March 9, 2026 • 17 mins
President Trump gave his first live update on the war with Iran and the took questions from reporters. Trump made several headlines, first by announcing the war would be over very soon and second by acknowledging he was disappointed in Iran’s choice for its new supreme leader. Trump also addressed the tomahawk missile that hit an all girls school and said Iran was just weeks away from making a nuclear weapon and taking over the Middle East.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Hey, folks, it is Monday, March ninth, and we just
listened to President Trump give his first Q and a
press conference since the start of the war. We want
to hop on here on this episode of Amy and
TJ to let you know what came out of that.
I guess some newsworthy stuff in there, some stuff I
would love to see the evidence of in there, but
(00:31):
as good as him take questions, rogues, and I guess,
top of everybody's mind, when is this thing going to
be over? There's been different messaging out there. He was
asked directly about possibly being over this week.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yes, and he refuted that sentiment like, absolutely not. It
will not be over this week. But he did say
it was going to be over soon, and we keep
hearing that soon. And he did say that we are
ahead of schedule, that things have gone better, not maybe
better than expected, but quicker than expected.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
And part of the problem the presidents come out here
now ropes have been so many people speaking on behalf
of the administration, and even the President has been doing
different interviews with so many different reporters that the messaging
is all over the place, and the messaging, once again,
it seems to be moving around.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Why did we do this, why did we have to
do this? And why do we have to do this?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Now we got some new quotes from him, some new timelines,
and apparently we all would have been blown to smitherings
by now.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Okay, I want to know what you think.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Do we looked at each other because we were listening,
but think our jaws were collectively dropped. And if any
of you were listening, if you haven't, you should go
back and listen to this part because the President was suggesting,
as best I could tell that if we had not
done the Operation Midnight Hammer, that within two to four weeks,
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Iran would have had nuclear weapons, and he was saying
that this press conference may not have been able to
happen at all, and the implication is.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Because we would have all been blown to bits. Yeah,
that was a little shocking.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yes, I don't know what to make I mean, he
has said this. I mean he has said this more
than once though Robes he said this not too terribly
long ago, that we had to we looked at each
other at that point because he was talking about the
reason he had to go to war now is because
they were going to attack. He repeated that sentiment here,
but he added more to it in this press conference robes.
(02:32):
They weren't just going to attack, He said, they were
looking at taking over their own, their neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
He said, I counted at least four times, but I
started counting later. That Iran was absolutely going to take
over the Middle East.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It's a direct quote, that is verbatim, and he.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Said it multiple times.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
He said that their missiles were pointed directly at their neighbors.
He actually mentioned UAE. I don't think you mentioned another
specific country, but he said that they saw that the
missiles were pointed at their neighbors. They were going to
take over the Middle East.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
But again he was and he said he was implying no.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
He directly said that if we had not acted as
we did this summer and certainly just recently when we
went in with Israel, that Iran not only would have
been able to have nuclear weapons, but they would have
used them.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
That's what he said, and he kind of added the
part at the end with almost a little smirk. I
don't even know if we'd be here, I don't even
know if we'd be having this press conference. It was interesting.
He'll get follow ups on that. Let's go through the list. Here.
Two big things we want to get to the new
Supreme leader and information about the girls school. Now, let's
start with the girls school. This happened on was it
(03:52):
day one to day two? Although the war started, a
missile hit a girls school, it ends up killing The
last count was at least one hundred and fifty plus
dead at that school. Now, news organizations and other analysis
has been going on taking a look at this, and
the evidence is piling up that it was a US
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missile that hit that school. So Roe was the president.
We knew he was going to be asked about it today.
