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Speaker 4: Throughout our meetings with the Iranians, we heard the following
Speaker 4: from them, The Iranians have the inalienable right to enrich.
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Speaker 2: how are.
Speaker 3: You having me?
Speaker 2: I have been saying that this conflict in Iran is
Speaker 2: going to come to a swift end. And I come
Speaker 2: to this conclusion bill because for a couple of reasons. One,
Speaker 2: I know Donald Trump. Two I listened to what he
Speaker 2: has to say. Three I look at what they've been
Speaker 2: able to accomplish. I listened. I had Secretary of State
Speaker 2: Mark or Rubio on last night. We went into great detail.
Speaker 2: And where we are today is we really have two
Speaker 2: remaining issues that have to be dealt with. I'm not
Speaker 2: saying any of them are simple. I think all military
Speaker 2: efforts are complicated. I think they're all dangerous. We always
Speaker 2: pray for our troops. But I think it was a necessity.
Speaker 2: And what precipitated the President going in is something you
Speaker 2: and I discussed last week, and that is the sixty
Speaker 2: percent enriched uranium that could be that could be further
Speaker 2: enriched to ninety percent and seven to twelve days. And
Speaker 2: the fact that they bragged that they have fourigner in
Speaker 2: sixty kilograms, enough for eleven nuclear weapons. And we learned
Speaker 2: in this conflict that their ballistic missile range is far
Speaker 2: longer than the world had estimated, which means that their
Speaker 2: ballistic missiles currently without any improvement, could reach Paris and London.
Speaker 2: That would be an existential threat to the entire world.
Speaker 2: So the President has said today that they want to
Speaker 2: cease fire. Apparently these negotiations are going well. We will
Speaker 2: either have in the next two weeks a negotiated settlement
Speaker 2: or the President will have to remove the sixty percent
Speaker 2: enriched uranium by force, and that's going to be up
Speaker 2: to the Iranians. The second part of it is the
Speaker 2: straight of hormones, which we'll get to separately. What say you,
Speaker 2: mister O'Reilly sir?
Speaker 3: Well, if you know President Trump, he doesn't give major addresses.
Speaker 3: If he's got bad news to number one, she figure
Speaker 3: he's got something on his mind tonight that's going to
Speaker 3: be positive for his administration in the country. We don't
Speaker 3: know what that is yet. It might be just as
Speaker 3: great as hits, I don't know. But it's not going
Speaker 3: to be a negative. It's not going to be like, oh,
Speaker 3: this is harder and we thought it was going to be,
Speaker 3: or we're not doing well in this area. Not going
Speaker 3: to be that.
Speaker 2: So, by the way, by the way, Bill, by any
Speaker 2: objective measure, can any intelligent person make that point if
Speaker 2: we look at past military efforts and conflicts that we
Speaker 2: have had, and look look at for example, World War
Speaker 2: two slamming the beaches of Normandy D Day and how
Speaker 2: difficult that mission was at that time, and how many
Speaker 2: American lives were lost that day, and every loss of
Speaker 2: life is a casualty. That's our national treasure. However, to
Speaker 2: wipe out their navy and their but ballistic missiles and
Speaker 2: their drone system most of it, not all of it.
Speaker 2: We can't find every bit of it. But to have
Speaker 2: such a successful intelligence military effort with with limited casualties
Speaker 2: like this is unprecedented.
Speaker 3: You would agree with that, I would agree with it,
Speaker 3: but with a caveat. So hearts and minds has to
Speaker 3: be part of any war equation. And there are a
Speaker 3: lot of people who don't want to believe that this
Speaker 3: is a successful operation. They don't want to believe it.
Speaker 3: People believe what they want to believe. And these people,
Speaker 3: and you saw them on the King's thing over the weekend,
Speaker 3: they don't want to believe it, so they're not going
Speaker 3: to believe it. And you can present them with all
Speaker 3: kinds of evidence, but you see it.
