00:03:21.380As for how long the war will go on, the president told me he always thought it was going to be a four- or five-week deal.
00:03:30.240That's what he told me, a four- or five-week operation.
00:03:34.260He said it could be shorter, and he was prepared to go longer.
00:03:39.260And about the three Americans who were killed, the president said, it's war and you have casualties in war.
00:03:47.160He marveled at the fact that with all the operations he has conducted as president in Venezuela, the one last summer in Iran, and this one, that the total casualty count, American casualties, is three.
00:03:59.920That's a quick summary of a rather lengthy conversation with President Trump tonight.
00:04:03.900Combat operations continue at this time in full force, and they will continue until all of our objectives are achieved.
00:04:59.740But we'll do everything possible where that won't be the case.
00:05:03.980But America will avenge their deaths and deliver the most punishing blow to the terrorists who have waged war against, basically, civilization.
00:05:14.740They have waged war against civilization itself.
00:05:19.560Iran is a place that could be wonderful without Hezbollah.
00:05:24.260Hezbollah has American blood on its hands.
00:05:26.740It killed those Marines, 220, 18 sailors in 1983.
00:05:30.880And Ronald Reagan, the great Ronald Reagan, left and never did a damn thing.
00:05:35.060Mr. President, unleash the American military with Israel on Hezbollah tonight.
00:08:45.020We're going to execute at his command the objectives we've set out to achieve.
00:08:49.020And what he has shown ability to do that other presidents can't quite seem to have the aperture to do.
00:08:54.320Well, I mean, Joe Biden didn't even know what he was doing, is to look for opportunities and off ramps and escalations for the United States that creates new opportunities to execute what we need on our own timeline.
00:09:06.140So you can play games about four weeks, five weeks.
00:09:08.180He has all the latitude, and I'm glad he does, because there's no better communicator than our president expressing those things.
00:09:14.740I've been in meetings with the president for the last two and a half days.
00:09:17.920We know exactly where his head space is, and he will communicate, as he should, exactly what he would like, and we will follow those orders.
00:09:26.000And I think everything he said on that is right down the middle.
00:09:52.060Having been in their boots, having been in their shoes, having been in their flight suits, I think we – I mean, I know we think about them with every decision that we make and every recommendation that we make to the president of the United States.
00:10:04.620Those recommendations are made prayerfully.
00:10:07.840And when I pray every day for them and for this mission, I pray simply for the biblical wisdom to see what is right and the courage to do it.
00:10:17.800It's going to take courage to follow through on this.
00:10:19.820There's going to be a lot of noise, and we pray for that, and we hope all of you do as well.
00:10:26.180Secretary Hexeth, I have two questions for you.
00:10:29.640First, are there currently any American boots on the ground in Iran?
00:10:33.520No, but we're not going to go into the exercise of what we will or will not do.
00:10:39.980I think it's one of those fallacies for a long time that this department or presidents or others should tell the American people – and our enemies, by the way – here's exactly what we'll do.
00:12:05.440Well, Trace, what's amazing here is that the President has showed that for the first time, someone who comes in as a businessman, someone who didn't have a background in government, is able to achieve his objectives in the Middle East without boots on the ground.
00:12:24.240We're not seeing the gender studies programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
00:12:28.140We're not seeing the pallets of cash to the mullahs.
00:12:30.660We're seeing President Trump understanding what the situation is and figuring out how to deal with it smartly and swiftly and then hopefully getting home and getting to peace.
00:12:39.900Okay, Monday, the 2nd of March, year of our Lord, 2026, just some logistics.
00:12:46.080There's going to be a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House at 11 o'clock, I believe.
00:12:50.540The President, I think, is actually, we're hearing now, may actually do a spray or talk to some reporters.
00:12:56.080So we've got a packed show, as we do on Saturday and Sunday, with the best brains in the business and best experience.
00:13:02.860But we may have to do some juggling, and I'm sure you'll bear with us.
00:13:07.700So we'll be going to the President of the White House, Eric Prince.
