00:00:00.100Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the weeknight. I'm Simone Sanders-Townson with Eugene Daniels and Jackie Alamani in for Alicia and Michael.
00:00:07.760Let's get right to tonight's breaking news. Donald Trump just caved, backing down from his fake deadline,
00:00:13.720averting for now what the president described this morning as an attack on Iran that would lead to the death of a, quote, whole civilization.
00:00:22.320Let's continue our breaking coverage. Donald Trump has announced that the United States has reached a two-week ceasefire agreement with Iran.
00:00:29.080Contingent, very important point here, on Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
00:00:34.260Earlier tonight, MSNOW reported that more than 50 House Democrats are now calling for Trump's removal,
00:00:40.680either through impeachment or the 25th Amendment, in the wake of Trump's threats against Iran.
00:00:47.240Iran has been a threat to the United States and the free world for 47 years.
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00:00:53.040Chants of death to America, targeting our people, killing Americans, lying and blackmailing their way toward a nuclear weapon, so they thought.
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00:01:41.580Iran begged for this ceasefire, and we all know it.
00:01:46.180As a president truth this morning, a big day for world peace.
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00:01:49.940Iran wants it to happen. They've had enough. Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming
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00:02:00.200victory on the battlefield. A capital V military victory. By any measure, Epic Fury decimated
00:02:10.300Iran's military and rendered it combat ineffective for years to come. You see, had Iran refused our
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00:02:18.160terms, the next targets would have been their power plants, their bridges, and oil and energy
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00:02:25.040infrastructure. Targets they could not defend and could not realistically rebuild. It would
00:02:31.160have taken them decades, and we were locked and loaded. They couldn't defend against it.
00:02:37.640President Trump had the power to cripple Iran's entire economy in minutes, but he chose mercy.
00:02:45.920He spared those targets because Iran accepted the ceasefire under overwhelming pressure.
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00:02:53.880This new regime was out of options and out of time, so they cut a deal.
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00:02:59.580They know this agreement means that they will never, ever possess a nuclear weapon.
00:03:05.580Under the terms, any nuclear material they should have will be removed.
00:03:11.980Any material, excuse me, they should not have will be removed.
00:03:15.060Right now, their dust is deeply buried and watched 24-7 overhead.
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00:03:20.400The president has been clear from the beginning there will be no Iranian nuclear weapons.
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00:03:25.740Period. Full stop. Other presidents said it. President Trump did it.
00:03:32.140For decades, Iran killed Americans with roadside bombs in Iraq, using cowardly proxies to do their dirty work while they hid safely in Tehran.
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00:03:42.140They struck our embassies with car bombs and attacked from the shadows, never daring to face us toe to toe.
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00:03:49.140They thought they could bleed America with impunity.
00:03:53.000Well, they just learned the hard way, what happens when you try to fight us directly.
00:03:58.780And even when they got lucky, one time in 40 days, and down two of our pilots, they couldn't hold them.
00:04:05.740In a daring 14-hour rescue operation, seven hours in daylight and seven hours of night, both pilots were recovered safely.
00:06:31.060So both you, Mr. Secretary, and the President have referred to a new regime in Iran.
00:06:36.100So is this not the regime that was at war with us for 47 years?
00:06:42.200And how do we – what do we think of when we're saying that this is a new regime?
00:06:47.580What are we thinking and what are we saying there?
00:06:49.280And then my second question is, with any future deal with Iran, is their handing over of all of their enriched uranium and their promising not to enrich any future uranium being non-negotiable for the U.S.?
00:07:04.060Well, it's always been non-negotiable that they won't have nuclear capabilities.
00:07:08.180And so right now it's buried and we're watching it.
00:07:10.360We know exactly what they have and they know that.
00:07:13.460And they will either give it to us, which the president has laid out.
00:07:20.500Or if we have to do something else ourselves, like we did in Midnight Hammer or something like that, we reserve that opportunity.
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00:07:26.160But what's clear, what the Iranian, the new Iranian regime knows, is they'll never have a nuclear weapon or the capability to get a path to one.
