WEBVTT - Sleeper Cells, Global Fallout & The Fight Ahead 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.400 All right, news round up in Information Overload hour. Here's 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:04.360 our toll free number. We will get to your calls. 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:06.960 Eight hundred and nine point one seawn our number if 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:09.920 you want to be a part of the program. You 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:12.000 know it's not a joke. I mean, it was kind 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:16.160 of funny when the US hockey gold medal winning hockey 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:18.959 team was called out by the President during the State 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.560 of the Union and the President goes, oh, for the 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:23.759 first time, they actually stood, but not all of them. 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:25.160 I mean that was funny. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.000 Or when they stood when he said that you can't 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:32.000 have insider trading, and he asked, well, is Nancy Pelosi's 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:35.960 staying It was all pretty funny. If Donald Trump cured cancer, 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:40.040 I don't think Democrats would stand as they sat on 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:44.320 their hands, as as so many great Americans and families 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.919 that had lost loved ones because of illegal immigrants were honored. 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.839 They didn't care. They just had Donald Trump to that level. 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.000 And this is a great thing that has happened. The 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:59.120 world is a better, safer place as a result. And yeah, 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:00.959 there's still more to do. I don't want to get 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.440 ahead of ourselves. And I think now that you know, 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:06.560 as soon as we can possibly turn it over to 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:10.160 the Iranian people, the better it's going to be. But then, 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.560 of course you have the congenital liar and people like him, 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:14.959 you know, Adam Schiff. 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:17.920 Oh, they pose no imminent threat to the US. 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.720 This was an existential threat not just to the region 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.520 but to the entire world, which is why every Arab 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.360 country in the world, you know, in the region has 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.000 has had it with them. They've they've all aligned with 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:33.039 the US and Israel against Iranian hegemony and a nuclear 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:37.039 armed Iran. Anyway, here's the congenital liar, Adam Schiff in. 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:40.240 Ayatoa how many letter regime that brutalize its own people, 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:43.919 wash attacks around the world for for almost forty years. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:45.720 So is the president right to take him out? 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:48.960 No, you're right about the I told that he was 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.800 a brutal dictator. This is a murderous regime, but at 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.440 the same time, it posed no imminent threat of attack 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:56.640 to the United States. 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:59.760 He word no imminent threat you mean in the next hour. 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:04.200 I mean, it's just so asinine. And this is where 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:08.359 the great disappointment with Great Britain and Europe in general, 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:14.120 and Spain and France and Macron. I mean, they've given 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:18.519 up any commitment towards their own identities. They won't even 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:22.240 protect their own continent, their own countries. They have neglected 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.720 national security and defense. They've embraced climate alarmism to a 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:31.200 point where they're bankrupting themselves. They've embraced socialist policies that 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:35.279 are killing their economy, and then they have this unfettered 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:42.160 illegal immigration without assimilation, resulting in eighty five sureia courts 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:47.240 in Great Britain. This is a prescription for disaster and 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.640 it will be of their own making. It's as bad 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:54.359 as everything Biden, Harris may Orchis did. And no go 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:58.639 zones in countries within Europe. That's crazy too. It's only 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.840 one Democrat. You'll be all with those again tonight. John 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:06.040 Fetterman of Pennsylvania, who's been very outspoken saying that this 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.160 needed to be done. Here's what he said Sunday. 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:10.520 Well, because that was. 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.280 Always the right thing. I mean, you can just put out, 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.560 you know, tweets and statements you know, to support peace, 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.320 but to actually create real peace you have to do 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:23.240 these kinds of actions just like happened, just like last 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:27.320 year too, when they to destroy their nuclear facilities. You know, 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:31.680 sometimes peace is possible after these kinds of steps, and 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.400 that's why I support those things. And you know, I 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.360 listened to my colleague from South Carolina earlier and I 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.400 even had the option, I mean to talk to him 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.440 before the State of the Union speech, and I encouraged 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.440 it as well. And so I fully support these kinds 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.720 of things. And I'm proud to stand with our military 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:54.080 and Israel through this. And that's what's the right thing. 