 5: twenty four to seven strike operations ongoing. 447 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:46,360 Speaker 6: We've had more. 448 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 5: Than two thousand targets that have been struck, Nearly two 449 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,040 Speaker 5: thousand munitions have been employed. The first twenty four hours 450 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,880 Speaker 5: of this campaign were described nearly as twice the scale 451 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:58,879 Speaker 5: of the two thousand and three Shock in Awe campaign. 452 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 5: And we've seen that our the enemy, the Iranian rogue regime, 453 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 5: their retaliatory strikes against the United States, and the threat 454 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,400 Speaker 5: reduction has reduced significantly. If you look at the Iranian 455 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:16,280 Speaker 5: ballistic missile launches, they're down eighty six percent from day 456 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 5: one levels. 457 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:18,400 Speaker 2: We should be clear. 458 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,960 Speaker 1: They still are able to launch, and they still are 459 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 1: doing damage in places. 460 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,480 Speaker 2: They still are a game taking place. 461 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,920 Speaker 4: They are weakening day by day, and that is good 462 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 4: that they're weakening day by day. 463 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:34,200 Speaker 1: That is not necessarily proof of they can't do anything else. 464 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 2: They did just President. 465 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:42,320 Speaker 1: Shoot at Turkey, which is certifiably insane of the Iranians. 466 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 2: Hell they mean, and I even know where they're shooting to. 467 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,119 Speaker 6: It's taking out a terrorist? 468 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 1: What is what is this idea that we would have 469 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,160 Speaker 1: and somehow they really are aware of what they're doing, 470 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 1: having the skill set in the. 471 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 3: States, wouldn't mind seeing that the government overthrown. Certainly President 472 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,919 Speaker 3: Trump has talked about wanting to see Iranians overthrow the government. 473 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 3: Is the President considered it all kind of how he 474 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 3: views a US role, if any, in Iran post conflict. 475 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 5: I think it's something the President is actively considering and 476 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,200 Speaker 5: discussing with his advisors and his national security team. 477 00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 6: But again, right now, the focus, minute. 478 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,159 Speaker 5: By minute, hour by hour, day by day, is on 479 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 5: ensuring the quick and effective success of Operation Epic Fury. Sure, 480 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 5: go ahead, I want to ask you about the US 481 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 5: munition STOF I don't even know. 482 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 6: Who's speaking because I wasn't looking at a question I 483 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,160 Speaker 6: want to ask you about the US munitions dot file. 484 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,720 Speaker 9: President Trump posted on you his social on Monday that 485 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 9: the US still has a good supply of weapons, but 486 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 9: that we still we're not where we need to be. 487 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:41,720 Speaker 2: What does he mean by that? 488 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,360 Speaker 9: And does President Trump then want to ask on Congress 489 00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 9: to pass the supplemental to increase funding for missile interceptor 490 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,560 Speaker 9: systems like the ones being used to defend US bass 491 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 9: in the Middle East from Iranian missiles. 492 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,080 Speaker 5: I don't have any updates for you on congressional asks 493 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,120 Speaker 5: from the President. As you know, under this president, we 494 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,080 Speaker 5: have significantly increased our defense budget, which is a good 495 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 5: thing for the United States, for our national security and 496 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,720 Speaker 5: for protecting our homeland. With respect to munitions, ammunition, weapon 497 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 5: stock piles, the United States of America has more than 498 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 5: enough capability to not only successfully execute Operation Epic. 499 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 6: Fury, but to go much further. 500 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 5: And we have weapons stockpiles in places that many people 501 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 5: in this world don't even know about. However, the President 502 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,840 Speaker 5: in that post was pointing out that unfortunately, we had 503 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 5: a very stupid and incompetent leader in this White House 504 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,479 Speaker 5: for four years who gave away many of our best 505 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 5: weapons for nothing, for free to another country very far away, 506 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 5: by the name of Ukraine. So the President was pointing 507 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 5: out how that was a nonwise decision. But nevertheless, don't 508 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 5: doubt the strength in the might of the American military. 