WEBVTT - Trump, Netanyahu & Vance — Epic Fury Delivered Overnight 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.080 This Iotola regime has been raping and pillaging the country 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:09.119 for forty seven years. We are trying to protect our interests. 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:11.640 We as the United States, and the president is a 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:14.480 first president in forty seven years. I actually have a 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.440 backbone to do something about it. They've been attacking us, 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:21.040 they've been attacking our interest they've been attacking our assets, 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.639 and they've been doing it without even being apologetic. They've 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:28.240 bragged about it, and we have just tried to appease 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:30.920 them over the years, and President Trump said enough enough. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:35.400 You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:36.960 Good Tuesday morning. Nice to have you with us. On 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:41.240 the forty seven Morning Update, Donald Trump says Operation Epic 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.960 Fury is ahead of schedule as dozens of senior Iranian 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.680 leaders have been taken out. So what is happening now. 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.319 We have it all for you. But before we get 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.520 to that, I want to take a moment and ask 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.279 you to help the people in Israel. With my friends 0:00:56.400 --> 0:01:00.200 at the IFCJ working right now on the ground for 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:04.759 all those in need. 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That's IFCJ dot org. 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.520 It's the forty seven Morning Update and it starts right 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:29.480 now story number one, Operation Epic Fury, Day three, and 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:31.800 it's the latest that you want to know about what 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.040 is actually happening from Iran as well as the Middle East, 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:39.560 and also what America is doing. The military operation against 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:43.280 Iran has entered its third day, with strikes against targets 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:48.000 inside Iran and interceptions of Iranian aircraft, Iranian missiles and 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.760 drones attempting to land blows across the Middle East and 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:56.280 the Eastern Mediterranean. Is very much ongoing at this moment. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.520 We know that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ettnya has 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:04.960 rejected the notion that Israel dragged the United States into 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:10.200 war with Iran, telling Sean Hannity on Fox News, that's ridiculous. 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.519 He also went on to say that Donald Trump is 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.520 the strongest leader in the world. He does what he 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.960 thinks is right for America, and he also does what 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:23.640 he thinks is right for future generations. Earlier, US Secretary 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.760 of State Marco Rubio said that the threat posed by 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:31.840 Iran to the United States was in fact imminent, contradicting 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:33.800 what many on the left had been saying for the 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.200 last twenty four hours. The White House, he also says, 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.640 had intelligence that the Islamic regime had planned to attack 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.920 American assets in the region in the event of an 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:48.920 impeding strike on its missile program by Israel. Marco Rubio 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.720 also added that the timing of the strike was also 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:57.120 influenced by desire to prevent the currently weakened Iran from 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:01.360 building up its missile and drone programs against strikes on 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:05.400 its nuclear program that clearly they have been trying to 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.160 use to say, as they put it, to kill America 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:13.000 and to kill Israel. We also know that the official 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.560 spokesman for Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Defense said that its 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:20.919 forces have intercepted and destroyed eight drones that have come 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:25.440 in from Iran. It comes after Saudi Arabia revealed that 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:29.360 two drones were successful in striking the US embassy there. 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.799 The attack resulted in a fire and minor material damage 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.800 to the building, but reportedly did not cause any injuries 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:42.240 to US personnel. We also know that US Vice President 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:46.240 JD Vance said there is no way the President Trump 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.560 will enter the United States in a multi year conflict 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.680 in Iran. Speaking to Jesse Waters of Fox News, the 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.920 Vice President said, We're not going to get into the 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:01.599 problems that we've had with Iraq in our Afghanistan. After 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:02.960 Iraq and Afghanistan. 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.440 Some people say, up here we go again. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.240 Is that something here you're thinking about? 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.640 Well, Jesse, if you think back to Afghanistan, twenty years 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.560 of mission creep, twenty years of not having a clear objective, 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.160 in twenty years of the United States trying to bring 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.239 liberal democracy to Afghanistan, Iraq was a little bit shorter, 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:23.120 but we were still in that country for nearly a 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.560 decade with no clear mission, no clear definition. What's so 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.560 different about this, Jesse, is that the president has clearly 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.880 defined what he wants to accomplish, and there's just no way. 