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00:00Good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Ingram. This is the Ingram Angle from Washington.
00:03Tonight, as always, thank you for spending some time with us.
00:06We do have a Fox News alert, new reporting that there could be a major uptick in attacks on Iran
00:13in the next 24 hours.
00:15And Secretary Marco Rubio warning that the hardest hits are yet to come.
00:20Fox News Chief National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin is standing by with all the latest. Jennifer.
00:25Good evening, Laura. U.S. Central Command says it has sunk all 11 of the Iranian Navy ships since the
00:32operation began,
00:33achieving one of the president's objectives for this operation to destroy Iran's Navy so it can no longer threaten shipping
00:40lanes.
00:41And also releasing this video of one of the U.S. military's airstrikes on an Iranian Navy vessel in the
00:48Gulf of Oman.
00:49Overnight, B-1 bombers from Ellsworth Air Base in South Dakota flew roundtrip for 34 hours with a 75,000
00:57-pound payload,
00:58which it dropped on Iranian-hardened missile sites.
01:02They were fueled by the same tanker air bridge used by the four B-2 bombers that flew 37 hours
01:09roundtrip from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri
01:12with dozens of 2,000-pound bombs.
01:15General Dan Cain told a Pentagon briefing today more U.S. forces are flowing into the region
01:21and the U.S. and Israel have now taken out all of Iran's Russian and Chinese air defenses.
01:27The combined impact of these strikes, swift, precise, and overwhelming, has resulted in the establishment of local air superiority.
01:36This air superiority will not only enhance the protection of our forces, but also allow them to continue the work
01:43over Iran.
01:45Secretary Hegseth would not rule out having U.S. troops on the ground in Iran.
01:50He was asked if he is concerned about it spiraling into a longer war.
01:54Three American F-15 Strike Eagle fighter jets were shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses in a friendly fire incident.
02:02All six American pilots evacuated safely.
02:05The death toll from that Iranian missile or drone that struck a U.S. tactical operations center, Laura, is now
02:12six after they found two American service members buried under the rubble.
02:16Laura.
02:17Jennifer, thank you very much.
02:20We've already won.
02:22That's the focus of tonight's angle.
02:25All right, let's analyze this Iran situation in a logical way.
02:29So far, this operation has been a tremendous success.
02:33Now, in the first hours of these joint strikes, the clear that what had we had been told for years
02:40prior that was next to impossible had happened.
02:44They killed the Ayatollah and most of his top leadership with precise military strikes.
02:48Now, the regime had sponsored terrorism against the United States and our allies for more than four decades, and they
02:55refused to give up their nuclear program even after we bombed it last summer.
03:00We've gotten support from key allies.
03:03Now, Mark Carney may hate Trump, but he knows an ongoing threat has been eliminated.
03:08And the U.K. is now letting us use their bases to strike missile sites in Iran, and the U
03:15.S. sees a more stable Middle East.
03:17What I see in Europe, I spoke with all the key European leaders over the weekend, is widespread support for
03:22what the president is doing, and also making sure that when it comes to logistics, access, defending key U.S.
03:29interests in Europe and in the region, the Europeans are really stepping up.
03:35Of course, hesitant countries are waiting to see what comes next.
03:38They're all going to pretend that they were for this when it's politically safe to do so.
03:43But only a few days into military strikes, none of the major objections to this action withstand serious scrutiny.
03:51First, the concern that he's gotten us into another Middle East quagmire.
03:55Now, Secretary of War Hegseth made clear this morning that is not happening.
04:00To the media outlets and political left screaming endless wars.
04:04Stop.
04:05This is not Iraq.
04:07This is not endless.
04:09I was there for both.
04:11Our generation knows better, and so does this president.
04:15He called the last 20 years of nation-building wars dumb.
04:19And he's right.
04:21This is the opposite.
04:23This operation is a clear, devastating, decisive mission.
04:28Destroy the missile threat.
04:30Destroy the Navy.
04:31No nukes.
04:31The U.S. military will not stay in this war a moment longer than is necessary to achieve those objectives.
04:40Now, of course, Donald Trump isn't going to give anyone a date certain for a pullback.
04:44That would be moronic.
04:46He's going to keep everyone guessing, as he did today.
04:49Whatever the time is, it's okay.
04:52Whatever it takes, we will always, and we have, right from the beginning, we projected four to five weeks.
