00:00Regardless of how people feel about the war, peace through strength is once again American military policy.
00:05Our commander-in-chief demands it, and so we deliver it.
00:23The President authorized a precision operation to neutralize the threats to our national interests posed by the Iranian nuclear program
00:33and the collective self-defense of our troops and our ally Israel.
00:38Our forces remain on high alert and are fully postured.
00:43How did Iran shrink ship traffic in the strait to a trickle again last week?
00:49We pushed almost, I believe, between 400 and 500 million bearers of oil under the nose of Iran over the
00:54course of Project Freedom.
00:58Regardless of how people feel about the war, which I believe is a courageous and historic effort that will ensure
01:05Iran never gets a nuclear weapon,
01:07we need to continue, as President Trump did in his first term, to rebuild our military.
01:14That requires funding.
01:16And the Department of War must be funded to meet the moment right now.
01:21That includes a generational investment, a reconciliation bill of at least $350 billion to keep this department, our country, way
01:31ahead in a dangerous world.
01:33We need every vote from every patriotic member of Congress.
01:38You see, they attack me, they attack us, because we are effective.
01:44It's not going to work.
01:46We will not back down.
01:47We put America and the warfighter first, always and without apology.
01:53And that fight continues in the lame duck Congress.
01:56This is not about me.
01:57But of course, the other side, in case you've noticed, they're obsessed.
02:03A disgruntled, defeated congressman, along with all his Democrat allies, has also dropped sham articles of impeachment against yours truly.
02:13Just like they tried against President Trump twice.
02:17You see, their policies don't work, so their obsession with political theater, disguised as power, drives them to try to
02:25destroy their opponents.
02:26It's all about the politics of personal destruction.
02:29Didn't work against President Trump, and it won't work with me.
02:33You can rest assured of that.
02:36We see some chatter about Pete Hegseth.
02:38Are you expecting any staffing changes between now and then?
02:41Pete Hegseth has done a fantastic job.
02:44Now, he's got some interesting things.
02:49You know, we had more generals than we did in World War II.
02:53We had so many generals.
02:55Everybody was a four-star general.
02:56I never saw anything like it.
02:58And many of those people were woke.
03:00I don't like a woke general.
03:02And so he probably has opposition.
03:04I think he's doing a fantastic job.
03:06So we had a war with Venezuela.
03:08It was over in 48 minutes.
03:10We had total success.
03:12No deaths.
03:12We have, I guess, you have, I don't know if it's a war, because there hasn't been anybody killed in
03:18many months.
03:20But we have a war with a place called the Islamic Republic of Iran.
03:28Lovely place.
03:30And we control the Straits.
03:32We're doing more oil right now going through the Straits than we did before the war started.
03:38And nobody's been killed in about seven months, six months.
03:42And, you know, if you look at Russia, Ukraine, see, that's a war.
03:46That's a war.
03:4725,000 people being killed a month.
03:50We're going to get that settled pretty soon, by the way.
03:53But 25,000 people a month being killed.
03:55They fight day and night, day and night, all day.
03:58And you have World War I, World War II.
04:01Those are wars.
04:02Somebody said a war with Iran.
04:05No.
04:05So, we have succeeded with the blockade tremendously.
04:09So we've lost 18 lives, and 18 is far too many.
04:13But in Vietnam, we lost thousands and thousands of lives over a 21-year period.
04:19In Afghanistan, we lost tremendous numbers of lives.
04:2318 is too many.
04:24One is too many.
04:25But we lost 18 lives.
04:27And we've been there for seven months.
04:30And we have full control of that place.
04:33They shoot a rocket every once in a while.
04:35We get hit by a drone.
04:37And it bounces off a metal object, you know.
04:39Or we shoot it down.
04:40Most of the time, we shoot it down.
04:42Yes, Steve?