Speaker 2: You're a historian. There's never been any level of military
Speaker 2: success like this in the history of warfare, with as
Speaker 2: few casualties.
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 3: Yes, After I interviewed Lindsey Graham, and you know, I
Speaker 3: gave him my usual hard time to back up what
Speaker 3: he was saying. I was convinced that the Mullas had
Speaker 3: the capacity to use nuclear weapons in a very short
Speaker 3: period of time. Now I didn't want to believe that.
Speaker 3: That's my journalistic training. I went over it for an hour,
Speaker 3: which Senator Graham. But I also understand that Putin's the
Speaker 3: big winner here, not the United States, because NATO is finished,
Speaker 3: finished as an alliance. And it's a very simple equation.
Speaker 3: You're the president and all you want from the NATO
Speaker 3: European countries is some cooperation in helping the United States
Speaker 3: and Israel dismantle the nukes. That's all you're asking for.
Speaker 3: And it's easy. We're doing all the heavy lift here.
Speaker 3: All they need to do is let us land or
Speaker 3: maybe give us some intel, or maybe throw in on
Speaker 3: movies a little bit. And they won't do it. You
Speaker 3: don't have an alliance. So Putin's sitting back there going
Speaker 3: this is great. I love this.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: We let mean, let me tell you where I think
Speaker 2: you're wrong in your analysis. You're right about Putin is
Speaker 2: loving it. I will. I will concede that point. I
Speaker 2: think you're dead on accurate. I think you're also right
Speaker 2: in your observation that NATO has finished, and we spend
Speaker 2: nearly a trillion dollars a year, we pay sixty we
Speaker 2: pay two thirds of the bill for NATO anyway, and
Speaker 2: we have the continent of Europe and individual countries. They
Speaker 2: have been in a precipitous decline now going on for
Speaker 2: a couple of decades. They've neglected defense, They've embraced socialism,
Speaker 2: climate alarmism, and they have also allowed unfettered illegal immigration
Speaker 2: without assimilation, resulting in sharia courts and no go zones. Okay,
Speaker 2: so the real loser is NATO, not the United States bill.
Speaker 2: Because we don't need NATO. We will find bases to
Speaker 2: land our planes moving forward at a far lower cost
Speaker 2: point than we're currently paying. We're not going to lose
Speaker 2: at all. The biggest loser in that battle is Europe.
Speaker 2: They will be the big They have now totally put
Speaker 2: the final nail in their coffin. As far as I'm concerned, here's.
Speaker 3: Why I disagree with you. So I expect Putin to
Speaker 3: ramp up in Ukraine, and that's not good for the
Speaker 3: United States or Europe. It's not good for any world.
Speaker 3: And Putin is now embold in, so Hello Latvia, a
Speaker 3: low Baltic states, and we're gonna have to pay a
Speaker 3: lot of money, taxpayer money to blunt Putin, and we're
Speaker 3: not going to have the allies that we used to have.
Speaker 3: And the reason this is all happening in Europe is
Speaker 3: because of socialism. And Spain is the best example. Spain
Speaker 3: is now a socialist country. Admire the United States, they
Speaker 3: don't even like us. I'll never go to Spain again, Hannity.
Speaker 3: I don't know whether you've ever been beautiful country.
Speaker 2: I haven't been to Spain, but I've been to France
Speaker 2: and I've been to Great Britain, and those countries are gone.
Speaker 2: Europe as a continent is gone. Bill, It's over. I
Speaker 2: don't think they can recover. I do not believe they
Speaker 2: have so neglected defense, they have so embraced their radicalism,
Speaker 2: their unfettered immigration. Do you ever think it of nearly
Speaker 2: one hundred career courts in Great Britain, Bill, O'Reilly, No,
Speaker 2: you did not.