05:00But we have capability to go far longer than that.
05:05Well, that's a message to the new regime.
05:07Don't think about playing it cute and drawing us in further here, because you will take the same dirt nap
05:14as your friends did last Saturday.
05:16Now, that's smart strategy, but there's zero indication that Donald Trump intends to spend several months, let alone a few
05:22years, in Iran.
05:24That would be economically and politically calamitous for the GOP, which, of course, is what doomsdayer Democrats are hoping for.
05:33What they're saying is not true.
05:36It is not true that Iran had any kind of ballistic missile capacity to reach the United States or had
05:42an imminent risk of a nuclear warhead on that ballistic missile.
05:46They literally cannot identify any reason for the precise timing of opening the biggest Pandora's box in the Middle East.
05:55The fact is, for the writers at The Atlantic, the hosts on MSNOW, the foreign policy folks at The New
06:01York Times,
06:01it must be galling and humiliating that Trump's foreign policy is so much more successful than anything they could have
06:09imagined over the past 30 years.
06:12Obama and Biden's approaches were abysmal failures, as was the Iran nuclear deal.
06:18Then are the worries about the effect the war will have on the U.S. economy, one that, given the
06:24trillion spent in Iraq and Afghanistan, no one should take lightly.
06:28But on further inspection, I think these concerns are also somewhat overblown.
06:33It's simply inconceivable that a president who a week ago was preparing to deliver his tour de force State of
06:41the Union speech,
06:41touting his record on progress on the economy and the border, would risk all of that on a protracted conflict.
06:48The president and his team believe that the economy is going to be strong this year,
06:53and I believe they will do everything in their power to make that happen.
06:57On the contrary, I think Donald Trump undoubtedly believes that with Iran's military destroyed,
07:03our economy will only get stronger while China's may actually be a little bit squeezed.
07:10And as for that argument that Trump is abandoning his base, this is made by some on the right, but
07:16by many more on the left.
07:18As for the latter, they despise MAGA, so keep that in mind when you listen to them rant on a
07:23few days into the conflict.
07:24The president has started a war of choice.
07:28I unequivocally oppose this war of choice, and everyone should.
07:34Make no mistake about it. This is a war of choice, not necessity.
07:40Trump has given us no indication that he is going to betray his supporters by asking them to make unnecessary
07:48sacrifices.
07:49And of course, the ultimate sacrifice has already been paid, though, by six U.S. service members,
07:55who, as Jennifer Griffin just recounted, have been killed in this conflict.
08:00And their deaths must not be in vain.
08:03This President Trump knows. He knows it well.
08:06He campaigned against pointless wars, and he will not order our troops into battle for pointless campaigns.
08:12At some point in the very near future, President Trump and senior military officials will be able to go to
08:20the nation
08:20and declare that our objectives in the region have been met.
08:24The goals of this effort have been already largely met today, contrary to what the globalists are demanding.
08:30The president saying that Venezuela is the template.
08:35If Venezuela is the template, that means that Donald Trump would be willing to leave a theological supreme leader in
08:45place
08:46if, in fact, we got what we wanted out of this.
08:50And how does that get freedom for the Iranian people?
08:53Well, after we have eliminated the Iranian threat, it will be up to the Iranian people to decide their own
09:01future.
09:01Now, of course, we should encourage them to be brave and decide wisely.
09:05But the United States of America cannot force the outcome.
09:11This was never a hopeless choice between either doing nothing and allowing this problem to fester or turning Iran into
09:19Pennsylvania.
09:20That's fatuous framing by people who are still waiting for democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan.
09:27A U.S. victory in Iran that can neither threaten the region or military bases or reconstitute their nuclear program.
09:36If all of that is achieved, that will be a victory.
09:40And if we're not already there, we will be soon.
09:43And that's the angle.
09:45Here with us exclusively is Mike Walsh, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
09:49Mr. Ambassador, thank you very much for joining us tonight.
09:52I want to play for you what your Iranian counterpart said this afternoon at the U.N.
09:58Watch.
09:59Iran does not seek war.
10:01Iran does not seek escalation.
10:04But Iran will not surrender its sovereignty.
10:08The issue before the international community is clear.
10:11Can a powerful state attack another sovereign member of the United States, United Nations with impunity?
10:19If the answer is yes, then the charter is meaningless.
10:23Mr. Ambassador, Iran said it will not surrender its sovereignty.