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:54.800 Now. 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:58.680 Linda lives in Pennsylvania, I'm sure you'd vote for John federerman, 0:03:58.760 --> 0:03:59.200 Am I wrong? 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.200 No, He's better than most of the Republicans. It really is. 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:04.840 Let me play for you. 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:11.720 Mauj Madara, co founder of the Iranian dispor Collective and 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:18.000 a Democrat, saying she's disappointed with the Democratic Party over 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.920 their response to these Iranian strikes. They need to get 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:22.760 past their hatred of Donald Trump. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:23.640 Listen. 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.720 I think that it is imperative the Democratic Party wake 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.560 up and get past their dislike of Donald Trump, the 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:34.280 President Trump, and their feelings of international conflicts going on. 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.520 This is about national security. This is about what is 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.120 possible in the Middle East. This is about being a 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.440 good partner to our the Gulf States and what their 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:46.320 aspirations are. This is about supporting the people of Venezuela. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:50.760 This is about dismembering our relationship with or not dismembering, 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.680 but resetting our relationship with China. Right now, fifty five 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.320 percent of the oil production that Uran produces goes to 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.919 China despite sanctions. You want to support the people of Ukraine, 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.000 you want to end that word, you have to. There 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.839 is no getting around dismembering this Islamic Republic. It is 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.560 non negotiable. It is not a want to have, it 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.240 does a have to have. And it's not just for 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.560 the Iranian people. I think you have to trust the 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:13.279 Iranian people. 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:13.760 We know this. 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:15.920 Government better than anyone else, and I think at this 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.279 point we have a tremendous opportunity. This will be like 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.159 ending the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall. This is a 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:25.280 transformational moment for humankind, for security and as an American, 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.599 As an American, this is in our interest. 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:29.200 It complete it. 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:29.320 So. 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.800 I am a democrat. I have been a huge democrat. 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.279 I am incredibly disappointed with my party. I do not 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.000 see myself in them in this moment. 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.200 We're going to be joined in a moment by Greg Roman, 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:45.240 Executive Director of the Middle East forum with his comments 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:49.480 takeaways from the developments related to the Mid East following 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:53.839 these strikes, successful strikes and of course the Supreme Leader 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:59.239 and Ali Hamani dead, forty others dead with the opening 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:03.320 salvo and what was just unbelievable. I mean, you talk 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.960 about shock awe on steroids and human growth hormone. 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:07.160 This was it. 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:12.479 But anyway, they have pointed out that with all of this, 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.120 the joint US is rarely strikes hitting over you know, 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.120 five hundred targets I guess getting closer to one thousand 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.880 at this point against across twenty four of Iran's thirty 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:29.520 one provinces. Approximately forty senior military intelligence officials have been killed. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:33.040 And you know Iran, you know, with all their retaliation, 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.280 they just seem to be shooting haphazardly at every country 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.760 in the region. Greg Roman, let's get your thoughts on 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:41.880 where we are and what will it take for the 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:45.200 Iranian people to do what President Trump has told them 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:48.320 to do, which is, you know, that take advantage of 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.279 the fact that their hour hand is here and they've 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.839 asked been asking for this help, that they need to 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.440 sieze this moment. Don't let it pass. It's likely the 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:01.440 one shot they'll have for generations and you know what 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:02.320 happens next. 