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00:00We have breaking news right now. President Trump has just given an interview to the New York Post and here's
00:06exactly what he says in part of that interview. We are loading up the ships with the best ammunition. Now
00:13it is the war again.
00:15The best weapons ever made even better than what we did previously and we blew them apart. Now all of
00:23this is activity remains constrained in that critical oil ship flow and waterway. The ships are waiting to get in.
00:32We've only seen maybe three of them with oil in them. Other ships have made it through up to about
00:3711 or 12. But usually we see between 120.
00:40This is very bad for whatever is happening because war is not stopping.
00:4720 and 150 going through the Strait of Hormuz. Countries are perched to see what will happen next and you
00:53heard from President Trump. He's more than perched. He didn't pull anybody out of that region. This is a ceasefire
00:58in the war. This is not a complete deal. We know that J.D. Vance, our vice president, is on
01:04his way to Islamabad, Pakistan to go meet with those who will sit at the table and make it
01:16This is what happening. J.D. Vance is on the way to Pakistan to Islamabad for peace talks with the
01:24Iran supreme leaders.
01:26This point. Here's also what he has put up on true social. In part, there are reports that Iran is
01:32charging fees to tankers going through the Hormuz strait. They better not be. And if they are, they better stop
01:39now. Exclamation point. Yeah, man.
01:42Iran's supreme leader is pushing back. Iran's supreme leader, Muqtaba Khamenei, the son of the previous dead supreme leader.
01:52Well, you know, the son, Muqtaba, who nobody's actually ever verified if he's alive and if he's moving around and
01:58all that since his relatives were all killed, including his Ayatollah father.
02:02But anyway, he's quoted to have said, we are entering a new era with the management of the Strait of
02:06Hormuz.
02:07This is what he said.
02:08We did not and do not seek war. But we will not give up our rightful rights in any way.
02:13And for this, we consider all the fronts of resistance as one.
02:18Oh, wow.
02:18What do you mean by that? All the fronts. He sent his neighbors. So, he doesn't have any friends. Meanwhile,
02:24Vice President Vance is expecting, expressing optimism ahead of tomorrow's talks.
02:31Looking forward to the negotiation. I think it's going to be positive. We'll foresee. As the President of the United
02:36States said, if the Iranians are willing to negotiate in good faith, we're certainly willing to extend the open hand.
02:42If they're going to try to play us, then they're going to find that the negotiating team is not that
02:46receptive. So, we're going to try to have a positive negotiation. The President has gave us some pretty clear guidelines.
02:51And we're going to see.
02:54This is what we have. Let's see outnumbered.
02:59The nature of this war is that we're in a three-day-old ceasefire that doesn't look very ceasefire-y.
03:04Why does this two have the laptop screens on them? I don't know.
03:10On the Iran side.
03:11No, and this probably was expected. I think this more than anything, there's a thing called tyranny of distance when
03:16it comes to planning war.
03:17So, the further you are away from your resupply, your beans and bullets and all of that, the harder a
03:23sustained effort is.
03:24And then you start this war, you're ahead of schedule, and then you realize, okay, all these contingencies for resupply,
03:30stopping the fuel, those are falling apart because of European countries afraid to be involved.
03:35Okay, now we need to reorient our compass and plan for this.
03:39I think it was the Ford we've lost already.
03:41So, some of these...
03:42Yes, this is what we have.
03:44We already lost some category of things.
03:49Four oil tankers, cross-straits, and strues.
03:52Only four oil tankers.
03:54Other tankers, I mean, other cruise ships are not oil, but different manufactured or import export products.
04:04Assets that were there in the build-up are leaving.
04:07New troops are coming in.
04:08I don't think we've seen the end of the bombing campaign.
04:11Hopefully, we've seen the end of what we call war.
04:13We've seen the end of our folks being in tremendous amount of harm's way.
04:17But at the end of the day, I mean, go back as far as you want.
04:20It's much easier to defend territory than it is to take it.
04:23It's much easier to...
04:26Vietnam, Afghanistan, just in our lifetime.
04:30It's just much easier, it's much harder to eliminate threats in Iran than it would be if Iran...
04:36It is. It is.
04:37Eliminate the threat.
04:39Eliminate the threat in Iran.
04:40This is what I always said.
04:43We have to do something better.
04:45We're trying to attack some...
04:46When you have the defensive position, you don't have to expend all your ammo.
04:49You don't have to have more people.
04:50And so, people talk about, oh, they shot down one of our planes.