10:29Does the U.S. take that as a threat?
10:31And if so, what is the response?
10:35Well, Laura, that's the same guy who told me I better be polite at the last U.N. Security Council
10:42meeting.
10:43And I wouldn't be surprised if he's asking for asylum soon, representing a regime that has terrorized the region
10:51and massacred tens of thousands of their own people.
10:55Look, I want to address your point about this talk of endless war, as Secretary Hegseth did.
11:00This is the ultimate endless war.
11:03It's been a 47-year endless war, starting with Jimmy Carter, and President Trump is taking the bold action to
11:10end it.
11:11For all of those worried about us getting pulled into the Middle East, it's actually Iran, whether it's Hezbollah, Hamas,
11:17the Houthis.
11:18We can go down the list, the Assad regime and their instability and their terrorism that constantly pulled us in.
11:25Again, President Trump is taking the bold action to end it.
11:29He's not going to wait until they have a nuclear weapon.
11:31He's not going to wait until they have an ICBM that can hit the United States.
11:35They're rebuilding their nuclear capability.
11:38They're rebuilding their ability to overwhelm any air defenses, whether it's Israel, any of our neighbors in the region,
11:44or any of our bases with tens of thousands of ballistic missiles.
11:47He's not going to wait until this radical regime is at that point.
11:53He's taking decisive action ahead of time, and the American people are far safer for it.
12:02To some people who have been watching closely and listening, they take it as mixed messages, right?
12:09Because you heard from Ted Cruz at Face the Nation.
12:12He said he didn't see any clear evidence that Iran was close to striking the United States or U.S.
12:22interests or on the cusp of having its nuclear program rebuilt.
12:25Essentially, that's what he said.
12:27So what was the imminent threat that the president referenced on Saturday?
12:35Number one, they kept their highly enriched uranium and was hiding it.
12:41And it is within weeks, month at a most, that you can take 60 percent to 90 and to have
12:48a bomb.
12:48We also know that they are developing a long range, an ICBM essentially, in addition to quadrupling the amount of
12:58missiles, shorter range and medium range missiles that they can build per month to overwhelm our air defenses.
13:05But, Laura, at the end of the day, it's President Trump that has been consistent.
13:10There's a lot of people chattering out there in all three of his campaigns.
13:14He said very clearly Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.
13:19He gave diplomacy a chance.
13:21Both our special envoys, Whitcoff, Steve Whitcoff and Kushner, gave diplomacy a chance.
13:27And it became very clear very quickly that, once again, Iran was trying to buy time.
13:32And here's the thing that 77 million Americans voted for.
13:36They voted for a president who keeps to his word, who keeps to red lines and doesn't get taken advantage
13:44of with bad deals like Obama did and like Biden did.
13:48That's what America voted for.
13:50And that's what they're getting in President Trump.
13:53Are you or were you saying that you believe they were weeks away from nuclear weapons capability?
14:01What I'm saying is Operation Midnight Hammer and the president and the administration's been very clear on this, including Secretary
14:08Rubio, obliterated their enrichment, their enrichment capability.
14:12But we also knew they hid a lot of their highly enriched uranium.
14:17And part of what we were demanding as part of these negotiations were for them to ship it out of
14:24the country or get rid of it.
14:26And that's one of the things, amongst others, that they refused to do.
14:31The issue of regime change, which I addressed in the angle, obviously, the president campaigned for more than a decade,
14:39both as a private citizen and running for office, that he was against regime change.
14:44So is the is the objective here what what we initially thought to totally decimate their nuclear capability?
14:52They can't sponsor terrorists, terrorism around the world.
14:56Is that victory here or is victory putting in a new, you know, more Western type government along with that?
15:05Laura, the president laid it out.
15:06The secretary Rubio has laid it out.
15:09They cannot have a nuclear weapon.
15:10They have to give up their long range ballistic missiles.
15:13They cannot continue to sponsor terrorism all over the world, as what many administrations have put up with as the
15:20world's largest state sponsor of terrorism.
15:23And they can't have these naval capabilities that can instantly shut off 20 percent of the world's energy supply.
15:30Those are the objectives.
15:31And God bless our United States military that are achieving those objectives right now as we speak.
15:37Like you said, in many ways, we've already won and decapitating the leadership that can pull the trigger.
15:43On many of those things, on all of those things, was a key objective.
