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00:19This is a production of the U.S. Department of State.
00:31Last night's bombing campaign was a big one, every hour on the hour.
00:35Here's CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper.
00:38Just yesterday, we had strike waves nearly every hour from different locations and directions going into Iran.
00:45We also took out the last of four Soleimani-class warships.
00:49That's an entire class of Iranian ships now out of the fight.
00:52I'd characterize our strikes as being unpredictable, dynamic, and decisive.
00:57Every Iranian ship we see in the strait gets sunk, and now every ship that's docked is dead.
01:03Here, you see an Iranian Jamaran-class warship, a large patrol ship, a drone smuggling vessel,
01:09and four other surface combatants docked at Chabahar Port in the Gulf of Oman the day before we launched Operation
01:16Epic Fury.
01:17Here's the same pier four days later, all ships taken out of action.
01:21Here, you see two Iranian surface combatants docked at an Iranian naval base near the strait of Hormuz,
01:26just hours into the campaign.
01:29And here's what they looked like three days later, engulfed in flames after we struck them with a precision weapon.
01:35Sixty ships are gone, and now their ports are next.
01:38The president warned Iran to lay off the strait.
01:41But overnight, a Thai tanker got clipped along with two others.
01:44And now another tanker off the coast of Iraq was also just hit.
01:48Trump's responding.
01:49Central Command's warning Iranian citizens to leave all Iranian ports.
01:54So far, we haven't targeted Iran's oil infrastructure.
01:57It could get lit up tonight.
01:59Operation Epic Fury is just about over 10 days in, and 5,500 targets have been struck.
02:06Over the last 24 hours, Iran has only launched nine ballistic missiles.
02:12Nine.
02:13U.S. fire powers decimated Iranian stockpiles, and now we're pivoting and hitting their defense industrial base.
02:20A ballistic missile manufacturing plant just got popped.
02:24This is critical to the mission.
02:27Disarm them and prevent them from rearming.
02:30The president telling Axios that the Air Force is running out of targets.
02:35There's practically nothing left to hit.
02:38Certain targets we're saving for later in case they don't behave.
02:43They've lost their Navy.
02:44They've lost their Air Force.
02:46They have no anti-aircraft apparatus at all.
02:50They have no radar.
02:52Their leaders are gone.
02:56And we could do a lot worse.
02:58We're leaving certain things that if we take them out, or we could take them out by this afternoon, in
03:05fact, within an hour,
03:07they literally would never be able to build that country back.
03:10No one's seen or heard from the new Ayatollah.
03:13He's allegedly wounded, hiding in a bunker.
03:15And people think he has, quote, the charisma of a boiled potato.
03:20Soon he won't be able to pay his troops.
03:22Iran's largest bank was just hit in a missile strike.
03:25It's responsible for paying members of the Iranian military and the Guard.
03:29The country's already in a currency crisis.
03:32We're hearing some reports of desertions, and that could accelerate if there's no payday Friday.
03:37Trump telling Axios he can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
03:42You just said it is a little excursion, and you said it is a war.
03:46So which one is it?
03:48Well, it's both.
03:49It's both.
03:49It's an excursion that will keep us out of a war.
03:54For them, it's a war.
03:54For us, it's turned out to be easier than we thought.
03:59Tehran's only plan is to wait it out and hold the energy market hostage.
04:03After hitting tankers and refineries, Iran's threatening to hit Middle East banks.
04:08But their biggest target, the strait.
04:10They haven't mined it, but they haven't made it smooth sailing.
04:14They started talking about mines.
04:17We hit 28 mine ships as of this moment, 28, like using the same weapon, the exact same
04:24weapon that we use against the drug dealers in the water.
04:28The United States cannot let Iran control the strait, or even appear to control the strait.
04:34The United States would lose power and prestige, and it would put a high bottom on oil prices.
04:39Ghost tankers are going out with Iranian oil over to China.
04:43But our allies, oil is under threat, and that's unacceptable.
04:48Chubb, one of the world's largest insurance companies, is promising to backstop the shipping.
04:53Trump says the tankers have the green light.
04:56Are you talking to CEOs of various oil companies, encouraging them to use this straight-up?
05:03Yeah, I think they should.
05:04I think they should.
05:05I think they should use this straight-up.
05:24Japan's taking the lead, and we're going to release a few million, too.
05:27And on top of that, Chevron and Shell are about to close in on the first production deal in Venezuela.
05:33We could get up to 4 million barrels a day from our new friend.