Speaker 3: And that's the reason they're not cooperating, because they fear
Speaker 3: they being the leadership of these individual countries. They fear
Speaker 3: terrorism and the strength of the Muslim humunity, which is considerable,
Speaker 3: and that's why they're not helping out, because all you
Speaker 3: got to do is say, listen. If you have a
Speaker 3: nuclear threat at your doorstep, which they certainly do, and
Speaker 3: you don't care about that, then either you're emotionally disturbed
Speaker 3: or there's something else. And there's something else is they
Speaker 3: don't want their soccer games blown up. They are operating
Speaker 3: out a fear. But the United States needs allies, and
Speaker 3: Japan is now proving that in vexing China. Japan's really
Speaker 3: stepped up there and it helps us to have them,
Speaker 3: but we're not going to have them for at least
Speaker 3: the next two and a half years. Let me and
Speaker 3: I know you.
Speaker 2: Spoke to Lindsey Graham, and Lindsey Graham is looking at
Speaker 2: the other side of this conflict and what he is
Speaker 2: seeing is normalization, recognition. We'll call it an expansion, if
Speaker 2: you will, of the Abraham Accords, and that would mean
Speaker 2: that hopefully piece in the Middle East for many, many
Speaker 2: decades to come. And I hope that's the net result
Speaker 2: of that. With the bill, and I was on that
Speaker 2: golf trip with the President when he went to Riod
Speaker 2: in Saudi Arabia and Cutter and he went to the UAE.
Speaker 2: I was there and I learned a lot and the
Speaker 2: and every one of these countries wants a great relationship
Speaker 2: with the United States. So there will be new alliances.
Speaker 2: And I think Western civilization, which was saved by Winston Churchill, boy,
Speaker 2: I will tell you you talk about Neville, Chamberlain, Starmar. Uh,
Speaker 2: it is breathtaking to me that that clearly Europe has
Speaker 2: forgotten the lessons of history, not even one hundred years ago.
Speaker 2: And they they were willing to have a nuclear armed Iran.
Speaker 2: And meanwhile we learned in this conflict that they have
Speaker 2: ballistic missile range capable of hitting Paris and capable of
Speaker 2: hitting London. And they won't even send a ship to help,
Speaker 2: you know, keep open the free flow of oil at
Speaker 2: market prices in the straight of Horne moves. How insane
Speaker 2: is that.
Speaker 3: It's absolutely stunning, It's absolutely stunning.
Speaker 2: It's over, but it's not going to impact us. You know,
Speaker 2: we're gonna have bill, We'll we're gonna have another trillion
Speaker 2: dollars to spend on national defense here and one day
Speaker 2: they will be. They will be kissing our ass, begging
Speaker 2: us to help them for the very conflicts that could
Speaker 2: very likely arise that you had previously mentioned. Viz A
Speaker 2: VI Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 3: Putin's going to cause trouble, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: And these cowardly Europeans can't stand up to them. They're
Speaker 3: under power to do it and be at this point
Speaker 3: in history, they probably let Putin march into Moldova and
Speaker 3: take it. They probably how would they got bill?
Speaker 2: How will they stop them?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean they there is arm capabity, they.
Speaker 2: Don't have the will, they don't have the military might,
Speaker 2: they don't have the ability to stop them. They would cower.
Speaker 3: And a lot of this is the European media, which
Speaker 3: is absolutely it's actually worse than the American media. If
Speaker 3: you can imagine that, A gamizing the United States every night, BBC,
Speaker 3: Agent France, all of that just demonized, demonized, demonized. And
Speaker 3: the population of Europe, you know, they're dependent on the government.
Speaker 3: It's a basically welfare situation. Gimme, gimme, gimme. I don't
Speaker 3: care what really happens in the Gulf. Well, when you're
Speaker 3: heating bills triple, which they will if this continues. You're
Speaker 3: gonna care. But this is very very It is stunning
Speaker 3: that Great Britain because that's the real bulwark Tony Blair
Speaker 3: or Prime Minister. This would not be happening. Which term
Speaker 3: is weak and he's afraid. And you can't conduct foreign
Speaker 3: policy if you're weak and a frame.