00:07:34.120As far as the new regime, you heard the list that I read.
00:07:38.620It's a new group of people who've seen the full capability of the United States military and has a new calculus about what it means to negotiate with us.
00:07:46.500hence why they came to the table wanting a ceasefire and the shooting to stop.
00:07:52.540So this new regime, which the regime has been changed, has a different interaction with the U.S.
00:07:58.380Gersal, One America News. First of all, thank you to our troops.
00:08:03.220What role is our military playing in escorting vessels through the Strait of Hormuz at this point?
00:08:09.240And the president said on True Social that the U.S. will be hanging around to make sure everything goes well.
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00:08:16.500Obviously, Mr. Secretary, you just mentioned, you know, we know the scars from hanging around in Iraq for decades.
00:08:23.620But what does that entail in terms of our military presence at this juncture?
00:08:28.200Yeah, we'll be hanging around. We're not going anywhere.
00:08:31.060We're going to make sure Iran complies with this ceasefire and then ultimately comes to the table and makes a deal.
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00:08:40.840As the chairman laid out, our troops are prepared to defend, prepared to go on offense, prepared to restart at a moment's notice with whatever target package would be needed in order to ensure that Iran complies.
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00:08:52.580As far as the strait, you saw the initial agreement that was struck, which is Iran's letting ships go through.
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00:09:03.560And ultimately, as the president, we've done an incredible job militarily inside the Strait of Hormuz.
00:09:10.140I failed to mention Admiral Cooper's name.
00:09:13.300He's done a phenomenal job along with everybody at AFSENT and AFSENT and ARSENT and all the components down there, laying the groundwork for Iran.
00:09:22.080Iran doesn't have the same ability to defend it the way they did before.
00:09:24.960And so, as the president has pointed out to the rest of the world, we barely get any of our energy out of the street, just a tiny fraction.
00:09:31.600It's time for the rest of the world to step up and ensure that that stays open after President Trump and the War Department brought Iran to the place where they are voluntarily opening it right now, as was announced last night.
00:09:42.960But I will say that the president's demands, we have not reached any of those objectives.
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00:09:49.200I have full confidence that the president is going to find some way to make this happen.
00:09:53.420But he said that we want to dismantle all major nuclear facilities.
00:11:25.580Could we have done something different?
00:11:27.340We do that, as I mentioned, in a prior press conference every single time we take any loss like that
00:11:33.780so that we become a quick learning organization.
00:11:37.880On the other part of your question around the movement of Iranian military forces,
00:11:42.880U.S. CENTCOM will continue to monitor that situation.
00:11:47.120They will continue to have a series of response options.
00:11:51.420And if need be, we'll come to the secretary and to the president for guidance and be prepared to to do the things that they're ordered to do so against valid military targets in accordance with the normal procedures that we have.
00:12:05.380I would just know it's a good question.
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00:12:08.220The more Iran moves, the more Iran moves forces, the more they emplace forces, the more easily targetable they are for us right now.
00:12:16.520Remember, we're able to look, we're able to see, we're able to sense.
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00:16:36.360I say he's going to hang around and conquer a little more.
00:16:38.860And then they're going to figure something out and we're all going to go
00:16:43.540home. Mark Levin, bad day for Tel Aviv Levin.
00:16:47.620We'll have more of that. Total full meltdown. Lindsay Graham now saying,
00:16:51.560Lindsay Graham saying, well, you know, this is all good.
00:16:54.040President Trump's the greatest negotiation in the world,
00:16:55.420but we're going to have to bring that to the Senate to get approval like the
00:16:59.860Obama deal did. I don't think Lady Lindsay,
00:17:02.520i don't think that's going to happen okay president trump is going to make a deal and
00:17:07.240move on let's get so we got finnell faddis poso and of course eric boland let's go to the markets
00:17:12.700first um some people got shredded yesterday did they not uh eric and i think the world's telling
00:17:19.800us at least the capital markets it's time they agree with president trump time to wrap this up
00:17:24.820and and go home i'm gonna get into the part about exactly who who thought they agreed to what
00:17:32.040because i think there's a big difference in the bid in the ask about what the 10 points are
00:17:37.400what even 10 points there are what we agreed to and what uh because the president went on sky
00:17:42.580news gave a 90 second interview or to the journalist and uh the guy said well hold it
00:17:48.640these the 10 points of the iranians are totally maximalist points in fact they still control
00:17:53.240hormuz and he goes well those are not the 10 that i'm talking about so we'll get into more of that
00:17:57.840But Eric, right now, capital markets, the oil market, commodities markets, telling us what.