05:38Oil remained in the 80s today, and inflation came in at just 2.4 percent.
05:43Great news.
05:43But that's probably going to go up this month because of the war.
05:48Luckily, Saudi pipelines are pushing oil west into the Red Sea and avoiding all the drama.
05:54So we've got to protect the kingdom.
05:56China, on the other hand, taking a hit.
05:59There's a gasoline panic, and drivers are lining up around the block to fill up before the numbers jump.
06:05The president knows oil producers only have a few weeks before they run out of storage and have to halt
06:10production.
06:11So if the straight can't fully open, we'd have to wrap this mission up by April.
06:16The Israelis might have a different agenda, full-on regime change.
06:22And they won't stop going down the kill chain until they find a guy they like.
06:26That could take a while longer, longer than President Trump has patience for.
06:30We might not get what we got in Venezuela, but as long as Iran's completely disarmed
06:35and can't threaten America and the strait with missiles, drones, and nukes, the president will take the win.
06:42U.S. intelligence believe the Iranians squirreled away what's left of their uranium
06:46into what's known as Pickaxe Mountain, a nearly impenetrable bunker buried deep in granite
06:53where evil scientists have been working around the clock,
06:56cobbling back together a program that was obliterated during Operation Midnight Hammer.
07:01The bunker busters might not be able to do the trick.
07:04Reports say special forces might have to be inserted to physically shut it down on the ground.
07:11And we also have Karg Island, 15 miles off Iran's coast, their main export terminal.
07:17Essentially, the country's cash register.
07:19Karg's Iran's oil lifeline.
07:21If we seize it, it's over.
07:24That option remains on the table.
07:26Both sides waiting to see who blinks first.
07:28So far, the president says, in a way, we've already won.
07:33Epic Fury!
07:36Is that a great name?
07:39Well, it's only good if you win, you know, you can only do it.
07:42And we've won.
07:42They gave me a list of names.
07:44Sir, you can pick the name you'd like, sir.
07:48I said, the name of what?
07:49The name of the attack on Iran, sir.
07:53And they gave me, like, 20 names.
07:55And I'm, like, falling asleep.
07:56I didn't like any of them.
07:58Then I see Epic Fury.
08:00I said, I like that name.
08:03General David Petraeus, former CIA director and CENTCOM commander.
08:08General, the objectives, how far along are we into accomplishing them?
08:15I think we're quite far along, actually.
08:19Obviously, we had enormous success, 40 leaders in the first 40 seconds.
08:23As the president noted, and you have noted, we've largely taken down their air and ballistic missile defense.
08:28We can now fly really at will with our non-stealthy aircraft, not just the stealth B-2 and F
08:34-35, but the B-52, B-1, other fighter bombers.
08:38We've had considerable success against their Navy, needless to say.
08:42We've taken down probably at least 70 percent of the missile launchers and a substantial amount of the stockpile.
08:47The missile strikes, as you also noted, way, way down.
08:51We're still going after the drones.
08:53And that's, I think, proven to be a bit more challenging, frankly.
08:56They have thousands of them in tunnels.
08:58We're parked on top of the launch sites, as you would imagine, going after them.
09:03But that does remain a challenge in various ways.
09:06And that has, of course, that was the source of the loss of our three heroes in this war so
09:11far and serious wounding of a number of others.
09:19A variety of other targets that we've taken out, of course, a lot of the regime forces, their headquarters, their
09:25subordinate leaders, large depots, bases, the naval bases, and so forth.
09:32So we're very well along in this.
09:35The problem is that there still are challenges there.
09:38And I think probably the biggest is what you highlighted, the strait.
09:43There still is a threat.
09:45Four ships were attacked today.
09:47One of those along the way of the 14 that have been hit so far was hit by an unmanned
09:52surface vessel.
09:54There's the threat of short-range missiles.
09:57You can lay mines with other than mine layers.
10:00You can actually use fast boats and so forth.
10:03It depends on the type of the mine.
10:05There are some mines, reportedly less than 10, that have actually gone in the water.
10:10If we end up in a situation where they mine the strait, that will be very challenging as well.
10:15So I think the president has got a lot to calculate here.
10:19And including in that is, of course, the effect of the price of Brent crude.
10:23And actually, I just checked it.
10:24It was back up to about $92 a barrel.
10:27And if the markets really are hanging on his every word, will we end it soon or will we end
10:34it later?
10:34And that's an awfully big question for those markets.