Speaker 2: I can tell you the net the net result of
Speaker 2: all of this is there's going to be a reconfiguration
Speaker 2: of the world order, and Europe now is floundering at
Speaker 2: I don't think Europe can recover. I don't think Europe
Speaker 2: would ever take the necessary steps to insist either on
Speaker 2: assimilation or expelling people that have no interest in assimilating
Speaker 2: to their their mores and their values in their individual countries.
Speaker 2: I see No go zones continuing. People deny that they're
Speaker 2: they're real. I've had reporters on Fox in those No
Speaker 2: go zones and they're very real. So I'm not sure
Speaker 2: if there's a path to recovery for them, especially because
Speaker 2: of the political reality and the fear that they have
Speaker 2: among now their own population. I think I think it's over.
Speaker 3: The final equation to the story is all the weakness
Speaker 3: in Europe and in the United States. The Trump patriot
Speaker 3: here helps un because they think that they can hold
Speaker 3: out because of all the pressure on President Trump, and
Speaker 3: they'll get a better deal, and that helps the Mullas.
Speaker 2: But tonight, Bill, the Mullas are dead. I don't know
Speaker 2: what mullas you're talking about. The Mullas are. We're now
Speaker 2: at the fourth and fifthier of remaining leadership. So I
Speaker 2: will tell you this, and you are correct, and Lindsey
Speaker 2: Graham rightly convinced you. But I will tell you who
Speaker 2: convinced me. It was Steve Whitkoff, and it was Secretary
Speaker 2: of State Rubio who was on my show last night.
Speaker 2: It was this was a clear and present danger, and
Speaker 2: that's why the President acted. We'll never be able to
Speaker 2: calculate how many lives likely were saved, because if they
Speaker 2: got these nuclear weapons with their increased ballistic missile range
Speaker 2: and capability, this could have been a modern day holocaust,
Speaker 2: and Donald Trump prevented that from happen happening, so we'll
Speaker 2: never know how many people's lives may and likely have
Speaker 2: been saved. All right, mister O'Reilly, we just st up
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Speaker 2: If for me, I've been two and let me be
Speaker 2: very clear, I don't care about the radical no Kings,
Speaker 2: protest lunatic left in this country. There's nothing Donald Trump
Speaker 2: will ever say or do that they're gonna like or support.
Speaker 2: And Donald Trump has not lied to us.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: This is not a rat this is not Afghanistan. He's
Speaker 2: never given up as principle of no forever war. However,
Speaker 2: and their people said this is going to be a
Speaker 2: forever war. It's not going to be a forever war.
Speaker 2: There are two people that have convinced me, and two
Speaker 2: interviews that I think have been critical in terms of
Speaker 2: why now, why are we there? One was with the
Speaker 2: Middle East don Voy Steve Whitkoff, and he was the
Speaker 2: one that told us in great detail, and we've played
Speaker 2: it on this radio program more than once, but we
Speaker 2: described in detail how the Uranians believe that it is
Speaker 2: then their inalienable right to have nuclear weapons. They would
Speaker 2: not give up on that even after Midnight Hammer, and
Speaker 2: they have four uner and sixty kilograms of sixty percent
Speaker 2: enriched uranium that would be enough for eleven nuclear bombs.
Speaker 2: The other person that has laid out the case as
Speaker 2: well as anybody, as our Secretary of State, Marco Rubio,
Speaker 2: and I had this interview with him yesterday. Let's listen
Speaker 2: joining us is the Secretary of State himself. Marco Rubio
Speaker 2: is with us. Secretary, thank you for taking the time.
Speaker 2: I know you're busy and you got a lot on
Speaker 2: your plate. Can we start with the question for those
Speaker 2: Americans that may not understand why now? I want to
Speaker 2: go through this in great specificity and detail about the necessity.
Speaker 1: Of this now.
