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Speaker 1 (00:01):
There is one thing that is very clear about the
ceasefire agreement with Israel in Iran, and also the fact
that America hit Iran's nuclear program the way they did.
The media doesn't want to admit that it was successful.
In fact, they've now gone into overdrive to say that
the Iran nuclear program was in fact not decapitated, and
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it was just merely put back maybe days, weeks, or
possibly months, but it's still intact. This is the new
line that you're seeing across almost every one of the
mainstream media channels. I'll give you a great example, NBC
News starting their nightly broadcasts with this piece of propaganda.
(00:43):
Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Tonight, President Trump in the Netherlands for the NATO summit,
wielding a diplomatic win on the world stage with a
tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Iran.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Still holding the ceasefire is very much in effective, and
I think we're going to keep it there for a
long time.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
That had projected more confidence that the US air strikes
on three Iranian nuclear sites, which included B two bombers
fourteen bunker buster bombs, delivered a fateful blow. Photos before
and after appear to show significant destruction at the sites. However,
in a new development tonight, a preliminary assessment by the
Defense Intelligence Agency estimates that the Iranian nuclear program has
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been delayed by three to six months, According to three
people with knowledge of the report, The White House disputes
that initial assessment, calling it flat out wrong.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Roan will never rebuild it from there, Absolutely not. That
place is under rock, that place is demolished. The big
two pilots did.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Their job, and this tonight from the director of the
UN's Nuclear watchdog, what.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
We see is a very important degree of damage. The
Iranian nuclear program has been set back significantly.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Still, his all cap style of diplomacy under stress tonight,
the red carpet European welcome, quite a contrast to the
blunt and profane way he left Washington today furious over
additional strikes by both Israel and Iran after he outlined
his ceasefire plan.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
We basically have two countries that have been fighting so
long and so hard that they don't know what they're.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Doing on behind the scenes, a senior White House official says.
The President over the past forty eight hours had cold
netnya who with a clear demand no more war than
a trio of top officials, Vance, Rubio and Whitkoff were
directed to reach out to Iran to deliver the message
that a ceasefire was expected. And here at the NATO summit,
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the President shifts to a broader agenda of diplomacy and
Kelly joins us.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Now live, Kelly, let's go back to that initial assessment
of the damage to Run's nuclear sites. You have more
reporting on the White House reaction, and.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Tom, the White House is effectively saying hold on. The
Pentagon is still examining the consequences of this. Also tonight,
we're learning that for the first time, lawmakers had been
able to see some of the analysis by intelligence agencies
that is secure, and they were able to do that
in a secure location, and that is a new development.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
So you can hear the media, they're just straight up
hoping that this was a failure. NBC News spending that
entire two and a half minutes trying to tell you
that the intel reports at Rand's nuclear program is in
fact not destroyed, that Donald Trump doesn't know what he's
talking about, that this was basically a minor strike against
Iran's nuclear program, over and over again. Move over to CNN,
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And what were they saying at CNN about the same
exact issue. Well, Congressman Mike Turner saying this about CNN
as he was questioned on the intelligence. Remember many of
them were briefed on it in Congress today. Here is
how that went down, after CNN all day portraying that
Trump wasn't able to end a Rand's nuclear program.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
The battle damage assessment, which I think is up on
a couple of right now.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I have not given what you're laying out here.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
This I think intensity of the pushback from the White
House about how this is an assessment that they don't
agree with, but it's assessment you're saying is exactly what
you expected or what it should have been.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
We're just I've not seen it. So again, you're you know,
and it's what you're reporting on is the leak of it.
So even even what you're saying, you know, we can't
accept that the basis of your report is really what
it says. I believe that we have to accept that
because these are as the President has said, precision strikes,
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and as the IE has the International Atomic Energy has said,
and as we all know, there are thirty sites that
Iran has There are additional sites that are going to
have other nuclear materials, and we don't know what we
don't know. We don't know where Iran has moved things.
We don't know what where they have had perhaps other
Colndestine operations. We're going to have to find out what
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other threats and risk there are are from Iran.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
The presidents ever mentioned that something could be moved. I
think the Vice President was talking about enricheranium over the
weekend and the possibility of not knowing exactly where that
is going forward. Look again, I consider you, and you've
always been an honest broker with me in our conversations.