00:18:03.340So oil, Steve, last night when we heard that Trump was going to accept the two-week pause, the ceasefire, down $9 a barrel, we woke up this morning and texted you, it was down $20 a barrel.
00:18:16.460That translates into lower gas prices.
00:18:18.660However, folks have to understand, this is great news.
00:18:21.080You're talking about the capital markets.
00:18:22.540Sometimes when things bounce off a low like this, for whatever reason, we call it a dead cat bounce, which is a temporary bounce and then continuation of lower prices and equities.
00:28:50.680Now, this is not theory. Government-backed industry plus low rates unleashes super cycles.
00:28:57.400History does repeat. Gold's already exploding. Miners are up over 400 percent in the last year.
00:29:04.620What Rickards is calling Trump's gift is wealth for American patriots, not global handouts.
00:29:11.020now it's america's turn jim rickards former cia and pentagon veteran says act now go to insider
00:29:20.7802026.com that is insider 2026.com to get jim rickards strategic intelligence newsletter today
00:29:30.000strategic intelligence based upon predictive analytics it's what chairman and ceo throughout
00:29:36.340the world read, and you should too. It's social. He threatened to wipe out a civilization. That
00:29:42.980statement elicited a huge response in America. If Iran did not come to the table and make a deal
00:29:49.680yesterday by the deadline, was the president really prepared to wipe out Iran entirely?
00:29:55.740Like I said, we had a target set locked and loaded of infrastructure, bridges, power plants.
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00:30:01.760Remember, this is a terror regime, military regime, use all of these things for dual use to fund their military, to fund their their terror campaign.
00:30:08.800So we had a lot of legitimate targets. They knew exactly the scope of what we were capable of.
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00:30:13.260We hit some military targets on CARG, which is a bit of a signal.
00:30:16.640They can't defend it. And so the Iran ultimately understood their ability, their future to produce, to generate power, to fuel their terrorist regime was in our hands, was in President Trump's hands.
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00:30:31.040That's why they came to the table.
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00:30:33.080He ultimately said, we can take it all from you.
00:30:36.260Your ability to export energy will be taken away.
00:30:38.860And the United States military has the ability to strike those things with impunity.
00:30:42.880That type of threat is what brought them to the place where they effectively say,
00:30:52.860I think it was Kevin Fennell yesterday, I think it was yesterday,
00:30:55.180They said that the love tap that that the president or the CENTCOM gave Carg Island on the military was a precursor of what was going to happen.
00:31:25.180Well, first, I just want to say, Steve, yesterday I got a lot of texts from friends and family who are big supporters of President Trump's who were worried about that truth social post, who were scared, who didn't know what to expect, who thought that a larger war was going to escalate.
00:31:43.420And that's why I felt this question was really important to ask. Like, what was behind this threat? Was it a real threat?
00:31:50.180The response, you know, the underlying question within my question is, were we going to go after civilians? Were we actually going to just flatten Iran entirely?
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00:32:02.200And what Secretary Hegseth there says is that they were going to target infrastructure, bridges, energy plants, etc.
00:32:12.900He goes on to say that they are going to target places that fuel the Iranian regime, which signals to me that it was going to still be, you know, within the bounds of this war is going to really just threaten Iran's military.
00:32:28.080And like you mentioned before, Carg Island, those threats, those attacks that they made there was kind of a preview of what was to come.
00:32:39.640And so some are interpreting it as, yes, they were going to follow through on the threat.
00:32:47.860It's hard to say. You never want to take what they say is face value.
00:32:51.740And honestly, that's why I'm considering recycling the question for other administration officials later today.
