00:00Well, you know what? When you do thousands and thousands of flights, and you have one plane shot down, and
00:05not mortally, the two pilots got out, they got a little bit lucky.
00:09And you know what? In war, you need a little bit of luck also. They got a little bit lucky.
00:13That's all they got.
00:14You said that Iran has no anti-aircraft equipment. How are they able to stop those?
00:20Well, you know what? When you do thousands and thousands of flights, and you have one plane shot down, and
00:25not mortally, the two pilots got out, they got a little bit lucky.
00:30And you know what? In war, you need a little bit of luck also. They got a little bit lucky.
00:33That's all they got.
00:34Had we not broken the Barack Hussein-Obama agreement, you know what I'm talking about, the Iran nuclear deal.
00:43This is years ago, my first term. You would have had a total... Israel would have been gone, extinguished.
00:50Israel would have been wiped off the face of the earth, and the entire Middle East would have been, at
00:55a minimum, in big trouble.
00:57But I did it. That was phase one. We killed Soleimani. Without Soleimani, if they had Soleimani, it would be
01:03a whole different thing.
01:04Maybe. We'd still be winning, but it would have been harder.
01:07Because we are obliterating that country. And I hate to do it, but we're obliterating. And they just don't want
01:13to say uncle.
01:14They don't want to cry as the expression goes, uncle. But they will. And if they don't, they'll have no
01:20bridges, they'll have no power plants, they'll have no anything.
01:24I won't go further, because there are other things that are worse than those two.
01:29And we might have, well, the thing, if I had my choice, what would I like to do? Take the
01:36oil.
01:37Because it's there for the taking. There's not a thing they can do about it.
01:40Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home.
01:43If it were up to me, I'd take the oil, I'd keep the oil, and would make plenty of money.
01:48And I'd also take care of the people of Iran, much better than they've been taken care of.
01:52It's been horrible. They've killed 45,000 people as of a month and a half ago. 45,000 protesters. We
02:00don't do that.
02:01So if I had my choice, I'd keep the oil. But I also want to make the people of our
02:06country happy.
02:07I think most people wouldn't understand that. I'll give you an example. Venezuela has worked out so incredibly.
02:14We have 100 million barrels of oil right now in Houston being refined. It's been great.
02:21The relationship with Venezuela, the leaders, has been fantastic.
02:24And I think we're going to have a long-term, very good relationship.
02:29And it might be beyond long-term. You understand what I'm saying.
02:41Well, I tell you what, I'm pretty good at this stuff. And I go around and I check.
02:45They'd like to see us win and come home.
02:48And I appreciate CNN for the first time maybe in my life.
02:51They did a poll.
02:52And everyone's saying, oh, is Trump losing MAGA?
02:55No, I'm not losing MAGA. MAGA loves what I'm doing.
02:57And CNN did a poll of MAGA voters, a big poll, very important poll, Harry.
03:02And he went on, he said, this is amazing, 100% support.
03:07He said, I've never had a 100% poll at anything before.
03:11And it's, do you support Trump, MAGA people?
03:13Which is, by the way, mostly Republican.
03:16If you look, I would say MAGA makes up a majority, like, about 95% of the Republican Party.
03:23All right? So they went out, they did a poll at CNN, Quebec, 100% support.
03:29So they support what we're doing.
03:32But they would like to see it end and come back.
03:35But remember, wars last years. We're in there for 34 days.
03:39And we've obliterated a very powerful country in 34 days.
03:44Yeah, if it were up to me, I'd like to keep the oil.
03:46I just don't think the people of the United States would really understand.
03:49How is it taking care of the Iranian people if you're part of me?
03:56Yeah, who are you with? Who are you with?
03:57Yes.
03:59Well, that's a radical group of lunatics if you're with.
04:02Let me just tell you, let me just tell you, very fair question.
04:06The Iranian people, when they don't hear bombs go up, they're upset.
04:12They want to hear bombs because they want to be free.
04:14And the only reason they're not out protesting, you know that, is because they were informed that if they protest,
04:21like the wrestler and his friends, if they protest, they will be shot immediately.
04:26And that's an edict. That's in writing.
04:29If they protest, if they go out in the streets, they will be immediately shot.
04:34They don't have guns.
04:35You know, we sent some guns, but the group that we're supposed to give, which I said would happen to
04:40my people, I said it, I called it exactly.
04:43We sent guns, a lot of guns.
04:45They were supposed to go to the people so they could fight back against these thugs.
04:49You know what happened?
04:50The people that they sent them to kept them because they said, what a beautiful gun, I think I'll keep
04:55it.
04:55So I'm very upset with a certain group of people, and they're going to pay a big price for that.
05:00But the Iranian people will fight back as soon as they know they're not going to be shot and as
05:06soon as they can get weapons.
05:08If they had weapons, not many of them, if they had weapons that would go the other way, and you
05:14know what would happen?
05:15Iran would give up in two seconds because they wouldn't be able to take it.
05:18But in Iran, they have absolutely no weaponry, and they've been told, point blank, if you come out, if you
05:25come out to the streets, you will be killed.
05:27As of this morning, and we have this on pretty good information, 45,000 protesters have been killed.
05:34Pretty bad.
05:38You said Iran has been obliterated.
05:39Why are we still out there?
05:42It's a good country.
05:44They can't fight back.
05:45They have no capability.
05:48I mean, they have some missiles left.
05:51They have some drones left, but essentially they have no capability.
05:55They had a lucky shot with an airplane, but we got them back out.
05:58The rescue was incredible.
05:59And it wasn't of one person.
06:00It was of two persons.
06:02There are those that say that's never happened before.
06:04Because usually when you're shot down in strong enemy and deep enemy territory, you can't go after them because you'll
06:11end up losing 250 people to get one.
06:13So it's a terrible thing.
06:15But we had to make a decision.
06:16Do we do it or do we not?
06:17And we did.
06:18And, you know, we have some helicopters with a lot of bullet holes in them right now.
06:22Probably you know that.
06:24Now, I'm very honored by, I'm very honored to have rebuilt our military.
06:28We rebuilt our military in my first term.
06:31I'm using it in our second term.
06:33And we are the most respected country anywhere in the world with the greatest military anywhere in the world.
06:39So we have a news conference.
06:41You'll all be there.
06:42So you could ask the question a little while.
06:44We have a news conference in a little while.
06:46What would you like to ask?
06:55Well, all of this is happening for their future.
06:59So they will be safe in years to come.
07:04We're fighting for our children that are now in a war zone.
07:08We're keeping them as safe as we can possibly keep them.
07:11But we're fighting for their parents, their grandparents.
07:14We're fighting for them.
07:15We're fighting for their future.
07:16And I will tell you, it was given to me loud and clear, the time the Iranian people are the
07:22most unhappy, when you hear bombs all over, is when those bombs stop.
07:26That's the problem.
07:28When they stop, because that means that, are they coming back?
07:31We want to have them back.
07:33And, you know, everybody knows it.
07:34Everybody sees it.
07:35So hopefully it could be over with quickly.
07:39Again, there are lots of different alternatives.
07:41We have many alternatives.
07:42We could leave right now, and it would take them 15 years to rebuild what they have.
07:46We could leave right now.
07:48But I want to finish it up.
07:49Iran, ready, cannot have a nuclear weapon.
07:53They are lunatics.
07:54And you can't put nuclear weapons in the hands of a lunatic.
07:57Thank you very much.
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