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Speaker 1: know it's not a joke. I mean, it was kind
Speaker 1: of funny when the US hockey gold medal winning hockey
Speaker 1: team was called out by the President during the State
Speaker 1: of the Union and the President goes, oh, for the
Speaker 1: first time, they actually stood, but not all of them.
Speaker 2: I mean that was funny.
Speaker 1: Or when they stood when he said that you can't
Speaker 1: have insider trading, and he asked, well, is Nancy Pelosi's
Speaker 1: staying It was all pretty funny. If Donald Trump cured cancer,
Speaker 1: I don't think Democrats would stand as they sat on
Speaker 1: their hands, as as so many great Americans and families
Speaker 1: that had lost loved ones because of illegal immigrants were honored.
Speaker 1: They didn't care. They just had Donald Trump to that level.
Speaker 1: And this is a great thing that has happened. The
Speaker 1: world is a better, safer place as a result. And yeah,
Speaker 1: there's still more to do. I don't want to get
Speaker 1: ahead of ourselves. And I think now that you know,
Speaker 1: as soon as we can possibly turn it over to
Speaker 1: the Iranian people, the better it's going to be. But then,
Speaker 1: of course you have the congenital liar and people like him,
Speaker 1: you know, Adam Schiff.
Speaker 2: Oh, they pose no imminent threat to the US.
Speaker 1: This was an existential threat not just to the region
Speaker 1: but to the entire world, which is why every Arab
Speaker 1: country in the world, you know, in the region has
Speaker 1: has had it with them. They've they've all aligned with
Speaker 1: the US and Israel against Iranian hegemony and a nuclear
Speaker 1: armed Iran. Anyway, here's the congenital liar, Adam Schiff in.
Speaker 3: Ayatoa how many letter regime that brutalize its own people,
Speaker 3: wash attacks around the world for for almost forty years.
Speaker 4: So is the president right to take him out?
Speaker 3: No, you're right about the I told that he was
Speaker 3: a brutal dictator. This is a murderous regime, but at
Speaker 3: the same time, it posed no imminent threat of attack
Speaker 3: to the United States.
Speaker 1: He word no imminent threat you mean in the next hour.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just so asinine. And this is where
Speaker 1: the great disappointment with Great Britain and Europe in general,
Speaker 1: and Spain and France and Macron. I mean, they've given
Speaker 1: up any commitment towards their own identities. They won't even
Speaker 1: protect their own continent, their own countries. They have neglected
Speaker 1: national security and defense. They've embraced climate alarmism to a
Speaker 1: point where they're bankrupting themselves. They've embraced socialist policies that
Speaker 1: are killing their economy, and then they have this unfettered
Speaker 1: illegal immigration without assimilation, resulting in eighty five sureia courts
Speaker 1: in Great Britain. This is a prescription for disaster and
Speaker 1: it will be of their own making. It's as bad
Speaker 1: as everything Biden, Harris may Orchis did. And no go
Speaker 1: zones in countries within Europe. That's crazy too. It's only
Speaker 1: one Democrat. You'll be all with those again tonight. John
Speaker 1: Fetterman of Pennsylvania, who's been very outspoken saying that this
Speaker 1: needed to be done. Here's what he said Sunday.
Speaker 2: Well, because that was.
Speaker 5: Always the right thing. I mean, you can just put out,
Speaker 5: you know, tweets and statements you know, to support peace,
Speaker 5: but to actually create real peace you have to do
Speaker 5: these kinds of actions just like happened, just like last
Speaker 5: year too, when they to destroy their nuclear facilities. You know,
Speaker 5: sometimes peace is possible after these kinds of steps, and
Speaker 5: that's why I support those things. And you know, I
Speaker 5: listened to my colleague from South Carolina earlier and I
Speaker 5: even had the option, I mean to talk to him
Speaker 5: before the State of the Union speech, and I encouraged
Speaker 5: it as well. And so I fully support these kinds
Speaker 5: of things. And I'm proud to stand with our military
Speaker 5: and Israel through this. And that's what's the right thing.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: Linda lives in Pennsylvania, I'm sure you'd vote for John federerman,
Speaker 1: Am I wrong?