Speaker 2: When the Middle East don boy Steve Whitkoff came on
Speaker 2: this program and explain that the Iranians would not negotiate
Speaker 2: the issue of giving up their nuclear weapons program. Bragged
Speaker 2: about four hundred and sixty kilograms of sixty percent of
Speaker 2: rich uranium that could be turned into weapons grade ninety.
Speaker 1: Percent in seven to twelve days.
Speaker 2: At that point in time, it seemed inevitable to me
Speaker 2: they were going to in spite of midnight Hammer. They
Speaker 2: were going to cling to that quote inalienable writers they
Speaker 2: called it was that the tipping point.
Speaker 1: Well, it was one of the tipping points.
Speaker 6: I mean, part of the tipping point is the fact
Speaker 6: that Aron's been doing this for forty seven years. We
Speaker 6: know what this regime is all about. I always say,
Speaker 6: a rod, let me be. I'm not talking about the
Speaker 6: people of Iran. The people of Iran don't even like
Speaker 6: this government or this regime. This is a regime that
Speaker 6: is led by radical Shiah clerics, by people who believe
Speaker 6: that it is their calling. I know this sounds fantastical,
Speaker 6: but it's absolutely true. This is a regime led by
Speaker 6: people who believe that it is their calling and their
Speaker 6: purpose in life to usher in the end of the world.
Speaker 1: These people want nuclear weapons.
Speaker 6: Why do we know that, because they are assembling all
Speaker 6: the things you need for nuclear weapons. They're assembling long
Speaker 6: range rockets that can eventually reach the United States, can
Speaker 6: already range Europe. We saw them demonstrate two of them
Speaker 6: last week, despite denying that they had them. They enriched
Speaker 6: uranium to sixty percent, as you pointed out a moment ago,
Speaker 6: from sixty to ninety percent, which you need for a bomb,
Speaker 6: takes twelve to fourteen days. They bragged about still having that.
Speaker 6: They demand the right to enrich, which is how you
Speaker 6: get from sixty to ninety percent. They're the leading sponsor
Speaker 6: of terrorism, not in the region, in the world. They
Speaker 6: can never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, which
Speaker 6: is what President Trump made very clear from the very
Speaker 6: first day of his presidency, from in fact, the very
Speaker 6: first day of his candidacy, when he came down that
Speaker 6: escalator in twenty fifteen, he talked about this. He's actually
Speaker 6: been talking about the threat of Iran before he was
Speaker 6: even a political candidate, and as president, he was not
Speaker 6: going to allow Iran to pose a threat to Americans
Speaker 6: now or future generations of Americans. So we had to
Speaker 6: act with very clear purpose. We are going to destroy
Speaker 6: their air force. We have largely done that. We were
Speaker 6: going to destroy their navy, which we have largely achieved.
Speaker 6: That we were going to destroy a significant percentage of
Speaker 6: their missile launchers.
Speaker 1: We are well on our way to achieving that.
Speaker 6: And we were going to wipe out their defense industrial base,
Speaker 6: meaning the factories that make.
Speaker 1: The drones and the missiles. We are on our way
Speaker 1: to doing that.
Speaker 6: Those were our four objectives, because those are the four
Speaker 6: things they were going to hide behind to then develop
Speaker 6: a nuclear weapon and threaten the world that they tried
Speaker 6: to do anything about it, that was not going to happen.
Speaker 1: Under President Trump, we are well on our way.
Speaker 6: We are on or ahead of schedule on each of
Speaker 6: those four objectives.
Speaker 1: And we can see the finish line. It's not today,
Speaker 1: it's not tomorrow, but it is coming.
Speaker 6: We are going to get to the point where our
Speaker 6: military will have achieved all of its objectives in this mission,
Speaker 6: and they're doing so with extraordinary efficiency, something that I
Speaker 6: think will go down in history is one of the
Speaker 6: best run tactical military.
Speaker 1: Operations in modern times.