10:38I should note that for crude oil, the Saudis can get 5 million barrels out to the Red Sea, not
10:43through the Gulf.
10:44The Emiratis can get a modest amount out directly to a port outside the strait as well.
10:52But this is 20 percent of the world's crude oil and maybe even more importantly, it's 20 percent of the
10:58world's LNG.
10:59And there are not large LNG stockpiles the way there are the strategic stockpiles of oil, noting that the decision
11:06was announced today that the large countries of the world will release about 400 million barrels of oil to try
11:15to offset what is being lost out of the Gulf.
11:17But, of course, that's really 20 days worth of this.
11:20And it's going to take time for the confidence to return for the CEOs of the shipping companies who are,
11:26after all, they're not responsible to the government in truth.
11:29They're responsible to their shareholders.
11:32And they will be cautious about this.
11:34These super tankers are extraordinarily expensive, as are the LNG carriers and so forth.
11:40And little, if any, of that is moving through the Gulf right now.
11:44So, General, how would you secure the strait?
11:49Well, we're doing it.
11:50Look, and it's how wonderful that we actually have an admiral in charge of U.S. Central Command instead of
11:55soldiers like me or Marines like some of the others.
11:59He knows this strait.
12:01He's been through it innumerable times.
12:03He knows they were ready for this.
12:05But we have a modest mind-sweeping capability.
12:08We've actually retired some of them, brought on some smaller ones.
12:10We'd need the Saudis.
12:12We'd need the Brits, who were often located their ships in off Bahrain.
12:17They're going after everything that threatens it.
12:20But the problem is that if even one of these ships is hit, everyone, understandably, gets nervous and is not
12:27going to launch their vessels until they're comfortable.
12:30The other issue, I think, that has to be weighing on mines.
12:34I know it's weighing on the mines of certain Gulf countries because they've actually announced it.
12:38And that is the so-called missile math.
12:40And they're constantly trying to calculate how many more launchers does Iran have in missiles.
12:46And you're right.
12:47We're taking down even the manufacturing capability of Iran in that regard that make the components, that assemble them and
12:53everything.
12:54And then how many missile interceptors do we have left?
12:57And really, it's collectively how many do we have left?
13:00And we know how many we bought in Patriots last year, 620.
13:04It's public knowledge.
13:05We bought fewer than that when it comes to the terminal high altitude area defense interceptors and then the ones
13:11that operate off the ships.
13:13Again, our Gulf state partners have them.
13:16Israel has them.
13:16It's an integrated air and ballistic missile defense.
13:20Nonetheless, if that missile math gets a bit uncomfortable, that will also be a factor, as I think that President
13:28Trump will consider in his advisers,
13:30as they're really sorting out when have we achieved enough.
13:34And then what happens with Iran?
13:37Because the real question, I think, that is becoming more pressing is that the next supreme leader, you know, we
13:44wanted a Dulce Rodriguez,
13:46to use the Venezuelan analogy, and instead we got Kim Jong-un, Jr.
13:51So it's the son of the former supreme leader, presumably hardline, cleric, and so forth.
14:00And so will Iran continue this war?
14:04That's where I think you start to see the Chinese get involved.
14:07They're the ones, together with Japan, Korea, and India, who are most affected by all of this.
14:13They're the big consumers of the oil and gas that comes out of the Gulf, although it affects the price
14:19of our West Texas Intermediate crude as well.
14:23But when do they put pressure on Iran to say, knock this off?
14:28When do the Iraqis put pressure on them?
14:30Because they do some of their sanctions evasion through the Iraqis, and they're starting to shut down their oil loading.
14:36Many of the oil loading facilities have literally shut down, and they're shutting in oil wells and so forth production,
14:42which will take time to reestablish as well once you flush out all the tankers that are sitting in there
14:49full
14:49and all the storage capacity that is full as well.
14:52So a lot of dynamics here, I think, Jesse.
14:55Yeah.
14:55And your opening identified a lot of those, frankly.
14:59Well, thank you.
14:59What about Karg Island?
15:01Because that would seem a major escalation on behalf of the United States,
15:06but also a real sweet spot to be able to control their output.
15:10Is that something that we're considering?
15:15I am sure that we are.
15:17I don't say that with knowledge, or I wouldn't be able to say it.
15:20But obviously, you would have to think through that contingency.
15:23It's discussed publicly.
15:26It would be a case of putting boots on the ground.
15:29The question is then, what could they do to our soldiers on the ground?