00:13:11.660Aaron Reitz is also going to join a situation in Austin, Texas.
00:13:15.160Aaron's running for Attorney General who's going to update us on momentarily.
00:13:19.780Jack, we didn't get to play the package.
00:13:21.880We have a whole package on General Raisin Cain.
00:13:25.100People should understand, General Cain has just been a tremendous military advisor and architect and implementer execution of the plan for President Trump.
00:13:56.900But your assessment, particularly on the briefing itself, of what we actually know, and it was some of this we didn't see a Norman Schwarzkopf video, grainy video, really didn't talk about the command structure.
00:14:08.500Because my understanding is that they've destroyed a lot more of the command structure than the Ayatollah and 40 guys having a picnic with him.
00:15:01.880And perhaps one of those reasons is because, you know, we were told the B-2 bombers came in, conducted another bombing run.
00:15:08.400We didn't get a lot of specificity about that.
00:15:10.580But also, Steve, to your point on the leadership, Marco Rubio briefed over the weekend that it was, in fact, Israel that's been taking the lead in focusing on these leadership, these decapitation strikes.
00:15:21.540Looks like Israel was the one that led the strike on Ayatollah Khomeini.
00:15:25.960And so, of course, the question remains, what is the level of intelligence sharing between Israeli special forces, between Mossad intelligence and the United States?
00:15:34.580Are their operations being conducted directly with us, or are they doing things and then telling us after the fact that, of course, remains to be seen?
00:15:44.080Isn't the hit on their senior regime, wasn't that predicated principally by CIA intelligence?
00:16:09.380And that being said, it remains to be seen what level of operations Israel is still conducting.
00:16:15.980And look, if they're still conducting these operations, they may not want to put that information out because of the fact that the Iranians have lost the C-2.
00:16:24.640They want to keep, for strategic ambiguity, they want to keep the leadership guessing as to who exactly is alive, who is not.
00:16:33.420You saw the Iranian foreign minister even sort of mention this himself yesterday when he said IRGC units are isolated and operating independently.
00:16:41.960That means that a lot of these attacks you're seeing on the Gulf partners, this is part of a contingency plan that was put in place should leadership communications be severed.
00:16:51.720This was the plan, attack U.S. and U.S. allies across the Gulf.
00:16:56.480Eric Prince, on Saturday, you had some concerns about this.
00:17:02.880Are you more comfortable that it looks like they're going through, as Captain Fennell walked us through over the weekend,
00:17:08.220that they're going through a pretty systematic degradation, particularly of command and control,
00:17:13.860and the Iranians and the Persians' ability to have even organized strikes back?
00:17:19.740Because it looks like what they're hitting us back with is a little haphazard.
00:17:23.600I do understand, and probably for operations and security reasons, maybe they're not talking about it in depth,
00:17:27.780but my understanding is they've gone pretty deep in the command structure.
00:17:31.620People are saying the battalion or brigade level have even taken out some of these bad IRGC folks.
00:18:42.800They took out the leadership of Iran, the people that killed those protesters over the last months.
00:18:49.740And if they negotiate with the mullahs or whatever for some kind of transition, give them the city of Mashhad,
00:18:59.700almost like a Vatican, where the mullahs can go and be super Islamic and strict and let the rest of Iran breathe free if they want to.
00:19:09.860But ultimately, it's the Iranian people's opportunity to do this.
00:19:14.380It is not up to our air power, our troops, and our blood to fix it.
00:19:23.440Look, America owes a debt of gratitude to France, remember, because it's the French Navy that showed up at Yorktown,
00:19:29.880which assisted us to trap Cornwallis' army, giving us the victory at Yorktown.
00:19:35.820The United States has done a great gift to the Iranian people by removing their leadership and degrading some of their capabilities.
00:19:44.160But ultimately, this has to be decided by the Iranian people on the ground.
00:19:48.360If I were the president, I would not encourage him to go deeper and deeper on this.