00:32:58.080oh wow reagan before i let you bounce um because i know you're super busy today and thank you for
00:33:06.420taking time out to come on um you know you've you've been in the oval and interviewed the
00:33:11.020president uh i believe it was a one-on-one uh you're highly regarded by the white house
00:33:15.220community communication staff because you you're pulling kind of double duty you're at the white
00:33:19.880house and at the pentagon when it's important as you look at this thing today what did we actually
00:33:24.840agree to because we're going to have a treat of Parsi on later. The Iranians are putting out this
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00:33:29.560maximalist position of these 10 that include reparations. They control Hormuz under kind of
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00:33:34.760our guidance. And at least President Trump and others are saying, well, that's not the 10 we
00:33:41.060agreed to. They're different. As you see it right now as one of our top reporters, what was actually
00:33:47.380agreed to to get us to kind of this joint stand down that everybody appears once? Well, that's
00:33:53.800the question, Steve. I mean, I've been talking to other reporters because that's, you don't just
00:33:57.960talk to your sources, you talk to other reporters to hear what they know. And everyone is a little
00:34:02.780bit unsure exactly on what we agreed to. I think the big question is, is did we agree to something
00:34:10.460temporary or is this war completely over? A lot of the messaging you see coming out of the
00:34:16.620administration is that this ceasefire is within the bounds of that timeline that the president
00:34:23.460originally set, that four to six weeks. And so that signals to me that this isn't just a temporary
00:34:28.860ceasefire. This is an official end to the war. But then you go to the Pentagon press briefing
00:34:34.160today and you hear from Secretary Hegseth who says, we're going to continue to hang out in the
00:34:39.120area. And the Pentagon is still on standby in case they need to strike and fire back up again.
00:34:46.220And so I think the big question is, you know, there are a bunch of different things within this
00:34:51.76010-point, 15-point plan, but did we actually agree to end the war, or is this just going to
00:34:59.980last a couple of days and it's going to keep going? That's something I'm not seeing people
00:35:03.620really talk about, and I think that's key to consider as you're reading everything that's
00:35:09.020coming out of the administration. Absolutely central. Reagan, where do people get you on
00:35:14.780social media and over at The Daily Caller for your reporting, ma'am? I'm on all the platforms,
00:35:19.900instagram regrettably i'm on tiktok i'm on twitter or x at reagan reese underscore very easy
00:35:28.160thank you ma'am great job over the daily caller thank you jack basobic back to you um
00:35:36.660it's a framework to kind of get to something um more permanent or semi-permanent or however it
00:35:45.260is but you can tell the direction of president trump and the pentagon they feel they've achieved
00:35:49.200their objectives uh your your thoughts on this particularly the maximalist position
00:35:53.760that the iranians are taking this entire thing and there's let's let's call them what they are
00:35:59.440their sponsors in beijing sir well steve that's exactly like look iran is attempting to frame
00:36:08.520this remember not just for the regional partners or i should say regional adversaries the arab
00:36:14.340states, the Saudis, who have always been their top regional rival. They're also their backing
00:36:21.160of China. This is all about their independence, but also their local domestic population. They
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00:36:28.360need to go and bring this out to the domestic population to say, look, they took out our
00:36:32.080supreme leader. They turned him into a glorious martyr. Now we are able to say that we won. We
00:36:37.540defeated them. They said they were going to wipe us out. That didn't happen. They said they were
00:36:41.280going to take out the revolution that didn't happen. And Steve, we're also, you know, I'm
00:36:45.500paying very close attention to see what's going to happen with the Supreme Leader, because they
00:36:49.440said this guy was so worried about assassinations that he's been sending handwritten notes. So is
00:36:54.880that so that the CIA and Assad wouldn't be able to track the electronics that were going in to
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00:37:01.060exactly where he is the same way. And the New York Post has the story up that the American airman
00:37:06.080was saved by just being able to use AI to find the beating of his heart using this system called
00:37:12.100ghost murmur, if that report is to be believed, that they were able to track a human heartbeat
00:37:17.180in the middle of the desert and use these type of signals to be able to track potentially even
00:37:21.640specific individuals. So, Steve, there's a lot to be said here. I do think that the Iranians,
00:37:26.200look, they're, and a lot of these people who are saying, oh, Iran did so well, they overperformed.
