00:00If we back out now, it'll be the biggest mistake we've made, far worse than the Syrian redline,
00:06far worse than Afghanistan. You can't say, keep protesting, we got you back,
00:11help's on the way, and nothing happened. That's why I'm confident that President Trump will get
00:17an outcome consistent with those three statements through diplomacy. If we back out now, it'll be
00:24the biggest mistake we've made far worse than the Syrian redline, far worse than Afghanistan.
00:29You can't say, keep protesting, we got you back, help's on the way, and nothing happened.
00:37That's why I'm confident that President Trump will get an outcome consistent with those three
00:41statements through diplomacy or military force. Let me just say this, any deal about Iran has to
00:48come to the Senate. I'm not going to bless a bad deal. They're not out in the street because of
00:54limiting the nuclear ambitions of the Ayatollah. They're out in the street because life is miserable,
01:00people can't have a decent quality life, they live in fear, and most Iranians have had it,
01:06they'd like a new start. The day after. Well, if the Ayatollah goes down, we'll work on the day
01:12after. I think we'll have a better chance of having friends with the protesters than the Ayatollah.
01:17Here's the day after I worry the most about. The day after, we blinked. The day after, we made promises
01:24that we didn't keep. We made assurances that fell short. That day after is generational damage.
01:31The likelihood of getting worse than the Ayatollah in Iran is pretty low, don't you think, Crown Prince?
01:36I don't think most people are out in the streets saying, I wish you'd be harder on us. Most people
01:41out in the streets said, I'm tired of living this way, I'm tired of being oppressed, I'm tired of having
01:45no money, I want a better country, I want my country back, I want this guy to go. The risk
01:51associated with
01:52the regime change is real. We have troops in the region, they have ballistic missiles, but we're
01:57still the United States. They have F-14s. A lot has changed since Top Gun 1. We have an incredible
02:05capability. I know who would win a conflict. How do you bring this regime down? I think you do go
02:12after the oppressors. Kill the ones who kill the people. Their economy is in tatters. They've been
02:19beaten pretty badly. They're as weak as they can be, but they're still dangerous. Compare that to doing
02:26nothing. So these are your choices. You either execute a plan using military capability of the
02:34United States with Israel, working with people on the ground to bring the Ayatollah's regime down,
02:41or you do nothing but have talked. If the Ayatollah is still standing, when this is all over,
02:49it will be a disaster of generational proportions. He stood down the west. He did it yet again,
02:56and all the people who were on the fence will slowly be rounded up and killed over the coming years
03:02in Iran. Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis will get stronger, not weaker. The Arabs will continue
03:08to go back to their corner. I'm going to Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia next week. Here's the
03:13message. If we can get it through diplomacy, fine, but we've had it with this regime. Think big.
03:21The people are the difference.
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