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00:03¡Gracias!
00:30An unbreakable resolve was the same, from family after family.
00:35They said, finish this.
00:38Honor their sacrifice.
00:40Do not waiver.
00:42Do not stop until the job is done.
00:46My response, along with that of the president, was simple.
00:49Of course, we will finish this.
00:52We will honor their sacrifice.
00:54Their sacrifice only steals our commitment.
00:59I wear this bracelet.
01:01Staff Sergeant Jorge Oliveira.
01:04He was one of my sergeants, or one of my specialists in Guantanamo Bay.
01:08He deployed later to Afghanistan, where he was killed on 19 October 2011.
01:13Killed 10 years after 9-11, 15 years ago.
01:16He was one of the 1%, the best of America.
01:20Not just a guardsman, but a law enforcement officer back home, and a family man.
01:25I remember him every day, just like so many other men and women of our generation,
01:30and previous generations who wear bracelets like this.
01:33Just as we will always remember those lost in this conflict.
01:38Their names are now etched into our mission.
01:44And into the soul of a grateful nation.
01:47I stand here today, speaking to you, the American people.
01:54Not through filters.
01:56Not through reporters.
01:59Not through cable news spin.
02:02A dishonest and anti-Trump press will stop at nothing.
02:06We know this at this point.
02:08To downplay progress.
02:11Amplify every cost.
02:13And call into question every step.
02:16Sadly, TDS is in their DNA.
02:21They want President Trump to fail.
02:23But you, the American people, know better.
02:28Yes, there are reporters in front of me.
02:31But they are not our audience today.
02:34It's you, the good, decent, patriotic American people.
02:38You, the hardworking, tax-paying, God-fearing American patriots.
02:45The media here, not all of it, but much of it, wants you to think just 19 days into this
02:55conflict that we're somehow spinning toward an endless abyss or a forever war or a quagmire.
03:02Nothing could be further from the truth.
03:06Hear it from me.
03:07One of hundreds of thousands who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan.
03:12Who watched previous foolish politicians like Bush, Obama, and Biden squander American credibility.
03:20This is not those wars.
03:24President Trump knows better.
03:28Epic Fury is different.
03:30It's laser focused.
03:31It's decisive.
03:32Our objectives, given directly from our America first president, remain exactly what they were on day one.
03:41These are not the media's objectives, not Iran's objectives, not new objectives, our objectives, unchanged, on target, and on plan.
03:56Destroy missiles, launchers, and Iran's defense industrial base so they cannot rebuild.
04:03Destroy their navy, and Iran never gets a nuclear weapon.
04:08Understand our objectives from day one.
04:12To the patriotic members of the press, nobody can deliver perfection in wartime.
04:18This building knows that more than anyone.
04:21But report the reality.
04:24We're winning decisively and on our terms.
04:30Iran is a vast country, and just like Hamas and their tunnels,
04:34they've poured any aid, any economic development, humanitarian aid, into tunnels and rockets.
04:40That's what they did with Hamas.
04:42Iran has funneled decades of state resources, not to their people,
04:46but into missiles and drones and proxies and buried facilities.
04:53But we are hunting them down, methodically, ruthlessly, and overwhelmingly,
04:59like no other military in the world can do.
05:02And the results speak for themselves.
05:05To date, we've struck over 7,000 targets across Iran and its military infrastructure.
05:10That is not incremental.
05:12That is overwhelming force applied with precision.
05:15And again, today will be the largest strike package yet, just like yesterday was.
05:21As I've said from day one, our capabilities continue to build.
05:24Iran's continue to degrade.
05:26We're hunting and striking death and destruction from above.
05:33Iran's air defenses flattened.
05:35Iran's defense industrial base, the factories, the production lines
05:39that feed their missile and drone programs, being overwhelmingly destroyed.
05:44We've hit hundreds of their defense industrial bases directly.
05:49Their ability to manufacture new ballistic missiles
05:51has probably taken the hardest hit of all.
05:54Ballistic missile attacks against our forces, down 90% since the start of the conflict.
05:59Same with one-way attack UAVs.
06:01Think kamikaze drones, down 90%.
06:04Now, the Iranians will still shoot, we know that.
06:06But they would shoot a lot more if they could.
06:09But they can't.
06:12The last job anyone in the world wants right now?