04:54I thought that we had air superiority.
04:55Well, we do because they're not flying planes.
04:57They're not bombing us.
04:59What we don't have is the ability to not know that they can do what the Mujahideen did to the
05:04Russians.
05:04They took cheap shoulder-fired rockets and took enough MIGs and helicopters down that the Russians said,
05:09hey, this costs more money than we want to spend on it.
05:11We're going to back on out of here.
05:12This is what really happened right there in Russia.
05:17Russia backed his everything because they are losing money while fighting with them.
05:24Such a great example, too.
05:26And just think of how much kinetic activity had happened in Afghanistan, for instance, before we even got involved.
05:32So much, so much, yeah.
05:34And they had faced so much and still we couldn't do it.
05:36There is a Ben Ghaji movie if you have not watched it.
05:39And I think what we're seeing right now is that you can't just military your way to a victory.
05:44And we've seen over the last 40 years, you can't just diplomacy your way to a victory.
05:48It's up to President Trump and his team to learn how to use those two levers together to get to
05:53what they consider a victory.
05:54And as was outlined, a week into the war, the victory was supposed to be, the goals were,
05:58destroy their Navy, destroy their Air Force, destroy their ability to produce and fire missiles
06:02and take away their ability to go nuclear.
06:05So as far as I'm concerned, those are still the four elements of victory.
06:08Yes, yes.
06:10This is exactly the four constraints we are focusing on.
06:14The top priority.
06:17The Strait of Hormuz is not in there.
06:19No, but it's become something that, Rebecca, obviously Iran knows it can use that leverage because why?
06:27Right.
06:27Why?
06:28Because they're right there.
06:29Actually, the waterway doesn't belong to them.
06:31It's along their country.
06:32No, it's international.
06:33It belongs to all of us and belongs to nobody specifically.
06:36And so it's intolerable for the United States' perspective that Iran is going to claim that
06:40it can control the Strait of Hormuz.
06:42And remember, if Iran is controlling the Strait of Hormuz, that means China is because China
06:46is the biggest backer and gets 90 percent of Iranian oil goes to China.
06:49Yes, this is true.
06:51China is the main mastermind doing all this from the upside.
06:56China is the one.
06:58The other thing I think it's really important, what Joey said is, I think all of this negotiation
07:02right now, Vice President Vance going to Pakistan, all he really needs to consider this
07:07as success, I think, is to get them to say they're not going to fire into the Strait.
07:11That's the immediate problem.
07:12And I think we're going to then see an international force there escort some oil through the Strait.
07:18I think they're going to see Europe.
07:19I think the Europeans are willing to do it if there's not open hostilities.
07:23And so they.
07:23Yes, yes.
07:24If there is no open hostilities, Europe, every country in the Europe, also NATO said, we are
07:31ready to do.
07:32But, but, but some of the constraints are there that stopping NATO and all do not do these
07:40things.
07:40This is what I have in my mind.
07:42And this is what I read from their statements all around.
07:47Need to have the confidence that they can do that.
07:49And maybe if it's just temporary, get some oil through there.
07:53This is the Strait of Hormuz.
07:53But we're still going to have all these other problems with this rump regime that exists.
07:56And then I think Epic Fury resumes.
07:58The green lines are vessel entering the Persian Gulf westward and this yellow line cell vessel
08:04exiting the Persian Gulf eastward.
08:07You see right here, this is Iran.
08:09This is UAE border right here, UAE.
08:11And this is Oman right here.
08:13So Oman and Iran are in the main country accessing the Strait of Hormuz with their power.
08:21In a few weeks, even if we do get some successful safe, we'll travel through the Strait.
08:25But I don't understand, Kayleigh, how Europe can sit by and not let us use the airspace
08:30and the things that the U.S. military, should we have to re-engage and just protect the Strait
08:35so that ships can go through.
08:36I mean, but they want to benefit from that protection in the Strait.
08:41So they might take a part via NATO and Ruta was just here.
08:44And so maybe those conversations are happening, the Secretary General of NATO.
08:48But they don't want to support what got us to the point where we could keep them from developing nukes.
08:54It's absolutely absurd.
08:55And that's why cameras weren't allowed in that room.
08:57Ruta and Trump do get along.
08:59Typically, there are cameras there.
09:00And we see this.
09:01This is a big, big, bold expose.
09:05Camera is not allowed.
09:06This is what, why.
09:08Relationship.