Speaker 2: No, He's better than most of the Republicans. It really is.
Speaker 2: Let me play for you.
Speaker 1: Mauj Madara, co founder of the Iranian dispor Collective and
Speaker 1: a Democrat, saying she's disappointed with the Democratic Party over
Speaker 1: their response to these Iranian strikes. They need to get
Speaker 1: past their hatred of Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 7: I think that it is imperative the Democratic Party wake
Speaker 7: up and get past their dislike of Donald Trump, the
Speaker 7: President Trump, and their feelings of international conflicts going on.
Speaker 7: This is about national security. This is about what is
Speaker 7: possible in the Middle East. This is about being a
Speaker 7: good partner to our the Gulf States and what their
Speaker 7: aspirations are. This is about supporting the people of Venezuela.
Speaker 7: This is about dismembering our relationship with or not dismembering,
Speaker 7: but resetting our relationship with China. Right now, fifty five
Speaker 7: percent of the oil production that Uran produces goes to
Speaker 7: China despite sanctions. You want to support the people of Ukraine,
Speaker 7: you want to end that word, you have to. There
Speaker 7: is no getting around dismembering this Islamic Republic. It is
Speaker 7: non negotiable. It is not a want to have, it
Speaker 7: does a have to have. And it's not just for
Speaker 7: the Iranian people. I think you have to trust the
Speaker 7: Iranian people.
Speaker 6: We know this.
Speaker 7: Government better than anyone else, and I think at this
Speaker 7: point we have a tremendous opportunity. This will be like
Speaker 7: ending the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall. This is a
Speaker 7: transformational moment for humankind, for security and as an American,
Speaker 7: As an American, this is in our interest.
Speaker 2: It complete it.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 7: I am a democrat. I have been a huge democrat.
Speaker 7: I am incredibly disappointed with my party. I do not
Speaker 7: see myself in them in this moment.
Speaker 1: We're going to be joined in a moment by Greg Roman,
Speaker 1: Executive Director of the Middle East forum with his comments
Speaker 1: takeaways from the developments related to the Mid East following
Speaker 1: these strikes, successful strikes and of course the Supreme Leader
Speaker 1: and Ali Hamani dead, forty others dead with the opening
Speaker 1: salvo and what was just unbelievable. I mean, you talk
Speaker 1: about shock awe on steroids and human growth hormone.
Speaker 2: This was it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, they have pointed out that with all of this,
Speaker 1: the joint US is rarely strikes hitting over you know,
Speaker 1: five hundred targets I guess getting closer to one thousand
Speaker 1: at this point against across twenty four of Iran's thirty
Speaker 1: one provinces. Approximately forty senior military intelligence officials have been killed.
Speaker 1: And you know Iran, you know, with all their retaliation,
Speaker 1: they just seem to be shooting haphazardly at every country
Speaker 1: in the region. Greg Roman, let's get your thoughts on
Speaker 1: where we are and what will it take for the
Speaker 1: Iranian people to do what President Trump has told them
Speaker 1: to do, which is, you know, that take advantage of
Speaker 1: the fact that their hour hand is here and they've
Speaker 1: asked been asking for this help, that they need to
Speaker 1: sieze this moment. Don't let it pass. It's likely the
Speaker 1: one shot they'll have for generations and you know what
Speaker 1: happens next.
