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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Is in Israel.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Another story we've been covering over the past three days,
and that was Israel's launch of missiles into Iran and
Iran retaliating. Then again tonight we saw more missiles launched
out of Iran into this part of central Israel. This
(00:25):
is the first time that we've actually been able to
get a live picture of the debris in central Israel.
I am told after those missiles came in from Iran,
Steve Ganyard, I'm going to bring you in on this now.
I'm going to ask you to put on your former
State Department role and talk. We were going from the
(00:49):
parade here in our nation's capital and talking about your
military career. Now we're going to talk about what's happening
in the Middle East and how things have escalated between
Israel and Iran. Don't know what kind of intel you're
getting through the sources you follow, but we believe this
is one of the missiles that was able to break
(01:10):
through the Iron Dome, Am I right, and hit a
building here. We see the dogs out truly right now
at this moment, trying to find survivors.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, it looks like there are about four impacts at
Tel Aviv, tonight, no missile defense system is going to
be perfect.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Especially when you have these garages coming in from Iran.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
So still about a ninety percent success rate and bringing
down these Iranian missiles. But tonight, Kira, the gloves came off.
The Israelis told the Iranians that if you continue to
target civilian areas, we are going to go after your infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Gets escalated.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Beyond that, an Israeli official has told the US press
that the Ayatola is no longer off limits. So we
see that the Israelis have hit a gas processing station
with it in Iran. Tonight we see that they have
hit in an oil depot just outside of Tehran, massive
fires burning there, and now they're saying that leadership is
(02:09):
fair gay. Up to now, the Israelis have only been
going after the leadership of the military and the senior
ranks of the nuclear scientists.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So tonight what we're seeing is the gloves coming off.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Why should this concern the rest of the world, because
it's a very slippery slope to moving on down to
taking out all of the Iranian oil export capacity, which
would take significant amount of oil, maybe two million barrels
a day off the market. At some point the regime
in Iran could could get desperate enough that they do
(02:46):
something like try to close the straight up Honors. If
that happens, twenty percent of the world's consumption on a
daily basis gets taken off the market if they do
anything like send out their speedboats put mines in the water.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Everything that we saw the Israelis hit today was hitting
the infrastructure for domestic consumption. So the gas field they
hit was for domestic consumption. The tanks that they hit
outside of Tehran, that's all domestic consumption. But it's just
a couple of steps away from an escalation that the
world may feel.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So let's just back up. Let's go back years and
there the United States trying to deal with Iran diplomatically,
and these nuclear facilities have always been a concern on
(03:42):
behalf of the United States and on behalf of Israel.
A lot of back and forth. There were sanctions put
in place, there were talks of negotiations, peace deals. I'm
you know, just putting at all in a very short
form here over many many years now where we are
(04:07):
at this moment, this it's different, it's different. This time around,
Trump is not saying anything. President Trump is not saying anything.
We don't know if at all the US was somehow involved.
We know that Trump has made it very clear that
the United States is going to back Israel. But as
we look at these pictures and we see cadaver dogs
(04:29):
trying to find survivors, we are seeing destruction here. We're
not just seeing the Iron Dome intercepting missiles coming from
Iran and hearing the IDF talk about you know, we've
taken out key members of the Revolutionary Guard and now
we're taking out fuel and oil. I mean, this is
(04:50):
this is different this time around. What's happening here? Is
it President Trump? Is it Israel? Is it is at
what's going on with Hamas and Gaza that Israel has
just had enough of Iran supporting terrorists around the region.