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.719 I said this before the conflict started or repeated again, 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.160 there's just no way that Donald Trump is going to 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.280 allow this country to get into a multi year conflict 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.760 with no clear end in sight and no clear objective. 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.000 What is different about President Trump, and it's frankly different 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.640 about both Republicans and Democrats of the past, is that 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:52.680 he's not going to let his country go to war 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:56.120 unless there's a clearly defined objective. He's defined that objective 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.400 as a RAN cannot have a nuclear weapon and has 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.159 to commit long term and never trying to rebuild the 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.719 nuclear capability. It's pretty clear. It's pretty simple, and I 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.480 think that means that we're not going to get into 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.840 the problems that we've had with Iraq in Afghanistan. 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.560 Now, Jeddie Vance was not the only one that was 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:16.040 doing interviews. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Nette Yahoo went on 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.479 TV to debunk the claims that Israel dragged the US 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.800 into striking Iran, sitting down with Sean Hannity, and here's 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.440 what he said. And I want to ask you this. 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.200 You know, there are people that say, well, the Prime 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.480 Minister of Israel dragged Donald Trump into it. And as 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.359 somebody that's been friends with him over thirty years, nobody 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.120 drags Donald Trump into anything, number one. But I want 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:39.240 to get your reaction to that. 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.560 I mean, that's ridiculous. Donald Trump is the strongest leader 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.640 in the world. He does what he thinks is right 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.480 for America. He does also what he thinks is right 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:53.840 for future generations. And frankly, we're partners in that effort 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:58.120 because I've devoted my life to securing the life of 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.320 the one and only Jewish state. And believe me, it's 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.000 been a struggle. I've known the pangs of war. I 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:08.520 lost a brother in war, in battle, I myself fought 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:13.280 terraces and was wounded in liberating hostages from a hijacked plane. 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.480 I held a fellow soldier in my arms when I 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.200 was eighteen, and he died in my arms. I know 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.120 the cost of war, but I know sometimes the war 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.080 is necessary to protect us from the people who would 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.640 destroy us. And that's what free societies have to understand. 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.280 Freedom is precious, but it has to be protected. And 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:40.080 we have to understand that we're fighting here. We're fighting 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:44.160 here the bad guys. We're the good guys. These people 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:48.200 massacred their own people. Imagine what they would do. These 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.080 people would chant death to America if they had the 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.720 ballistic missiles and the nuclear warheads to deliver it to 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.600 every American city. Do you want to wait? Do you 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.520 want to that You're future on whether they would do 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.720 it or they would not do it. I mean, look, 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:08.040 nobody's stopping off Korea, so they now have ballistic missiles 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:11.960 and nuclear war warheads, but they don't say death to America. 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:17.160 Iran is fifty North Koreas. Iran is committed to your destruction, 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:21.160 and whether people understand it or not, the leader has 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.800 to understand it. Donald Trump understands it. You don't have 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.440 to drag him into anything, and nobody would do it anyway. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.640 He does what he thinks is right, and this is right. 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.880 Net Yeah, who wasn't done there. He also said one 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.960 of the great things about working with President Donald Trump 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.440 is that Trump is always understood the real threat that 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.960 Iran has not only the US but to the rest 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:44.559 of the world. 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:51.680 Well, you know when America the indispensable ally for Israel 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:55.360 and the greatest power in the world, and Israel America's 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.480 model ally is the National Security Council just called it. 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:03.080 When we work together, either amazing things happen. We worked together, 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.960 and amazing things happened. But I have to tell you 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.960 that it wouldn't happen without the leadership of President Trump 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:15.199 because he just you know, I met him in mar Lago. 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.360 You may remember this because I think you live close 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.959 by and I saw you at that time, right before 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:24.080 his reelection, okay, and or before is there he was 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.959 inaugurated the second time and we met. We met in 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:31.760 mar Lago, and the first thing that Donald Trump said 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:35.480 to me, he said, you know, we have to prevent 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.400 Iran from getting nukes, as simple as that. He said 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.640 that because he saw that as a clear and present 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:46.360 danger to the security and wellbeing of the United States. 