Speaker 6: Well, thank you Sean for having me on air. And
Speaker 6: I think right now we're at the point where the
Speaker 6: current regime, the Islamist Islamic Republic of Iran regime, is
Speaker 6: trying to create trip wires for members of the Iranian
Speaker 6: opposition inside the country, in neighboring countries and more especially
Speaker 6: in the diaspora to try to accept the FATA company
Speaker 6: where they will have to tie their fate to the
Speaker 6: future of the American and Israeli and now Gulf Arab
Speaker 6: campaign in Iran. But the long play is to make
Speaker 6: sure that the American national security architecture and the Israeli
Speaker 6: bombers and increasingly now we have Arab air forces which
Speaker 6: are engaging in skirmishes against the Iranian air force, with
Speaker 6: reports of Katari Air Force su twenty force Suko A
Speaker 6: twenty fours being taken out or taking out Irani and
Speaker 6: Suko twenty fours, where the Iranian opposition is to realize
Speaker 6: it's make or break to get their act together and
Speaker 6: not to be entirely reliant on the US and Israel
Speaker 6: to push the Iranian regime off the cliffs they have
Speaker 6: to push too. And if they don't get into that
Speaker 6: position of regime disruption, of setting up forward operating bases,
Speaker 6: of enabling these one hundred thousand individuals who allegedly have
Speaker 6: prepared to defect from the IRGC, from the arteesche the
Speaker 6: Iranian Army, then I think this is going to be
Speaker 6: an opportunity that they will blow. But if they do
Speaker 6: the right moves, if they don't repeat an Ahmed Chalabi moment,
Speaker 6: they don't repeat a Hamid Karzai moment, they will repeat
Speaker 6: Khadafi downfall moment. There is a narrow window for them
Speaker 6: to have a controlled implosion where the state does not
Speaker 6: go into chaos, but they are able to maintain a
Speaker 6: pooralistic transition to power, where we take President Trump's offer
Speaker 6: of amnesty and truth and reconciliation and we move Iran
Speaker 6: from being on the Chinese Russian side of the board
Speaker 6: and at the bare minimum move them to initial act.
Speaker 6: And there's a big opportunity for that. Right now.
Speaker 1: Roman is with us. He is the executive director of
Speaker 1: the Middle East Forum. What's next for Iran is our discussion.
Speaker 1: Explain in more detail what you're envisioning happens here. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know you have disparate groups, and Raisa Pavlavi is
Speaker 1: one group. Earlier in the program we had on Ali
Speaker 1: sofo v of a member of Iran's parliament and exile
Speaker 1: National Council of Resistance of Iran not particularly fond of
Speaker 1: pub LAB. I mean, the last thing we need is
Speaker 1: an intramural squabble when everyone needs to pull in the
Speaker 1: same direction and really give the people of Iran the choice. Again,
Speaker 1: as the President said, they likely won't get back. You know,
Speaker 1: this is once in a generation chance for.
Speaker 6: Them, right, And I think that sometimes you end up
Speaker 6: having more disagreements with members of the Iranian opposition than
Speaker 6: you do with my synagogue board of directors. But that's
Speaker 6: the story for another time.
Speaker 1: You have how bad are things that your synagogue board
Speaker 1: of directors?
Speaker 6: Well, you know, you say two Jews, three opinions, you
Speaker 6: have two versions, twenty one opinions. But you end up
Speaker 6: going to a position where right now the MEK and
Speaker 6: the Polavi camp have sort of you know, coalaced around
Speaker 6: two figures, right, two individuals who are personalities. But personalities
Speaker 6: don't represent movements. If you look at groups like the
Speaker 6: Iranian Freedom Congress, which got together in London last week.
Speaker 6: You take the broad cross section of Iranian society, both
Speaker 6: inside the country and outside, and what the Mek and Pelagi,
Speaker 6: what have you believe is that an exile of five
Speaker 6: million Iranians in the diaspora can speak to and speak
Speaker 6: four ninety two million Iranians who are inside the country.
Speaker 6: But even if you look at all the public opinion
Speaker 6: polls that were done prior to December twenty seventh, when
Speaker 6: the latest round of protests started, the shop probably only
Speaker 6: gets around thirty one percent at a maximum. And if
Speaker 6: you look at the NCRI, the Mek who was represented
Speaker 6: by your speaker in the last hour, they pull around
Speaker 6: point zero two print. So they do not speak for
Speaker 6: the Iranian people inside the country. But this group that
Speaker 6: got together last week were former members of the regime
Speaker 6: who are now in exile, Individuals who represent teachers, Arab
Speaker 6: oil workers, the whole cross section of Azeris and Baluchis
Speaker 6: and Kurds and mainstream Persians and monarchists and Republicans, thirty
Speaker 6: eight different parties representing I would argue about sixty five
Speaker 6: million of those ninety two million Iranians at least that
Speaker 6: have some sort of representation got together in London and
Speaker 6: they all agreed on one thing. Let's put our problems aside,
Speaker 6: make way for the regime to fall, and then we
Speaker 6: can work with what's left to be able to make
Speaker 6: sure that we have traffic police and the airport's running,
Speaker 6: and the water is being served in the dog catchers
Speaker 6: on time, and we're able to reopen up the trade
Speaker 6: for that country. And they have a whole planet they
Speaker 6: put together. But more certainly it's not based on personalities.
