00:00We put our two destroyers through. Mine sweeping operations are ongoing.
00:04What President Trump has done is taken that leverage,
00:08taken Iran trying to hold the entire world's economies hostage.
00:13Mine sweeping operation is ongoing in a trade.
00:17Has taken that off the table now with this action.
00:20So you have a ceasefire that goes for another week.
00:22We'll play it day by day and see how it goes.
00:24Right now we want to look at sweeping the strait.
00:26Let's see.
00:27Look for mines, how you find them. If the mines are even there.
00:31Remember what the Iranians said, okay. They said this is the hazardous area.
00:35Yes, this is the hazardous area. The Iranians said they put mine right here, okay.
00:40That's where the mines are out there.
00:42And they told all these international carriers, look out.
00:45But the US has yet to find any. And we don't even know what the Iranians are saying.
00:49Yes, we have not find any of the mines till now. It's been three, four days.
00:55In the meantime, this is the international route.
00:59The white one.
01:00The white one.
01:01In the Persian Gulf and out of the Persian Gulf.
01:02This is Oman. That's United Arab Emirates.
01:05This is Iran.
01:05In this video, how US ships detect and destroy a sea mine.
01:10Over here.
01:11The Iranians want you to go this way.
01:13Red one.
01:13Closer to their land.
01:14Between their islands.
01:15Yes.
01:16And this way to get out.
01:17So they can fine us.
01:19Yes.
01:20Every ship, two million dollars.
01:21That way they could find some money.
01:24They can cash that in and make sure that these international carriers pay the Iranians.
01:28Right now, the US military, the Navy is trying to starve them.
01:32What would the Iranians do?
01:33This is a possibility now.
01:35Yes.
01:35Let's see the types of mine.
01:37Mine types.
01:38If indeed they exist in the ocean today, you got a floating mine out there.
01:42It floats in the sea, just like that.
01:44There you've got moored mines that are on the bottom of the ocean.
01:47Yes.
01:48And shallow water like the Persian Gulf.
01:51This would be.
01:52Yes.
01:52If sea goes through it and touches it.
01:54Boom.
01:55Very good tool.
01:56You've got what's known as a limpid mine.
01:58They can attach itself to the side of a side of a vessel.
02:01It can be very lethal if they go off.
02:03And you have seabed mines here on the ocean floor as well.
02:07Yes.
02:07It checks the floor rails.
02:09Yes.
02:10We also have this animation we can show.
02:12Let's see the animation you understand better when you watch that animation.
02:16These are sensor devices from a US Navy trip.
02:20This is what happens.
02:22They can drop this drone and then move through the ocean.
02:26Yes.
02:26Move through the water.
02:27Just like that.
02:28Identify and destroy that sea mine before it becomes a hostile carrier for the US Navy that's
02:36trying to operate in the ocean.
02:37After the sea is clear our ship goes like that.
02:41But US have not found even yet one mine.
02:45We should open the ocean.
02:47But today to want to emphasize there has been no example just yet of any ship being hit or any
02:53mine being found.
02:54No.
02:54The ships have to have insurance in order to go through and the insurers don't feel confident.
02:58Maybe they will get more so as our troops are there checking it out and if they feel confident there's
03:04not there.
03:04Absolutely.
03:05Absolutely.
03:05If you're talking about millions of dollars in cargo and you have an insurance situation that is the problem.
03:10Let's get much more on this with retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg.
03:13He's a former special envoy to Ukraine and co-chair of the America First Policy Institute's America Security Initiative.
03:18Wanted to play this or show you this two things.
03:21Here's the Wall Street Journal editorial board.
03:23Well, well, well.
03:24US blockade boost economic preference in Iran.
03:2890% of economic anything that economically happens in Iran are in the seas are at the blank right now
03:37because US blockade is there.
03:39I mean that the blockade is a crisis for Iran.
03:42The economic damage is immediate and threatens the regime if it lasts.
03:47And here is Mr. Malaki.
03:50He is from FDD.
03:51Watch here.
03:51Okay.
03:52They have probably around 13 to 15 for 16 days in office storage for oil.
03:58Okay.
04:00So FDD senior fellow Mead Malaki sanctions strategy said Iran can only store oil for two to
04:08three weeks, yes, to store oil that they can't export.
04:14I think in a in a matter of two months, we're going to see a regime really reaching the point
04:21of not being able to pay salaries and and and riots in blockade to wipe out 435 million dollars
04:29per day in Iran's economic activity within the regime.
04:34All right.
04:35Let's get your take on it.
04:36General, good to see you.
04:37Hi.
04:38Dana, good to see you.
04:39Thanks for having me.
04:40Look, I'm already the next step.
04:42What I mean by the next step, if I go to blockade and where we're at is where we're to
04:46go next,
04:46if the blockade has to be discontinued or continued and you add something on to it,
04:52which means actually going into not into the middle of Iran, but taking like Karg Island and
04:56Iraq Island and places like that with our Marines, 82nd Airborne or somebody like that.