He had already had previously just kind of said, I
believe it was Iran. He said that on Air Force one. Correct,
he got asked about it twice, and I think it
was the second guy who kind of held his feet
to the fire a little more. But when he was
answering it initially, he he said it might have been
(04:38):
a Tomahawk, but we're not the only ones who have
American Tomahawk missiles.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Correct, he said, several countries have them.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But then he did specifically say that Iran also has
Tomahawk missiles and it was very possibly Iran, as well,
so when the follow up question came a few questions later,
the reporter, it was a male reporter, he actually went
pretty strong and said, why is it that everyone else
(05:04):
is saying something different than you. No one else is
saying that those were potentially or that was potentially an
Iranian missile. Even your own defense secretary has said we
are investigating.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Why are you the only one saying this?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
It was it was one of the only questions that
actually held the President's feet to the fire, and he
backed off, and he backed I was so surprised. I
thought Trump was going to be angry. I thought he
was going to fire back, and he actually said, you
know what, it could have been iron Yes, it could
have been one of their missiles.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
And he said, but I.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Will let the investigation take place, and whatever I will
stand by, or I will deal with whatever that investigation
shows to be true, or we'll live with That's what
he said, I'll live with whatever the investigation show.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
So he did back away from that a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
He also gave us some more quotes about why we
had to attack wherebes it's this idea we had to
do this or they were going to strike. But he
gave us another good belief quote. If you remember that,
what was the original?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
The origin was, oh right, So it was he had
a feeling based on feeling, and then Carolyn Levitt had
to follow up saying he had a feeling based on facts.
We've been saying this back and forth to one another
over the weekend, just you know, for the fun of it,
because it's a it is it's an interesting way to
put something. But so, yes, it's all about the president's feeling.
(06:32):
He had a feeling, he had a belief. This is
where he's saying today, I have a belief. So he's
gone up from a feeling to a belief.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
But he went double belief in his quote here and
he said this. He said, I believe upon information and
belief that it was going to take over the Middle East.
They were looking to take over the Middle East. I
believe upon information and belief.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You and I looked at each other when he said that,
So is belief. Does that make you feel a little
bit better than a feeling.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I believe upon information and belief it was going to
take over the At least he's a wordsmith. Look, this
is this is only that only jumped out it never
would have. It was only because the feelings and facts.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Then, yes, then he had a feeling based on facts,
and that's why he made the decision, because he had
a feeling that Iran was going to attack. Now he
has a belief upon information and belief that Iran was
going to take over the Middle.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
East, and that's why he no.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
It is it is amazing how each time we get
a slightly different or a very different response as to
the why and how he came up with this plan
and why.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Now that's been the interesting thing.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I mean, he did talk about Steve Wycoff, He did
talk about Jared Kushner saying that Iran He did reiterate
this today in the presser that Iran absolutely refused to
stop seeking a nuclear weapon period. And once he realized so,
he said, once I heard from Steve, once I heard
from Jared, I knew that this was we were going
to have to do things the hard way.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Well, of course, in the Brest conference today, we expected Robes,
We anticipated the first question. It was going to be
his feeling about the new Supreme Leader, who of course
is the son of the old Supreme Leader. Some stuff
has been trickling out in some of the interviews he's
been doing, but it was not really clear what his
feeling was. It was the first question from the first reporter.
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He ends up skipping over it. I don't know if
you just forgot to get to that part of it
or not. But he didn't answer it. But somebody asked
them the question later, and I guess we have clarity
now about how he feels about the guy.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I was a little surprised by his answer because he
was very he was very strong in his language before
there was a successor named, and he did even mention
the possibility that Harmone's son could be named and said
it would be unacceptable. He made a very strong remark
that you know it, basically, they won't be in power
long if I'm not okaying this, if I'm not overseeing this.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
But today he backed out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
He he didn't come out as so. He said he
didn't want to go there basically, is what he told reporters.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I don't think that would be fair. I don't want
to put a target on his back.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh yeah, he's me was clear that he was disappointed,
is how he said it in the selection. But I
think just once he was asked that directly about if
he is a target and that's what you mean, and
his language when he say it wouldn't be appropriate, it'd
be inappropriate to say if the Supreme Leader has a
target on his back.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I'm surprised.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I thought he would have said he better watches back
because we're coming for you. I actually thought he was
going to go there, and he didn't. And then he
went on to pivot to talk about his own assassination
attempt and how in this in these strikes they were
able to get the guy who was trying to kill him.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
And the analysts will tell you that what you're seeing
there is the president trying to manage expectations publicly. You
can't go too He's looking. I don't want to say
an all ramp just yet, but you gotta find some
kind of way. They just put the sun in what
are you going to do now?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
So you have going to commit to regime change. So
that might be a way of the President looking for
a way to not completely obliterate the possibility of some
kind of compromise.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Wow, because I was actually thinking that maybe he thought,
just world leader to world leader, it wouldn't be appropriate
to talk about taking out another world leader in a
press conference, given the fact that he has been the
victim of such targets as well. So here's me thinking
about it on a completely different level.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
That's just that's just me.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
You were giving the president credit for civility, I want statesmanship.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Because I really thought his language would be stronger.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You actually have his exact quote when initially asked about Hamanai.