Speaker 1: It's representative who's got this plan, who's going to take
Speaker 1: charge of that plan, and how quickly can we get
Speaker 1: to elections.
Speaker 6: So elections they believe would be able to take place
Speaker 6: within six months, and a referendum for a consultative Assembly
Speaker 6: that would then be able to get fourth in one year,
Speaker 6: and they would take the way in which the Iranian
Speaker 6: system works right now and basically adapt that to not
Speaker 6: be Islamis, but they to be democratic. And more than that,
Speaker 6: you already have entities right now that have existed inside
Speaker 6: the country for the past twenty five years that are
Speaker 6: not tied to the regime. If you remember, before the
Speaker 6: Twelve Day War back in June, there was a nationwide
Speaker 6: truck driver's strike that took place in Iran between like
Speaker 6: June first and June seventh. These people are at that table.
Speaker 6: If it looks three years ago with the Women Life
Speaker 6: Freedom movement that were behind Masamini, these people are at
Speaker 6: the table. Three Irani and Nobel laureates, individuals who control
Speaker 6: the Couraged Democratic Party under Hajiri five million, the Komala
Speaker 6: Party another three million under Abdola Matadi. You really have
Speaker 6: a cross section here that would be able to say
Speaker 6: we're not going to try to go in a debatification
Speaker 6: process that ruined e Rock back in two thousand and three.
Speaker 6: We learned our lesson from twenty three years ago, and
Speaker 6: we're going to do this the way that Lexilla says.
Speaker 2: Okay, but Greg, what about the holdovers?
Speaker 1: You know there will be old revolutionary guard that cling
Speaker 1: to the life that they had. How do we weed
Speaker 1: them out?
Speaker 6: Percent? One hundred percent? And I think that, as I
Speaker 6: said beforehand, there has to be a truth and reconciliation
Speaker 6: process where look, if you were found responsible for helping
Speaker 6: massacre thirty forty fifty thousand members of your country, where
Speaker 6: you were involved in hangings in the eighties or massacres
Speaker 6: in the nineties, then you're going to have to own
Speaker 6: up to that. But if you were a bureaucrat, if
Speaker 6: you were the head of the Central Bank, in charge
Speaker 6: of the oil ministry, and you just hitched your cart
Speaker 6: to the Iatolas horse because you had to do that
Speaker 6: to survive, there's also an opportunity to be able to
Speaker 6: solve that as well. And I think that just like
Speaker 6: you had in Eastern European countries after the fall of
Speaker 6: the Wall and reconciliation, even the way that we've looked
Speaker 6: at it with East Germany, you have to own up
Speaker 6: to your mistakes, and if they're too great, you're going
Speaker 6: to be put into jail. But if it was part
Speaker 6: of just the way that the government was governed for
Speaker 6: the last forty seven years, we'll give you an opportunity
Speaker 6: to have respite with us. And if they move in
Speaker 6: that direction, I think you really have the opportunity for
Speaker 6: a easy transition, but it has to be done under
Speaker 6: the threat of American and Israeli superior air power. You're
Speaker 6: either with us or you're against us, but not with
Speaker 6: any American or Israeli boots on the ground. Has to
Speaker 6: be the Iranians making.
Speaker 1: Their own decis it's never going to happen under Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, won't happen. And I think
Speaker 1: that at some point there are hours at hand. They've
Speaker 1: asked for this help. They better seize the moment and
Speaker 1: not let it pass. As the President said, Greg Roman,
Speaker 1: good to talk to you, man. I appreciate it. Great analysis.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred and nine to four one, Sean, if you
Speaker 1: want to be a part of the program, Linda, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you noticed this. Did you notice Hanoi?
Speaker 1: Jane is back? Oh, she's the worst, branding Donald Trump
Speaker 1: a sad, unhinged man while denouncing him for launching deadly
Speaker 1: strikes in Iran. Who cares what she said or any
Speaker 1: of these other idiots? Mark Ruffalo, who are the other
Speaker 1: idiots in Hollywood?