06:15Senior leader for the IRGC.
06:18Or besiege.
06:20Temp jobs.
06:21All of them.
06:23And to borrow a page from Admiral Ernest King in World War II,
06:27we've decided to share the ocean with Iran.
06:31We've given them the bottom half.
06:34We've damaged or sunk over 120 of their Navy ships
06:38with battle damage assessments pending for many more.
06:41See, oftentimes we have to wait a few days on battle damage assessment
06:44to get the real number.
06:46Their surface fleet is no longer a factor.
06:48Their submarines, they once had 11, are gone.
06:50Their military ports are crippled.
06:53Iran has terrorized the United States and our interests for 47 years.
07:00Their core industries, not steel or agriculture or tourism,
07:06their core industries are state-sponsored terrorism,
07:09proxy militias, underground networks, ballistic missiles,
07:13and a violent, messianic, Islamist ideology
07:17chasing some sort of apocalyptic endgame.
07:21A regime like that, refusing to abandon its nuclear ambitions,
07:26is not just a regional problem.
07:28It's a direct threat to America, to freedom, and to civilization.
07:34The world, the Middle East, our ungrateful allies in Europe,
07:40even segments of our own press,
07:42should be saying one thing to President Trump.
07:45Thank you.
07:47Thank you for the courage to stop this terror state
07:50from holding the world hostage with missiles
07:53while building or attempting to build a nuclear bomb.
07:56Thank you for doing the work of the free world.
08:02Yesterday's ceremony reminded us why we fight.
08:06Not for nation-building or democracy promotion,
08:09but to crush direct threats to America,
08:14Americans, and our interests.
08:16We fight to win, and we are winning,
08:20on our terms, following our objectives.
08:25My 13-year-old son popped into my office last night
08:28while I was editing these remarks.
08:31He asked about the war and the families I met at Dover.
08:36And I looked at him and I said,
08:37they died for you, son,
08:41so that your generation doesn't have to deal
08:44with a nuclear Iran.
08:47It's the truth.
08:48And they did.
08:50So to the families who said, finish this, we will.
08:55And I say the same to every American who wants peace through strength.
09:01May Almighty God continue to bless our troops in this fight.
09:05And again, to the American people, please pray for them.
09:09Every day, on bended knee, with your family, in your schools, in your churches, in the name of Jesus Christ.
09:20To the troops, keep going.
09:24And Godspeed.
09:26Over to you, Mr. Chair.
09:27Target numbers you laid out.
09:28How close would you say we are towards achieving the president's objectives?
09:33And what is the endgame of the operation without divulging any sensitive battle plans?
09:37Well, we wouldn't want to set a definitive time frame on that.
09:39But as we've said, we're on plan.
09:41So we're looking at those metrics very closely,
09:43relaying that to the president and the national security team.
09:46But feel confident that as, again, we're more stand in,
09:50means we're over the top, even further in.
09:52And we have even more of an exact sense of what we're striking and why,
09:57and even more dynamically.
09:58Meaning, because the intelligence improves,
10:00we're able to more quickly identify targets when they,
10:03let's say they come out of an underground facility,
10:05where they've been hiding and able to strike it before it strikes
10:08or right after it shoots.
10:09But we are very much on plan.
10:11And that's why I want to speak to the American people here.
10:14You hear a lot of noise about widening or new missions
10:18or speculation about what we should or should not be doing.
10:21This is a clear set of objectives.
10:23The president has given us every capability we need to accomplish that.
10:26We've got the best in the world in uniform executing it on the ground.
10:30They believe in and are invested in this mission.
10:33And it will be at the president's choosing, ultimately, where we say,
10:37hey, we've achieved what we need to on behalf of the American people
10:40to ensure our security.
10:42So no time set on that, but we're very much on track.
10:45Absolutely.
10:46Yes, right here.
10:47Good morning, Mr. Secretary.
10:49David Zier, Real America's Voice News.
10:52What countries have been the most cooperative with us,
10:54including the Gulf states, as Europe hedges?
10:57And I also wanted to ask you, the Internet blackouts by the regime.
11:02It's been shut down for weeks.
11:03Is the U.S. military playing a role in, you know,
11:07fighting against the regime, blocking VPN networks and satellites and other things?
11:13Is there a role for the U.S. military there?