15:33What would be the mitigating steps we can do to prevent that?
15:36And so forth.
15:37Certainly, I'm sure that's an option somewhere along the line.
15:40There's actually some other locations that we could go into and so on.
15:45We've actually done offshore oil terminals as well back in the tanker wars in the mid-1980s
15:52and shut down some of them.
15:53But remember that President Trump called Prime Minister Netanyahu and said,
15:58no more on their oil industry, not only will that affect the price of Brent crude worldwide,
16:03at some point they're going to have to have an economy again.
16:07And so there's, again, various issues here about which we need to be careful.
16:14Would you hit any of the ghost fleet that's going out to China just to send a message to say,
16:19you know, this is going to get dangerous for everybody if the Iranians don't knock it off?
16:26We actually have been going after ghost fleet ships, not just from Iran, but also from Russia.
16:31And often there are reasons that justify it.
16:33They're quite above board.
16:35They don't meet safety and health standards or whatever it may be.
16:38Again, they're flying under other flags, often deficiencies in these particular vessels.
16:45And we've been doing that very effectively against Russian exports.
16:48But, of course, now this war means that we have to lift the sanctions on Russian oil sales.
16:55India had agreed to reduce that very substantially,
16:58which would have reduced the revenue that keeps the Russian war economy going.
17:01Now, unfortunately, we have to relax that for a period of time.
17:05And this also, we should be going after Russia with our sanctions and the Congress.
17:10They're providing intelligence to Iran.
17:12I can't believe that Iran would have the kind of accuracy with the Shahed drones in particular that have been
17:20a problem.
17:21And so we should, it's time for the Senate to vote on the bill that Senator Lindsey Graham has championed
17:27and has, as I understand it, 90 of 100 senators have signed up for it.
17:32Well, the Russians didn't provide some key intelligence to the Ayatollah before that breakfast meeting.
17:37They sure missed the ball on that one.
17:40I don't think they had that intelligence.
17:42I don't think they did.
17:42That was intelligence that our services gathered.
17:45And, of course, that was, I think, the proximate cause for why the war started when it did.
17:50First, there was a knowledge ahead of time that the Israelis were going to hit because they were very worried
17:55about the reconstitution of the missile program.
17:58Second, President Trump, understandably very frustrated with the stringing along of us during the nuclear negotiations,
18:06regardless of what some people said publicly from other countries.
18:09And then all of a sudden you have this extraordinary intelligence, presumably the Iranians believing that since we didn't attack
18:17when we always do in the early hours of the morning,
18:20that we weren't going to attack in that 24-hour period and then had a meeting that enabled the achievement
18:25of one of the principal objectives of the campaign right away.
18:29Yep.
18:29When you see an open shot, you've got to take it.
18:32General Petraeus, thank you so much for coming on and everything you've done with the country.
18:36Good to be with you again, Jesse.
18:38Kevin McCarthy is the former Speaker of the House.
18:40So, McCarthy, the politics of this war, tell me about it.
18:46Well, right now, if you look for the long term, history-wise, President Trump is going to be praised for
18:51this
18:52because I don't think any other president would do it before or into the future.
18:56And it's changed geopolitics.
18:57For one, if Iran was able to be able to have a nuclear weapon, there would be 40 countries then
19:04because everybody would have one and the world would be unsafe.
19:07If you look at the rise of not just China, but the crinks, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea,
19:13China needs 11 million barrels of oil every single day.
19:17They get a large portion from Russia, but a bigger portion from Iran, even with the sanctions, they get a
19:22discount.
19:23And Venezuela.
19:24So this is reshaping the world and actually making it safer.
19:28Now, domestic politics.
19:30People will get upset the price of oil is up.
19:32But will it sustain that?
19:34I don't believe so.
19:35The worst thing we could do is leave this before the job is done.
19:40Every single day, Iran's capability is decreasing.
19:45And if we left too early, then they would use the straight continually to keep the price of oil high.
19:51I agree with that 100 percent.
19:54The House Republicans, the Senate Republicans, are they fully behind the president?
20:01I believe they are.
20:03Look, we are fortunate that with President Trump coming in, it's only the second time in American history do we
20:09have someone who served its president, went away, and came back.
20:12They had time to understand the job ahead of time.
20:14He doesn't have a re-election.
20:16He is doing whatever is in the best interest of America itself.
20:20Think about this.
20:22Later this month, he will be in China, having changed the course of Latin America, having making America economy stronger,
20:30securing our border, and going into China saying, you can't run the world anymore.
