Trump issues a shoot and kill order in a dramatic Hormuz escalation, as Pentagon posts chilling video of U.S. troops seizing ships, carrying Iranian oil amid unraveling ceasefire. Iran says it's a staged video, according to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
00:00:25.480OK, so let me go through Trump issues shoot and kill order in a dramatic Hormuz escalation as Pentagon post chilling video of U.S. troops seizing ships, carrying Iranian oil amid unraveling ceasefire.
00:00:37.360Rob, if you want to. Oh, this is it. OK. I've ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boats, small boats, though they may be their naval ships are all 159 of them at the bottom of the sea.
00:00:49.040that is they're putting mines in the water in the Strait of Hormuz.0.98
00:03:40.700So you're not worried about that little boat going over and accidentally running to a mine that you forgot where it is.
00:03:46.500And he's going over there, what I talked about before.
00:03:49.320Remember the southern lanes, the lanes that go tightly around the horn there?
00:03:55.280And those are together, the lane that goes this way, the two-mile buffer in the middle, and the lane that goes that way.
00:04:00.100And then they've moved them all the way up to be close to Iran where they could also have a toll booth.
00:04:05.440So what's going on here is Trump is doing exactly what he should be doing to keep international freighters with unarmed sailors that are just taking goods and oil back and forth, Pat.0.97
00:04:18.280And Trump is saying, hey, if you're putting more mines out there and you're trying to do this, shoot to kill.
00:04:24.040You're an enemy combatant and you're armed with a mine, which makes you a soldier, which makes you an enemy, which makes you a target, which makes you on the really short end on the actuarial table.0.67
00:04:36.380And so, Elon, no, it's exactly as Tom said, it's become a binary.
00:04:41.020You're either for what's happening or you're against what's happening.
00:04:43.560And if you're for what's happening and what Trump is doing in Iran right now and you believe it was a viable action to go in at this time, then what he just said about the mine and everything you just said, Tom, is absolutely correct.
00:04:54.360If you don't, you're going to have a problem with any action Trump takes.
00:04:57.480My question to people is what burden of proof at this point would you be OK with for our continued presence in Iran?