Speaker 2: I mean, if they hadn't.
Speaker 7: A much shorter list to name the ones that aren't,
Speaker 7: to be perfectly frank.
Speaker 2: That's a good way to do it. Good point.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 1: The Pentagon officials earlier today, General raising Kine, this guy's phenomenal,
Speaker 1: just an absolute genius. Secretary of War Pete Hegseeth the
Speaker 1: Pentagon announcing that US force has struck more than a
Speaker 1: thousand targets in Iran. During the first twenty four hours
Speaker 1: of Operation Epic Fury, the joint US Israeli led airstrike
Speaker 1: mission that killed with in its opening salvo, the Supreme
Speaker 1: Leader the the Ayahtola Ali Hamani, and other security officials,
Speaker 1: Air Force General Dan Kaine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs,
Speaker 1: telling reporters at the Pentagon, that the objective of the
Speaker 1: operation was clear to protect US interest in the Middle
Speaker 1: East by ending Iran's ability to project offensive power outside
Speaker 1: of their borders. This marked a culmination of months and
Speaker 1: in some cases years, of deliverer planning refinement against this
Speaker 1: particular target set, from precision strikes against key military infrastructure
Speaker 1: to persistent intelligence and targeting integration. And he, along with
Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth, you know, gave a very very powerful briefing today.
Speaker 1: I think it's worth taking time because I know most
Speaker 1: of you were not up at eight o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1: If you were, you were shoveling coffee down your throat
Speaker 1: and feeding your kids and trying to get them off
Speaker 1: to school and start your day. So let me bring
Speaker 1: you up to speed because this is actually, you know,
Speaker 1: pretty spectacl amazing and you should have a sense of
Speaker 1: great pride that we have the greatest military in the
Speaker 1: face of God's green earth.
Speaker 2: Let's play this.
Speaker 8: At fifteen thirty eight three thirty eight PM on Friday,
Speaker 8: February twenty seventh, the United States Central Command, through the
Speaker 8: Secretary of War, received the final goal order from President Trump.
Speaker 8: The President directed and I quote Operation Epic Furies approved.
Speaker 8: Noah borts good luck close quote. In the region, every
Speaker 8: element of the Joint Force made their final preparations. Air
Speaker 8: defense batteries ready themselves, checking their systems to respond to
Speaker 8: Iranian attacks. Pilots and crews rehearse their strike packages for
Speaker 8: the final time. Aircrews began loading their final weapons, and
Speaker 8: two carrier strike groups began to move towards their launching
Speaker 8: points across the globe. Our operation centers came alive in Tampa, Florida,
Speaker 8: here at the Pentagon, and of course forward in the
Speaker 8: Central Command a war. As always, operational security was paramount
Speaker 8: as we sought to maintain and sustain the element of surprise.
Speaker 8: This operation was highly classified, so that at each hour
Speaker 8: the enemy would see one thing speed, surprise, and violence
Speaker 8: of action. The first movers were US Cybercom and US
Speaker 8: Space com layering non kinetic effects disrupting and degrading and
Speaker 8: blinding Iran's ability to see, communicate, and respond. At h hour,
Speaker 8: the beginning of major combat operations zero one fifteen Local
Speaker 8: Eastern daylight time nine to forty five local am Tehran time.
Speaker 8: As dawn crept up across the Central Command air the
Speaker 8: sky surge to life. More than one hundred aircraft launch
Speaker 8: from land, sea fighters, tankers, airborne early warning electronic attack
Speaker 8: bombers from the States, and unmanned platforms, forming a single
Speaker 8: synchronized wave. This was a daylight strike based on a
Speaker 8: trigger event conducted by the Israeli defense forces, enabled by
Speaker 8: the US intelligence community. The first shooters at sea were
Speaker 8: Tomahawks unleashed by the United States Navy, closed in on
Speaker 8: Iranian naval forces and began to conduct strikes across the
Speaker 8: southern flank in Iran. On the ground forces fired precision
Speaker 8: standoff weapons measured deliberate, precise, and lethal. This was a massive,
Speaker 8: overwhelming attack across all domains of warfare, striking more than
Speaker 8: one thousand targets.