00:19:53.360Treat this almost like the way the Romans used to do a punitive raid at the edge of empire.
00:19:59.480When they had a misbehaving state, they would send a Roman general like Scipio Africanus, who punished Carthage after Carthage had been marauding up and down Italy and Spain.
00:20:12.080Remember, Hannibal was the one that took the elephants all the way to Rome.
00:20:17.420But use this as a punitive raid, pound them for a few days, and then leave.
00:20:23.160If I remember my history, I think Scipio Africanus took it part brick by brick in Salt of the Earth.
00:20:32.700Maybe it's more than what I would do, but your point is one of these Roman punitive raids and or Viking raid where you go in and punch hard.
00:20:40.920You heard today discussion, and the president told Jonathan Karl again in an interview, hey, it could be four or five weeks.
00:20:46.220I'm not going to put a timeline on it.
00:20:47.520But your advice is that you think you could hit hard enough in the next couple of days because the new guy that's kind of their spokesman or leadership spokesman, he's not a religious cleric.
00:21:00.000He's saying we have no interest in talking right now.
00:21:02.840The president said, hey, I'm open to talk.
00:21:06.060But they're not interested in talking.
00:21:08.520So how do you get your off-ramp or your, hey, let's get this done in 24, 48, 72 hours instead of five or six weeks, that punch, you have to have somebody on the other side to actually talk to, let them do a transition, get back in a room and talk about their nuclear program.
00:21:43.320What would Eric, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
00:21:46.360What would Eric Prince's, if this is a Roman punitive raid like the Empire used to do or even the Republic, if you're going to hit them, what is your recommendation?
00:22:11.040They got enough of it when those two empires wanted each other, sir.
00:22:14.640Every IRGC, not that they would be in the barracks anymore, but anything that was of value to the IRGC that enables the IRGC could force MOIS to continue to suppress the people, bomb the hell out of those, and then be done.
00:22:33.360And then cut away and then tell the Iranian leadership that remains, if we have to come back, we're going to take apart all your economic infrastructure.
00:22:43.080The problem is, the problem with bombing, with picking a fight now with Iranian cleric religious extremists, is they are really willing to die for their cause.
00:22:58.100And they will take everything else with them, and they will burn down the rest of the Middle East.
00:23:02.340I suspect they will continue to launch drone attacks into the rest of the GCC countries.
00:23:08.520Hell, they even built, they even hit Cyprus yesterday, the British base at Aquitari, because there's US aircraft launching from there.
00:23:17.300So they have the ability to punch, punch much harder than we suspected.
00:23:21.360For all the smoke and thunder about the US action against the Houthis, the fact is, the Houthis are still there, controlling the same terrain with significant weapons load.
00:23:33.780And for those period of months, they effectively shut off the Suez Canal at the southern end.
00:23:40.640And now we're thinking we're going to do the same to the Iranians in their home country with as much as they've been stockpiling.
00:23:47.960Look, the Russians have been at war in Ukraine for four years.
00:24:08.020And for us to have to shoot down a shot head drone with a $1 million, $2 million, $3 million Raytheon Pac-3 level missile, it's really, really bad math.
00:24:22.580And on top of that, we lost three F-15s today.
00:25:30.160I want to talk about that Cyprus because Matt Bull was in Greece last week and said how the Turks, the Greeks, everybody were concerned about this.
00:25:37.160And they hit Cyprus yesterday or tried to hit Cyprus.
00:25:55.900In your definition as a naval intelligence officer, a Roman punitive strike on Iran that would take a couple more days would look like what?
00:26:04.740Well, you remember, I mean, that this is what Rome would do.
00:26:07.180They would they would take out the leader and then they would see who comes up next, see if they wanted to cut a deal.
00:26:13.000If that guy didn't want, they'd take him out and then they'd keep going down the line up until they found a leader that was willing to make a deal.
00:26:20.120Look, you know, we could see exactly how that's done.
00:26:23.220President Trump, I believe, in remarks to ABC last night, Jonathan Karl said something along the lines of how the second and third runners up for who they thought would take the leadership of Iran were also killed in Israeli strikes.