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.159 Well, thank you Sean for having me on air. And 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.800 I think right now we're at the point where the 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:12.320 current regime, the Islamist Islamic Republic of Iran regime, is 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.920 trying to create trip wires for members of the Iranian 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:20.680 opposition inside the country, in neighboring countries and more especially 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:24.560 in the diaspora to try to accept the FATA company 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.480 where they will have to tie their fate to the 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.239 future of the American and Israeli and now Gulf Arab 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:34.320 campaign in Iran. But the long play is to make 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:38.160 sure that the American national security architecture and the Israeli 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:42.760 bombers and increasingly now we have Arab air forces which 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:47.360 are engaging in skirmishes against the Iranian air force, with 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:51.640 reports of Katari Air Force su twenty force Suko A 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.040 twenty fours being taken out or taking out Irani and 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.480 Suko twenty fours, where the Iranian opposition is to realize 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.440 it's make or break to get their act together and 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:06.560 not to be entirely reliant on the US and Israel 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.400 to push the Iranian regime off the cliffs they have 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.160 to push too. And if they don't get into that 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:17.440 position of regime disruption, of setting up forward operating bases, 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.600 of enabling these one hundred thousand individuals who allegedly have 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.760 prepared to defect from the IRGC, from the arteesche the 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.040 Iranian Army, then I think this is going to be 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.360 an opportunity that they will blow. But if they do 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.600 the right moves, if they don't repeat an Ahmed Chalabi moment, 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.160 they don't repeat a Hamid Karzai moment, they will repeat 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.400 Khadafi downfall moment. There is a narrow window for them 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.720 to have a controlled implosion where the state does not 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.840 go into chaos, but they are able to maintain a 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.520 pooralistic transition to power, where we take President Trump's offer 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:54.280 of amnesty and truth and reconciliation and we move Iran 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.240 from being on the Chinese Russian side of the board 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.880 and at the bare minimum move them to initial act. 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:01.920 And there's a big opportunity for that. Right now. 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.160 Roman is with us. He is the executive director of 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.599 the Middle East Forum. What's next for Iran is our discussion. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.679 Explain in more detail what you're envisioning happens here. I mean, 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:17.240 I know you have disparate groups, and Raisa Pavlavi is 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:21.960 one group. Earlier in the program we had on Ali 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.280 sofo v of a member of Iran's parliament and exile 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:30.120 National Council of Resistance of Iran not particularly fond of 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.319 pub LAB. I mean, the last thing we need is 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.199 an intramural squabble when everyone needs to pull in the 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.800 same direction and really give the people of Iran the choice. Again, 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.640 as the President said, they likely won't get back. You know, 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.040 this is once in a generation chance for. 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.480 Them, right, And I think that sometimes you end up 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.679 having more disagreements with members of the Iranian opposition than 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:53.360 you do with my synagogue board of directors. But that's 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:54.480 the story for another time. 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:58.679 You have how bad are things that your synagogue board 0:09:58.679 --> 0:09:59.400 of directors? 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.160 Well, you know, you say two Jews, three opinions, you 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:07.679 have two versions, twenty one opinions. But you end up 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.840 going to a position where right now the MEK and 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.360 the Polavi camp have sort of you know, coalaced around 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:19.520 two figures, right, two individuals who are personalities. But personalities 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.480 don't represent movements. If you look at groups like the 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.760 Iranian Freedom Congress, which got together in London last week. 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.600 You take the broad cross section of Iranian society, both 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.840 inside the country and outside, and what the Mek and Pelagi, 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.160 what have you believe is that an exile of five 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.680 million Iranians in the diaspora can speak to and speak 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.520 four ninety two million Iranians who are inside the country. 