15:47Now, if the Iranian people take matters into their own hands and get rid of this diabolical regime, then I
15:56think that will be applauded around the world.
15:58The president did tell the Washington Post that freedom for the Iranian people was also something that, you know, he
16:08hoped for.
16:08I think we'll put the quote up on the screen.
16:11So, again, as you just laid out, that's a military objective.
16:16But he said freedom for Iran is the goal of a major military operation in an interview that The Washington
16:24Post referenced that all I want is freedom for the people.
16:28Again, it's that that was at four in the morning.
16:32But that sounds a lot like regime change, does it not?
16:35Well, I think if regime change ultimately is is a result of this and we have freedom for the Iranian
16:41people, as the president said, you know, that will be that will be celebrated by us.
16:47It'll be it's being celebrated right now around the world.
16:51But in terms of our military objectives, no nukes, no long range ballistic missiles, naval assets and their nonstop support
16:59to terrorism that have been killing Americans for 47 years, starting in 1979 with the Iranian embassy hostage taking.
17:09I have fellow veterans, as the president visited many times and has spoken to, that are missing arms and limbs
17:18and loved ones at the hands of the Iranians and who, oh, by the way, were plotting and planning to
17:25assassinate President Trump himself.
17:27So for those out there that say this isn't a threat, what more of a threat do they need to
17:33see?
17:34The difference is you have President Trump that had the courage to finally deal with it and not kick the
17:40can down the road.
17:41Now, I actually think they're humiliated because Trump was the one who did it.
17:45And they've been talking and talking and talking about the Iranian threat for decades.
17:49Republicans and Democrats.
17:51Yeah, but the Democrats, the Democrats making this like, well, they they they saw what Obama did.
17:57They said we saw what Biden did.
17:59Both were utter failures.
18:00President Trump comes along, takes his chance, takes his shot at this.
18:05And my question to you, I guess now, Mr. Ambassador, is the president's never going to rule out options.
18:11That's not what he does.
18:12He's not going to have timelines that that would be ridiculous.
18:14That takes the heat off whatever's left of the regime or the next regime.
18:19But given what you just outlined, why would we ever need boots on the ground?
18:25We have such superior air capacity.
18:29We've already knocked out their Navy, American troops on the ground.
18:34That would seem unnecessary at this point.
18:38Well, you're absolutely right.
18:40President Trump is not never going to take options off the table again.
18:44Unlike his predecessor, who told the world, including our adversaries over and over again, what he wasn't going to do.
18:51But I think the bigger point, which you you nailed it, is that this president, President Trump, isn't about admiring
18:59the problem, hand wringing.
19:01You know, I sit here at the U.N. where everyone's kind of clutching their pearls with breathless speeches.
19:07He's about solving these problems on his watch, not handing it over to the next generation.
19:13And to that point, you have the first lady today, Melania Trump is the first first lady presiding over the
19:20Security Council, talking about education that the actually the lack of education that often leads to radical radicalization and looking
19:31over the horizon.
19:32And that an educated populace, especially with new technologies, leads to peace.
19:37This is a family of peace.
19:39President Trump is dealing with it now.
19:41We had the first lady today looking in a visionary way, looking over the horizon about how we handle that
19:48for the next and present peace for the next generation.
19:51Now, the Persians were among the most educated people on the face of the planet.
19:55So they understand what they understood what it was like to have an educated class.
20:02Mr. Ambassador, we thank you very much and we pray for our troops every night.
20:07Thank you so much.
20:08And coming up, President Trump says this could take four to five weeks.
20:13But what about our military munitions?
20:16What do you need to know about that next?
20:19Just as COVID revealed the gaping vulnerabilities in our medical supply chain, this conflict in Iran is revealing our munitions
20:27vulnerabilities.
20:28Simply put, from missile interceptors to actual missiles, we're starting to run low.
20:35The Wall Street Journal is reporting repeated conflicts with Iran and its proxies in the Middle East have been eating
20:40into the supply of air defenses in the region.
20:44And we're also nicking away at our stash of sea launch Tomahawk cruise missiles, otherwise known as T-lamps.
20:52Meanwhile, Iran, they've been able to crank this stuff out pretty fast.
20:56They are producing, by some estimates, over 100 of these missiles a month.
21:01Compare that to the six or seven interceptors that can be built a month.