Speaker 2: In the first twenty four hours.
Speaker 8: We are now roughly fifty seven hours into the operation.
Speaker 8: In the initial phase. Sentcom's focus was systematic targeting of Iranians,
Speaker 8: command and control infrastructure, naval forces, ballistic missile sites, and
Speaker 8: intelligence in structure designed to daze and confuse them. Coordinated
Speaker 8: space and cyber operations effectively disrupted communications and sensor networks
Speaker 8: across the area of responsibility, leaving the adversary without the
Speaker 8: ability to see, coordinate, or respond effectively. The combined impact
Speaker 8: of these strikes, swift, precise, and overwhelming, has resulted in
Speaker 8: the establishment of local air superiority. This air superiority will
Speaker 8: not only enhance the protection of our forces, but also
Speaker 8: allow them to continue.
Speaker 2: The work over Iran.
Speaker 8: Over the course of the last two days, the Joint
Speaker 8: Force has launched hundreds of missions from land and sea
Speaker 8: and delivered tens of thousands of pieces of ordinance. The
Speaker 8: effort continues to scale. This included American B two bombers, which,
Speaker 8: again similar to Midnight Hammer, flew a thirty seven hour
Speaker 8: round trip SORTI from the continental United States, dropping precision
Speaker 8: penetrating munitions on Iranian underground facilities across the southern flank
Speaker 8: and slightly deeper.
Speaker 4: Today, in their desperation, the enemy is unmasked as Iranian
Speaker 4: missiles and drones rained down indiscriminately on the hotels, airports, apartments,
Speaker 4: and other civilian targets of their neighbors. Cowardly terrorist tactics
Speaker 4: from a regime that for decades has trafficked in cowardly
Speaker 4: terrorist tactics, lies, death and destruction. To this day, the
Speaker 4: Iranian leadership has built nothing except proxies and missiles and
Speaker 4: drones and deeply buried nuclear factories and facilities. Peaceful nuclear
Speaker 4: ambitions do not need to be buried underneath mountains. Last June,
Speaker 4: Operation Midnight Hammer obliterated their nuclear program to rubble. Afterward,
Speaker 4: we told them plainly, that's it. Now make a deal.
Speaker 4: They arrogantly refused. We said, rebuild it, and we'll stop
Speaker 4: you again, this time far worse. Well, President Trump, Secretary Rubio,
Speaker 4: Steve Whitcoff, Jared Kushner. They bent over backwards for real diplomacy,
Speaker 4: offering pathway after pathway to peace. I watched it.
Speaker 2: I was there.
Speaker 4: They tried, over and over and over again, earnest attempts
Speaker 4: at peace. The former regime had every chance to make
Speaker 4: a peaceful and sensible deal, but Taran was not negotiating.
Speaker 4: They were stalling, buying time to reload their missile stockpiles
Speaker 4: and restart their nuclear ambitions. Their goal hold US hostage,
Speaker 4: threatening to strike our forces. Well, President Trump doesn't play
Speaker 4: those games, And as Secretary Rubio said after the Maduro raid,
Speaker 4: if you don't know, now you know. President Trump puts
Speaker 4: America and Americans first. He doesn't hesitate, and neither do
Speaker 4: our troops. The mission of Operation Epic Fury is laser focused.
Speaker 4: Destroy Iranian offensive missiles, destroy Iranian missile production, destroy their
Speaker 4: navy and other security infrastructure, and they will never have
Speaker 4: nuclear weapons. We're hitting them surgically, overwhelmingly, and unapologetically.
Speaker 8: On February twenty eighth, the full strength of America's armed
Speaker 8: forces came together in a unified purpose against a capable
Speaker 8: and determined adversary. The United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps,
Speaker 8: Air Force, Space Force, Coastguard, and our reserve components integrated
Speaker 8: our cross our combatant commands and began coordinated operations with
Speaker 8: the Israeli armed forces of an unprecedented scale. As the
Speaker 8: Secretary laid out, our military objectives are clear. Our mission
Speaker 8: is to protect and defend ourselves and, together with our
Speaker 8: regional partners, prevent ran from the ability to project power
Speaker 8: outside of its borders and be ready for follow on
Speaker 8: actions as appropriate. Across every domain, land, air, sea, cyber,
Speaker 8: the US Joint Force delivered synchronized and layered effects designed
Speaker 8: to disrupt, degrade, deny, and destroy Iran's ability to conduct
Speaker 8: and sustain combat operations.