509 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 5: And I will also add President Trump has rightfully been 510 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 5: calling on defense contractors in this country to rapidly and 511 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:55,520 Speaker 5: aggressively produce American made weapons because they are the best 512 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 5: in the world. And the President always likes to get 513 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 5: things done as quickly as possible, and so he's been 514 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,800 Speaker 5: quite vocal in his efforts to try to speed up 515 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 5: our defense industry. 516 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 1: I heard this earlier, and I said, this is the 517 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:09,880 Speaker 1: craziest conversation I ever heard. The idea that we don't 518 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 1: have enough ammunition is insane. I'm like, this, is this 519 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,200 Speaker 1: a leftist talking point that somehow we don't have enough 520 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:20,720 Speaker 1: ammunition to have this fight? Because if we don't, I say, 521 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: let's make sure we don't ever fund Planned Parenthood again. 522 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 2: Let's find a. 523 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 1: Good ten to fifteen leftist programs and stop the funding 524 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 1: of them to make sure we've got enough bullets. You 525 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 1: always have to have enough bullets. Bullets first, that's what 526 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,800 Speaker 1: you need to have. And if we're gonna have a 527 00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 1: question now but whether or not we've got enough bullets, 528 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: we need to go get some bullets. 529 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 2: So a couple programs, lefty programs. 530 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,800 Speaker 1: Gotta go, gotta go. Let me bring it back to 531 00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: Caroline Levett real quick. 532 00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 8: In the United States air strike at girls at elementary 533 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 8: school in Kail, one hundred and seventy five people. 534 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 5: Not that we know of, Sean and the Department of 535 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 5: War is investigating this matter. And I would just tell 536 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 5: you very strongly, the United States of America does not 537 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 5: target civilians, unlike the rogue Iranian regime that targets civilians, 538 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,560 Speaker 5: that kills children, that has killed thousands of their own 539 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,960 Speaker 5: people in the past several weeks, and uses propaganda quite effectively, 540 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,480 Speaker 5: and unfortunately many people in this room have fallen for 541 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:16,280 Speaker 5: that propaganda. 542 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 6: So I would caution you from pointing the finger at. 543 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 5: The United States of America when it comes to targeting civilians, 544 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 5: because that's the idea. 545 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,719 Speaker 2: That the school was targeted by the US or Israel. 546 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 1: The other reports were it was an Iranian missile that misfired. 547 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 1: I'll wait for the investigations to take place we've got 548 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 1: more from the press briefing in Caroline Levit, keep it here. 549 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:37,440 Speaker 2: This is Tony Katz today. 550 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:41,920 Speaker 8: Would that happen in conjunction with current or subsequent two? 551 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 5: That is something that is definitely underway, and of course 552 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 5: we're going to use that. 553 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 1: I think the questions about how are you getting people out? 554 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,240 Speaker 1: Are you adding other flights? I do think that's all legitimate. 555 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 1: I think the Gatcha is trying to compare it to Afghanistan. 556 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 1: It is too gross for words. Caroline Levitt was absolutely 557 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:03,400 Speaker 1: correct not to answer the hypothetical question, because that would 558 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 1: be a policy conversation, right what happens when. 559 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,720 Speaker 2: Some remnant of the regime is still in power. 560 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:17,120 Speaker 1: And you're like, okay, that's enough now for the record, 561 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,720 Speaker 1: That's not enough for me. I don't want any part 562 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 1: of the regime to be in there, Not for a 563 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:29,120 Speaker 1: second do I want any part of the regime to remain. 