1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: On Sunday, Donald Trump threatened Iran and ninety three million 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:10,480 Speaker 1: people with vaporization, with armageddon, with nuclear holocaust. Here's the 3 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: infamous tweet. He promised over and over again in recent 4 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:18,080 Speaker 1: weeks that he would bomb Iran back to the Stone Age. 5 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 2: It made clear from the beginning of Operation Epic Fury 6 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 2: that we will continue until our objectives are fully achieved. 7 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 2: Thanks to the progress we've made, I can say tonight 8 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 2: that we are on track to complete all of America's 9 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 2: military objectives shortly, very shortly. We are going to hit 10 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,240 Speaker 2: them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. 11 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 2: We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages 12 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 2: where they belong. In the meantime, discussions are ongoing. Regime 13 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 2: change was not our goal. We never said regime change, 14 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 2: But regime change has occurred because of all of their 15 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 2: original leader's death year old did. 16 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 1: Donald Trump said a lot? And last night Donald Trump 17 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: back down and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards released a statement. 18 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:12,759 Speaker 1: Do you know what it said? It hailed the great 19 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 1: Iranian victory against the United States in Trump's war a folly, 20 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:22,559 Speaker 1: a war that he said, we must fight to change 21 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:27,320 Speaker 1: the Iranian regime that has not been changed. Instead, what 22 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 1: we've seen is a lost war where the Iranians now 23 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: claimed control, apparently acknowledged by Trump that they controlled the 24 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:42,839 Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz. It is April the eighth. I'm Steve Schmidt. 25 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: This is the warning. Laura Ingram is as nutty as 26 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: a Fox News nut can ever be. She's up there 27 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 1: in the stratosphere with Mark Levin and Laura Ingram reacted 28 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump's what should we call it, surrender announcement, appeasement, announcement, 29 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: whatever you wish to do, however you wish to see it. 30 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: Laura Ingram sees it as victory, not against Iran, but 31 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: against the Democrats. 32 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 3: Okay, so actually tonight's news is actually bad news for them. 33 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm going to say it the way it is. 34 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 3: They always underestimate Trump. And as for twenty twenty eight, 35 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 3: van Hollen, who he just saw, he has the charisma 36 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 3: of a mollusk. So we were at the precipice here 37 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 3: we had to rewrite the script. Donald Trump continues to 38 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,680 Speaker 3: rewrite the political script. Democrats believe they finally had Trump 39 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 3: and the entire Maga movement in a box. But once again, 40 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 3: the last laugh will be on them. 41 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:52,280 Speaker 1: Is that who all of these primetime Fox hosts think 42 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: the wars against the Democrats. Here's Jesse Waters. 43 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 4: The world just witnessed and overwhelming play of military and 44 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 4: technological superiority. But this is an over We still have Cuba, 45 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 4: Greenland and Canada. 46 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: Just kidding. 47 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 4: General Jack Kins, our senior strategic analystic. 48 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: And by the way, this guy eighty three year old 49 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: Jack Caine, Fox News contributor, retired US Army four star general. 50 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: Do you see him there with the US and Israeli 51 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: flags together in his lapel pen. This war that Trump 52 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: began has failed. None of the things that Donald Trump 53 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 1: said that he wanted to accomplish, Like here, and here, 54 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: and here and. 55 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 5: Twenty seven days ago, Iran had a modern military. Never 56 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 5: in recorded history as a nation's military been so quickly 57 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 5: and effectively neutralized. Operation Epic Fury is not an endless war. 58 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 5: It's a decisive campaign with clear objectives to destroy iran 59 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 5: offensive military capabilities and ensure they never obtain a nuclear weapon. 60 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 5: This is stuff for the history books, this is stuff 61 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 5: for legacy. Mister President, You are acting now to ensure 62 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,679 Speaker 5: future generations do not have to live under the threat 63 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 5: of a nuclear armed Iran, and here. 64 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 6: Iran has been a threat to the United States and 65 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 6: the free world for forty seven years, chance of death 66 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:35,080 Speaker 6: to America, targeting our people, killing Americans, lying and blackmailing 67 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,040 Speaker 6: their way toward a nuclear weapon. 68 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 2: So they thought. 69 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 6: No longer, not on our watch. Other presidents mark time 70 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 6: and kick the can down the road. President Trump made history, 71 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,799 Speaker 6: from the strike that took out Kasum Sulimani, to tearing 72 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 6: up the disastrous Obama Iran Deal, to the precision campaign 73 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 6: that obliterated Iran's nuclearights in Operation Midnight Hammer, to the 74 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 6: decisive military victory we just achieved in Operation Epic Fury. 75 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 6: No other president has shown the courage and resolve of 76 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 6: this commander in chief. President Trump forged this moment. Iran 77 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 6: begged for. 78 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:23,720 Speaker 1: This ceasefire have happened, not a one America has been embarrassed. 79 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 1: The limitations of American power have been seen by the 80 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 1: whole world. 81 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 6: You saw the initial agreement that was struck, which is 82 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,159 Speaker 6: Iran's letting ships go through, So they'll be that will 83 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 6: be happening, they will be sailing. And ultimately, as the President, 84 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 6: We've done an incredible job militarily inside the strate of horror, 85 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 6: moves what Admiral Coop. I failed to mention Admiral Cooper's name. 86 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 6: He's done a phenomenal job along with everybody at Afcent 87 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 6: and Absent and are Scent and all the components down 88 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:58,400 Speaker 6: there laying the groundwork for Iran doesn't have the same 89 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 6: ability to defend it the way they did before. And so, 90 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 6: as the President has pointed out to the rest of 91 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 6: the world, we barely get any of our energy out 92 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 6: of the street, just a tiny fraction. It's time for 93 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 6: the rest of the world to step up and ensure 94 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 6: that that stays open. After President Trump and the War 95 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 6: Department brought her on to the place where they're voluntarily. 96 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 1: Donald Trump started a war with no plan to win, 97 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 1: no strategy to leave without the support of the American people. 98 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 1: He threatened nuclear war and then back down, and there 99 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 1: wasn't one single Republican in the entire Congress who said 100 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: a word about it. But his poll numbers keep dropping 101 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 1: and he's down to about a thirty percent approval level. 102 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: And when you consider everything that's happened in the last month, 103 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 1: know this, the ceasefire will not last. Donald Trump cannot 104 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:57,919 Speaker 1: be trusted. And what we're witnessing is a defeat that 105 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 1: will shape the future for many, many years to come, 106 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 1: and it will make the world more dangerous, far more 107 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: dangerous than an already dangerous world has been. Trump's folly 108 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: is our burden. Billions have been spent, lives have been 109 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: lost by the thousands, including American lives. This adventure in 110 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: Iran is not over yet, but it is not too 111 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: soon to be able to see clearly that a war 112 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 1: promoted by Fox News, who led by their Fox News personalities, 113 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 1: has turned in to an unmitigated disaster, and worse than 114 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:45,679 Speaker 1: a disaster, a strategic defeat for the United States, dealt 115 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: to us by the hand of the man who said 116 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: just a short time ago he wanted a Nobel Peace Prize. 117 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:58,239 Speaker 1: This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. 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