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:45.480 But even if you look at all the public opinion 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.760 polls that were done prior to December twenty seventh, when 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.520 the latest round of protests started, the shop probably only 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:56.240 gets around thirty one percent at a maximum. And if 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.960 you look at the NCRI, the Mek who was represented 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.720 by your speaker in the last hour, they pull around 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:07.240 point zero two print. So they do not speak for 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.319 the Iranian people inside the country. But this group that 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.800 got together last week were former members of the regime 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.679 who are now in exile, Individuals who represent teachers, Arab 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:21.920 oil workers, the whole cross section of Azeris and Baluchis 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:26.560 and Kurds and mainstream Persians and monarchists and Republicans, thirty 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:32.040 eight different parties representing I would argue about sixty five 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.599 million of those ninety two million Iranians at least that 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:38.960 have some sort of representation got together in London and 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.439 they all agreed on one thing. Let's put our problems aside, 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.720 make way for the regime to fall, and then we 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.760 can work with what's left to be able to make 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:51.400 sure that we have traffic police and the airport's running, 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.920 and the water is being served in the dog catchers 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.680 on time, and we're able to reopen up the trade 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.600 for that country. And they have a whole planet they 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:02.319 put together. But more certainly it's not based on personalities. 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:06.440 It's representative who's got this plan, who's going to take 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.480 charge of that plan, and how quickly can we get 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:10.240 to elections. 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:12.720 So elections they believe would be able to take place 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.959 within six months, and a referendum for a consultative Assembly 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:17.760 that would then be able to get fourth in one year, 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.479 and they would take the way in which the Iranian 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.360 system works right now and basically adapt that to not 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.760 be Islamis, but they to be democratic. And more than that, 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.520 you already have entities right now that have existed inside 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.240 the country for the past twenty five years that are 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.800 not tied to the regime. If you remember, before the 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.640 Twelve Day War back in June, there was a nationwide 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.280 truck driver's strike that took place in Iran between like 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.600 June first and June seventh. These people are at that table. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.560 If it looks three years ago with the Women Life 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.600 Freedom movement that were behind Masamini, these people are at 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:53.920 the table. Three Irani and Nobel laureates, individuals who control 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:58.640 the Couraged Democratic Party under Hajiri five million, the Komala 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.600 Party another three million under Abdola Matadi. You really have 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.280 a cross section here that would be able to say 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.360 we're not going to try to go in a debatification 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.320 process that ruined e Rock back in two thousand and three. 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:14.120 We learned our lesson from twenty three years ago, and 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.320 we're going to do this the way that Lexilla says. 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:18.839 Okay, but Greg, what about the holdovers? 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.600 You know there will be old revolutionary guard that cling 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.360 to the life that they had. How do we weed 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:25.800 them out? 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.280 Percent? One hundred percent? And I think that, as I 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.400 said beforehand, there has to be a truth and reconciliation 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:36.520 process where look, if you were found responsible for helping 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.880 massacre thirty forty fifty thousand members of your country, where 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.280 you were involved in hangings in the eighties or massacres 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.319 in the nineties, then you're going to have to own 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.320 up to that. But if you were a bureaucrat, if 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.080 you were the head of the Central Bank, in charge 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.480 of the oil ministry, and you just hitched your cart 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.560 to the Iatolas horse because you had to do that 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.800 to survive, there's also an opportunity to be able to 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.160 solve that as well. And I think that just like 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.679 you had in Eastern European countries after the fall of 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.679 the Wall and reconciliation, even the way that we've looked 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:05.800 at it with East Germany, you have to own up 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.480 to your mistakes, and if they're too great, you're going 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.280 to be put into jail. But if it was part 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.520 of just the way that the government was governed for 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.400 the last forty seven years, we'll give you an opportunity 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.520 to have respite with us. And if they move in 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.160 that direction, I think you really have the opportunity for 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:24.160 a easy transition, but it has to be done under 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.440 the threat of American and Israeli superior air power. You're 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.680 either with us or you're against us, but not with 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.200 any American or Israeli boots on the ground. Has to 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:33.400 be the Iranians making. 