00:05:43.660Now, you also can ask the question, why are the shipping lanes there?
00:05:45.940That's the deepest points, and these ships are huge.
00:05:48.640And they're way below the waterline, right, because of how much cargo.
00:05:51.840So that's part of the reason why you have these narrow, basically, highway going through the strait for these massive tankers.
00:05:59.780All right. Now, Iran's strategy is one that is really tough to deal with.
00:06:05.740It's not a go head to head with the U.S. Navy in a traditional fight.
00:06:09.700We already did that. They lost. We completely took out their entire Navy of their large ships.
00:06:15.600We know that. All right. Now they're basically using runabouts.
00:06:18.840Like the average boat you would be using if you're going out there to go sightseeing on a lake or if you're buying a boat to go skiing behind.
00:06:29.680That is what they're using now, that size boat, to go after these tankers and these container ships, all right?
00:06:37.240So this is a lot like just terrorism that we see around the world.
00:06:43.120It's really hard to find one individual that wants to blow up, you know, a car or to blow up a bus or to blow up something in, you know, next to a hotel, like a restaurant.
00:06:52.880You understand that's what they're doing now in the Strait of Hormuz.
00:06:57.100They deploy these small, fast attack boats.
00:07:06.440These boats are designed to be low profile.
00:07:08.400They're designed to be extremely fast, and they're designed to be highly maneuverable.
00:07:14.680You could say that these boats are faster and smaller than even the boats that you see that pirates have used to go after ships around the Horn of Africa, for example.
00:07:25.340They also are armed with heavy machine guns, rocket launchers, and even anti-ship missiles.
00:07:33.220So this is well-executed, well-thought-out, and they hide well on the sea, all right?
00:07:39.260So all of that is against, basically, the odds are stacked against us in that way.
00:07:44.380Now, here's the other thing that's interesting.
00:09:48.120And Trump is also now warning the regime that they could be blown off the face of the earth if they don't stop this.
00:09:55.380Now, we sank these six small Iranian boats that were deployed to harass vessels that were stuck in the Strait of Hormuz shortly before Trump warned the Islamic Republic that, look, you guys keep this up.
00:10:07.840I'm going to blow you off the face of the earth and I'm sick and tired of dealing with you.
00:10:11.600And you guys better reopen the critical waterway and we're going to do everything we can.
00:10:16.240Now, Admiral Brad Cooper, who's head of the U.S. Central Command, known as CINCOM,
00:10:20.340he told reporters Monday afternoon in a press call that while Iran historically has deployed between 20 and 40 small boats
00:10:28.260to threaten commercial shipping in the strait, he said today we saw just six and we were able to eliminate all of them.
00:10:35.200He said we have an enormous amount of capacity, capability, and firepower that's now concentrated in and around the strait,
00:11:09.120And I say that so that you understand just how big this is.
00:11:12.280Now, Monday's strike occurred after Trump announced Sunday evening of this new Project Freedom.
00:11:19.720It's this initiative to move maritime traffic through the strait since it's been backed up for months from the start of Operation Epic Fury on February the 28th.
00:11:29.800Iran then came out and warned that it would resist any effort to force open the strait and insisted that any ships attempting to move through the waterway must coordinate with Tehran first.
00:11:41.600prompting Trump to tell Fox News that the Middle Eastern regime would be blown off the face of the earth again
00:11:47.080if it attacks U.S. flagged vessels, saying, quote,
00:11:52.020We have more weapons and ammunition at a much higher grade than we had before, is what Trump said.
00:11:58.660We have the best equipment. We have staff all over the world.
00:12:02.300We have these bases all over the world.
00:12:04.460They're all stocked up with equipment, and we can use all of that stuff, and we will if we need it.
00:12:09.860now the president claimed that iran has become much softer in other words you can you can mold
00:12:15.380them more regarding the peace talks that have stagnated since mid-april now let me also go back
00:12:22.140to what centcom said all right cooper did not say whether america's strikes on iran's fast attack
00:12:30.840boats and tehran's claims that it fired at u.s warships constituted a collapse of the fragile
00:12:37.200ceasefire secured last month so that is again up in the air at this point on what's really happening
00:12:42.920what cooper did say was this i think the key thing here for us is we're merely there as a defensive
00:12:52.080force to give a very thick layer of defense to commercial ships and commercial shipping to allow
00:12:59.020them to proceed out of the Persian Gulf. Now, right now, there are literally hundreds and
00:13:06.740hundreds of ships that are anchored. You have about 87 different countries now that have ships
00:13:14.800that are flagged to them that are sitting in the Persian Gulf. CENTCOM said, our job is to give
00:13:22.620them safe passage. Now, here's what we also know. At least two U.S. ships crossed the
00:13:29.000Strait of Hormuz on Monday, according to CINCOM, a claim that Iran slammed as quote-unquote
00:13:33.460baseless, and again, that's nothing but propaganda. I also want you to understand something else
00:13:38.580about these fast boats that are very sophisticated, all right? They're small. They can hide. It's
00:13:44.320a very large body of water. They can hide behind other vessels in an attack, and you
00:13:48.100have virtually no warning these boats some of them are smaller than 20 feet long now a typical
00:13:56.660boat that you would go skiing behind for your family is usually 22 to 25 feet so a lot of these
00:14:04.200are smaller than that some of them even have just one engine but still are able to haul it many of
00:14:09.760them have two and three engines on a very tiny boat and these are calm waters in the street of
00:14:15.080moves so they're able to just haul it almost like a jet ski I would describe it with just just on
00:14:20.940top of the water and flooring it now it also remains to be seen how many foreign ships are
00:14:26.480going to take up Sengkong's offer to move through the strait after a South Korean used carrier
00:14:32.880reported an explosion and fire on board when it attempted to cross the waterway so that's new news
00:14:39.220there I guess South Korea didn't want our help they decided to go to loan that didn't work very
00:14:43.900well for them so what does this mean now it's pretty clear that the president's saying i'll
00:14:50.160give you a safe passage if you want it you have another boat by the way that suffered a blast
00:14:54.120early monday while while fire broke out in the engine room of a panama flag cargo ship
00:14:59.220south korea's foreign minister has also confirmed now trump said that that attack on the namu
00:15:05.360should push seoul south korea which has 26 ships trapped in the gulf to join u.s and military
00:15:12.380operations to secure the strait we'll see if they actually do it the president saying this on true
00:15:17.300social quote perhaps it's time for south korea to come and join the mission other than the south
00:15:22.200korean ship there has been at this moment no damage to ships going through the strait the
00:15:27.400president wrote noting that military commanders will speak to reporters on tuesday about all of
00:15:32.720these operations now along with the south korean ship you had a uae oil tanker that was targeted
00:15:37.980by an Iranian drone as it tried to cross the strait and caught fire as well so Iran is doing
00:15:44.140everything they can to try to hurt the U.S. and to try to shut down the strait that is obvious
00:15:50.160the president's saying we're not going to have it and then the question becomes what is next
00:15:54.800is the president going to go back and start hitting targets and individuals in Iran that
00:16:02.400is what is really going to be the big question that so many are going to be looking at next
00:16:07.980What's very clear is the president has made it clear he's not going to be screwed with
00:16:11.640or held hostage, and America is there to win, and America is there also to give safe passage.