11:17Obviously, on the allies and partners side,
11:20Israel, from day one, has been an incredible and capable partner, willing and able.
11:25There's nothing like capabilities and partners that are able to use them.
11:29The Gulf states have stepped up incredibly.
11:31In fact, Iran's sort of reckless attempt to strike civilian infrastructure and other things
11:37has brought countries who maybe would have not been as all in as they are today
11:42squarely into our orbit.
11:44And we're proud to be defending with them, standing with them, you name it.
11:49UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and others who have been right there.
11:54And we're grateful for that kind of support.
11:56As far as the Internet, we're watching the regime try to tighten its grip as much as possible.
12:01We're obviously taking countermeasures, many of which we can't talk about here,
12:06to ensure that messaging is delivered, not just to the Iranian people writ large,
12:11but to the right audiences, certain audiences that need to hear certain things
12:14about what their fate might look like or what their choices are.
12:17So even though that regime is trying really hard to ensure the world can't see, right?
12:22They want to put out fake AI-generated images, which, by the way,
12:26sometimes our press happens to fall for, like the Abraham Lincoln on fire and turning around.
12:30These AI-generated images are meant to make it look like something's happening
12:34when the exact opposite is.
12:35So they make up fake reports and fake images to lie to their own people to try to make it.
12:42But even then, their own people can barely receive a lot of those messages
12:44and communicate because of the blackout that they've imposed upon them.
12:47But we work around that, for sure.
12:51Thank you, Mr. Secretary.
12:52General, overnight, Iran launched missiles across the Gulf.
12:56They managed to hit the Saudi oil refinery on the Red Sea.
13:01What does it mean that they have that capability now, three weeks into the war?
13:06And, Mr. Secretary, you mentioned civilian infrastructure.
13:10Iran seems to be treating U.S. diplomatic outposts, embassies, consulates,
13:15like they are legitimate hard targets in the region now.
13:21What is the Pentagon doing to, I guess, secure those assets, stop those attacks?
13:26Absolutely.
13:27Thanks for the question on the missile strikes.
13:30You know, as we said and have always said clearly,
13:32they came into this fight with a lot of weapons.
13:36This is why we continue to be as aggressive and assertive as we can
13:41against their ballistic missile capability,
13:44both their medium-range ballistic missile capability
13:46and their short-range missile capability.
13:49So we are continuing to hunt and find them and kill them,
13:52and we will continue to do so.
13:55So they still retain some capability.
13:57And we have layered defenses throughout the region that will allow us to protect those.
14:02And we're working with our partners across the Gulf region
14:05to help them improve any defensive capabilities that they may need.
14:09To that point on capabilities, you know, Iran is an energy-rich country, could be, should be.
14:15Instead, like so many other places driven by a radical ideology,
14:18they've spent that money instead of investing in their people.
14:21And that's why you had millions of Iranians protesting,
14:25because they felt like their condition, quality of life didn't match what it could be or should be.
14:28And what was the Iranian state?
14:30There's a reason we call Iran the number one state sponsor of terrorism,
14:34because they took the money they make and they invested in tunnels,
14:38and they invested in missiles, and they invested in launchers and UAVs.
14:41And we are destroying and degrading that in historic proportions,
14:45but it doesn't mean they won't still have some and try to hold people at issue,
14:48which is why we're fighting every single day to continue to compel.
14:52And you mentioned embassies and consulates.
14:54Unlike previous administrations, we are doubling and tripling down on ensuring that our people,
15:00regardless of their Department of War, Department of State, whatever they do,
15:04are secure in those facilities.
15:05And the best defense is a good offense.
15:08And so we're not afraid to go after and kill anybody.
15:11And we have a lot of them attempting to target our diplomatic facilities.
15:16Iran, you know, we're not surprised that they would indiscriminately target,
15:20and we're still seeing that.
15:21Jerry.
15:23As part of the justification for the war against Iran,
15:27the White House has laid out in fairly comprehensive fashion that Iran,
15:30the Iranian regime's 47 years of terrorism aimed at the U.S.,
15:35including pointing to the IRGC's provision of weapons and EFPs to help kill Americans in Iraq.
15:42The Pentagon in 2019 assessed Iran was responsible for the deaths of at least 603 service members in Iraq.
15:49But there hasn't been a similar accounting, public accounting,
15:53by Iran's role helping the Taliban in Afghanistan.