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.880 To have a regime like that so fanatic that it 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:56.479 just defines itself by destroying America, exporting revolution, exporting terrorism, 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:02.080 exporting the worst Islamist fanaticism that attacks Arabs, attacks is Raelies, 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:06.920 attacks Americans, attacks everyone inside. They just fired. Now they're 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:11.040 beliefs in sight around the police, including Cyprus in Europe. 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.480 To have a regime like that that plans to eradicate 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:18.079 the United States have the weapons of mass death would 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.480 have been the greatest threat that America would face in 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.760 the coming decades. And so he said to me right 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:25.720 off the bat, I didn't say to him. He said 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.640 to me, we have to make sure they never get 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.800 the nukes. And that's what he did. We tried first 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:35.920 to take them out in midnight Hammer and Rising Line operation, 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.240 and we took out their missile sites. But then they 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.600 started again their missile and nuclear sites. They didn't learn 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:45.079 the lesson. He tried to get negotiations, He negotiated with them, 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.720 they didn't get it. They tried to string them along. 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.439 So action had to be taken, and we took it. 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.320 It is very clear after hearing NT Yahu speak on 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.199 Fox News Channel that the President and Hammer side by 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.000 side his allies, making sure that Iran is no longer 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.319 great threat not only to Israel, but to Americans in 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:07.120 the Middle East and also in this country, which brings 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.880 us to Pete Headseth. Pete Headseth having a press conference 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:15.000 at the Pentagon and after answering questions for quite some time, 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.240 he wanted to make sure he gave his last two 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.680 minutes of his statement to talk directly to the men 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:26.079 and women that are protecting and serving. He also wanted 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.160 to reassure the men and women in uniform that he 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.040 is not going to get you into a never ending 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:35.840 war like Afghanistan or Iraq and the Pentagon giving this 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:40.160 update but then speaking directly to our warriors, and it's important, 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.000 I think for every American to hear exactly what he 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.280 said at the Pentagon. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:48.520 Let me speak straight to you. The Joint Force are 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.720 warriors on the front lines. This is your moment. This 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.480 is the generational turning point America has waited for since 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.440 nineteen seventy nine and since the rudderless Wars of Hubris. 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:01.160 My generation, our generation endured. Don't listen to the noise 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.839 just stay focused. Our commander in chief is steady at 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:08.480 the wheel. We face a determined enemy, but you are better. 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.080 But we must prove it every single day. History doesn't 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.920 care if we're tired, if we're scared, or if the 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:18.280 fight feels big. It demands warriors who rise anyway. Peace 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:23.120 through strength, the warrior ethos, lethality, unity of purpose. Those 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.640 are not slogans. They're the beating heart of what it 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:30.079 means to wear the uniform. That uniform you think clearly 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:34.360 under fire, You act decisively in chaos. You uphold the Constitution, 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.800 and you uphold our country without hesitation. We are not 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:42.280 defenders anymore. We are warriors train to kill the enemy 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.680 and break their will. History is watching be the force. 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:51.800 You swore an oath to be focused, disciplined, lethal, and unbreakable. 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:57.040 We will finish this on America first conditions of President 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:01.480 Trump's choosing, nobody else's as it should be. And know 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:06.320 this above all, President Trump and I have your back, always, 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:12.840 through fire, through criticism, through fake news, through everything. We 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:17.080 unleash you because you are the best, most powerful, most 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:21.439 lethal fighting force the world has ever seen. May Almighty 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:25.480 God watch over you and his providential arms of protection, 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:30.000 extend over you. God speed warriors and keep going. 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.920 God speed warriors, and keep going. A prayer there from 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:38.400 the Secretary of War talking directly to our warriors, telling 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.960 them exactly what they should expect. I got to say, 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.400 it's something I wish we'd seen from other people that 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.960 were in charge of the Pentagon. One thing is for 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:52.720 sure from this administration, they are being overly transparent about 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:56.280 their goals, their wishes, and their desires when it comes 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.440 to what's happening in Iran. And taking that two minutes 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.120 in force against to pray and speak directly to our 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.160 men and women in uniform is something new, and I 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:08.200 hope it's a trend that everybody in this position the 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:09.680 future will do as well. 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.400 Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:16.640 with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.720 you're listening to this podcast right now and for more 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.520 in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.560 and we will see you back here tomorrow.