20:35And they're going to be able to lay out the red carpet and say, we want to reshape the world
20:40and work with you more than we had in the past.
20:42Yeah, that trip, he's coming with a lot of clout.
20:45No doubt about that.
20:46Kevin McCarthy, thank you so much.
20:49Democrats have a conspiracy theory about the Iran war.
20:53That's straight ahead.
20:57Someone grabbed the Narcan.
20:59Democrats say Trump's hooked on war like heroin.
21:02It seems to me that the Venezuela military operation was the gateway drug for Donald Trump ordering this operation in
21:11Iran.
21:12I think that gave him the false expectations that this would somehow be simple.
21:18This is a terrible mistake.
21:20And the sooner we end this, the better.
21:22Democrats want an end to war we're winning?
21:24Why?
21:26Before the first bomb dropped, the verdict was already in.
21:29Trump's guilty.
21:31Donald Trump is like the guy who runs into a crowded theater and yells fire.
21:36He created this huge panic in the region, a huge conflict.
21:39But instead of putting the fire out, he's now closing the doors to the theater.
21:43And he's allowing the thing to burn.
21:45Because even if he exits right now and he ends it quickly, the chaos is still going to be enormous.
21:50And even if it continues, it's going to burn to the ground.
21:53Democrats bribed the Iranians.
21:55They took the money, made missiles and enriched uranium.
21:59Trump's now taking it out.
22:00So future generations don't have to.
22:03And he's willing to pay a political price to do it.
22:06Sure, it would have been politically safer to do nothing and let the problem fester.
22:11But he took a risk.
22:12And as an American, Republican or Democrat or whatever, you should pray that it pays off.
22:18Because if this operation is successful, everyone, including our children, will be safer and wealthier.
22:24We're not saying it's going to be easy.
22:26It's not.
22:27The Iranians aren't going to go down without a fight.
22:30The FBI is warning that the regime has been plotting a drone attack on California.
22:35We've already stopped Iranian assassination plots before.
22:38And hopefully we stop this.
22:40But the left says we won't.
22:43We just came from a two-hour closed-door classified briefing on the war.
22:49It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent.
22:53We are not going to be able to achieve any of our stated objectives.
22:57This is a disaster of epic proportions.
23:00We can bet pretty safely that Iran has a higher pain threshold than Donald Trump.
23:08Losing your leader, Air Force, Navy, and ballistic missiles is a disaster for Iran, not for Donald Trump.
23:15In no way is a weeks-long aerial campaign against Iran more painful for us than them, okay?
23:22Our main objective has almost already been achieved.
23:26They're almost completely disarmed.
23:28Deep down, Democrats know this.
23:30They know we're winning.
23:31They're just mad Trump's behind it.
23:34And they want them to stop so they can call it a loss and go back to talking about their
23:38favorite topic.
23:40Trump claims we are way ahead of schedule on the war.
23:43He's got a schedule, which means it should be over just around the time we see his taxes and the
23:48rest of the Trump-Epstein files.
23:49Ironically, this war he launched to distract us from those could turn out to be more damaging to him than
23:56the Trump-Epstein files themselves.
23:59So Trump 86, the Ayatollah, to distract from Epstein?
24:02The weekend after the Clintons testified.
24:06You mean the Epstein story that about a half-dozen Democrats have been forced to resign over?
24:11Are we talking about the same thing?
24:13And get this from the view.
24:15Trump went to war, so we'd stop talking about Nancy Guthrie.
24:20You know, I was thinking about it yesterday because I thought, well, okay, why haven't we been talking about Savannah
24:28Guthrie and what's going on there?
24:30Why haven't we not been talking about the Epstein files?
24:35Because that's still there.
24:37This is meant to get us so worked up that we are unable to see anything else.
24:46And suddenly Democrats care about gas prices.
24:50People aren't happy, and why would they be?
24:52I mean, the price increases have gotten insane.
24:55And you mentioned the monthly difference.
24:57So much of that price spike has happened just in the last week and a half since the war started.
25:03Trump's had oil at 60 bucks a barrel, both terms.
25:07It briefly spiked into the 80s because we killed the Ayatollah, and it should go back down.
25:12Oil was in the 80s all four years under Biden.
25:17For what?
25:17Nothing.
25:18Nothing.
25:19What did we get out of it besides inflation?
25:22They actually bragged about high energy prices so we could transition to green.
25:26Did we?
25:27No.