15:58And that also hasn't been part of the White House's public argument.
16:01I was wondering if you could speak to Iran's role in helping the Taliban during the war in Afghanistan.
16:09And, Chairman, as you and the Secretary eloquently spoke about,
16:1513 U.S. service members have been killed so far during Operation Epic Fury.
16:20I was wondering what lessons have been learned from those deaths,
16:25both from Iranian strikes, from an aircraft refueling accident.
16:29How are those lessons being applied to the current conflict?
16:32And how are those lessons going to be applied to a potential conflict in Indo-Pacon?
16:37Thank you.
16:38Well, thank you for the question.
16:40And it's true.
16:41In a town that can have a very short memory, President Trump does not.
16:45He remembers what this regime, Iranian regime, was founded on,
16:49what their declaration has been from the beginning, death to America, death to Israel.
16:54They've stated that.
16:56They've intended to, in every way, try to accomplish that,
16:59killing Americans in any theater they can, embassies for a long, for quite a long time.
17:04In Iraq, that was the deadliest weapon, was the EFP, the explosively formed penetrator.
17:09I was there when that tactic and technique started to emerge.
17:12And the realization was, it wasn't just jihadis putting together 155 rounds, daisy chained.
17:18It was an entire state, a country with its apparatus,
17:22apparatus able to mold steel in a way that was specifically designed to penetrate American armor and kill Americans.
17:28This was not, oh, maybe we send them a couple of thoughts about how to build a bomb.
17:32This was Iran specifically passing technology and wherewithal and personnel into Iraq to kill Americans specifically.
17:41I know the number is said to be 600.
17:43A lot of us think it's higher than that, given the amount of capability they brought in.
17:47So they have been at war with us, whether we acknowledge it or not, for 47 years.
17:51The same goes in Afghanistan.
17:53Name the Islamist enemy, whether they are Sunni or Shia, because this is a Shia regime, Sunni or Shia.
17:59And Iran's been willing to harbor them as long as that group is willing to try to kill Americans.
18:05So the enemy of their enemy has been their friend as well in the Islamist world.
18:09So Iran, whether it's Iraq, whether it's Afghanistan, whether it's around the world, has been targeting Americans.
18:15And what they wanted in this context and what President Trump would not tolerate is a regime of that nature
18:21being closer and closer to nuclear capabilities,
18:24a capability they would have said they would want to use, and we ought believe what our enemies say they
18:29would do if they got the most dangerous weapon in the world.
18:32So it's been across every theater that Iran's been a threat to America.
18:36And sometimes we have to remind folks of that.
18:39But thank goodness we have a commander in chief who, on behalf of this country, has internalized that and said,
18:45hey, we're going to do something about it.
18:47As you said, at the end of this war, Iran will be without a missile or drone capability, a navy
18:52or the ability to make nuclear weapons.
18:54Since the largest threat and sponsor of terror in the region will be incapacitated, are there plans to move assets
19:00and troops out of the Middle East?
19:02I guess in a perfect world, a year after the war has ended, what does the military presence in the
19:07Middle East look like compared to before the war?
19:10Well, I appreciate the question. I do think when you address a real threat head on, it creates new options
19:18on the other side.
19:19I think what President Trump refuses to do, which too often this town does, is just sit in the status
19:25quo.
19:25Oh, nobody can do about that. They've got too much capability. What if this happens? What if that happens?
19:30He instead says, what's in the interest of the American people? It's going to take some courage. It's going to
19:34take some capabilities.
19:35We're going to have to gather some forces there in order to do it. We're not going to tell people
19:39how many or how long or what we're willing to do or what we're not willing to do.
19:43But if you do that and do that decisively, then out the other end is a recognition that it opens
19:48the aperture of what's possible.
19:50I mean, President Trump did the same thing in creating an opportunity for the Abraham Accords.
19:54Now you've got a situation where a lot of those countries are coming alongside us recognizing the threat of Iran.
19:59So I think our posture in the future will be based first and foremost on our own national security, power
20:06projection, the ability to defend our people and our interests.
20:10But no doubt, working alongside our partners, the President will look at what makes the most sense going forward.
20:16I appreciate that question. Yes, right here.
20:17Is that the policy of the U.S. military now?