What's your sense of how we got to this point
(05:14):
after so many years of just talk and no action, Kira,
It's a long question.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I get the gist, though, I get the gist.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
The key here is that Israel is known for decades
that Iran has an aspiration to create nuclear weapons, and
they publicly consistently say that their.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Goal is to wipe off, wipe the state of Israel
off the face of the earth. So the Israelis know
they have an existential threat.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
They've known for a long time and they've never been
able to say, well, the US will come save us.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
So they've been working for years, literally for years.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
To figure out how would they take out Iranian nuclear
infrastructure by themselves. Now, remember they don't have bombers, so
many of the of the of the processing plants are very.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Deep underground different parts of Iran. You need bombers.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Let only the United States have to drop the kind
of ordinance that gets down layers hundreds of feet underground
to get at those processing plants.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
So these rallies are having to be a little more creative.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
They have ways to get down deep into the earth,
but they're having to be a little more creative at
this point, and they're being very deliberate in what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Let's think about how they brought the drones over enemy
territory and built that secret base inside Iran and unleash
those drones in that initial attack.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Masad owns the Iranians.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Right now, you think about what the Masad has done
in terms of intelligence to be able to target all
nine of this most senior Iranian military.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Officials and all of.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
The senior scientists who are working on their nuclear weapons
program and take them out within the first minutes we
saw those pictures. It was individual rooms that they were
able to target. Now think about the human intelligence that
was required to say this funeral lives in this building
on this floor and this is their apartment.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
To be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Is just extraordinary and it has to shake the Iranians
knowing that the Israelis are able to operate so.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Freely inside of Iran.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And to your point, they were able to create these
bases where they had drones that helped take out some
of the air defense systems around Tehran before Israeli jets
were even starting their first attackerments. So when you're living
in the enemy's territory, and this is a bit different
from what Ukraine did. Ukraine was very very the initiative
(07:37):
there to be able to take these trucks in and
have the drones pop off. These are actually rarely intelligence
operatives inside bad guy territory working with a punity to
start the raids that we have seen that have that
have led to what's what's going on tonight.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And while we look at these live pictures where they
are searching services right now where they ron did hit
targets inside Israel, Let's take it to the White House.
Our senior White House correspondent, Selena Wang. Selena, it wouldn't
have been clearly appropriate for the President to mention anything
(08:18):
about what's happening here in the place that he was
celebrating the armies two hundred and fifty years celebration there
on the parade route. But we haven't heard from him.
We haven't heard from him when the initial attack happened.
We didn't hear anything yesterday, and so far we haven't
heard anything out of the White House today.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yeah. I mean, this is the first time we've seen
the President on camera since Thursday, and the President Thursday morning,
he gave a call to a flurry of reporters and
really seemed to shift his tone on this. I'd actually
asked the President about imminent Israeli strikes shortly before they happened,
and at the time, the President was warning Israel not
to do this, saying that this would derail those ongoing
(08:59):
US Iranian nuclear negotiations, making it very clear that he
wanted a diplomatic solution, and in fact, the scheduled a
meeting Kira between US and Iranian officials for another round
of nuclear talks has actually been canceled. That was scheduled
actually for tomorrow and Oman, so that is no longer happening.
But the President since then on Thursday, he had changed
(09:21):
his tune, calling those initial Israeli strikes excellent, saying that
Iran got hit hard, they had a chance to make
a deal, they didn't take it. But to your point,
we haven't heard from the President in several days since
that initial wave of strikes, but US officials have confirmed
that the President has made calls to several world leaders,
including to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. And while the US
(09:43):
did not get itself involved militarily in that initial wave
of attacks, the US has been helping Israel to defend itself,
helping to shoot down those missiles again helping to defend
a US ally. But still huge questions here about what
this all means moving forward. And I just want to
point out one notable call that the President had, which
(10:03):
is with Russias Vladimir Putin. The President posted on social
media just hours before that military parade began that he
had Putin spoke to each other, that Putin wished him
a happy birthday. They also spoke about the conflict in
the Middle East, and according to Russian state media, Putin
offered to mediate the conflicts between Israel and Iran.
Is in Israel.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Another story we've been covering over the past three days,
and that was Israel's launch of missiles into Iran and
Iran retaliating. Then again tonight we saw more missiles launched
out of Iran into this part of central Israel. This
(00:25):
is the first time that we've actually been able to
get a live picture of the debris in central Israel.
I am told after those missiles came in from Iran,
Steve Ganyard, I'm going to bring you in on this now.