21:04They can build 100 of these a month, not to mention the thousands of one-way attack drones that they
21:09also have.
21:10They've been doing this for a very long time.
21:12And by the way, they've been doing it under sanction.
21:14The risks here are real.
21:16Remember, we cannot go to war without a strong industrial base, something that the U.S. Congress, members of both
21:24parties, have to understand.
21:26Here to respond is Tom Sauer, former Navy Surface Warfare Officer, along with Montana Senator Tim Sheehy, former Navy SEAL.
21:34Senator, let's start with you.
21:35Is it time to use the Defense Production Act to ramp up our missile output?
21:42It's time to use every lever we have at our disposal to increase our industrial base for our military.
21:48And, Laura, as you know, this has been a top priority of mine since I got here.
21:51We have been focusing solely on quality, which is important.
21:54We've been creating exquisite weapon systems, which are very complex and also very expensive.
22:00And those systems are great, and especially for precision strikes like we saw here in the last couple days and
22:04like Midnight Hammer last summer.
22:06But it's a very different paradigm that's sustaining mass productions of low-cost systems that can sustain a wide conflict.
22:13And that's something we have not focused on in a long time.
22:15We need to make sure Secretary Hexas is doing a fantastic job at incentivizing the very best companies in America
22:21to come to the table
22:22and help us find innovative solutions to build more quantity and not just quality.
22:28Yeah, Tom, from what I understand, and I know a little bit about some of these defense contractors,
22:35a lot of them demand to be paid up front before the product is actually delivered.
22:42And it's a very slow, slow, bureaucratic process.
22:46And these defense companies, this cannot continue this way.
22:52We must have missile output on the production side.
22:55And the interceptors, without those, our men and women are vulnerable.
23:00That's absolutely correct, Laura.
23:02For example, if we got into a shooting war with China out in the Pacific, I mean, this is no
23:08big secret.
23:08We'd run out of ammo in seven, eight, maybe nine days.
23:13And that's why this is an absolute national security crisis,
23:16especially while we're spending a lot of those munitions in the Middle East right now.
23:20And to say with what Tim said earlier is absolutely spot on.
23:24But I think the real silver lining in all this is more than just policy memos.
23:28And a lot of the great work and the actual appropriations that, you know,
23:32where Senator Sheehy is on SASC, Senate Armed Services Committee,
23:36we also created last year through the NDAA the Office of Strategic Capital,
23:41led by David Lorch, who is probably one of the best supply chain and manufacturing guys on the planet.
23:46They already have an authority of about $209 billion already in loan authority.
23:53I think they've already committed and deployed about $9 billion.
23:55So it's more than just talking.
23:57This is actually, this is President Trump.
23:59This is Secretary Hegseth.
24:01And this is also Deputy Secretary Feinberg putting the money where their mouth is.
24:04And we're actually starting to deliver,
24:06whereas we've had decades of absolute withering of our manufacturer defense industrial base.
24:11It's not just about making our pharmaceuticals and making our cars.
24:15It's also about making our weapons.
24:17Well, Senator, again, you've been on this from the beginning,
24:19but this idea that you can get involved in these conflicts, forget the debate about it.
24:25Set that aside.
24:26But fighting these wars requires the munitions to be able to do them,
24:30the manpower, the service members, the patriotism, the public support.
24:36But if we don't have these munitions, I mean, it's all for naught.
24:40So this seems to be like an emergency situation almost.
24:45And what is Congress going to do about it?
24:50Well, in a time that we're hyper-partisan, I do have hope, Laura.
24:54We actually have quite a bit of bipartisan focus on this.
24:56And plug yours, Laura.
24:57But believe it or not, my partner in much of this is Senator Elizabeth Warren,
25:00who I will applaud is actually quite focused on fixing the very broken sustainment system
25:06that we've put forward for our platforms like Tom mentioned.
25:09And we need to take every possible avenue to not just bring the best companies to the table
25:13to make more capability.
25:15We need to make sure we have a paradigm to support that capability once it's deployed.
25:20Things like right to repair so we don't have to wait days or weeks on contractors
25:23to come meet those vessels, meet those planes in a forward location.
25:27And those planes and ships are paperweights until they get repaired.
25:30We need to make sure our service members have the right to repair the equipment
25:33with them in their hands at any time possible.
25:35Right now, they don't have that.
25:36And we've got to fix that.
25:37You bet.
