00:00So, Mr. President, yesterday, an Ipsos poll found that fewer than one in four Americans
00:06think Trump's war in Iran has been worthwhile.
00:10And who can blame them?
00:12Every metric indicates that Donald Trump's handling of Operation Epic Fury has been an epic failure.
00:21Donald Trump promised this war would be won in a matter of days or weeks.
00:26It's now day 47.
00:28And let's take stock of the 47 days into this historic blunder.
00:3313 U.S. service members have been killed.
00:37Thousands of civilians have been killed and injured across the region.
00:41The Strait Hormuz is not only closed, it's become an Iranian cash cow,
00:46and Iran controls the Strait is greater today than before when Trump started the war.
00:54Iran's nuclear ambitions have only grown.
00:58And the Iranian regime is even more radical than before the war.
01:03Americans, meanwhile, are shelling out more than $4 for a gallon of gas on average.
01:09Now Donald Trump says that gas prices could be the same or a little higher by November.
01:15That's his words.
01:15Trump says gas prices could be, quote, could be the same or a little higher by November.
01:22Unbelievable.
01:24No, I don't, because Pope Leo said things that are wrong.
01:29He was very much against what I'm doing with regard to Iran.
01:34And you cannot have a nuclear in Iran.
01:36Pope Leo would not be happy with the end result.
01:39You have hundreds of millions of people dead.
01:41And it's not going to happen.
01:42So I can't, I think he's very weak on crime and other things.
01:48So I'm not, I mean, he went public.
01:50I'm just responding to Pope Leo.
01:52And, you know, his brother is a big MAGA person and he's a great guy, Lewis.
01:56And I said, I like Lewis better than I like the Pope.
01:59Now you have to have law and order in our country.
02:02And that's what we have now.
02:05We have the lowest crime numbers we've had in a long time, despite the fact that many criminals were allowed
02:10into our country.
02:10But we've gotten a lot of them out.
02:12We've done a great job on crime.
02:14So we have the lowest murder rate in 125 years, since 1900, the lowest murder rate.
02:22So we believe strongly in the right order.
02:25And he, he seemed to have a problem with that.
02:28So there's nothing to apologize for.
02:30He's wrong.
02:31The other thing is he didn't like what we're doing with respect to Iran.
02:35But Iran is a, wants to be a nuclear nation so they can exterminate the world.
02:42Not going to happen.
03:05This is a political and religious firestorm unfolding at the highest levels of power.
03:12The President of the United States openly attacking the Pope, and now facing backlash from within his own country.
03:20It began with sharp words from Donald Trump, targeting Pope Leo XIV.
03:26After the Pope criticized the U.S. war in Iran, Trump hit back, saying the Pope is weak and terrible
03:34on foreign policy.
03:35And going even further, I don't think he's doing a very good job.
03:40He likes crime, I guess.
03:42A stunning escalation.
03:44The Pope's comments had been clear.
03:46Calling for peace, rejecting war, and warning against what he described as the idolatry of power and force.
03:54He even called threats to destroy an entire civilization truly unacceptable.
04:00But instead of de-escalation, the rhetoric intensified.
04:05Trump took to social media, claiming the Pope's rise was linked to his own presidency, saying,
04:12If I wasn't in the White House, Leo wouldn't be in the Vatican.
04:16A stunning remark.
04:17And then came the backlash, from within Trump's own political space.
04:23Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene reportedly went as far as calling Trump the Antichrist,
04:29a dramatic break from one of his most vocal allies.
04:33Religious leaders are also pushing back.
04:36Senior Catholic voices in the U.S., including figures like Cardinal Robert McElroy,
04:41have criticized the war itself on 60 Minutes show, calling it not a just war,
04:47and warning it fails basic moral standards.
04:51Catholic priests across the country are echoing that concern,
04:56saying the conflict in Iran does not meet the criteria for moral justification under church teaching,
05:03a rare and direct challenge to U.S. policy.
05:06And the criticism isn't just religious, it's political, too.
05:10Senator Mark Kelly called Trump's attack on the Pope abhorrent,
05:15saying no president should attack the leader of the Catholic Church
05:19and accusing Trump of trying to deflect from the consequences of war.
05:24The divide is now clear.
05:26On one side, a president defending military action.
05:30On the other, a Pope calling for peace.
05:33And in between, a growing backlash from politicians, clergy, and even former allies.
05:39Because this is more than a disagreement, it's a clash between political power and moral authority,
05:47between war and restraint, and it's unfolding in real time with global implications.
05:53This is no longer just about foreign policy.
05:56It's about leadership, tone, responsibility, and the limits of power.
06:02Because when a U.S. president takes on the Pope, it doesn't stay political.
06:06It becomes something much bigger.
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