564 00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:35,720 Speaker 1: So this is, of course the question that you can't 565 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:42,719 Speaker 1: really answer. This is the question that is most difficult 566 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 1: to answer, Tony Katz. 567 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 2: Tony Katz, I don't even know if the radio show. 568 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 1: Has come back yet or not, but I only hope 569 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:54,320 Speaker 1: so so I was kind of really deep in thought 570 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:57,280 Speaker 1: there about what she had said and wanted to go 571 00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 1: over it, want to make sure. 572 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:00,960 Speaker 2: I had it right in my head. 573 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,360 Speaker 1: I think that this is when I discussed that America 574 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,680 Speaker 1: should be discussing what we're doing in Iran. What is 575 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,160 Speaker 1: success is a big one, And you heard her lay 576 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:11,560 Speaker 1: out a list of things. We're gonna do this, We're 577 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 1: gonna do this, We're getting this down, we're getting right, 578 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:18,959 Speaker 1: they're setting this now, they're setting this now. You could argue, well, 579 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,360 Speaker 1: you should have have set before. I'm less concerned about that, 580 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:26,440 Speaker 1: but that's me on a personal level. But if success 581 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 1: is a member of the Iyahtolas regime. 582 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 2: Being in charge and these people still not being. 583 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,320 Speaker 1: Free and in any level terrorism is still being paid 584 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:43,680 Speaker 1: for or financially supported or supported in general, Nope, that's 585 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:44,440 Speaker 1: not success. 586 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 2: But one could argue that. 587 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 1: What it is is it's another step that we have 588 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,600 Speaker 1: taken to getting there. 589 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 2: That doesn't really satisfy, does it. It doesn't. 590 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,000 Speaker 1: But when I heard her saying, I said, that's the 591 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:02,880 Speaker 1: right answer. 592 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 2: But it is not necessarily an answer to the question. 593 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,680 Speaker 1: But it was the right answer for her, because the 594 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:10,440 Speaker 1: job of the Press secretary is not to answer that 595 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:11,320 Speaker 1: question at all. 596 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:15,840 Speaker 5: Ram to give themselves immunity within their country alongside their navy, 597 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,800 Speaker 5: so that inside their country they could continue to create 598 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,439 Speaker 5: nuclear weapons in nuclear bombs, which would of course pose 599 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:27,120 Speaker 5: a risk to Americans in the region and even Americans 600 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:29,520 Speaker 5: one day here at home. And then another point on 601 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:33,239 Speaker 5: this is the President found that through these extensive, exhaustive, 602 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:37,000 Speaker 5: failed negotiations with Iran that they were hell bent on 603 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,000 Speaker 5: death and destruction. So again, the President was not going 604 00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,720 Speaker 5: to be just another president on a very long list 605 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,680 Speaker 5: who sat back and stood by and pass the bulk 606 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 5: of this direct threat to the next administration. The President 607 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,360 Speaker 5: had a feeling, again based on fact that Iran was 608 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,520 Speaker 5: going to strike the United States, was going to strike 609 00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:57,200 Speaker 5: our assets in the region, and he made a determination 610 00:34:57,320 --> 00:34:58,840 Speaker 5: to launch Operation Epic Fury. 611 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:03,680 Speaker 1: And so here's thequestion for those on the left who 612 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,560 Speaker 1: make the statements make this claim that there was no 613 00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:11,600 Speaker 1: imminent threat. Let's say they don't believe what Caroline Levitt 614 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:15,160 Speaker 1: just said, and they don't believe that Iran was getting 615 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:19,680 Speaker 1: ready to strike. At what moment would you have believed 616 00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:25,600 Speaker 1: it is the threat imminent when we catch wind of 617 00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:29,000 Speaker 1: it through our intelligence or some other nation's intelligence apparatus, 618 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,760 Speaker 1: or is the threat imminent just at that moment before 619 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:34,240 Speaker 1: impacting Cleveland, Ohio? 620 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:41,880 Speaker 2: When is it imminent? And so I really dismiss. 621 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,960 Speaker 1: What I considered to be a lot of silliness on 622 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,480 Speaker 1: this idea of imminent, because it would seem that the 623 00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:55,399 Speaker 1: Left thing's imminent is right before boom, and I think 624 00:35:55,400 --> 00:36:01,920 Speaker 1: that's way too late to do something. I think after Beirute, 625 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:03,680 Speaker 1: after the taking of Hostagen seventy. 626 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,640 Speaker 2: Nine, we owed it to them to take them out. 627 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,600 Speaker 2: I'm glad it's talking. This is Tony Cox today.