25:38Congressman Tom, thank you both very much.
25:41Coming up, terrorism abroad.
25:44How about terrorism at home?
25:46Lone wolf attacks the risk America is now facing.
25:50And we have breaking news.
25:52A source telling Fox's Jennifer Griffin that the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh's Saudi Arabia
25:59was hit by two drones.
26:01A third is apparently en route and could strike at any moment.
26:06And the embassy is now issuing a shelter in place for citizens in Saudi Arabia as the U.S.
26:12government has put all citizens in the region on high alert and urged those in 14 different
26:20countries in the region to leave immediately.
26:23And more than ever, I mean, since really 9-11, the U.S. is on high alert for any attacks
26:29here
26:30on the homeland.
26:31The FBI is investigating that shooting in Texas and Austin for possible terror connections where
26:37the 53-year-old Negada Diogni was wearing a sweatshirt that said property of Allah.
26:43That might be a clue and a T-shirt with the Iranian flag on it.
26:46He opened fire outside a bar in Austin this weekend, killing two and injuring 14.
26:52He's a naturalized citizen from Senegal.
26:54He was shot and killed by police.
26:57This is a former regime, a regime that seeks to export that ideology and try to sow terror.
27:06We're ready for that.
27:07We've seen these types of folks before, and the American people can rest assured that
27:11we're vigilant on that.
27:12We're going to get to this issue of sleeper cells in the U.S., the threat to the homeland
27:16in one second.
27:17But we're going to go to Chris Wecker, former FBI Assistant Director.
27:21Chris, I want you to chime in on this breaking news that we're getting.
27:25The drones that Iran has activated have been, to many, surprisingly lethal.
27:33But drone warfare has become really the go-to choice for regimes in the region, obviously in
27:41the Ukraine war as well.
27:43Your reaction to this news about the U.S. Embassy?
27:46We don't know anything about damage or injuries, loss of life, but this is breaking right now.
27:54Yeah, Laura, we've seen, as you mentioned, we've seen drones in the battlefield in Ukraine.
27:58It's a game changer.
28:00And again, our embassies are targets across the world, across the globe.
28:05They can get to one, they will, and it looks like they may have penetrated with their drones
28:10in this instance.
28:11Look, I think we've really got to worry about drones here in the U.S. as well.
28:15I mean, they're pretty prevalent.
28:16We haven't really demonstrated any real capability to stop drones in the United States.
28:21They're flying around everywhere.
28:22So that's an added concern.
28:24But, you know, drones are really, they're a weapon of choice for terrorists.
28:30Yeah, we're way behind on drone production.
28:34Obviously, most of them built in China, 70, 80 percent.
28:38Many also built in Ukraine.
28:40But we basically offshored our drone capacity and a lot of the, you know, individual component
28:46parts as well.
28:47So that's what President Trump's trying to ramp up.
28:49So, Chris, some good news.
28:52Jennifer Griffin is saying now that the U.S. embassy in Riyadh was empty at the time these
28:58Iranian drones struck.
29:00So there are no injuries.
29:02So that is some good news.
29:03But let's get back to this concern that it looks like DHS, the FBI, are not overstating their
29:11concern that with the number of individuals who crossed our border over the last several
29:17years, especially under Joe Biden, we really don't have a good sense of the threat to the
29:23homeland right now, given how many people from Islamic countries are here and those who
29:28may have some sympathy with the former Ayatollah and his regime.
29:35Yes, I know.
29:36I mean, I know the intelligence agencies are working overtime, but but those four years
29:40were devastating when it comes to, you know, not not tracking potential terrorists.
29:46I mean, Hezbollah was here.
29:47They had cells here before that.
29:49But it's impossible that they weren't sending operatives across that open border during those
29:54four years.
29:55It was too good an opportunity.
29:57They're here in our cities, L.A., Michigan, up in Michigan, around the Detroit area, New
30:03York City, down here in North Carolina, where we took out an entire Hezbollah cell back in
30:09the mid 2000s when I was the head of the office here.
30:11I mean, they are here and they are a clear and present danger.
30:15I hate to use cliches, but they are.
30:17Yeah.
30:17And Chris, this is as DHS is not fully funded because of the Democrat block on the funding,
30:23the funding bill.
30:24I mean, so this this demonstrates how dangerous that is.
30:28Right.