Speaker 2: We'll get back to that timeline in a second, because
Speaker 2: both you and the President have said weeks, it's not
Speaker 2: going to be months. One thing I think we've learned
Speaker 2: and if you can expand on this, because if you
Speaker 2: have nuclear capability, you also need the delivery system.
Speaker 1: Prior to Epic Fury, you felt.
Speaker 2: And you were arguing that and the world has always
Speaker 2: underestimated Iran's abilities, whether the nuclear capability or ballistic missile capability,
Speaker 2: and you felt it was too dangerous a threat not
Speaker 2: to address in this operation ballistic missiles and the nuclear
Speaker 2: threat at the same time. So now we've discovered that
Speaker 2: they have the ability and the range that is much
Speaker 2: further than we had thought going into this.
Speaker 1: Apparently they now have.
Speaker 2: The capability and the range that their missiles could reach
Speaker 2: Paris London.
Speaker 1: Is that true? That's correct in fact, but they denied it.
Speaker 6: Remember anytime you hear Iran, you know, you had a
Speaker 6: image a moment ago. This guy a Rochi, their foreign minister.
Speaker 1: This guy is a liar. This guy was on television
Speaker 1: like a.
Speaker 6: Week ago, two weeks ago, denying that Iran had any
Speaker 6: missiles that could go beyond a certain limitation.
Speaker 1: And then they fired two of them.
Speaker 6: Now we don't think that many of them, but they
Speaker 6: are soon to have many of them. They we've destroyed
Speaker 6: and are destroying the factories to make those things.
Speaker 1: Those things.
Speaker 6: The ones they launched the other day could reach well
Speaker 6: into Europe, and actually they had fired it on Diego Garcia.
Speaker 6: One of them failed, one of them was shot down,
Speaker 6: but they fired him at Diego Garcia, which is really
Speaker 6: far away. So they were moving towards eventually he having
Speaker 6: a missile that could reach.
Speaker 1: The continental United States. That's what they were aiming to do.
Speaker 6: They were aiming to become the next North Korea, except
Speaker 6: not in North Korea run by you know, a regime
Speaker 6: that you know is troublesome and hard to.
Speaker 1: Understand, but in Iran run by radical.
Speaker 6: Sheiah clerics, with intercontinental missiles that could reach the mainland
Speaker 6: of the United States.
Speaker 1: Eventually, that's what they were going towards. That's what they
Speaker 1: would have ultimately achieved.
Speaker 6: Had the president, had President Trump not taken these steps
Speaker 6: that he's taken.
Speaker 2: Mister Secretary, do you believe the North Koreans? They have
Speaker 2: been numerous reports that they have been assisting Iran with
Speaker 2: both their ballistic missile program and their nuclear program.
Speaker 6: Why can't comment on that other than to say that
Speaker 6: there's nothing any government is doing or any country in
Speaker 6: the world is doing now to help Iran that is
Speaker 6: in any way impeding our mission. Do they have countries
Speaker 6: that have helped them in the past, Yes, they have,
Speaker 6: I mean, and by the way, Iran also helps other
Speaker 6: countries by providing drones and rockets and things of that
Speaker 6: nature that they've developed themselves. But understand this, Iran, this
Speaker 6: is a country that has trouble coming up with drinking water.
Speaker 1: This is a country whose.
Speaker 6: Economy is in shambles, is going to be even worse
Speaker 6: off after this operation. This is a country whose people
Speaker 6: have been protesting in the streets because not just the
Speaker 6: lack of freedom, but the lack of economic opportunity. Because
Speaker 6: they've taken all of their money, all the money they have,
Speaker 6: the little money they have because of sanctions, and they've
Speaker 6: invested all of it in sponsoring terrorism and building long
Speaker 6: range missiles, increasing the range of their missiles every year,
Speaker 6: and building thousands of them, and building these one way,
Speaker 6: the tack drones that they're using against their neighbors. This
Speaker 6: is what they've put their money towards, and this is
Speaker 6: what they were going to continue to do. They refuse
Speaker 6: to negotiate on missiles, they refuse to even negotiate on terrorism,
Speaker 6: and they refuse to negotiate down on enrichment.