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.840 Their own decis it's never going to happen under Donald Trump. 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:39.360 I'm telling you right now, won't happen. And I think 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:43.120 that at some point there are hours at hand. They've 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.360 asked for this help. They better seize the moment and 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.680 not let it pass. As the President said, Greg Roman, 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.040 good to talk to you, man. I appreciate it. Great analysis. 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:53.880 Eight hundred and nine to four one, Sean, if you 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.640 want to be a part of the program, Linda, I 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:58.960 don't know if you noticed this. Did you notice Hanoi? 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:04.160 Jane is back? Oh, she's the worst, branding Donald Trump 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.920 a sad, unhinged man while denouncing him for launching deadly 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:12.080 strikes in Iran. Who cares what she said or any 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:15.280 of these other idiots? Mark Ruffalo, who are the other 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.560 idiots in Hollywood? 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.119 I mean, if they hadn't. 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.240 A much shorter list to name the ones that aren't, 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:22.560 to be perfectly frank. 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.080 That's a good way to do it. Good point. 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:27.840 Now. 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:34.280 The Pentagon officials earlier today, General raising Kine, this guy's phenomenal, 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:39.800 just an absolute genius. Secretary of War Pete Hegseeth the 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.600 Pentagon announcing that US force has struck more than a 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:47.800 thousand targets in Iran. During the first twenty four hours 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:53.840 of Operation Epic Fury, the joint US Israeli led airstrike 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:58.240 mission that killed with in its opening salvo, the Supreme 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:04.400 Leader the the Ayahtola Ali Hamani, and other security officials, 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.680 Air Force General Dan Kaine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:11.840 telling reporters at the Pentagon, that the objective of the 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.720 operation was clear to protect US interest in the Middle 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:19.800 East by ending Iran's ability to project offensive power outside 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.280 of their borders. This marked a culmination of months and 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:27.560 in some cases years, of deliverer planning refinement against this 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:32.760 particular target set, from precision strikes against key military infrastructure 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:37.520 to persistent intelligence and targeting integration. And he, along with 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:41.400 Pete Hegseth, you know, gave a very very powerful briefing today. 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.680 I think it's worth taking time because I know most 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:45.840 of you were not up at eight o'clock in the morning. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.120 If you were, you were shoveling coffee down your throat 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.640 and feeding your kids and trying to get them off 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:54.160 to school and start your day. So let me bring 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.840 you up to speed because this is actually, you know, 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:02.560 pretty spectacl amazing and you should have a sense of 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.159 great pride that we have the greatest military in the 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:06.560 face of God's green earth. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:07.520 Let's play this. 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:12.440 At fifteen thirty eight three thirty eight PM on Friday, 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:16.639 February twenty seventh, the United States Central Command, through the 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:20.959 Secretary of War, received the final goal order from President Trump. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:25.440 The President directed and I quote Operation Epic Furies approved. 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:30.359 Noah borts good luck close quote. In the region, every 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:34.040 element of the Joint Force made their final preparations. Air 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:38.320 defense batteries ready themselves, checking their systems to respond to 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:42.720 Iranian attacks. Pilots and crews rehearse their strike packages for 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:47.080 the final time. Aircrews began loading their final weapons, and 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.080 two carrier strike groups began to move towards their launching 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:55.120 points across the globe. Our operation centers came alive in Tampa, Florida, 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.119 here at the Pentagon, and of course forward in the 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:04.919 Central Command a war. As always, operational security was paramount 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:09.320 as we sought to maintain and sustain the element of surprise. 