He said, I was disappointed because we think it's just
going to lead to more of the same problem. So
when you hear a statement like that, disappointed because it's
going to lead to more of the same problem. Why
would you be putting forth all this energy and all
this effort trying to change the direction of Iran from
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being war driven and nuclear bomb forward, Like, why would
you That would be a necessary part of the endgame,
a necessary part of getting out of the war that
you started because you were trying to stop the direction
of the country, and now you have somebody who's literally
going to take the country.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
In the same direction.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Think they're starting that drumbeat a little bit.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
We heard that messaging from the President a little bit,
talking about I want to make sure that they aren't
able to start this up for a long, long time,
setting a different type of goal that's not regime change.
He can come out and say we have wiped them
out to the point it will be forty years according
to the experts before they ever and you can claim victory.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I guess, but you also know you've now if Haminae
would stay in power. We talked about this actually in
an earlier podcast. We not only killed his father, but
his mother, his wife, a child of his Like, this
is somebody who is going to make death to America
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his personal mission more than it already may have been.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah, I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Look he's a guy, no matter what, he's a human being,
and there's just some way you react court things like that.
Look we're just said no way of ever necessarily knowing.
But man, you make a good point about the family.
But something else that came up in the press conference
today with the President was who has been so complementary
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of the work that they the US military is doing.
All Right, we continue here on Amy and TJ. We'll
wrap up here in just a moment. Just I wanted
to hop on. The President just wrapped up really within
(13:19):
fifteen minutes of us being on the microphones here, just
wrapping up his first time rose taking questions. We've seen
him in some live comments, we have seen him in
some taped comments, but this was important to get him
in front of reporters.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yes, and so he took I mean he didn't take
that many questions, but I would say he took maybe
less than ten questions.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
But we did get some answers.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
On a lot of headline making news today, from who
is responsible will the United States if it's proven that
the US missile actually is the missile that hit that
girl's school in Iran, killing upwards of one hundred and
fifty young girls, would we take responsibility?
Speaker 4 (13:59):
And we did.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Hear the President say that if the investigation shows something,
he'll live with it, but he still kept pointing the
finger back at potentially other countries in Iran. But he
did address some of the pressing headlines. What was interesting
he was asked about his conversation with Vladimir Putin, and
again some of what the President had to say today
(14:21):
in the press conference, I was not expecting this was
among them.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
This was a bizarre. This was so bizarre, wasn't it?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Even if I assume it's true, he shouldn't have told us.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
It's strange.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
It was like he was bragging what his friend said
about how great he was exuver he's talking about Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
It's a way of him saying, I just got a
stamp of approval from a guy who knows war, who
knows how to invade countries. Right, Yeah, it was just hard.
Here was the quote from the president quote. Putin was
very pressed with what he saw.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
In fact, he was taking notes as he continues his
war with Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
No, it was it was.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Strange, okay, And Robes added that last part, by the
way I did that.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
He did not say that. That was just me being yes.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
It was just it was just the odd What did.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
You make of the Cuba conversation too? That also was
a little interesting. And was expecting that.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Stand by, we're about to take over Cuba is what
I got out of it.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I actually thought that might be the case too, because
did he not talk about a friendly takeover?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yes, it could be a friendly one, maybe not.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
He said takeover, Yes he did.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
That is the word that stopped me in my tracks,
and we rewound his We would back.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Up a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
That was one of them, because did he just say
that we're either going to have a friendly or a
not so friendly takeover of Cuba?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
And then yes, talked about Marco Rubio. He really likes
the guy.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You know what, I like Marco Rubio.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
He's a hustler, he's I think he's at this point
he might end up being the most qualified dude for
the presidency. I am this is not about his politics.
I just see a politician who is seasoned. He has
been around a long time. He has been through a lot.
He is managing a relationship with Trump. I don't know
how he still manages relationship with the Senate. Those kinds
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of guys who can.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Well. President Trump also is equally impressed because he said
that he thinks Marco Rubio will go down as the
greatest secretary of State in history.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
We shall see when he likes you.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
He loves you, folks. We just want to hop on
give you those updates. We think that's it for the night, right, No,
who's coming out?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Please?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I really hope not.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
We need to go to sleep, all right, Well, folks,
we always appreciate you spending some time with my dear
Amy Robot.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I am TJ. Holmes will talk to you.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Also, they do things
Hey, folks, it is Monday, March ninth, and we just
listened to President Trump give his first Q and a
press conference since the start of the war. We want
to hop on here on this episode of Amy and
TJ to let you know what came out of that.