04:59You know, I would tell the Iranians, look, if there's a ship, we put them through there
05:02and a mine goes off, you're done.
05:03We're done with this.
05:04We're fed up with you.
05:04We're finished.
05:04Yes.
05:05If a mine goes off, it's a war.
05:18It's a war.
05:19They've still been indoctrinated for over 40 plus years of hating America and that hasn't
05:23changed.
05:23So you're dealing with maybe some regime adjustments, but not regime change out there.
05:27And I think we need to take that into consideration.
05:28Yes.
05:29We killed 40 of their top leaders in Iran and it's just adjustment, not a regime change.
05:36The consideration is we just said we're tired of you guys.
05:38We're done with it.
05:38We're going to change the dynamics of the Middle East for the next 30 or 40 years.
05:41We can sweep the Gulf right now with the minesweepers coming in, there's four of them in Japan,
05:45bring them down, the LCS, the destroyers, as we've shown, which Bill showed in a great animation
05:50there.
05:51But there's always a chance it won't happen.
05:52You know, in the army, when you delay a minefield, you have to record that minefield.
05:55Yes, Lieutenant General Kate Kellogg, the retired former special envoy to Ukraine.
06:02He also been US blockage boost economic pressure on Iran.
06:06When you do with the Navy within the sea, we don't know what's out there.
06:09And I bet you they're not disciplined to figure out where the lines are.
06:11So we don't know.
06:11We don't know really.
06:12We don't know really.
06:13Yep.
06:13Probably it's going to happen.
06:14Okay.
06:14So, um, so Maria Bartiromo sat down with the president.
06:18Let's play a clip of that.
06:18Ask your specific question.
06:20President Donald Trump, right.
06:21It's a new regime.
06:22Okay.
06:23And we find them pretty reasonable to be honest with you.
06:24By comparison, pretty reasonable.
06:26I have talks with everybody, but it's very effective.
06:28I think you're going to have a great deal.
06:30I'm doing a great job for the country and for the world.
06:31So now the Wall Street Journal says Iran's regime has changed for the worst.
06:34Damn, Iran's regime has changed for the worse.
06:38Israeli attack fast-tracked the ascent of hardliners and apocalyptic religious
06:41followers raising doubts about a lasting peace.
06:43There were reports over the weekend out of Islamabad that those who actually went to these
06:46talks from Iran did not even have the authority to make a decision or sign off on any deal.
06:49Oh, damn.
06:50Who are those Iranian officials that came to Islamabad Pakistan then?
06:55Are we confident that we know who's in command and control of Iran and who has the authority
06:59to give us a yes or a no?
07:01This is a question.
07:02No, thanks.
07:02I don't think we do.
07:03I think now here's an interesting dynamic that I picked up.
07:05Just over the last two days, you've seen President Pusheskian actually start to make some comments.
07:09In the past, the President of Iran was like a nobody.
07:11He really didn't do anything.
07:12Okay, President of Iran was nobody back then.
07:17But right now, he got some powers and he's a state-ming.
07:21We went with the hardliners, the revolutionary guards,
07:23but the ones that they sent there were like Arachi, who's their foreign minister.
07:26He's a hardliner.
07:27And when he wrote the book on negotiations,
07:28they give our president, President Trump, full credit.
07:30He has done something that no other president has done.
07:32And he's changing the dynamics of the Middle East for centuries.
07:35And I just think, I like to see the job get finished and just get them out of there.
07:38Not a regime adjustment, but you get like a regime change.
07:40But you're starting to see signs of that.
07:41When you see Pusheskian start to make comments, Arachi not being able to make a decision.
07:45This is what it is.
07:46Iran's regime has changed for the worse, dude.
07:49This is happening something.
07:51The Khamenei really hasn't come out, the supreme leader.
07:53And the Revolutionary Guard reports to the supreme leader.
07:55You know, there's two organizations out there that have military power.
07:58They're actually army, which is different than the Revolutionary Guards and the Bajis,
08:01which those are the thugs in the streets out there.
08:03You know, the Iranians have killed more people right now than we lost in the Korean War.
08:07And that's not-
08:07Yes, we lost in the war are much least, but Iranians killed more than that.
08:14... eliminated.
08:14So, it's all about the people out there.
08:16I'm hoping that we're going to see a more reasonable government,
08:18back to a stable of a normal nation.
08:19But that, you have to be seen.
08:20Let's hope the blockade play itself out.
08:22But there's going to be a next step.
08:23If there is a next step, then I think the president will take it.
08:27General Keith-
08:27Yes, General, thank you.
08:29Trump hints Iran talks could resume this week.
08:32Thank you for joining us this morning.
08:34Thank you, sir.
08:34As all this develops, we love checking in with you.
08:36Thank you, man.
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