25:28Gas prices are still lower today when we're at war with Iran than they were under Biden.
25:34Hopefully it's a small, quick price to pay to take out the nation's number one sponsor of terror.
25:40Many Americans get it.
25:42The end result is what we're doing, and I think it's a good thing.
25:46Iran with a Western-friendly government would be a complete game-changer for the Middle East,
25:52which understandably would affect oil prices positively.
25:56The president's at war in the Middle East, and he's still more popular than Barack Obama and George Bush at
26:02this point in their second terms.
26:04But this doesn't mean the war is without risk.
26:07You can't keep prices high too long, especially going into Memorial Day.
26:11When the operation winds down, energy does go lower, and the president can ride that drop through the summer and
26:17be set up better for the midterms this fall.
26:21Many people are saying Trump could declare victory tomorrow, and the mission could still be a success.
26:28You can criticize this a hundred ways to Sunday.
26:30The metric of success, which is the metric he intended, was to do as much as possible to degrade Iran's
26:36capabilities.
26:37Again, naval, missile, nuclear, command and control, terror.
26:43The metric of success was to degrade them as much as possible with as little cost and blood and treasure
26:47as possible.
26:48But if he stopped today, he would have succeeded more than every president combined.
26:52Benny Johnson's the host of The Benny Johnson Show.
26:54Benny, I cannot believe Democrats are calling this thing a disaster.
26:57It's 10 days in, and I don't see how you could call it that.
27:01Do you?
27:04No, I don't, Jesse, but I think I know what's actually going on here.
27:09You see, President Trump, before becoming president, and the first one in American history to run and win a second
27:16time,
27:16was a host of a reality TV game show called The Apprentice.
27:21So Trump actually likes raising the stakes.
27:24And that's personally what I believe is going on here, the world's highest stakes game of, I know you are,
27:31but what am I?
27:32What President Trump is doing is proving that Democrats will be against anything that he is for.
27:40What President Trump is for, they will fight against.
27:43This was perfectly displayed at the State of the Union when Democrats were against the U.S. hockey gold medalist
27:51team.
27:52They actually wrote op-eds attacking U.S. Olympian gold medalists.
27:57When President Trump yeets a communist dictator, black bags him in the dark of night,
28:02and then lobs a couple heaters into the Hugo Chavez memorial on their way out just for fun with Delta
28:08Force,
28:09Democrats were against that.
28:11They were rending their garments and screaming and weeping as Maduro was frog-marched through New York City.
28:17Democrats are against voter I.D.
28:19They say so explicitly, proving once again that they are not for the American people as they proved during the
28:26State of the Union
28:26when they wouldn't stand when Donald Trump pushed this game to the limits and said,
28:32are you for Americans or criminal aliens?
28:34Democrats wouldn't stand up.
28:36They lose every single round.
28:37Ding, ding, ding, ding.
28:39And here we are killing the Ayatollah, somebody who has caused enormous amounts of horror and tragedy and suffering
28:47for American soldiers in the Mideast, not to mention everybody else who lives there.
28:52And the Democrats are against that as well.
28:54I'm just surprised, Jesse, that a left-wing federal judge hasn't ruled that the Ayatollah is still in charge of
29:02Iran and alive.
29:04I mean, is the Democrat strategy to put the Ayatollah back in power?
29:10Because that's what it seems like.
29:12Do they want to go back in time and say, Trump shouldn't have killed him and all of his henchmen,
29:16and he should have just left the missiles pointed right at us?
29:21Yeah, I mean, I think they'd change a lot if they had a flux capacitor and could go back in
29:25time.
29:26I'm not sure they would have let the whole Joe Biden, Kamala Harris era play out the way it did.
29:31But nonetheless, they are very upset at this, and they're very angry that what they've got instead of an Ayatollah
29:38in Iran is the cardboard Ayatollah.
29:40I'm not sure if you've seen this.
29:42Yes.
29:42It's one of my favorite things out there.
29:44They have a brand-new cardboard Ayatollah.
29:46It kind of looks like a pizza box from Domino's.
29:49I don't think things are going very well there.
29:52And the best part about Trump's wars, Jesse, is that they're over faster than the majority of the country can
29:58decide whether they're for or against them.
30:01I pray that that's what happens here.
30:03It seems like that's what's going to happen.
30:05And everyone can just wake up and, like, look at their ex-feed and go, oh, am I supposed to
30:10be upset about this?