The idea that the President has not framed this as
a significant victory that more or less puts an end
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to Iron's nuclear program.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
I think he's putting words.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
In his mouth.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
I do not think I didn't say I was directly
quoting him.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I'm saying exactly like that all day.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
That is how CNN has portrayed that, and I do
believe that is absolutely I.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
Think the president right now, if the President were to
talk about this, he would acknowledge, Look, we have no
idea where uh the enricheranium is at this point in time,
there was no expectation that we were ever going to
knock out the entire nuclear program.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
There's likely don't think it's I don't think it's I
don't think it's necessary for the president to say what
you're saying. I think it is absolutely the President has
taken an credible, active leadership that no other president has taken.
World leaders have seen him take a decisive action that
has made the world safe. The head of NATO, other
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world leaders understand that the action that he has taken
was absolutely a step that changes the Middle East, and
it changes the dynamics of the world, and it stops
a rogue nation from publicly enriching uranium and on its
way breathtaking lya toward a nuclear weapon that would have
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changed I mean they could. They were developing an ICBM,
They could hit Washington, DC, they were developing missile technology
that could hit Paris in London. They were a threat
to the world. And Donald Trump took action to derail
that that regime. That is incredibly important. There are steps
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yet to be taken. We'll see where that goes.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Congers and Turner, I couldn't agree with him more there
exactly like that all. This is how CNN has portrayed that,
and I do believe that that is absolutely not true
what you're reporting. You listen to CNN, you go back
to NBC Nightly News, you go back to all the
Democrats out there. They actually are wanting Iran to have
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a nuclear weapon so they can then say, see Donald
Trump failed. Can you think about how messed up that
actually is. I mean, it's the level of insanity of
hatred towards Donald Trump to the point where for you
to have a quote victory over Donald Trump, you're now
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advocating and hoping that Iran actually has a nuclear weapon.
That's what you're wishing for, That's what you're hoping for,
so that you can score points on the President of
the United States of America. And that is your thing, Like,
that's what you want to happen and to come out
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of this. It's I've said this before and I'll say
it again. You don't hate the liberal media enough because
this is what they do. Like, you do not hate
the liberal media enough because over and over and over again,
when they can actually advocate or cheer for American success,
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what do they do. No, no, no, no, they say, we're
playing politics, folks. We can't actually say that something that
Donald Trump did made it safer. That's something we can't do. No, no, no, no,
we cannot do that. We're going to say it was
a failure and hope that Iran is winning just so
we score points. It is sick. I don't want to
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go back into something that we had mentioned earlier, and
that is about the sleeper cell concerns in this country.
We now know that at least five more Iranian nationals
were arrested on Monday, in addition to eleven that were
announced by the Department of Home and Security on Tuesday morning.
On Monday, a forty five year old, for example, was
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arrested by officers in Baltimore and given a third county notice.
He was previously criminally convicted of assault with a deadly
weapon or force likely to produce great bodily harm, where
he was sentenced to just under a year behind bars.
And we can get into that in a moment. It's insane,
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but this goes back to how many people were let
into this country that came from Iran that wished to
do harm to this country. Fox News Channel having an
extensive report on that. Take a listen.
Speaker 8 (09:48):
Concern about our safety here at home. In the wake
of the strikes on Iran's nuclear sites, breaking news today,
Immigration and Customs agents announced they have arrested fifteen illegal
Iranian immigrants since Sunday. One of them admitted to ties
to Hesbellah in Lebanon. A law enforcement source told Fox
News the FBI is closely watching for any Iranian back
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sleeper agents in the wake of Operation Midnight Hammer. During
the Biden administration, border agents arrested more than one thousand,
five hundred Iranians who entered illegally at our southern border.
They let nearly half of them go. President Trump on
that this morning.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Biden led a lot of supercells, that Biden was an
ad competent president, had no idea what he was doing.
He let a lot of supercells in, many from Iran.
But hopefully we'll take care of them. What Biden did
to this country should never be forgotten.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Justice correspondent David Spunt is in Washington.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
David well Harris the news about the fifteen Iranian nationals
coming illegally into the US. There's no surprise to the
people at the Justice Department, the FBI, and of course
the Department of Homeland Security. According to authority, one of
them has ties to HESBLA. Another is an alleged former
sniper for the Iranian Army. At a budget hearing yesterday,
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the number of Iranians illegally
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in the United States continues to grow since.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Well over one thousand have entered our country, and I
can tell you we are on high alert and everyone
is looking at that.
Speaker 9 (11:21):
Very closely now.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
She says, budget cuts won't affect the overall mission. DOOJ
and the FBI continue to focus on threats toward President
Trump himself as a result of his ordering of the
killing of this man, General Kasim Solomani in January twenty twenty,
assassination plots originating in Iran not only toward President Trump,
but to US residents who once lived in Iran. DHS
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Secretary of Christy nome seening there yesterday, was asked about
sleeper cells in the United States. Those are groups of
people who live among us in the US quietly until
order to act.