00:26:37.240So they're actually now looking for either that leader or potential group to be able to take the reins.
00:26:42.840But we're also seeing, you know, in parsing the tea leaves here, we're also seeing the administration say that this again, this isn't regime change.
00:26:52.020This isn't a forever war, that this isn't going to be nation building like we saw in Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:26:57.560But instead, it's taking out the current leadership and then working with who remains after.
00:27:06.540That looks like exactly the Venezuela model that we saw just last month, last early February.
00:27:13.840So, you know, I think that seems to be where the administration is settling in this.
00:27:17.720Look, you get to the point where you have stable leadership, where they're able to meet the president's objectives.
00:27:21.940I think the objectives clearly have been met.
00:27:23.940You saw that from Secretary Hegseth as well this morning, stating it several times.
00:27:27.900They may have some more objectives that we don't know about yet.
00:27:30.180But it does look as though the president has the ability now to find that stable leadership, cut the deal, ensure peace and do so swiftly and smartly rather than get into a prolonged and protracted conflict.
00:27:42.900Do you really believe there's stable leadership over there?
00:27:45.460I mean, you were talking about the hardcore, what's left would be, you know, a couple of tiers down on the IRGC.
00:27:53.400I mean, is that your idea of stability?
00:27:55.220Also, when you go down and layer, like like Fennell said, you take it down layer by layer.
00:27:59.580To Eric's point, they're still getting off shots, taking out oil facilities, loading facilities in Saudi Arabia.
00:28:07.100They're going after the gas fields and Qatar, all the things people are concerned about.
00:28:21.000Well, Steve, remember that the secular president, the civil president of Iran is still in place.
00:28:26.040The foreign minister is still in place.
00:28:27.780So while the religious leadership has been removed, at least in terms of the Ayatollah, we know the Ayatollah has family members that survived.
00:28:50.140The asymmetric warfare that we're now seeing, striking those economic implements, striking the OPLAT, striking pipelines, striking the ports.
00:28:58.900Again, this is the asymmetric war, that radar system, billion-dollar radar system out in Qatar.
00:29:04.500So the asymmetric warfare campaign has been continuing.
00:29:07.860But remember, a lot of the civilian leadership is still there in Iran.
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00:32:52.260This morning, police in Austin, Texas, along with the FBI, are investigating whether a deadly mass shooting there is connected to the U.S. war on Iran.
00:33:00.740This happened at a bar in the busy entertainment district.
00:33:03.120Authorities say the shooter was armed with a pistol and assault rifle and started firing out of the window of his SUV.
00:33:18.000Two people are dead, 14 others wounded.
00:33:35.480And so this individual, armed with a pistol, with a rifle, did end up shooting two individuals who died, as well as 14 others.
00:33:43.660Now, investigators are looking at whether there is a nexus in terms of the attacks on Iran.
00:33:49.440This individual was seen with a shirt that had the Iranian flag.
00:33:53.200And there were other items that were found that kind of give investigators this potential idea that he may have been motivated by the recent attacks by the U.S. against Iran.
00:34:03.240Now, something to kind of contextualize that is this individual also, who originally from Senegal, became a U.S. citizen in 2013,
00:34:11.820has had mental health issues and mental health instances with authorities in the state of Texas.
00:34:18.400That also could be part of this, and it is certainly part of the investigation.
00:34:22.560Now, all of this also ties into the FBI and DHS really being on high alert for any potential attacks on U.S. soil inspired by the attack against Iran.
00:34:35.340We already have multiple assassination plots that have been foiled by Iranian government in the U.S.
00:34:43.700That's including against President Donald Trump twice, as well as his former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, and his former National Security Advisor, John Bolton.
00:34:55.220So this is certainly something that investigators will continue to look into.
00:34:59.020It is something that they are very concerned about, especially in these early days after the attacks against Iran.