I guess some newsworthy stuff in there, some stuff I
would love to see the evidence of in there, but
(00:31):
as good as him take questions, rogues, and I guess,
top of everybody's mind, when is this thing going to
be over? There's been different messaging out there. He was
asked directly about possibly being over this week.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yes, and he refuted that sentiment like, absolutely not. It
will not be over this week. But he did say
it was going to be over soon, and we keep
hearing that soon. And he did say that we are
ahead of schedule, that things have gone better, not maybe
better than expected, but quicker than expected.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
And part of the problem the presidents come out here
now ropes have been so many people speaking on behalf
of the administration, and even the President has been doing
different interviews with so many different reporters that the messaging
is all over the place, and the messaging, once again,
it seems to be moving around.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Why did we do this, why did we have to
do this? And why do we have to do this?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Now we got some new quotes from him, some new timelines,
and apparently we all would have been blown to smitherings
by now.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Okay, I want to know what you think.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Do we looked at each other because we were listening,
but think our jaws were collectively dropped. And if any
of you were listening, if you haven't, you should go
back and listen to this part because the President was suggesting,
as best I could tell that if we had not
done the Operation Midnight Hammer, that within two to four weeks,
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Iran would have had nuclear weapons, and he was saying
that this press conference may not have been able to
happen at all, and the implication is.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Because we would have all been blown to bits. Yeah,
that was a little shocking.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yes, I don't know what to make I mean, he
has said this. I mean he has said this more
than once though Robes he said this not too terribly
long ago, that we had to we looked at each
other at that point because he was talking about the
reason he had to go to war now is because
they were going to attack. He repeated that sentiment here,
but he added more to it in this press conference robes.
(02:32):
They weren't just going to attack, He said, they were
looking at taking over their own, their neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
He said, I counted at least four times, but I
started counting later. That Iran was absolutely going to take
over the Middle East.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It's a direct quote, that is verbatim, and he.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Said it multiple times.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
He said that their missiles were pointed directly at their neighbors.
He actually mentioned UAE. I don't think you mentioned another
specific country, but he said that they saw that the
missiles were pointed at their neighbors. They were going to
take over the Middle East.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
But again he was and he said he was implying no.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
He directly said that if we had not acted as
we did this summer and certainly just recently when we
went in with Israel, that Iran not only would have
been able to have nuclear weapons, but they would have
used them.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
That's what he said, and he kind of added the
part at the end with almost a little smirk. I
don't even know if we'd be here, I don't even
know if we'd be having this press conference. It was interesting.
He'll get follow ups on that. Let's go through the list. Here.
Two big things we want to get to the new
Supreme leader and information about the girls school. Now, let's
start with the girls school. This happened on was it
(03:52):
day one to day two? Although the war started, a
missile hit a girls school, it ends up killing The
last count was at least one hundred and fifty plus
dead at that school. Now, news organizations and other analysis
has been going on taking a look at this, and
the evidence is piling up that it was a US
(04:14):
missile that hit that school. So Roe was the president.
We knew he was going to be asked about it today.
He had already had previously just kind of said, I
believe it was Iran. He said that on Air Force one. Correct,
he got asked about it twice, and I think it
was the second guy who kind of held his feet
to the fire a little more. But when he was
answering it initially, he he said it might have been
(04:38):
a Tomahawk, but we're not the only ones who have
American Tomahawk missiles.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Correct, he said, several countries have them.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But then he did specifically say that Iran also has
Tomahawk missiles and it was very possibly Iran, as well,
so when the follow up question came a few questions later,
the reporter, it was a male reporter, he actually went
pretty strong and said, why is it that everyone else
(05:04):
is saying something different than you. No one else is
saying that those were potentially or that was potentially an
Iranian missile. Even your own defense secretary has said we
are investigating.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Why are you the only one saying this?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
It was it was one of the only questions that
actually held the President's feet to the fire, and he
backed off, and he backed I was so surprised. I
thought Trump was going to be angry. I thought he
was going to fire back, and he actually said, you
know what, it could have been iron Yes, it could
have been one of their missiles.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
And he said, but I.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Will let the investigation take place, and whatever I will
stand by, or I will deal with whatever that investigation
shows to be true, or we'll live with That's what
he said, I'll live with whatever the investigation show.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
So he did back away from that a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
He also gave us some more quotes about why we
had to attack wherebes it's this idea we had to
do this or they were going to strike. But he
gave us another good belief quote. If you remember that,
what was the original?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
The origin was, oh right, So it was he had
a feeling based on feeling, and then Carolyn Levitt had
to follow up saying he had a feeling based on facts.