Speaker 2: On the US side.
Speaker 8: This marked the culmination of months and in some cases years,
Speaker 8: of deliberate planning and refinement against this particular target set.
Speaker 2: From precision strikes.
Speaker 8: Against key military infrastructure, to persistent intelligence and targeting integration,
Speaker 8: to the close coordination of the components across vast distances.
Speaker 8: This operation again demonstrated America's reach, readiness, and professionalism and
Speaker 8: that of our joint United Force. It was historic not
Speaker 8: only in the operational scope, but in the level of
Speaker 8: joint integration displayed across every element of the Joint Force.
Speaker 8: And as I said earlier, this work is just beginning
Speaker 8: and will continue.
Speaker 4: Two days ago, under the direction and direct orders of
Speaker 4: President Donald J. Trump, the Department of War launched Operation
Speaker 4: Epic Fury, the most lethal, most complex, and most precise
Speaker 4: aerial operation in history. For forty seven long years, the
Speaker 4: expansionist and Islamist regime in Tehran has waged as savage,
Speaker 4: one sided war against America. They didn't always declare it openly,
Speaker 4: except for their constant chance of death to America. They
Speaker 4: did it through the blood of our people, car bombs
Speaker 4: in Beirut, rocket attacks on our ships, murders at our embassy's,
Speaker 4: roadside bombs in Iraq, in Afghanistan, funded and armed by
Speaker 4: Iran in KOD's Force and IRGC killers. My generation of
Speaker 4: veterans carried the names of brothers who never came home,
Speaker 4: brothers butchered by Iranian backed roadside bombs and well armed militias,
Speaker 4: thousands of our own. We didn't start this war, but
Speaker 4: under President Trump, we are finishing it. Their war on
Speaker 4: Americans has become our retribution against their Ayatola and his
Speaker 4: death cult. It took the forty seventh president, a fighter
Speaker 4: who always puts America first, to finally draw the line
Speaker 4: after forty seven years of Iranian belligerents. He reminded the world,
Speaker 4: as he has time and time again, being an American
Speaker 4: means something unbreakable. If you kill Americans, if you threaten
Speaker 4: Americans anywhere on Earth, we will hunt you down without
Speaker 4: apology and without hesitation. And we will kill you.
Speaker 2: All right. That was earlier this morning.
Speaker 1: That was the Secretary of War Pete Hegseeth and the
Speaker 1: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Air Force, General Dan Kane,
Speaker 1: Raising Kane as he's often effectually referred to, talking about
Speaker 1: the objective of the operation, how clear it was protecting
Speaker 1: US interest in the Middle East, ending the Iranian ability
Speaker 1: to project offensive power outside of their borders. Pretty amazing stuff.
Speaker 1: If that doesn't impress you, I don't know what will.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 1: We love the very latest as this ongoing conflict continues
Speaker 1: against Iran. Unbelievable operation epic Fury. We'll have all the
Speaker 1: latest developments. We have the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Att Yahoo.
Speaker 1: We have Senator John Fetterman will join us. We have
Speaker 1: Senator Lindsay Graham will join us. We are just loaded
Speaker 1: up tonight. Anyway, say you DVR tonight Hannity nine Eastern
Speaker 1: on the Fox News channel, as we will have the
Speaker 1: best coverage of all of this, probably on nine to
Speaker 1: eleven tonight is the plan currently and look forward. I'll
Speaker 1: stay on for ten hours if they let me, Linda,
Speaker 1: I just I can't get enough, and I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: home watching it anyway, and watching every second of every
Speaker 1: day anyway. We'll see you tonight, back here tomorrow. Oh
Speaker 1: we also have David Betraeus. I think I said. We
Speaker 1: just got a great lineup, great people. Nine Eastern Hannity
Speaker 1: on Fox. We'll see you then back here tomorrow. Thank
Speaker 1: you for making the show possible.