30:11I also find it, just one final thing, particularly rich, that in your opening clip from MSNBC,
30:17that individual is saying that Donald Trump's an addict and addicted to some type of opioid.
30:22Yet I bet that same journalist didn't ever ask a single question about the baggies of cocaine left in the
30:29White House.
30:29I assure you, there's no baggies with Donald Trump.
30:32Just winning, just winning, Jesse.
30:35They're upset about the winning.
30:37They'd rather Americans be suffering because we're losing and humiliated like we did under Biden.
30:42All right, Benny Johnson from The Benny Johnson Show.
30:44I like what you did with that name.
30:45That was good.
30:48Epstein's money man goes under oath.
30:53Those hail and vicious winds across the Midwest and South.
30:57So far, there have been multiple fatalities.
31:00Fox weather correspondent Robert Ray is live in Little Village, Indiana.
31:04Robert.
31:07Yeah, greetings, Jesse, and everyone here from Lake Village, Indiana.
31:11And this is where two people lost their life last night as a long track supercell began around Kankakee, Illinois.
31:20Look at this video.
31:21Kankakee is about 30 miles to the west of where we are at right now.
31:26And that system tracked for well over 100 miles.
31:30It ripped apart communities, structures all over the place, power outages, and dropped incredible amounts of rain and hail.
31:39Searchers have been going through the debris all day looking for a miracle.
31:45And thankfully, we have learned that there is no more search going on tomorrow.
31:51But National Weather Service will be out here assessing what the EF damage will be.
31:56In Kankakee, we already have a preliminary EF3 that is over 150 mile-an-hour winds.
32:03Remarkable.
32:04And if you think about it, in the past week, 10 people have died from severe weather and tornadoes.
32:10Four in Oklahoma, two in Indiana last night, and four in Michigan over the weekend, Jesse.
32:15And I just want to show you something.
32:18The hail that fell, hailstones in the past 24 hours here,
32:22as big as the bricks that have fallen off of these buildings because of the tornadoes.
32:27Larger than grapefruit.
32:29Unbelievable.
32:30Unprecedented.
32:30We just hope that these systems will not come back up soon.
32:35It's been a heck of a beginning.
32:36It's a severe season.
32:38And again, two people have lost their life here in this town on the border of Indiana and Illinois.
32:44Jesse.
32:45Unbelievable.
32:45Thank you so much for that report.
32:49Another Fox News alert, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime accountant, Richard Kahn,
32:53just got deposed by the House Oversight Committee.
32:56Senior National Correspondent Kevin Cork joins us now.
32:59Kevin.
33:00Even to Jesse.
33:01Epstein's accountant, Richard Kahn, was the co-executor of the late convicted sex traffickers
33:07estate for more than 10 years.
33:09And he actually was very interesting in his conversation with lawmakers today.
33:12And this is important.
33:14He mentioned five men who allegedly paid for Epstein's enterprise.
33:19We've been asking forever, where did the money come from for him to run this scam?
33:23Well, he named billionaire businessman Les Wexner, hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin, investor
33:29Steven Sanofsky, the Rothschilds, a wealthy banking family, and private equity investor Leon
33:36Black.
33:36Now, in his prepared remarks, Kahn said Epstein had massive expenditures.
33:41It gave gifts and money to lots of women and men, adding that this is Kahn again, saying
33:47he didn't see any red flags for abuse or trafficking in relation to that money.
33:52Still, some Democrats came out of the hearings trying to suggest a link between the president
33:57and Epstein.
33:58In fact, one from the state of Washington, said that a so-called accuser of the president
34:03got money from a survivor fund managed by Mr. Kahn.
34:08But committee chair Comer sussed that out.
34:11He made it clear there was still no link, no tie, no connection established between Kahn,
34:17Epstein's money, and the president.
34:20Mr. Kahn testified under oath that, because the Democrats asked this question, that he
34:25had never seen any type of transaction to Trump or anyone in his family.
34:30That makes the fifth witness now that's testified under oath, that they've never seen any involvement
34:36by Donald Trump or their family.
34:39Did you hear that?
34:40The fifth witness who's made that clear.
34:43Of course, the point of the interview is to follow the money, find some answers about
34:47who got paid, how they got paid, and why they got paid.
34:52To date, it appears with the records we've obtained, that there are somewhere around at
34:59least 64 entities affiliated with Epstein that we've discovered, LLCs, companies, different
35:07things like that.
35:08So there were a lot of entities.
35:09There was a lot of money that was being transferred around.