00:37:30.880You got to look at the scoreboard. The scoreboard does not show that Iran was able to fight off
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00:37:35.920the Americans, and the amount of damage that they had committed to Israel, while they were able to
00:37:41.140punch through the Iron Dome on a number of times, the damage was, quite frankly, de minimis. It was
00:37:46.180de minimis. So is Israel invulnerable? No, but they didn't do anything to knock off the stability
00:37:52.080of Israel whatsoever the way that they're running around claiming that they did, and the United
00:37:56.520States continued to be able to pound them. So are they toothless? No, but they are not some kind of
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00:38:02.640you know, monster that's about to take over the Middle East the way that they're saying.
00:38:06.320They're just not. So, Steve, what we see here, though, I think, is that the president is working
00:38:10.880in to create a new normal for the Middle East, a new normal whereby in you're going to have the
00:38:16.260Americans, you're going to have the Gulf nations. Israel will be there, of course. But perhaps and
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00:38:22.360I keep saying this, this is all about a grand deal that we're going to see between the United
00:38:26.940states and china come when may 14th when the president heads over to beijing to sit down as
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00:38:33.320well with xi jinping well that's the whole thing about american suez because that's the issue
00:38:39.100as captain finnell's drilled into us to keep the main thing the main thing the defense of taiwan
00:38:44.620is in the vital national security interest of the united states let me just reiterate this
00:38:48.720the middle east and the gulf emirates and the persian gulf in ukraine you roll it all up it's
00:38:54.080a sideshow. It's just a sideshow. And the Israel situation is a side... I don't care what Mark
00:38:59.760Levin and all his colleagues are all throwing the toys out of the pram this morning. President
00:39:03.520Trump goes from the world's greatest leader to, oh, you're quitting too early. The Israel first
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00:39:08.740crowd, that's a sideshow to a sideshow. When they talk about American Suez, with the Suez Canal,
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00:39:14.240Nasser, an Arab nationalist, not a... although supposedly a member of the Muslim Brotherhood,
00:39:19.740but he was an Arab nationalist in the era of Arab nationalism, decided to take the Suez Canal.
00:39:26.600Both Israel and the Brits put together a counter striking force and they assumed that the United States of America was going to be there with them.
00:39:34.440It was General Eisenhower who had led the coalition in the Great Crusade in World War II in Europe said, we're not doing that.
00:39:41.760That's kind of outside of our bailiwick. You know, we fought in the desert against Rommel.
00:39:45.700We're not going back there. You guys are going to have to handle his own.
00:39:48.020And that was a shock. Anthony Eden, these guys were in shock. And it was really the really the beginning of the at least the end of the empire east of Suez.
00:39:57.320It came as a shock. That's why you're going to hear this. This is America's Suez right here.
00:40:01.860What President Trump did, I think, far, far, far from it, both the hemispheric defense from the Arctic all the way through South America,
00:40:10.360coupled with really where our strategic pivot is, Jack.
00:40:15.020It's not McKinder's Central Asian heartland.
00:40:17.960It's the vast Pacific Ocean, which is an American lake.
00:40:23.580And you take the three island chains, which gets you right up there to Taiwan.
00:40:29.020That is in the vital national security interest of the good old United States of America.
00:42:06.180Steve, there's no question that AI is the new super weapon.
00:42:09.520AI is going to be the nukes of the future.
00:42:11.920And the real danger here, and you look at the Axios piece that's out today talking about how D.C. governs by crisis.
00:42:19.180It's one of the best lines I've ever heard because it's exactly true and it holds true across administrations.
