00:00So, thank you very much for being here.
00:04We have a wonderful group of very, very smart, talented patriots at this table.
00:13Our powerful military campaign to end the threats posed by the Iranian regime continued
00:20in full force over the past few days.
00:24They have been literally obliterated.
00:27The Air Force is gone.
00:30The Navy is gone.
00:33Many, many ships have been sunk.
00:35They're warfighting ships, but I guess they didn't know how to use them.
00:40And anti-aircraft is decimated.
00:43Their radar is gone.
00:45And their leaders are gone.
00:45Other than that, they're doing quite well.
00:49They've been at terror for 47 years.
00:54And now, I guess, the world through the United States, with the help of Israel, is doing what
01:04should have been done many years ago.
01:06It should have been done many years ago.
01:08Since the beginning of the conflict, we've struck more than 7,000 targets across Iran.
01:14And these have been mostly commercial and military targets.
01:20We've achieved a 90 percent reduction in their ballistic missile launches and a 95 percent
01:27reduction in drone attacks.
01:29The missiles are trickling in now at very low levels because they don't have too many missiles
01:38left.
01:39We've also attacked the manufacturing plants, the places where they manufacture the missiles
01:46and the drones.
01:47And that's going on today.
01:49We just hit three of them today.
01:50And it's getting very hard for them to manufacture.
01:55More than 100 Iranian naval vessels have been sunk or destroyed over the last week and a
02:01half.
02:02That has to be some kind of a record.
02:05Additional strikes continue to launch from all directions every single hour.
02:10And, as you know, we attacked Carg Island and knocked it, knocked it literally, destroyed
02:18everything on the island except for the area where the oil is.
02:22I call it the pipes.
02:23We left the pipes.
02:25We didn't want to do that, but we will do that.
02:28We can do that on five minutes' notice.
02:31It'll be over.
02:32But for purposes of someday rebuilding that country, I guess we did the right thing.
02:39But it may not stay that way.
02:42Just one simple word and the pipes will be gone, too.
02:45But it'll take a long time to rebuild that.
02:48We are aggressively dismantling Iran's defense industrial base and ability to rebuild its missiles
02:55and drone capability is getting down to close to zero.
02:59And we're hammering their capacity to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz with
03:06more than 30 mine-laying ships destroyed.
03:10We hit, to the best of our knowledge, all of their mine-laying ships.
03:14Now they can put them on other types of ships, I guess, and drop them in.
03:17But we don't know that any have even been dropped in.
03:20We're not sure that any have been.
03:22That's a big negative for them if they do it.
03:24It's a form of suicide.
03:26But we don't know that they have dropped any in.
03:29But we've hit all 30 of their ships and destroyed them.
03:34They're all at the bottom of the sea.
03:37We strongly encourage other nations whose economies depend on the Strait far more than ours.
03:42You know, we get less than 1 percent of our oil from the Strait.
03:47And some countries get much more â Japan gets 95 percent.
03:52China gets 90 percent.
03:53Many of the Europeans get quite a â quite a bit.
03:57South Korea gets 35 percent.
03:59So we want them to come and help us with the Strait.
04:04We have it in very good shape.
04:06The countries â I said, we've already taken care of Iran.
04:09But now, because of the fact that literally a single terrorist can put something in the
04:15water or shoot something or shoot a missile â a small missile â and it's fairly close
04:20range because it is a tight area, and â which is one of the reasons they've always used
04:26that as a weapon.
04:28Iran has always used that as an economic weapon.
04:31And it's not going to be able to use â be used very long.
04:37Numerous countries have told me they're on the way.
04:40Some are very enthusiastic about it, and some aren't.
04:44Some are countries that we've helped for many, many years.
04:47We've protected them from horrible outside sources.
04:53And they weren't that enthusiastic.
04:57And the level of enthusiasm matters to me.
05:01We have some countries where we have 45,000 soldiers â great soldiers â protecting them
05:07from harm's way.
05:10And we have done a great job.
05:14And we want to know, do you have any minesweepers?
05:18Well, we'd rather not get involved, sir.
05:21I said, for â you mean, for 40 years we're protecting you, and you don't want to get involved
05:25in something that is very minor?
05:28Very few shots are going to be taken because they don't have many shots left.
05:32But they said, we'd rather not get involved.
05:36I just want the fake news media and everybody else to remember that that was said because
05:43when â and I've been a big critic of all of the protecting of countries because I know
05:48that we'll protect them.
05:51And if ever needed â if we ever needed help, they won't be there for us.
05:56I've just known that for a long period of time.
05:58Just like I knew about the strait that it would be a weapon, which I predicted a long time ago.
06:05I predicted all of this stuff.
06:07You guys were very generous in that.
06:08I predicted â or all of it.
06:09I predicted Osama bin Laden would knock out the World Trade Center.
06:15I made that prediction a year before he did it.
06:17I said, you better get him.
06:17He's a bad guy.
06:18I watched him be interviewed one time, and I said, that's a bad guy.
06:23You better get him.
06:24And one year before exactly â I wrote it in a book.
06:27You can even check â about a year before the World Trade Center then came down.
06:34President Clinton actually had a shot at him, and he didn't take it, unfortunately.
06:38I'm not blaming him for that, but he didn't take it.
06:40And he ended up knocking down the World Trade Center.
06:45But I predicted that, too.
06:46I predicted a lot of things.
06:47We strongly encourage other nations whose economies depend on the strait for blood.
06:56I mean, you know, these people literally need it.
07:00Ninety â ninety-five percent of their energy or their oil comes out of the strait, and
07:05they should be in here very happily helping us.
07:09And it's incredible.
07:11We have such great â we're number one in oil by double now.
07:14We drill baby drill.
07:16We're double any other nation, and it's going to be soon triple any other nation.
07:21And that doesn't include Venezuela, who's been great.
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