00:00Mr. President, did Israel force your hand
00:02to launch these strikes against Iran?
00:04Did that go and pull the United States into this war?
00:07The President, I might have forced their hand.
00:09You see, we were having negotiations with these lunatics,
00:14and it was my opinion that they were going to attack first.
00:17They were going to attack.
00:18If we didn't do it, they were going to attack first.
00:21I felt strongly about that.
00:23And we have great negotiators, great people,
00:26people that do this very successfully
00:28and have done it all their lives, very successful.
00:31And based on the way the negotiation was going,
00:34I think they were going to attack first.
00:36And I didn't want that to happen.
00:39So, if anything, I might have forced Israel's hand.
00:42But Israel was ready, and we were ready.
00:44And we've had a very, very powerful impact
00:48because virtually everything they have
00:50has been knocked out now.
00:52Their missile count is going way down.
00:55Amazingly, they're hitting countries that were, you know,
00:59let's call them neutral, right?
01:00They lived together for a long time.
01:03They, I think they were surprised.
01:05I was surprised.
01:06I think it, and now those countries are all fighting
01:08against them and fighting strongly against them.
01:12Someday they'll write a story, and they'll say why they did that.
01:16But they hit countries that had nothing to do with what's going on.
01:21They were sort of leaving everything alone.
01:23All of a sudden, they get, they had missiles shot in,
01:25which shows you the level of evil that we're dealing with.
01:29They'll hit people that were actually at least somewhat friendly
01:33and had no problems with it.
01:35Also hitting only civilian places, hotels and apartment buildings.
01:41And we're hitting them where it is much more appropriate.
01:45We're hitting them very hard.
01:47And the big-scale hitting goes now.
01:50They no longer have air protection.
01:52They no longer have any detection facilities at all left.
01:57And so they're going to, they're going to be in for a lot of hurt.
02:01These are bad people.
02:02These are people that killed, I guess it's 35,000.
02:05And it's coming out 35,000 over the last three weeks, protesters.
02:0935,000 violently killed.
02:12So these are bad people.
02:15And the leader of the pack is gone.
02:18And as you know, 49 people were taken out in the first hit.
02:21And I guess there was another hit today on the new leadership.
02:25And it looks like that was pretty substantial also.
02:29So they're getting hit very hard.
02:30And we'll see what happens.
02:32A lot of people are coming forward.
02:33A lot of the people you would least suspect want to quit.
02:38They want to have immunity.
02:40They're asking for immunity.
02:42And probably at some point they'll be dropping, as you would say,
02:46laying down their guns.
02:47We'll see what happens.
02:49In the meantime, we're just continuing to go forward.
02:51Our military is the number one in the world by far.
02:54And we are, this is, everything is big in my book.
02:59Venezuela is big.
03:00This is big.
03:01The original hit, Midnight Hammer, was big.
03:04Everything you view is big.
03:06But it's not considered very big by some standards, by some of our standards.
03:13We have a military like no other military that's ever been built.
03:16So we've got to be interested.
03:18Mr. President, what is the worst case scenario that you have planned for in Iran?
03:24Well, I don't know if there's a worst case.
03:26We have them very much beaten militarily from the military standpoint.
03:32They're still lobbying some missiles.
03:34At some point, they won't even be able to do that because we're hitting all of their carriers.
03:38We're hitting all of their missile stock.
03:40You know, they built up all these missiles over the last few years.
03:44Yeah.
03:44They had a lot of them.
03:45They've shot a lot of them.
03:46And we're knocking out a lot.
03:50I guess the worst case would be we do this and then somebody takes over who's as bad as
03:54the previous person.
03:56Right?
03:56That could happen.
03:58We don't want that to happen.
03:59That would probably be the worst.
04:01You go through this.
04:01And then in five years, you realize you put somebody in who is no better.
04:06So we'd like to see somebody in there that's going to bring it back for the people.
04:11And we'll see what happens with the people.
04:13You know, they have their chance.
04:15And we've said, don't do it yet.
04:17If you're going to go out and protest, don't do it yet.
04:19It's very dangerous out there.
04:21A lot of bombs are being dropped.
04:23But I always say that would be about the worst.
04:25Do you have someone in mind right now?
04:26Because you said all the people you did have in mind have been taken out.
04:30What do you think?
04:30Most of the people we had in mind are dead.
04:32So, you know, we had some in mind from that group that is dead.
04:38And now we have another group.
04:40They may be dead also, based on reports.
04:44So I guess you have a third wave coming in.
04:46Pretty soon we're not going to know anybody.
04:48But we have, I mean, Venezuela was so incredible because we did the attack and we kept government
04:56totally intact.
04:58And we have Delsi, who's been very good.
05:02We have the whole chain of command.
05:04And they've been, you know, the relationship's been great.
05:07We've taken out 100 million barrels of oil already.
05:12And a big part of that goes to them and a big part goes to us.
05:16And it's been great.
05:18We paid for the war many times over.
05:21And we're going to be running the oil.
05:24And Venezuela is going to make more money than they ever made.
05:27And that's great for the people.
05:28The relationship has been great.
05:30It's been seamless.
05:32Nobody's actually ever seen anything like it.
05:34If you look at Iraq, where very stupidly everybody was fired.
05:38The generals were fired.
05:40The military was fired.
05:41The police were fired.
05:42The fire departments were fired.
05:43And all of the government workers were fired.
05:48So after, you know, people would call, they had no idea.
05:52And by the way, ISIS was formed.
05:54That's where ISIS came from.
05:56All of the fired people.
05:57We don't believe in that.
05:59So we'll see what happens.
06:01But first, we have to finish off the military.
06:04What do you think about crown parents, Reza Pahlavi?
06:08Is he an option at all in your mind?
06:10I guess he is.
06:11Some people like him.
06:12And we haven't been thinking about too much about that.
06:15It would seem to me that somebody from within maybe would be more appropriate.
06:20I've said that.
06:21He looks like a very nice person.
06:24But it would seem to me that somebody that's there, that's currently popular, if there's such a person.
06:33But we have people like that.
06:34We have people that were more moderate.
06:37You know, these were radical lunatics.
06:39And you know what they get?
06:40They get nothing.
06:40All they do is kill people.
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