00:42:25.100but there's a pause that i think that people really need to understand and you don't need
00:42:31.160to go full joe allen and uh dark aeon which of course we've got the we've got a copy of it
00:42:36.620sitting right over here but people need to understand you hook this one of these things
00:42:40.120up clawed or anthropic hook that up to an aircraft carrier you hook that up to the uss
00:42:45.000ford if you hook that up to america's nuclear missile stockpile what is going to happen next
00:42:52.640Even one F-35, Lightning II, if you hook this up, this thing goes self-aware, suddenly it's going to be, and by the way, it's not just going to go after other countries.
00:43:04.020It's going to link up with other AIs, and that is the danger.
00:43:09.800By the way, it's like the Terminator movie.
00:43:38.720Fellow patriots, the Federal Reserve has portrayed America for over a century, printing fiat, inflating away your savings, serving globalist masters.
00:43:49.140but President Trump is ending it. President Trump is wielding a 112-year-old law to reclaim control
00:43:57.480from the rogue Federal Reserve. He's replacing Jerome Powell, slashing rates, igniting America's
00:44:04.820re-industrialization. Now, this is not theory. Government-backed industry plus low rates unleashes
00:44:11.040super cycles. History does repeat. Gold's already exploding. Miners are up over 400% in the last
00:44:18.800year. What Rickards is calling Trump's gift is wealth for American patriots, not global handouts.
00:44:27.160Now it's America's turn. Jim Rickards, former CIA and Pentagon veteran says act now. Go to
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00:44:44.740today strategic intelligence based upon predictive analytics it's what chairman and ceo throughout
00:44:51.580the world read and you should too here's your host stephen k vann okay so get you up to speed
00:45:00.840reporting uae and kuwait are reporting that uh they're being hit by missiles still also i think
00:45:07.580they went after don't know if the houthis their allies or or the revolutionary guard did try to
00:45:13.540strike at the pipeline that going to the red sea um of the saudis also netanyahu's office has
00:45:21.060reconfirmed what they said overnight we'll get fattison on this one that lebanon is not part
00:45:26.920of this deal sorry not sorry that might be surprising to the guy at 1600 pennsylvania
00:45:32.400avenue but we're gonna get to all that captain finnell you've done amazing reporting here of
00:45:37.540the military aspects of this let me just ask you though brought it out for a second
00:45:40.920is this the american suez or what happens in beijing tentatively scheduled for i think the
00:45:49.02013th 14th 15th of may uh and in taiwan as you know the the komington is over there right now
00:45:56.480kowtowing would shang would shang kai-shek be rolling over in his grave kowtowing to beijing
00:46:03.600over the next couple of days as a tee-up for that meeting to jam us uh is that going to be
00:46:08.700the American Suez, sir? Steve, I agreed with what you said to Jack in the previous segment. I do not
00:46:15.600see this as American Suez. The performance over the last 39 days of our combat forces against Iran
00:46:23.740is unprecedented in history. So I would say this is more like, you know, the end of World War II
00:46:30.220in a sense that we've done something very significant. It's not over. But in terms of
00:46:35.880what we've been able to demonstrate is really, really unprecedented in terms of the ability of
00:46:42.440our military to systematically bring a nation to come to a negotiating table like this in just
00:46:49.580less than five weeks. So I think that's what history will see. And President Trump's aware
00:46:55.500of this, you know, impact from China and the impact on China. He's put out today, he said,
00:47:00.760I'm putting a 50 percent tariff on any arms suppliers to Iran. And that's important because
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00:47:07.120in the last six weeks, China has supplied sodium percolate, which is used to build ballistic
00:47:11.700missiles on a number of five ERISL ships, Iranian ships, Revolutionary Guard supply ships that have
00:47:20.100come in over the course of the last six weeks. So he's saying now if you do this, China, you're
00:47:25.820going to lose 50% of your trade with the United States. So this is well thought out, and he's
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00:47:31.800aware of what's going on. And so I think the message is we're going to dominate this area.