00:35:05.880For our seven-day-a-week coverage yesterday morning, I'm really proud of Rav and our own team here at War Room putting together.
00:35:12.920I want to – David Nino Rodriguez, the great podcaster, former boxer, had the – we talked – our show came on at 10 o'clock Eastern time yesterday.
00:35:22.140We talked at 7, and David kind of had this story, but we didn't feel comfortable enough that we had enough verification by FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force.
00:35:31.700That's why we didn't put it up yesterday.
00:35:33.340I want to give a hat tip to Nino, who actually had this story.
00:35:36.920Aaron writes – Aaron, first off, you've served your country in these bad neighborhoods.
00:35:42.800Your thoughts of what you've seen over the last 24, 48 hours, and then specifically you're running basically as the law and order candidate in the attorney general's race in Texas.
00:35:54.720Your thoughts about this weekend, sir?
00:35:57.700Yeah, look, I think it's – as you teed up in that CNN clip, right, it's – we're asking to – we see a guy who came into Austin, Texas.
00:36:05.680He's wearing a shirt that says Property of Allah.
00:36:08.800He's wearing under that sweatshirt a flag of the – of Iran.
00:36:17.600We know that he's from Senegal, which is a Muslim-majority country.
00:36:21.860And now we're being asked to speculate about what his motive is.
00:36:25.400And, look, I appreciate that law enforcement has to sort of be very careful about what they say publicly.
00:36:31.420But for civilians that are watching this sort of thing, there is no question that this guy is an example of the spreading jihad not only into the United States in general, but in Texas in particular.
00:36:45.480And this is something you've covered and I've been on this show before to talk about, the Islamification that is happening in Texas.
00:36:51.560We know exactly what motivated this guy.
00:36:54.520We know exactly what led to him coming here.
00:36:57.340A lot of people make this distinction between illegal immigration and legal immigration.
00:37:02.720Okay, illegal immigration is bad, but legal immigration is good.
00:37:07.880This terrorist who killed two people and injured at least 14 was technically a legal immigrant.
00:37:14.340The problem is that we have such a lax immigration system that not only have we allowed the invasion of tens of millions of illegal aliens, but we've rubber stamped all of these so-called legal immigrants.
00:37:28.600And this is why I've called for several things as the next Texas Attorney General.
00:37:33.060Number one, we need to treat the Sharia pushers, the Islamification pushers, like the feds have treated the mafia in the latter half of the 20th century.
00:37:43.660Number two, we have got to audit all of the so-called legal immigrants that have come here over the past couple of decades to ensure that they comply with the highest standards of federal law, statutes, and case law.
00:37:56.880And number three, we need to get rid of these so-called gun-free zones, which is just another word for we're here as sitting ducks dones.
00:38:05.380That's why terrorists like this man from Senegal came and shot up a bar because of the 51 percent law.
00:38:12.340He knew that people wouldn't be in there armed and that he could just open fire and slaughter a bunch of Americans.
00:38:18.260And so, look, we know what inspired this guy.
00:38:20.980Law enforcement has to do their due diligence to speculate.
00:38:23.300But as an observer, myself and as your audience darn well knows, we know exactly what motivated this guy.
00:38:30.020And when I'm elected attorney general, we are going to smoke out the sorts of networks that inspired this man to commit his act of terror.
00:38:37.900And we're going to get them all out of Texas.
00:38:39.480Aaron, the governor has designated Muslim Brotherhood and CARE as terrorist organization, but obviously he's going to leave it up to the attorney general to implement this.
00:38:49.340As attorney general, what do you tell our audience you will do in that regard, sir?
00:38:55.060Well, the governor declared, as you said, declared these entities foreign terrorists and transnational criminal organizations back in November.
00:39:01.560That was a great move because in that executive order, it unlocked a whole wing of the armory of legal weapons that we can use to smoke out the Islamic network here in Texas.
00:39:14.400And so the attorney general now has new tools in the Texas Property Code, the Civil Practices and Remedies Code, the Health and Safety Code, the Penal Code, all these other provisions under state law.
