00:00Overnight, the U.S. military unleashed powerful strikes against the Iranian regime.
00:04CENTCOM says Iranian military surveillance capabilities,
00:08along with air defense systems and communication sites, were hit.
00:12Speaking from the Situation Room, President Trump told Fox News
00:1549 Tomahawk missiles hit locations as close as 40 miles from the capital of Tehran.
00:21Positions were also targeted along the southwestern part of Iran.
00:24The president described the strikes as violent and vicious.
00:27Also, President Trump says top Iranian officials called him directly, asking him to stop the bombing.
00:33Secretary of War Pete Hegseth spoke before the strikes began.
00:37Instead, they're going to have tap, tap, tap bombs dropping on key facilities in Iran from the United States of
00:43America.
00:43And that's not because we want to restart anything we don't have to restart.
00:47It's because we are, the War Department is prepared to set the terms
00:51to ensure that we get the kind of deal President Trump expects.
00:57In response to these strikes, the Iranians launched ballistic missiles and drones toward Gulf countries,
01:02including Kuwait and Bahrain.
01:04Also, the Jordanians say they shot down at least 20 Iranian ballistic missiles.
01:09Guys?
01:10So, Trey, you know what's interesting in the response?
01:13They don't go after Qatar.
01:15They don't go after Saudi Arabia.
01:17They don't go after the UAE.
01:18Is that intentional?
01:20Is there something to be reading to that?
01:24The reality is the radar systems and air defense systems were taken out over the past 48 hours.
01:29And these are systems they tried to rebuild, President Trump told me, during the ceasefire.
01:33And so the United States once again controls the skies of Iran.
01:37And so the Iranians have very limited options in terms of actually responding to these U.S. strikes.
01:42And according to reports, no damage was caused to U.S. military facilities in response to the strikes
01:47with this Iranian ballistic missile fire.
01:49The Iranians today are once again saying the Strait of Hormuz is closed.
01:53We have heard this rhetoric before from the Iranian regime.
01:56And then President Trump announced yesterday that the United States was actually secretly
02:00moving millions of barrels of oil out of the Persian Gulf.
02:03And it gives you an indication of Iranian propaganda versus reality on the ground.
02:07And so, again, Iran has very limited leverage right now, not only at the negotiating table,
02:12but also on the battlefield.
02:14But Trey, can I just follow up what Brian was alluding to?
02:17After the first series of strikes, there were some statements from the Iranians alluding
02:22to uniting the Arab world again, the Gulf states.
02:26Is there any fracture between our coalition with the Gulf states or this?
02:32This is just Iranians being delusional.
02:36Yeah, the Iranians aren't quite clear with what's actually happening in the region.
02:40There is a united front against their regime right now because they're launching missiles
02:44and drones not only toward military targets, but also civilian targets in the Gulf.
02:50An 11-year-old girl was injured in Bahrain due to this attack overnight.
02:54When we step back here, the president is now negotiating with bombs.
02:57He told me overnight that if they are unwilling to sign an agreement,
03:02we'll bomb the S out of them tonight.
03:04And so, this is really expected to be ongoing if the Iranians are unwilling to make that good-faith deal.
03:10But the sense that I got speaking with President Trump, who was inside the Situation Room during our call,
03:15and he was alongside Vice President J.D. Vance and Special Envoys Kushner and Wyckoff,
03:19is that the United States understands who they're dealing with.
03:22So, Vice President Vance, who is leading the negotiations, really laid out exactly who the Iranians are,
03:28and he has a firm grasp on the games that they're trying to play at the negotiating table.
03:33And President Trump is fed up with that, and he said the Iranians have been tapping the U.S. along,
03:38and he's not going to stand for it.
03:40And that is why he launched these strikes overnight to put new pressure on the Iranian regime.
03:44And these were much more extensive than what we saw before.
03:46Forty-nine Tomahawk missiles soaring through the sky and ultimately slamming into these targets
03:52within inches of the location they were expected to hit.
03:55The President was getting real-time updates in the Situation Room, ordering these strikes overnight.
04:00And again, we do expect more strikes to continue if the Iranians do not sign on the dotted line.
04:05Trey, the President mentioned yesterday that while this conflict has been ongoing,
04:10he was secretively removing oil through the Straits of Hormuz in the middle of the night
04:15until Iran found out.
04:16Now he said it was really hard for him to keep this quiet.
04:19But he wanted to tell the American people, where did that oil go?
04:23Did that help with our gas prices, help drop it a little bit?
04:28It's a great question, and that's actually part of the reason that oil prices have stabilized,
04:32because there was this secret operation going on behind the scenes.
04:36And we understand, according to President Trump, around 150 vessels with oil on board
04:42were able to make it out of the Persian Gulf.
04:43These are likely vessels coming from Gulf countries, not from Iranian territory.
04:47But it's an indication that the President found a way to actually keep escorting these vessels,
04:51despite the fact, again, that the Iranians said they were in control.
04:54And that's why it's so interesting today.
04:56You have top Iranian officials releasing statements this morning saying,
04:59in response to U.S. strikes, the Strait of Hormuz is closed.
05:03Well, they said that before.
05:04And the United States was moving millions of barrels of oil out of the Persian Gulf.
05:08And so, again, this is a lot of rhetoric from the Iranian regime.
05:10And while this is happening, the President is playing 40 chess against the Iranians.
05:15He's not only stabilizing the oil markets, but he's now bombing the Iranian regime again
05:20to take out their air defense systems and their radar sites.
05:23A message to those in Tehran that if you want to play this game any longer,
05:27these strikes will continue.
05:28And once again, U.S. forces control the skies of your country.
05:31And just a real quick question, Trey.
05:34Are we bombing right now?
05:37No, we're not bombing right now.
05:39According to U.S. Central Command, these strikes ended overnight.
05:42They were quite extensive, not just targeting those positions outside the Iranian capital of Tehran,
05:47but along that southwestern coast next to the Persian Gulf.
05:50At this moment, there's no exchange of fire taking place.
05:53And as you could imagine, there are some regional diplomats that have reached out to us this morning
05:57to say that talks are ongoing.
05:59The reality is things are in a different place than they were 48 hours ago.
06:04The President drew a red line, the Iranians crossed it,
06:07and ultimately he is responding with force.
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