35:14So we want to find out as much as we can, and hopefully that will lead to more transparency
35:23and hopefully some accountability.
35:26Meantime, California Congressman Ro Khanna says that accountant knows a lot about what
35:31happened behind closed doors, which is why his testimony is absolutely crucial.
35:36For his part, the president has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein, and the
35:41House calls accusations by that so-called accuser completely baseless.
35:46Jesse.
35:47Kevin, thank you so much.
35:49You bet.
35:51Kathy Lee Gifford on deck for Cooler.
35:58Bring in former talk show host and author of the new book, Nero and Paul, Kathy Lee Gifford.
36:05Tell us a little bit about this book, Kathy.
36:07Do you really want to know?
36:09No.
36:09No, I know you don't.
36:11Don't waste my time.
36:12What do you want to get to?
36:13All right.
36:14Go ahead.
36:14Tell me a little bit about it.
36:15This is a second in a series that we are doing, along with a wonderful co-author that
36:20I work with.
36:20And my son suggested a long time ago, Mom, take this fascination and this obsession with
36:27that you have for these amazing epic characters in the Bible, the evil ones.
36:32You know, there's so many.
36:33And Mom, let's write thrillers.
36:36Let's write thrillers.
36:37And because it's so cinematic, these stories.
36:40And let's take the need for hope in this world, because everybody needs a little bit
36:46more hope in this world.
36:47And I don't know about you, but people ask me all the time, is the world more evil than
36:51it used to be?
36:52Because it seems like it, right?
36:53I said, well, you know, you go back to the beginning of everything, if you believe in
36:58Adam and Eve, either metaphorically or as literally, then, you know, Satan was right
37:04there in the garden, the same time that the Father, Jehovah God, was walking in the cool
37:08of the evening with Adam and Eve.
37:10It's always been there.
37:11Evil has always been there.
37:13And what do we do about evil?
37:14We have to confront it?
37:16Yes, we do.
37:16And it flees when you do.
37:18But you also have to understand that the presence of God is so much greater than any evil that's
37:24around us.
37:25We have to under...
37:26The scripture talks about how we fight against not flesh and blood, but powers and principalities.
37:31They're real.
37:32They are.
37:33And sometimes we fight with our spouse, like Michelle.
37:38She's talking about her marriage again, Michelle Obama.
37:40Oh.
37:41And let me just say, Kathy, there were some bad years.
37:44Listen.
37:44You can go through 10 years, bad years, right?
37:48In a 30-year marriage.
37:50Yeah.
37:50And that's still great odds.
37:52In any long relationship, there are going to be years, months, hours, long periods of time
37:58if you add it all up where things just don't feel right.
38:01The level of muscle that Barack and I have in our marriage is earned.
38:06It's earned over time.
38:07Right.
38:08And it's only gotten better.
38:09And I think that's the point.
38:11It gets better.
38:12And then if you quit too soon, you'll rob yourself of the success of the better, the work that
38:18goes in.
38:20Do you have any marriage advice?
38:21Why didn't you book her tonight?
38:23I mean, come on.
38:25So do you have any advice for the Obamas?
38:27No, I'm not going to waste my time on it.
38:29God bless them.
38:30I wish them happiness.
38:31Can we waste some time on Sidney Sweeney?
38:33Remember how they said she had great genes and they called her a Nazi?
38:37She's a beautiful girl.
38:37Well, now Dakota Johnson from Fifty Shades, my second favorite book behind this one.
38:43She has a new genes ad.
38:45No one's calling her racist.
38:47Look at that.
38:48Isn't that...
38:49Isn't that...
38:50You know what?
38:50Let everybody be.
38:52You know, I think she's a beautiful young woman.
38:54I've done commercials all my life.
38:56In the morning, in the evening, and we got fun.
38:59You know what?
39:00Sold a lot of Carnival Cruise Lines.
39:02We're all just making a living.
39:03We're all trying to make a living.
39:04But the point is...
39:04I even bought Sidney Sweeney's underwear.
39:07Look, she sent me some.
39:09She sent me a little letter to...
39:11She signed it from Sid, and she kissed it.
39:14Look at that.
39:15Can you believe that?
39:15You want me to kiss the book I just signed for you?
39:18Please kiss this.
39:19Just the book, though.
39:20I'm going to do it.
39:21I'm going to do it.
39:22But now ask me about my book, or I'm never coming on here again.
39:25We love you, and I think you will.
39:26That's the end?
39:27We're from time.
39:30Butters, and this is my world.
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