20:20Thank you, Secretary Hafton. Two questions for you.
20:23The Vice President has often emphasized that the goal of this war is to denuclearize Iran while also avoiding a
20:31larger quagmire.
20:32I know that you touched on this. I'd like you to expand on how do you do that?
20:36How do you denuclearize the country while also avoiding this, you know, forever war?
20:42And then there was a report last night that the Pentagon asked the White House for $200 billion for Iran
20:48war supplemental.
20:49Can you confirm this? And can you explain why a package this large is necessary?
20:56Well, first of all, none of this would have been possible without Midnight Hammer, without that audacious mission with very
21:01clear goals that did obliterate their ability to enrich and the capabilities they have in those facilities.
21:06So it created the conditions for Iran to step forward and say, OK, you can reach out and touch us
21:11like that in our nuclear ambitions.
21:12You can see that we're still trying to do this. Let's make a deal.
21:16And President Trump put our two best folks on it, Steve and Jared, and they worked diligently, earnestly.
21:21I watched it to try to pursue that deal.
21:23And ultimately, I think the whole time Iran sort of said, well, we'll talk as we build more missiles and
21:29as we build more UAVs.
21:30And we create this conventional umbrella so that if we chose to, we could try to reconstitute the program and
21:38sort of naively thinking that President Trump wouldn't do something about it.
21:41And that's why, as Secretary Rubio has said and I've said, it's the conventional umbrella that was growing and growing
21:47and growing that was meant to protect that nuclear capability.
21:50So you had to address both what happened with Midnight Hammer and what happened with that as well.
21:55As far as $200 billion, I think that number could move, obviously.
22:00It takes money to kill bad guys.
22:04So we're going back to Congress and our folks there to ensure that we're properly funded for what's been done,
22:11for what we may have to do in the future.
22:13Ensure that our ammunition is, everything's refilled and not just refilled, but above and beyond.
22:19I mean, President Trump, as he said, rebuilt the military in his first term.
22:22Didn't think he'd use it as dynamically in his second, but he had.
22:25So thank goodness he did that.
22:27And an investment like this is meant to say, hey, we'll replace anything that was spent.
22:31And now that we're reviving our defense industrial base and rebuilding the arsenal of freedom and cutting deals like our
22:36great deputy secretaries here is doing, long lead times on exquisite munitions, we're going to be refilled faster than anyone
22:42imagined.
22:44And I think, you know, we're also still dealing with the environment that Joe Biden created, which was which was
22:50depleting those stockholders and not sending them to our own military, but to Ukraine, which is when every time we
22:58reach back and look at any sort of a challenge we have, it goes back to, well, send it to
23:02Ukraine.
23:04Ultimately, we think this should be these these munitions are better spent in our own interests at this point.
23:09And this kind of funding bill is going to ensure that we're properly funded going forward.
23:14We'll take we'll take one more.
23:16Thanks, sir.
23:16Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
23:17Jordan Conradson with the Gateway Pundit.
23:20So with the strike yesterday on South Park's gas field, you know, if the U.S. didn't know about it
23:26or didn't approve of it, it kind of seems like a trend of Israel apparently pursuing their own objectives over
23:33U.S. objectives.
23:35I'm not sure if you agree with that, but the president has said he doesn't want to hit Iran's oil
23:39infrastructure right now.
23:41As you said, the U.S. avoided this on Park Island.
23:44Oil is nearing one hundred and twenty dollars.
23:46Why are we helping Israel prosecute this war if they're going to pursue their own objectives?
23:51We hold the cards.
23:53We have objectives.
23:55Those objectives are clear.
23:56We have allies pursuing objectives as well.
23:59And the truth speaks for itself.
24:01I mean, President Trump was very clear about that.
24:03Iran has weaponized energy for decades.
24:07Israel clearly sent a warning, and POTUS has made it clear, very clear.
24:11Iran knows when you hit Karg Island and you hit military capabilities on Karg Island, which is the only thing
24:18we hit, we can hold anything at issue, anything.
24:22The United States military controls the fate of that country.
24:25Iran has the ability to make the right choices.
24:28It should not, going forward, target Arab allies, Arab countries, trying to create pain, the pain that they created themselves.
24:37Thank you all very much.
24:38Appreciate it.
24:39Thank you for your time.
24:40Appreciate it.
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