00:39:26.400One of the campaign promises I've been making on the campaign trail from the very beginning for the last nine months is that I'm going to treat the Islamic network here in Texas like the feds treated the mafia in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
00:39:39.920How many mob bosses did we put behind bars for committing murder in the latter half of the 20th century?
00:39:48.760They wipe their fingerprints off the weapons that they committed their heinous acts with.
00:39:52.880But what we got them with instead were the process crimes, the financial crimes, the money laundering, the racketeering, RICO violations, human sex and drug trafficking, tax fraud, tax evasion, all of these sorts of things to where we created a bramble bush of litigation, investigations, regulations that crippled their ability to operate and choke them out.
00:40:12.500We can do the same exact thing here in Texas.
00:40:16.400As Attorney General, I have vast constitutional, statutory, regulatory, and administrative weapons and tools at my disposal to ensure that the kinds of networks that aided, abetted, gave cover, and inspired this act of terror here in Austin, where I live, frankly.
00:40:32.600I drive by Buford's, where this act was committed, all the time, right here in downtown Austin.
00:40:38.320We are going to stop this sort of thing, and we're going to roll back the Islamification.
00:40:42.880We're then going to partner with the federal government, the Trump administration, to conduct a widespread audit of legal immigration paperwork.
00:40:50.660We're going to remigrate these people that came here over the past couple of decades.
00:40:54.480And I'm going to partner with the legislature to get rid of so-called gun-free zones.
00:40:59.180All of these are critical actions that the next Attorney General needs to take.
00:41:03.040Tomorrow is Election Day, Tuesday, March 3rd.
00:41:05.840Texans need to get to the polls and vote Aaron Reitz for Texas Attorney General if we're going to effectuate all of these things.
00:41:11.920Last thing, the grassroots and MAGA champion, Ken Paxton, endorsed you.
00:41:17.580Why did he do that, and what about his agenda?
00:41:22.020Did he endorse you because he wanted to see you fulfill his agenda?
00:41:25.480Why did he endorse you among all the candidates, and what are you going to implement of his agenda?
00:41:30.960Yeah, look, Paxton has been in office serving our state ferociously, effectively for the past 12 years as Attorney General.
00:41:37.960The number one question that Texans have on the campaign trail in the grassroots is who is going to be able to keep his foot on the pedal, keep his foot on the gas, to continue and even amplify the sorts of effective fights that Paxton has gotten us involved in and got us victory in.
00:41:55.900When Paxton endorsed me earlier this fall, he made it very clear about why he endorsed me.
00:42:01.620He said, Aaron Reitz is the only battle-tested, proven, and qualified candidate that I trust to carry on the baton into the next generation of legal fights up and down the chain of the justice system.
00:42:14.780Paxton has known all of the candidates in this race for decades, and yet he said Aaron is the only guy who has proven himself in legal combat,
00:42:24.220leading legal troops into the most consequential legal fights to deliver legal victories for Texas, for our nation, and for our constitutional values.
00:42:32.920If Texans want somebody who has been endorsed by Paxton, trusted by Trump, I most recently came from the senior ranks of President Trump's Justice Department.
00:42:41.460Trump called me a true MAGA attorney and a warrior for the Constitution, who's trusted by Trump, endorsed by Paxton,
00:42:47.800and who has a Marines fighting spirit to advance our values in court, it's Aaron Reitz for Texas Attorney General.
00:42:55.820Tomorrow, Tuesday, is Election Day. Get out to the polls. Aaron Reitz for Texas AG.
00:43:01.280Aaron, thank you for joining us and making that clear. Appreciate you, sir.
00:43:05.540Jack Posobiec, you've been one of the leaders of saying, hey, look, this war is going to metastasize.
00:43:10.340It's already gone to Cyprus. I know people in Greece is bold, talked to, and Turkey are saying, what?
00:43:14.980These guys hit Cyprus, but it's also a war at home.
00:43:18.200You've been one of the leading voices to say, hey, look, we've got to get serious about this.