09:09But we didn't see it because a hard conversation took place.
09:12And I've been in the room with President Trump as he's met with foreign countries and had
09:16those hard conversations.
09:17And believe me, they look very differently behind the scenes than they look like in front of the
09:21cameras.
09:21And that's where he gets his leverage.
09:23International diplomacy is messy.
09:25It's not going to be a clean process.
09:27There's a back and forth that takes place and an added element when you're dealing with a
09:30terrorist regime like Iran that cannot be trusted.
09:34But I will say this, the negotiators in the room, I've been there with Jared Kushner.
09:37He knows what he's doing.
09:39He's whip smart.
09:39Steve Whitkoff.
09:41They are responsible for the hostages being released.
09:43The Gaza ceasefire.
09:44J.D. Vance is a key voice in this.
09:46And ultimately, President Trump, the closer who has solved eight conflicts.
09:50This is a hard problem to solve.
09:51It has bedeviled every president over the last 47 years.
09:54But I like the odds with this president.
09:56Well, and like Joey said.
09:57All right.
09:58Just like that.
09:59Just like that.
09:59They're using the two levers.
10:01They've got the diplomacy.
10:02And you know we will use our might.
10:04So, Emily, one more point about all this is Israel.
10:06And it's continued battle with Lebanon's terrorist army that sits there.
10:10And now the Lebanese want to talk about dismantling that army.
10:13I don't know if they can, but that's a sticking point.
10:16Iran says Hezbollah...
10:18I mean, whatever is happening in Lebanon, not good.
10:23Not good.
10:24They are bombing Lebanon.
10:25They are bombing.
10:26It has to be able to do what it needs to do against Israel.
10:30So, that's a war, I guess, that just continues.
10:32Well, I think that underscores that different sovereign entities have different mission objectives.
10:36And they have different...
10:37This is true because they are different, all right?
10:40...paces that they're seeking.
10:41If I can just ask you a follow-up real quick.
10:44For those that are saying, who are we even negotiating with in Iran or in the Islamic Republic?
10:50And secondly, how does that impact all of the proxies that were the source of so much death and destruction?
10:56Is it our Gulf allies that we can rely upon to help manage?
11:00Well, I think that this is a great question, Emily.
11:02And one of the things that the U.S. destroyed is command and control.
11:06It's the ability of the leaders to be able to communicate to the people in the field.
11:10And so, that is a problem.
11:12The U.S. just destroyed the command and control, the ability to let them check what they are doing in
11:20the field so they cannot.
11:22And President Trump has said as much.
11:23But we do need to get some...
11:25Whoever is going to be talking to J.D. Vance needs to say, we are going to call off a
11:30tax.
11:30There will be no tax in the Strait of Hormuz.
11:33But it is a rump regime.
11:34We've taken out over 1,000 IRGC and besiege leaders.
11:37So, we really have taken out the top leadership in the regime.
11:41It's really just a rump regime flailing at this point.
11:43Well, look, last hour we heard with a statement directly from the White House during the Faulkner focus,
11:47who would be sitting at the table on our side, Witkoff, Kushner, and Vice President Vance.
11:53We still, as your point, we don't know who's on the other side of the table.
11:56This is breaking just now from...
11:58This is breaking news.
12:00We do not know who is sitting there.
12:02...from the President of the United States on True Social.
12:05Quote, the Iranians don't seem to realize they have no cards,
12:09other than a short-term extortion of the world by using international waterways.
12:14The only reason they are alive today is to negotiate...
12:18Damn, Donald Trump, you got balls, man.
12:21You said these things. Damn, you got balls.
12:24Quick response to that, Kayleigh.
12:25Yeah, he's clearly showing that he is willing to use hard power, and that is what makes this president different.
12:32You look at Joe Biden before him, soft power.
12:35What Iran saw was an unfortunate withdrawal from Afghanistan that was disastrous.
12:39What they see when they look at this president is someone who's saying,
12:41hard power is not off the table here.
12:43I'm willing to use it, and I'm using it for...
12:44Yes, Donald Trump is really doing that.
12:47Donald, it's the best for the war situation.
12:50And as you pointed out, we're reinforcing that by pulling out what we need and putting back what we need.
12:56So, yeah, we haven't left.
12:57Yeah, I don't see anything saying that we're not going to continue Epic Fury.
13:00Hey, everyone.
13:01Yes, Epic Fury. Operation Epic Fury.
13:05This is happening.
13:06This is happening.
13:07This is happening.
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