30:29And we have the fifth column of sympathizers, not not just, you know, card carrying Hezbollah
30:34member cells, but all the sympathizers that were outed after October 7th on our college
30:40campuses and across the country.
30:41So they're out there and they are.
30:44I mean, they are literally supporting two terrorist organizations, Hezbollah and Hamas.
30:49Unbelievable.
30:49Chris, thank you so much.
30:50Great to see you tonight.
30:51And coming up by striking Iran, Trump is also hitting China where it hurts.
30:57That's next.
31:01And there's another U.S. adversary that may get hurt and albeit indirectly by these attacks.
31:08China.
31:09Beijing buys 80 to 90 percent of Iran's oil exports, much of which comes through the Strait
31:16of Hormuz.
31:16It's a choke point for roughly one fifth of the world's oil trade.
31:20And ships are barely getting through there right now.
31:23So by striking Iran, President Trump isn't just degrading Tehran's capabilities.
31:28He's squeezing China's energy sources.
31:31So even if China can tap strategic reserves or buy more from Russia, other Gulf producers,
31:37those barrels still have to move across the waters now deemed unsafe.
31:41And, of course, they were much cheaper from Iran because of the sanctions that were in
31:47place.
31:47Here to weigh in is Gordon Shang, Gatestone Institute Senior Fellow.
31:51Now, Gordon, China only got, it's hard to gauge it, but between maybe 13 and 18 percent of
31:58all of its oil from Iran.
32:01But nevertheless, this was this is a cheap source of energy, was it not?
32:06That can't help.
32:09Well, yeah, certainly discounted.
32:11And by the way, China gets about 45 percent of its imported oil through the Strait of Hormuz
32:16because it's not just Iran.
32:17It's Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states.
32:20Nothing is passing the Strait of Hormuz at this moment.
32:23Shippers don't want to take the risk.
32:24And the IRGC has announced a few hours ago that it is closing the strait.
32:29Nothing will get through those waters.
32:32Well, Elon Musk made a point that was pretty interesting, I thought, on X.
32:36He said that China is rapidly moving to solar electric, a future with solar and electric
32:41with very little need for oil or gas, kind of answering the point that in the end, this
32:48won't really affect China at all.
32:50But wishful thinking, your reaction to that.
32:54Yeah.
32:54Elon Musk, I love him, but he's wrong on this because China right now depends on oil and gas
33:00and it depends on coal.
33:01And yes, it has a lot of solar, but most of the solar industry is exported because they
33:08don't believe in green technology.
33:10They want us to believe in it.
33:12So while a lot of people think, well, China is past the fossil fuel stage.
33:17No, it certainly has not.
33:19Now, Gordon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Sean Hannity a short while
33:25ago and explained why the strike against Iran had to happen when it did.
33:31Watch.
33:32The reason that we had to act now is because they were, after we hit their nuclear sites
33:39and their ballistic missiles program, you'd think they learned a lesson, but they didn't
33:44because they're unreformable.
33:46They're totally fanatic about this, about the goal of destroying America.
33:51So they started building new sites, new places, underground bunkers that would make their ballistic
33:58missile program and their atomic bomb programs immune within months.
34:02If no action was taken now, no action could be taken in the future.
34:06And then they could target America, they could blackmail America, they could threaten us and
34:12threaten everyone in between.
34:14So action had to be taken.
34:16And you needed a resolute president like Donald J. Trump to take that action.
34:22Gordon, your reaction to that?
34:24The public opinion polls right now, it's kind of always hard to gauge this, but I know CNN
34:29was crowing about one poll that said only 60 percent, 60 percent of Americans said absolutely
34:36no to any boots on the ground, which that doesn't surprise me at all.
34:40I don't think anyone wants boots on the ground in Iran, including Donald Trump.
34:43But your reaction to what Netanyahu said there?
34:47The prime minister was certainly right.
34:50But also, we got to remember that the other issue of timing was that the Chinese were sending
34:55in a lot of equipment.
34:56We know of at least 18 or so Chinese cargo planes left Chinese airspace, landed in Iran.
35:03They probably were carrying supersonic, maybe even hypersonic anti-ship cruise missiles.
35:09So that was an issue about timing.
35:12And by the way, the Iranian president at the end of December said that his country was in
35:17a state of war with the United States.
35:19So this was not a war of choice, as the Democrats are saying.
35:22This was a war that President Trump is finishing.