Speaker 1: They demand the right to enrich.
Speaker 6: So for all these people out there talking about how
Speaker 6: this could have been avoided, they were given every opportunity
Speaker 6: in multiple talks, and all they did is either reject
Speaker 6: or delay. And that's not going to happen under President Trump.
Speaker 6: He's not going to allow Iran to become a nuclear
Speaker 6: power on his watch and threaten America now or in
Speaker 6: the future.
Speaker 2: Mister Secretary, I guess the ideal situation would be a
Speaker 2: negotiated settlement. The President gave and had said publicly over
Speaker 2: and over again before Midnight or and before Operation Epic Fury,
Speaker 2: and he's saying to the people that the fourth Fifthier,
Speaker 2: whatever level of leadership remains, he's saying to them now
Speaker 2: he would prefer a negotiated settlement. Now, apparently they have
Speaker 2: some power because they promised the President that they would
Speaker 2: allow twenty specific tankers through the Straight or hor Mooz.
Speaker 2: And my understanding is those tankers made it through, so
Speaker 2: they must have some.
Speaker 1: Degree of power.
Speaker 2: The difference here is will the fourth fifthier level of leadership,
Speaker 2: will they be smarter than Tier one, two, and three,
Speaker 2: and will they make the deal or will they be
Speaker 2: facing you know, death themselves in the near future.
Speaker 6: Well, first of all, we can't ignore that for forty
Speaker 6: seven years they've avoided and rejected any effort to negotiate.
Speaker 6: That doesn't mean we're going to stop trying. The President
Speaker 6: of the President Trump always always would rather have negotiations
Speaker 6: than war, and he will always. We gave him sixty
Speaker 6: days early last year, we gave him additional time to
Speaker 6: negotiate after Midnight Hammer again earlier this year. But each
Speaker 6: and every time those things have proved fruitless.
Speaker 1: But we're going to keep trying.
Speaker 6: There are messages being exchanged, there are talks going on,
Speaker 6: There is the potential for direct meeting at some point.
Speaker 6: We're always going to be open for that, but we're
Speaker 6: not going to be We're not.
Speaker 1: What President Trump is not going to allow is he's
Speaker 1: not going.
Speaker 6: To allow fake negotiations to be used as a delay
Speaker 6: tactic to buy more time to buy themselves space. That's
Speaker 6: what he's not going to allow. You know, the buy
Speaker 6: An administration spent four years, four years trying to resurrect
Speaker 6: the Obama nuclear deal with Iran. They spent four years
Speaker 6: trying to talk to the Iranians, and they strung them
Speaker 6: along for four years, and I think they thought they
Speaker 6: could string this administration along for four years. But they're
Speaker 6: not going to string along President Trump. He's not going
Speaker 6: to fall for their games. He hasn't fallen for their games.
Speaker 6: So we'll always be prepared to talk, but we're not
Speaker 6: going to allow that or the failure of talks to
Speaker 6: impede our ability to defend this country and to protect
Speaker 6: this country from a real threat.
Speaker 1: It's a threat to the world. It's not just a
Speaker 1: threat to America.
Speaker 6: The difference is President Trump is the only leader in
Speaker 6: the world with both the capability and frankly, the guts
Speaker 6: to do something about it.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you about NATO.
Speaker 2: You said that our NATO allies have been disappointing, specifically,
Speaker 2: I know you're talking about Spain, Great Britain, France, even
Speaker 2: Italy now and that after all of this is done,
Speaker 2: we will re examine this relationship, and especially when it
Speaker 2: comes to we pay two thirds of the freight when
Speaker 2: it comes to NATO defense. And if it's just quote
Speaker 2: about us defending Europe, you said, at this point, how
Speaker 2: do we call that? And we can't have our landing
Speaker 2: rights in European nations? Our allies at a time when
Speaker 2: we need them. What good is that alliance? And is
Speaker 2: the NATO alliance at risk?