00:43:22.520Your thoughts about Austin, Texas, and what it means as we continue on, at least what Pete's talking about.
00:43:29.780They're not going to give an exact timeline, but the arc that they've thrown out there is another four or five weeks.
00:43:34.340And I guess you've got news from Jake Tapper that the worst is yet to come.
00:43:39.380Well, Steve, to be fair, I'm not citing Jake Tapper on this.
00:43:42.200I'm citing Donald J. Trump, who called in to CNN.
00:43:47.660He stated that the U.S. military knocking the crap out of Iran, but the big wave is yet to come.
00:43:55.480He said it's going. I think it's going very well.
00:43:57.620It's very powerful. We've got the greatest military in the world, and we are using it.
00:44:01.980He also said, I don't want to see it go on too long.
00:44:05.600I always thought it would be four weeks, and we are a little head of schedule.
00:44:12.260And so he said, we want everyone staying inside.
00:44:16.680Again, he's talking about the protesters, maybe sort of explaining why we haven't seen those mass protests materialize in terms of opposition groups to the regime.
00:44:26.320And then again, saying that the big the biggest surprise was Iran's attacks against the Arab countries in the region, Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
00:44:37.020So the the Gulfies, as they're called in the region, these partner forces, Saudi Arabia also attacked, by the way.
00:44:43.580Right. And so you hear the president saying he expected four weeks.
00:44:47.320We'd reported that originally over at human events and now saying that he believes they are ahead of schedule also says in terms of succession.
00:45:02.940Maybe they will get lucky and get someone who knows what they're doing.
00:45:06.680So that says to me that that it does actually look like the United States may not be trying to play a role in picking who the successor will be on the Supreme Leader side as the Ayatollah from those mullahs that perhaps the United States will be trying to sit back and actually let the Iranian people, the Iranian leadership be able to reconstitute.
00:45:26.760They're talking about being ahead of schedule, look, achieving those objectives that Pete Hegseth said.
00:45:31.520That's what I was talking about last night when I was on Fox.
00:45:33.880That's what I'll say here again. President Trump swiftly, smartly, and then hopefully be able to return home and return to peace very quickly.
00:45:41.380You know, the president, you know, very well, loves always wants optionality and always wants a range of return alternatives, never wants to signal too much of what he's going to do.
00:45:51.800He has said, hey, I'm open to talk to people.
00:45:53.920If you get actually leaders there, I'm prepared to talk to them.
00:45:57.520But people should take your number two pencil and write down when he says we haven't really hit hard.
00:46:02.600The big wave is coming. We got 30 seconds, Jack.
00:46:08.880Look, he just showed that the B2s were able to get in and get out without taking any shrapnel, not taking any flack.
00:46:15.840He's certainly able to do so. I've talked about as well.
00:46:18.640We haven't seen attacks on civilian infrastructure as much yet.
00:46:21.580Maybe, you know, a couple of pipelines here and there, but not too much in terms of oil platforms and other economic implements, which certainly could be responded to after seeing what Iran did to so many of the Gulf partners in terms of their asymmetric warfare.
00:46:35.220So the escalatory ladder has many rungs left on it with which the president can ratchet up the leverage.
00:46:41.660Jack, hang on for one second. Short commercial break.
00:46:43.960Posobiec, Brandon Weikert on the other side.
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00:48:25.260He points to Venezuela as a template, which means to me that going in, they had some sense on the ground of what was coming next.
00:48:37.120Wow, where did we hear that first, Jack Bosovic?
00:48:40.840I think that might have been the war room.
00:48:43.140Talk about the Venezuelan, where you've actually, you're going to think you're going to line something up with who's left, and then you move on.
00:48:50.460Your thoughts, by the way, we're hearing right now, there's a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House.
00:48:58.160And somebody's just reporting that President Trump may actually address there in a spray or with the media the Iranian people and talk directly to them.
00:49:08.040So we're going to cover all this, and we have to juggle some breaks.