35:26He didn't start it, but he's finishing it.
35:28All right, Gordon, thank you so much.
35:30Up next, they're quick to jump at ICE for violating human rights.
35:35So why are the media so fast to eulogize the Iranians' murderous supreme leader?
35:45And there's another U.S. adversary that may get hurt, and albeit indirectly, by these attacks.
35:52China.
35:53Beijing buys 80 to 90 percent of Iran's oil exports, much of which comes through the Strait
35:59of Hormuz.
36:00It's a choke point for roughly one-fifth of the world's oil trade.
36:04And ships are barely getting through there right now.
36:07So by striking Iran, President Trump isn't just degrading Tehran's capabilities, he's
36:12squeezing China's energy sources.
36:15So even if China can tap strategic reserves or buy more from Russia, other Gulf producers,
36:21those barrels still have to move across the waters, now deemed unsafe.
36:25And of course, they were much cheaper from Iran because of the sanctions that were in
36:31place.
36:31Here to weigh in is Gordon Shang, Gatestone Institute Senior Fellow.
36:34Now, Gordon, China only got, it's hard to gauge it, but between maybe 13 and 18 percent of
36:42all of its oil from Iran.
36:45But nevertheless, this was a cheap source of energy, was it not?
36:50That can't help.
36:53Yeah, certainly discounted.
36:54And by the way, China gets about 45 percent of its imported oil through the Strait of Hormuz
37:00because it's not just Iran, it's Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states.
37:04Nothing is passing the Strait of Hormuz at this moment.
37:07Shippers don't want to take the risk.
37:08And the IRGC has announced a few hours ago that it is closing the Strait.
37:13Nothing will get through those waters.
37:15Well, Elon Musk made a point that was pretty interesting, I thought, on X.
37:19He said that China is rapidly moving to solar electric, a future with solar and electric,
37:25with very little need for oil or gas, kind of answering the point that, in the end,
37:31this won't really affect China at all.
37:33But wishful thinking, your reaction to that?
37:37Yeah.
37:38Elon Musk, I love him, but he's wrong on this because China right now depends on oil and gas
37:44and it depends on coal.
37:45And yes, it has a lot of solar, but most of the solar industry is exported
37:51because they don't believe in green technology.
37:54They want us to believe in it.
37:56So while a lot of people think, well, China is past the fossil fuel stage,
38:01no, it certainly has not.
38:03Now, Gordon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Sean Hannity
38:07a short while ago and explained why the strike against Iran had to happen when it did.
38:14Watch.
38:16The reason that we had to act now is because they were, after we hit their nuclear sites
38:23and their ballistic missiles program, you'd think they learned a lesson, but they didn't
38:28because they're unreformable.
38:30They're totally fanatic about this, about the goal of destroying America.
38:34So they started building new sites, new places, underground bunkers that would make their ballistic
38:41missile program and their atomic bomb program immune within months.
38:46If no action was taken now, no action could be taken in the future.
38:50And then they could target America.
38:52They could blackmail America.
38:54They could threaten us and threaten everyone in between.
38:57So action had to be taken.
38:59And you needed a resolute president like Donald J. Trump to take that action.
39:06Gordon, your reaction to that?
39:08The public opinion polls right now, it's kind of always hard to gauge this, but I know CNN
39:12was crowing about one poll that said only 60 percent, 60 percent of Americans said absolutely
39:19no to any boots on the ground, which that doesn't surprise me at all.
39:23Only anyone want boots on the ground in Iran, including Donald Trump.
39:26But your reaction to what Netanyahu said there?
39:31The prime minister was he's certainly right.
39:34But also we got to remember that the other issue of timing was that the Chinese were sending
39:39in a lot of equipment.
39:40We know of at least 18 or so Chinese cargo planes left Chinese airspace, landed in Iran.
39:47They probably were carrying supersonic, maybe even hypersonic anti-ship cruise missiles.
39:53So that was an issue about timing.
39:55And by the way, the Iranian president at the end of December said that his country was in
40:01a state of war with the United States.
40:02So this was not a war of choice, as the Democrats are saying.
40:06This was a war that President Trump is finishing.
40:10He didn't start it, but he's finishing it.
40:12All right, Gordon.
40:13Thank you so much.
40:14Up next, they're quick to jump at ICE for violating human rights.
40:18So why are the media so fast to eulogize the Iranian's murderous supreme leader?
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