00:47:38.120We have dominated it. We're going to open it up. One of the tests will clearly be,
00:47:42.880will this trade open without this $1 or $2 million fee that the Iranians are somehow
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00:47:48.520trying to claim that they're taking? Oman's already come out in the last four hours and said,
00:47:53.940we will not pay anything. So this is kind of significant. And I think the rest of the world,
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00:47:58.600based on the United Nations Conventional Law of the Sea, there's going to be a lot of pushback
00:48:02.820internationally to say, hey, we're not going to pay the transit through an international
00:48:06.760waterway. And the test will be if that's allowed to happen. Maybe if we see a United States Navy
00:48:14.020warship conduct a freedom of navigation transit without being attacked, that'll demonstrate our
00:48:19.680power there but again back to the mission but hang on but hang hang on i want to talk about
00:48:26.160the broader mission but they're also saying there's paid in chinese yuan would you not agree
00:48:32.100with me that the recommendation we would make to the president right now the commander-in-chief is
00:48:36.200like as this thing gets another week into it and we get more refinement on the 10 points for the
00:48:42.300intermediate ceasefire and then for a longer kind of peace arrangement i don't think it's going to
00:48:46.520be a treaty but some acknowledgement that we're going to lay our arms down shouldn't we take both
00:48:51.280carrier battle groups in the north arabian sea and maybe take the tripoli and a couple and transfer
00:48:56.240those back through the straits of malacca to the south china sea and maybe have them do freedom
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00:49:01.000of navigation runs which we haven't done uh in the straits of taiwan to let the let the uh masters
00:49:08.380in beijing know that the united states navy's here and it just kicked ass in the uh middle east and
00:49:14.200prepared to defend Taiwan, sir? 100%. I have been calling for a long time for the United States
00:49:22.240Navy to send an aircraft carrier strike group, not just a destroyer, not just something with an
00:49:27.400aircraft like a PA, but we need to send an aircraft carrier through. The last time a United
00:49:32.120States Navy aircraft carrier went through the Taiwan Strait was in 2007, USS Kitty Hawk,
00:49:37.860which I had just served on previously a couple of years before. And it was only because there
00:49:42.100had been a typhoon coming up through the South China Sea, and they had to get out of port quickly
00:49:46.900to escape the typhoon that they actually went through. So we have not enforced our freedom of
00:49:53.440navigation statements that we've heard from many administrations, fly anywhere, sail anywhere,
00:49:58.560steam anywhere. It sounds good, but you've got to do it. You've got to follow through. So I would
00:50:03.240suggest we do a freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. And then when the Lincoln's done
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00:50:07.900and this thing has now calmed down and we feel confident. Maybe we leave the Bush in the med,
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00:50:13.620but when the Lincoln goes home, Xi should come back through the Strait of Malacca and then go
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00:50:17.300right up through the Taiwan Strait as a signal to Xi and the rest of them that, hey, what's good
00:50:22.480for the goose will be good for the gander, which is you, China. So don't get any ideas about Taiwan.
00:50:30.160Walk me through your concerns about the enforcement of the ceasefire. There's already
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00:50:34.340kind of scrambling around of, you know, what you just mentioned, what's going to happen in the
00:50:38.840Strait of Hormuz? Are they going to charge a fee? What's it going to be paid in? Or are they just
00:50:42.940going to blow that off? Other aspects of their nuclear weapons capability. Mark Levin and these
00:50:48.160guys saying you haven't done the job there. You still need to go get the nuclear dust. Your
00:50:52.820thoughts on the continued potential of military operations here? I think there's still a real
00:50:59.460potential. I mean, and Secretary of War Hegseth mentioned that there's still some strikes
00:51:04.880happening. There's still some kinetic action from the Iranians, and they're attributing that to
00:51:09.200the poor command and control and communications and this mosaic architecture that Sam's told us
00:51:14.500about. Fine. So we'll let that go for a couple of days. But if that continues, then we've got a
00:51:19.160problem. But I think the real bigger issue is the nuclear issue, which is no enrichment of uranium,
00:51:27.220which we have said is part of our points, and the Iranians have said we'll never allow that.
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00:51:32.960And then there was also in our comments about nuclear dust, as you mentioned,
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00:51:37.620a joint excavation and removal, joint U.S.-Iranian program.
00:51:43.740If the Iranians agree to that, that would be phenomenal.
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