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:13.080 This operation was highly classified, so that at each hour 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.840 the enemy would see one thing speed, surprise, and violence 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:22.240 of action. The first movers were US Cybercom and US 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:27.000 Space com layering non kinetic effects disrupting and degrading and 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:33.119 blinding Iran's ability to see, communicate, and respond. At h hour, 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:39.040 the beginning of major combat operations zero one fifteen Local 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:44.000 Eastern daylight time nine to forty five local am Tehran time. 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:48.119 As dawn crept up across the Central Command air the 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.720 sky surge to life. More than one hundred aircraft launch 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:56.760 from land, sea fighters, tankers, airborne early warning electronic attack 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:01.520 bombers from the States, and unmanned platforms, forming a single 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:06.399 synchronized wave. This was a daylight strike based on a 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:11.199 trigger event conducted by the Israeli defense forces, enabled by 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:15.280 the US intelligence community. The first shooters at sea were 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:19.280 Tomahawks unleashed by the United States Navy, closed in on 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:23.560 Iranian naval forces and began to conduct strikes across the 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:28.200 southern flank in Iran. On the ground forces fired precision 0:19:28.640 --> 0:19:34.880 standoff weapons measured deliberate, precise, and lethal. This was a massive, 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:39.679 overwhelming attack across all domains of warfare, striking more than 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:41.119 one thousand targets. 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:42.119 In the first twenty four hours. 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:47.359 We are now roughly fifty seven hours into the operation. 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:52.760 In the initial phase. Sentcom's focus was systematic targeting of Iranians, 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:59.040 command and control infrastructure, naval forces, ballistic missile sites, and 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:04.880 intelligence in structure designed to daze and confuse them. Coordinated 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:11.359 space and cyber operations effectively disrupted communications and sensor networks 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:16.080 across the area of responsibility, leaving the adversary without the 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:21.560 ability to see, coordinate, or respond effectively. The combined impact 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:25.720 of these strikes, swift, precise, and overwhelming, has resulted in 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:30.640 the establishment of local air superiority. This air superiority will 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:34.159 not only enhance the protection of our forces, but also 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:36.240 allow them to continue. 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:37.080 The work over Iran. 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:40.399 Over the course of the last two days, the Joint 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:44.000 Force has launched hundreds of missions from land and sea 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.800 and delivered tens of thousands of pieces of ordinance. The 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:53.360 effort continues to scale. This included American B two bombers, which, 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.920 again similar to Midnight Hammer, flew a thirty seven hour 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:01.560 round trip SORTI from the continental United States, dropping precision 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:07.880 penetrating munitions on Iranian underground facilities across the southern flank 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:09.280 and slightly deeper. 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:15.200 Today, in their desperation, the enemy is unmasked as Iranian 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:21.920 missiles and drones rained down indiscriminately on the hotels, airports, apartments, 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:27.159 and other civilian targets of their neighbors. Cowardly terrorist tactics 0:21:28.119 --> 0:21:31.920 from a regime that for decades has trafficked in cowardly 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:38.439 terrorist tactics, lies, death and destruction. To this day, the 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:43.080 Iranian leadership has built nothing except proxies and missiles and 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:48.720 drones and deeply buried nuclear factories and facilities. Peaceful nuclear 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:55.200 ambitions do not need to be buried underneath mountains. Last June, 0:21:55.240 --> 0:22:01.560 Operation Midnight Hammer obliterated their nuclear program to rubble. Afterward, 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:03.800 we told them plainly, that's it. Now make a deal. 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:08.840 They arrogantly refused. We said, rebuild it, and we'll stop 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:13.400 you again, this time far worse. Well, President Trump, Secretary Rubio, 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:18.480 Steve Whitcoff, Jared Kushner. They bent over backwards for real diplomacy, 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:21.719 offering pathway after pathway to peace. I watched it. 0:22:21.800 --> 0:22:22.359 I was there. 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:27.359 They tried, over and over and over again, earnest attempts 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:31.720 at peace. The former regime had every chance to make 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:36.800 a peaceful and sensible deal, but Taran was not negotiating. 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:41.680 They were stalling, buying time to reload their missile stockpiles 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:46.440 and restart their nuclear ambitions. Their goal hold US hostage, 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:51.880 threatening to strike our forces. Well, President Trump doesn't play 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:56.080 those games, And as Secretary Rubio said after the Maduro raid, 0:22:56.760 --> 0:23:01.000 if you don't know, now you know. President Trump puts 0:23:01.040 --> 0:23:05.919 America and Americans first. He doesn't hesitate, and neither do 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:10.880 our troops. The mission of Operation Epic Fury is laser focused. 0:23:11.640 --> 0:23:16.159 Destroy Iranian offensive missiles, destroy Iranian missile production, destroy their 0:23:16.280 --> 0:23:19.879