Speaker 10 (11:56):
We've seen some from overseas and some that have been
here maybe gone overseas for a short period of time,
become radicalized.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
And come back, or individuals that are right here in
the United States.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
Nom held a conference call with some of the nation's
governors over the weekend of pledge federal resources to help
on the state level to combat any threats, whether federal
or local. Attorney General Bondi back in front of lawmakers
tomorrow to talk about the DOJ budget. But you could
expect some of these topics also will likely come up.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
If you go back to the list of the individuals
that have been arrested and what they've been arrested for.
One of the ones I mentioned earlier was out of Atlanta,
an individual that was arrested in Alabama. And this was
a guy that served as an Iranian Army sniper. Now
he didn't serve as an Iranian Army sniper like twenty
years ago. The individual served as an Iranian Army sniper
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from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty one, and at the
time of his arrests in America, he was in possession.
He had a Islamic Republic Army identification card on his person.
All right, if you don't want to be involved in that,
why would you have it on your person. You go
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to another example, Ice in Houston. They arrested another Iranian there.
When they arrested him, he was carrying a loaded nine
millimeter pistol. They arrested him, by the way in seventeen
in Harris County, that is Houston, Texas. The police arrested
him for assaulting a family member and impeding breathing, meaning
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you're strangling someone. You also go to another person in Houston,
another Iranian national. An immigration judge had ordered him removed
nearly twenty years ago, on August fourth of two and five.
He's been twice convicted of drug crimes and one's convicted
driving on a suspended license. He's still in America. There's
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problems here. There's another example of this. A man in
Arizona arrested again another Iranian. He had a final order
of removal. He was convicted of threatening a law enforcement
officer and being an alien in possession of a firearm.
So these are as the President would describe it bot
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own brace right. You have officials that arrested another man
that was in the country illegally from Iran. The man
threatened to open fire on ICE officials if they entered
her home, and then she would go outside and shoot
Ice officers in the head quote unquote, So it's not
just men, it's also women. You had another twenty two
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year old in Mississippi, an Iranian national and former lawful
permanent resident. Well guess what. He lied on his original
visa application and committed potential marriage fraud as well. This
is a guy who quote is listed as a known
or suspected terrorist. He's now an ice custody pitning removal.
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You have another man in Colorado, an individual after a
judge had already ordered him to be removed. His criminal
history includes state and federal convictions for drug crimes and
arrests for assault and child abuse. No big deal, right,
totally fine. You got a man in Saint Paul a
man that was fifty six year old Iranian national. He's
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been convicted of being a felon in possession of a
firearm in Minneapolis. He was sentenced to fifteen months in prison.
He's also a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
with admitted connections directly to Hezballah. You got another guy
in San Francisco, sixty two year old Iranian national with
a criminal history that includes a conviction for petty theft
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and a conviction of possession of a controlled substance for sale.
He was sent to ten years in state prison for
drug conviction and now he's in ice custody. Or go
to Buffalo, you've got another Iranian national there and a
man convicted of grand larceny, schemes to defraud, criminal impersonation
and practicing as an attorney. Another example of the people
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that they're taking off the streets. So when you look
at what we are now witnessing, it is very clear
that there are real people in this country that are
trying to do harm to this country that were let
in under the last administration. That is obvious. The last
administration knew that these people were coming into this country,
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and they just didn't care. They wanted to flood the
country with as many illegal immigrants as they possibly could,
and they just didn't care who was coming in, how
they were getting in this country. It didn't matter. And
that's incredibly sad. Let me also say one other final
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thing here. I expect this to get worse before it
gets better, with a number of legal immigrants that we're
going to find that are a real threat to our
national security, and we should do everything we can to
support and advocate for ice and this administration to find
them wherever they have to in the country. There is
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a massive ceasefire that we all now know about, and
it is a historic moment for the President of the
United States of America who said, I do not want
regime change, I do not want to take out the
leader in Iran. I do want to make sure that
we are safe and that they never receive nuclear weapons. Well,
you put that in contrast with what the media wanted,
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and my ow Mai is at a very different story.
We know the mainstream media hates Donald Trump. We know
that they care more about him being a failure than
they do about the success of making sure that our
foreign policy keeps Americans and others safe around the world.