We've been saying this back and forth to one another
over the weekend, just you know, for the fun of it,
because it's a it is it's an interesting way to
put something. But so, yes, it's all about the president's feeling.
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He had a feeling, he had a belief. This is
where he's saying today, I have a belief. So he's
gone up from a feeling to a belief.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
But he went double belief in his quote here and
he said this. He said, I believe upon information and
belief that it was going to take over the Middle East.
They were looking to take over the Middle East. I
believe upon information and belief.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You and I looked at each other when he said that,
So is belief. Does that make you feel a little
bit better than a feeling.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I believe upon information and belief it was going to
take over the At least he's a wordsmith. Look, this
is this is only that only jumped out it never
would have. It was only because the feelings and facts.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Then, yes, then he had a feeling based on facts,
and that's why he made the decision, because he had
a feeling that Iran was going to attack. Now he
has a belief upon information and belief that Iran was
going to take over the Middle.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
East, and that's why he no.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
It is it is amazing how each time we get
a slightly different or a very different response as to
the why and how he came up with this plan
and why.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Now that's been the interesting thing.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I mean, he did talk about Steve Wycoff, He did
talk about Jared Kushner saying that Iran He did reiterate
this today in the presser that Iran absolutely refused to
stop seeking a nuclear weapon period. And once he realized so,
he said, once I heard from Steve, once I heard
from Jared, I knew that this was we were going
to have to do things the hard way.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Well, of course, in the Brest conference today, we expected Robes,
We anticipated the first question. It was going to be
his feeling about the new Supreme Leader, who of course
is the son of the old Supreme Leader. Some stuff
has been trickling out in some of the interviews he's
been doing, but it was not really clear what his
feeling was. It was the first question from the first reporter.
(08:29):
He ends up skipping over it. I don't know if
you just forgot to get to that part of it
or not. But he didn't answer it. But somebody asked
them the question later, and I guess we have clarity
now about how he feels about the guy.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I was a little surprised by his answer because he
was very he was very strong in his language before
there was a successor named, and he did even mention
the possibility that Harmone's son could be named and said
it would be unacceptable. He made a very strong remark
that you know it, basically, they won't be in power
long if I'm not okaying this, if I'm not overseeing this.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
But today he backed out a little bit.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
He he didn't come out as so. He said he
didn't want to go there basically, is what he told reporters.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I don't think that would be fair. I don't want
to put a target on his back.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh yeah, he's me was clear that he was disappointed,
is how he said it in the selection. But I
think just once he was asked that directly about if
he is a target and that's what you mean, and
his language when he say it wouldn't be appropriate, it'd
be inappropriate to say if the Supreme Leader has a
target on his back.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
I'm surprised.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I thought he would have said he better watches back
because we're coming for you. I actually thought he was
going to go there, and he didn't. And then he
went on to pivot to talk about his own assassination
attempt and how in this in these strikes they were
able to get the guy who was trying to kill him.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
And the analysts will tell you that what you're seeing
there is the president trying to manage expectations publicly. You
can't go too He's looking. I don't want to say
an all ramp just yet, but you gotta find some
kind of way. They just put the sun in what
are you going to do now?
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
So you have going to commit to regime change. So
that might be a way of the President looking for
a way to not completely obliterate the possibility of some
kind of compromise.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Wow, because I was actually thinking that maybe he thought,
just world leader to world leader, it wouldn't be appropriate
to talk about taking out another world leader in a
press conference, given the fact that he has been the
victim of such targets as well. So here's me thinking
about it on a completely different level.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
That's just that's just me.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
You were giving the president credit for civility, I want statesmanship.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Because I really thought his language would be stronger.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You actually have his exact quote when initially asked about Hamanai.
