00:00And the Ayatollah has been somebody who has been the center of a lot of focus for decades.
00:08Now, this is the greatest day in American foreign policy since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
00:11This is such a consequential moment.
00:13And, you know, if you think about it, we're celebrating the semi-quincentennial of our country.
00:17Over that time, there have been 45 American presidents, 47 presidencies, but Grover Cleveland and Trump served twice.
00:24And of those, a very small handful have truly changed the world.
00:28You can look at Ronald Reagan with the fall of communism.
00:30You can look at FDR with the defeat of Hitler and the defeat of fascism.
00:35Donald Trump is going to stake his place today as one of the most consequential commanders-in-chief in American
00:41history.
00:42And it's important to remember, this could have gone very badly.
00:46We just saw the State of the Union where he gave the Medal of Honor to Eric Slober, the helicopter
00:50pilot who carried out that mission to get Maduro.
00:52That was an incredibly risky decision by the president.
00:54If that helicopter had gone down, it could have been his Desert One.
00:57The risk involved in this operation was ten times that.
01:01And he didn't flinch.
01:02He made the right decision.
01:03And he's going to change the world because of it.
01:07I mean, I think your words are very powerful.
01:09I think the caveat here is we're on day one.
01:12And officials are telling us it could last two or three weeks.
01:15So we have a lot of military side of things can really handle a lot, as we saw with Venezuela
01:19and other operations, Midnight Hammer and others.
01:23One would think that there are multiple plans and multiple off-ramps in this whole operation.
01:28Sure, absolutely.
01:29And look, what Donald Trump is doing is forging a new way to lead on the world stage in the
01:33wake of Iraq and Afghanistan.
01:35When Ronald Reagan came in after the Vietnam War, there was no appetite for boots on the ground.
01:39So he forged the Reagan Doctrine, supporting freedom movements around the world to bring it to challenge the Soviet Union.
01:44Donald Trump has come in after Afghanistan and Iraq, where there's no appetite for American boots on the ground.
01:48And our choice is to retreat from the world or to lead in a different way.
01:51And that's what he's doing here.
01:52He's leading from the air.
01:54The ground forces in Iran are the Iranian people.
01:58And they're going to have their role to play.
02:00And that's what he was talking about today in that statement.
02:02So this is a new way of leading.
02:03And we've got to give him time to work it out because it's very important that we continue to lead.
02:08It's a historic day.
02:10Panel, thanks so much.
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