But if you need a moment to highlight exis exactly
how biased the media is and exactly how much they
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hate Donald Trump and how much they would rather Trump
fail than there'd be success and safety and security for
the United States America, then you just need to listen
to what I'm going to play for you right now. Now.
What I'm about to play for you was on CNN,
right the most trusted name in news, and it was
an embarrassing moment. If you were watching it, I hope
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you share this everywhere because CNN gets word that Iran
has accepted the cease fire deal just seconds after Caitlin
Collins sets up a narrative casting doubt on Donald Trump. Yes,
this happened in real time. No, this is not me
putting two different segments together from different parts of the day.
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I want you to listen to this to the very end.
You really can't make this up. And I mean this,
you cannot hate the liberal media enough.
Speaker 10 (19:00):
Now we're hearing incredibly optimistic views coming out of the
White House as far as how long this can hold
and what this is going to look like. That obviously
still remains to be seen on the implementation side of this,
and waiting to see if the firing does stop and
if Iran and Israel do both agree to this. Because
you speaking of the fluidity of the situation, it was
just twenty four hours ago that President Trump himself was
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suggesting a regime change in Iran was a possibility, and
obviously right before that having the United States strike Iran
and so yes, there have been a lot of phone
calls going back and forth. In part this has to
do with Iran's limited response earlier where they fired on
a US bas in Qatar, but there were no casualties.
We know that they did give a heads up that
they were going to be firing on US Bass without
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exactly specifying which ones. But that is the question here
is if the United States felt that it did not
need to respond to the Iranian retaliation, did that create
the space for this That is what we've been hearing
from administration officials, and so the question is whether or
not this still for the next few hours.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Caitlin I just could have been given a word that Iran,
according to a diplomat who brief CNN, iron has agreed
to the ceasefire. So this is significant. I just want
to try to learn some more information as soon as
we get it about that. But if that is the case,
that's incredibly significant because that is we were waiting. We
had not heard from Ron, we had not heard from Israel.
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All we were going on so far has been the
president's social media post, which was some two hours ago.
So again, that is the first indication we have that
Iran has agreed to this.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Oops right, like, you cannot make this up. And this
is the media showing you just how much they were
hoping that what Donald Trump put out would somehow not
become reality, that it would be a failure, that they
could then point to him and say he's starting World
War three. Donald Trump is putting everyone's lives at risk.
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Donald Trump is the problem, and you can hear it
in real time. Now, That's not the only thing I
want to remind you about, and this goes back to
liberals that are in charge. I want to take you
back to a guy by the name of Scott Kirby.
He is a guy that was at the White House,
a guy that was there under the Biden regime. And
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what did Scott Kirby say back on September the thirteenth
of twenty twenty three, And then what did he say
January fourth of twenty twenty four. Remember this, Kirby on
the sixth billion that Biden released to Iran, saying the
last administration was quote incredibly unseerious, absolutely terrible for the world.
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Here is the comparing contrast of them.
Speaker 9 (21:45):
The US will have visibility and we'll be able to
engage in oversight about where the money was going and
for what purpose. If Ron tries to divert the funds,
we'll take action and we'll lock him up again, and
that will be sufficient oversight to make sure that the
request is valid and that it's going through vendors who
we and the cutteries can trust will actually contract for
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the goods, the medical equipment, the food, whatever it is.
The regime doesn't get to touch the money. Peter doesn't
go to them. They don't get to they don't get
to decide ultimate destination, and they have no direct access
to it. John Iron made two transactions withdrawing from the
previously frozen funds in Oman.
Speaker 10 (22:31):
What were those transactions for.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
I don't have the details on that, Jackie. You're gonna
have to let me get back to you on that.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
There's the line, whether it's the media or whether it
was the buy and administration, they were lying to you
the entire time about what was happening with their administration,
and they were not holding around accountable. And now that
President Trump has done it, they're now furious that it
is a success and they're rooting against it every step
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of the way. Which brings me to the point why
did so many Americans vote for Donald Trump? It's actually
very simple because they wanted to make sure that countries
like Iran who are a threat to United States America
are held accountable. And yet again the President made good
on his promise to the American people to protect and
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defend the homeland, which brings me to the other big
point in the show, and that is what was said
on TV by JD Vance, the Vice President, moments after
Trump announced this his ceasefire between Israel and Iran. And
I want you to hear this conversation. I'm not going
to interrupt it because I think it's an important one,
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and listen to what JD Van says. He's live on set.
This has been announced moments before they go to him
of this ceasefire, and here's what he had to say
to Brett Baher and the rest of the country and
really the world.