He said, I was disappointed because we think it's just
going to lead to more of the same problem. So
when you hear a statement like that, disappointed because it's
going to lead to more of the same problem. Why
would you be putting forth all this energy and all
this effort trying to change the direction of Iran from
(11:25):
being war driven and nuclear bomb forward, Like, why would
you That would be a necessary part of the endgame,
a necessary part of getting out of the war that
you started because you were trying to stop the direction
of the country, and now you have somebody who's literally
going to take the country.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
In the same direction.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Think they're starting that drumbeat a little bit.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
We heard that messaging from the President a little bit,
talking about I want to make sure that they aren't
able to start this up for a long, long time,
setting a different type of goal that's not regime change.
He can come out and say we have wiped them
out to the point it will be forty years according
to the experts before they ever and you can claim victory.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I guess, but you also know you've now if Haminae
would stay in power. We talked about this actually in
an earlier podcast. We not only killed his father, but
his mother, his wife, a child of his Like, this
is somebody who is going to make death to America
(12:32):
his personal mission more than it already may have been.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah, I don't know how.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Look he's a guy, no matter what, he's a human being,
and there's just some way you react court things like that.
Look we're just said no way of ever necessarily knowing.
But man, you make a good point about the family.
But something else that came up in the press conference
today with the President was who has been so complementary
(12:58):
of the work that they the US military is doing.
All Right, we continue here on Amy and TJ. We'll
wrap up here in just a moment. Just I wanted
to hop on. The President just wrapped up really within
(13:19):
fifteen minutes of us being on the microphones here, just
wrapping up his first time rose taking questions. We've seen
him in some live comments, we have seen him in
some taped comments, but this was important to get him
in front of reporters.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yes, and so he took I mean he didn't take
that many questions, but I would say he took maybe
less than ten questions.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
But we did get some answers.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
On a lot of headline making news today, from who
is responsible will the United States if it's proven that
the US missile actually is the missile that hit that
girl's school in Iran, killing upwards of one hundred and
fifty young girls, would we take responsibility?
Speaker 4 (13:59):
And we did.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Hear the President say that if the investigation shows something,
he'll live with it, but he still kept pointing the
finger back at potentially other countries in Iran. But he
did address some of the pressing headlines. What was interesting
he was asked about his conversation with Vladimir Putin, and
again some of what the President had to say today
(14:21):
in the press conference, I was not expecting this was
among them.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
This was a bizarre. This was so bizarre, wasn't it?
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Even if I assume it's true, he shouldn't have told us.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
It's strange.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
It was like he was bragging what his friend said
about how great he was exuver he's talking about Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
It's a way of him saying, I just got a
stamp of approval from a guy who knows war, who
knows how to invade countries. Right, Yeah, it was just hard.
Here was the quote from the president quote. Putin was
very pressed with what he saw.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
In fact, he was taking notes as he continues his
war with Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
No, it was it was.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Strange, okay, And Robes added that last part, by the
way I did that.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
He did not say that. That was just me being yes.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
It was just it was just the odd What did.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
You make of the Cuba conversation too? That also was
a little interesting. And was expecting that.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Stand by, we're about to take over Cuba is what
I got out of it.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I actually thought that might be the case too, because
did he not talk about a friendly takeover?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yes, it could be a friendly one, maybe not.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
He said takeover, Yes he did.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
That is the word that stopped me in my tracks,
and we rewound his We would back.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Up a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
That was one of them, because did he just say
that we're either going to have a friendly or a
not so friendly takeover of Cuba?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
And then yes, talked about Marco Rubio. He really likes
the guy.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
You know what, I like Marco Rubio.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
He's a hustler, he's I think he's at this point
he might end up being the most qualified dude for
the presidency. I am this is not about his politics.
I just see a politician who is seasoned. He has
been around a long time. He has been through a lot.
He is managing a relationship with Trump. I don't know
how he still manages relationship with the Senate. Those kinds
(16:21):
of guys who can.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Well. President Trump also is equally impressed because he said
that he thinks Marco Rubio will go down as the
greatest secretary of State in history.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
We shall see when he likes you.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
He loves you, folks. We just want to hop on
give you those updates. We think that's it for the night, right, No,
who's coming out?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Please?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
I really hope not.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
We need to go to sleep, all right, Well, folks,
we always appreciate you spending some time with my dear
Amy Robot.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I am TJ. Holmes will talk to you.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Also, they do things
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