Speaker 6: Sean I've been one of the strongest defenders of NATO
Speaker 6: during my time as a United States Senator because I
Speaker 6: found great value in it, and it wasn't just about
Speaker 6: defending Europe. I said, it also allowed us that military
Speaker 6: bases in Europe that allowed us to project power into
Speaker 6: different parts of the world when our national security was threatened.
Speaker 6: If now we have reached a point where the NATO
Speaker 6: alliance means that we can't use those bases, that in fact,
Speaker 6: that we can no longer use those bases to defend
Speaker 6: America's interests, then NATO is a one way street. The
Speaker 6: NATO is simply about us having troops in Europe to
Speaker 6: defend Europe, but when.
Speaker 1: We need their help, not their help.
Speaker 6: We're not asking them to conduct their strikes when we
Speaker 6: need them to allow us to use their military basis.
Speaker 1: Their answer is no. Then why are we in NATO.
Speaker 1: You have to ask that question.
Speaker 6: Why do we have billions and billions of dollars, hundreds
Speaker 6: of billions of dollars over the years, trillions of dollars,
Speaker 6: and all these American forces stationed in the region. If
Speaker 6: we can only use we can in our time of need,
Speaker 6: We're not going to be allowed.
Speaker 1: To use those bases. So I think there's no doubt.
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, after this conflict is concluded, we are going to
Speaker 6: have to re examine that relationship. We're going to have
Speaker 6: to re examine the value of NATO and that alliance
Speaker 6: for our country. Ultimately, that's a decision for the President
Speaker 6: to make, and you'll have to make it. We're going
Speaker 6: to finish the job here. As I said, we're very
Speaker 6: very close to achieving our objectives on all of these
Speaker 6: things that I've outlined. But I do think unfortunately we
Speaker 6: are going to have to re examine and whether or
Speaker 6: not this alliance that has served this country well for
Speaker 6: a while is still serving that purpose or has it
Speaker 6: now become a one way street where America is simply
Speaker 6: in a position to defend Europe, but when we need
Speaker 6: the help of our allies, they're going to deny US
Speaker 6: basing rights and they're going.
Speaker 1: To deny us overflight.
Speaker 6: I think these are very legitimate questions that we need
Speaker 6: to be asking, and this are going to have to
Speaker 6: be very carefully examined after this conflict.
Speaker 2: Is over, and you stand by weeks not months away
Speaker 2: from this conflict coming to an answer.
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, I think we're very close to achieving our objectives.
Speaker 6: I don't want to put a timeline on it, but
Speaker 6: we can see the finish line. The finish line meaning
Speaker 6: we will have achieved all of the objectives of the
Speaker 6: President outlined, and those are important because if we achieve
Speaker 6: those objectives, we will make it nearly impossible for Iran
Speaker 6: to have a nuclear weapon anytime in the near future,
Speaker 6: and the world will be a safer place and our
Speaker 6: country will be safer, which is the number one job
Speaker 6: the President has now.
Speaker 2: I don't care if you're a radical eyed Democrat. I
Speaker 2: don't care if you're want of the No King's lunatics.
Speaker 2: I don't care if you're one of these isolation is
Speaker 2: with a big mouth that don't know what the hell
Speaker 2: you're talking about. If we had listened to you, and
Speaker 2: not to the likes of President Trump and Steve Whitcoff
Speaker 2: and Marco Rubio and others, this would have been a
Speaker 2: threat that we would have handed off to our children
Speaker 2: and grandchildren. I have no desire to debate people on
Speaker 2: the issue. It just as a fact and this is
Speaker 2: now going to come to a swift end, and the
Speaker 2: world will be a safer place. That is my strong belief.
Speaker 2: And God speed to our great troops and our great military.
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Speaker 2: All right, arguments about birthright citizenship before the Supreme Court today.
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