Speaker 11 (23:54):
Besce President, thanks for coming.
Speaker 8 (23:56):
Absolutely.
Speaker 11 (23:56):
Just seconds ago, the President went to True Social and
typed this, it has been fully agreed by and between
Israel and Iran that there will be a complete and
total cease fire. Complete and total ceasefire is what he typed. Yep,
what does that mean? How did it come about? What's
the development?
Speaker 12 (24:16):
Yeah, well, we were actually working on that, just as
I left the White House to come over here. So
that's good news that the President was able to get
that across the finish line. I think what it means
Brett's quite simple. First of all, the President, without knock
on wood having a single American casualty, obliterated the Iranian
nuclear program. We are now in a place where we
weren't a week ago. Week ago, Iran was very close
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to having a nuclear weapon. Now Iran is incapable of
building a nuclear weapon with the equipment they have because
we destroyed it. So that's a very very big thing. Now.
What that means, I think is we have to talk
to Iran and of course to Israel about what the
future holds, because while we have obliterated the Iranian nuclear program,
our hope and our expectation is that they're not going
to try to rebuild that program. And I think that's
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what the President is really trying to figure out here,
is to build a long term settlement here to where
we can have peace in the region, where our regional
allies and of course the American people most importantly can
be secured, but where we can ensure that the destruction
of the Iranian nuclear program that has already happened, is
not something they try to rebuild.
Speaker 11 (25:17):
I want to get to the obliterated part in just
a minute, but I just want to read this fully
so I get the context. Congratulations to everyone that has
been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that
there will be a complete and total ceasefire in approximately
six hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound
down and completed their in progress final missions for twelve hours,
at which point the ceasefire for twelve hours, at which
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point the war will be considered ended. Officially. Iran will
start the ceasefire, and upon the twelfth hour, our Israel
will start the ceasefire, and upon the twenty fourth hour,
an official end to the twelve day war will be
saluted by the world. During each ceasefire, the other side
will remain peaceful and respectful on the assumption that everything
works as it should, which it will. I would like
to congrat both countries, Israel and Iran and having the stamina, courage,
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and intelligence to end what should be called.
Speaker 12 (26:05):
The twelve Day War.
Speaker 11 (26:06):
This is a war that could have gone on for
years and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't
and never will God bless Israel, God bless Iran. God,
God bless Iran, God bless the Middle East, God bless
the United States of America, and God bless the world.
And when you left the White House, were you thinking
this was all gelling here?
Speaker 12 (26:24):
When I left the White House, I thought that we
might be able to get it across the finish line
before this broadcast. And it looks like the President has
been able to do that. I mean, look, he's been
working the phones constantly, frankly before the Twelve Day War started,
but certainly over the past twelve days. The President's been
extremely clear about America's national objective here. It is to
create a world where a Ran cannot build a nuclear weapon.
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We of course destroyed the nuclear program that they had,
and the President told the entire team, We're going to
work to make sure that they don't try to rebuild
that nuclear capability in the future. And it's look, this
is a great thing for Israel. Think about this. They've
accomplished in important military objective. They've helped us destroy the
Iranian nuclear program. They've also destroyed the conventional missile capability
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of Iran that threatened the country of Israel for the Iranians.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
I think this is a.
Speaker 12 (27:11):
New opportunity to actually pursue the path of peace. As
I said yesterday, what the Iranians have showed through their
support of terror networks, through their now failed effort to
build a nuclear weapon, is that they're just not very
good at war. And I think the President really hit
the reset button and said, look, let's actually produce long
term peace for the region. That's always been his goal.
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I actually think when we look back, we will say
the twelve Day war was an important reset moment for
the entire region.
Speaker 11 (27:38):
Would you be surprised if Iran is sending out signals
that it doesn't have a specific cease fire plan. How
would the communication have been with the Iranians to get
this level of confidence to put out that detailed statement.
Speaker 12 (27:50):
Well, one of the things I've learned read about the
Iranians in the past four or five months that I've
been in this job is what they say publicly and
privately can sometimes be very different. I think what the
Iranians have shown very clearly is they don't want this
war to go on for much longer. Their air defenses
have been totally destroyed, and tomorrow really is a New Day,
the end of the Twelve Day War, the end of
the Iranian nuclear program, and I really do believe the
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beginning of something very big for peace of the Middle East.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I think the Vice President's absolutely right the way you
put it, it is a historic moment, quite possibly for
the Middle East, and it's because of the leadership of
Donald J. Trump. Don't forget. Share this podcast with your
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