I'm going to ask you to put on your former
State Department role and talk. We were going from the
(00:49):
parade here in our nation's capital and talking about your
military career. Now we're going to talk about what's happening
in the Middle East and how things have escalated between
Israel and Iran. Don't know what kind of intel you're
getting through the sources you follow, but we believe this
is one of the missiles that was able to break
(01:10):
through the Iron Dome, Am I right, and hit a
building here. We see the dogs out truly right now
at this moment, trying to find survivors.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yeah, it looks like there are about four impacts at
Tel Aviv, tonight, no missile defense system is going to
be perfect.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Especially when you have these garages coming in from Iran.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
So still about a ninety percent success rate and bringing
down these Iranian missiles. But tonight, Kira, the gloves came off.
The Israelis told the Iranians that if you continue to
target civilian areas, we are going to go after your infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Gets escalated.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Beyond that, an Israeli official has told the US press
that the Ayatola is no longer off limits. So we
see that the Israelis have hit a gas processing station
with it in Iran. Tonight we see that they have
hit in an oil depot just outside of Tehran, massive
fires burning there, and now they're saying that leadership is
(02:09):
fair gay. Up to now, the Israelis have only been
going after the leadership of the military and the senior
ranks of the nuclear scientists.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So tonight what we're seeing is the gloves coming off.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Why should this concern the rest of the world, because
it's a very slippery slope to moving on down to
taking out all of the Iranian oil export capacity, which
would take significant amount of oil, maybe two million barrels
a day off the market. At some point the regime
in Iran could could get desperate enough that they do
(02:46):
something like try to close the straight up Honors. If
that happens, twenty percent of the world's consumption on a
daily basis gets taken off the market if they do
anything like send out their speedboats put mines in the water.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Everything that we saw the Israelis hit today was hitting
the infrastructure for domestic consumption. So the gas field they
hit was for domestic consumption. The tanks that they hit
outside of Tehran, that's all domestic consumption. But it's just
a couple of steps away from an escalation that the
world may feel.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So let's just back up. Let's go back years and
there the United States trying to deal with Iran diplomatically,
and these nuclear facilities have always been a concern on
(03:42):
behalf of the United States and on behalf of Israel.
A lot of back and forth. There were sanctions put
in place, there were talks of negotiations, peace deals. I'm
you know, just putting at all in a very short
form here over many many years now where we are
(04:07):
at this moment, this it's different, it's different. This time around,
Trump is not saying anything. President Trump is not saying anything.
We don't know if at all the US was somehow involved.
We know that Trump has made it very clear that
the United States is going to back Israel. But as
we look at these pictures and we see cadaver dogs
(04:29):
trying to find survivors, we are seeing destruction here. We're
not just seeing the Iron Dome intercepting missiles coming from
Iran and hearing the IDF talk about you know, we've
taken out key members of the Revolutionary Guard and now
we're taking out fuel and oil. I mean, this is
(04:50):
this is different this time around. What's happening here? Is
it President Trump? Is it Israel? Is it is at
what's going on with Hamas and Gaza that Israel has
just had enough of Iran supporting terrorists around the region.
What's your sense of how we got to this point
(05:14):
after so many years of just talk and no action, Kira,
It's a long question.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I get the gist, though, I get the gist.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
The key here is that Israel is known for decades
that Iran has an aspiration to create nuclear weapons, and
they publicly consistently say that their.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Goal is to wipe off, wipe the state of Israel
off the face of the earth. So the Israelis know
they have an existential threat.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
They've known for a long time and they've never been
able to say, well, the US will come save us.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
So they've been working for years, literally for years.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
To figure out how would they take out Iranian nuclear
infrastructure by themselves. Now, remember they don't have bombers, so
many of the of the of the processing plants are very.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Deep underground different parts of Iran. You need bombers.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Let only the United States have to drop the kind
of ordinance that gets down layers hundreds of feet underground
to get at those processing plants.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
So these rallies are having to be a little more creative.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
They have ways to get down deep into the earth,
but they're having to be a little more creative at
this point, and they're being very deliberate in what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Let's think about how they brought the drones over enemy
territory and built that secret base inside Iran and unleash
those drones in that initial attack.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Masad owns the Iranians.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Right now, you think about what the Masad has done
in terms of intelligence to be able to target all
nine of this most senior Iranian military.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Officials and all of.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
The senior scientists who are working on their nuclear weapons
program and take them out within the first minutes we
saw those pictures. It was individual rooms that they were
able to target. Now think about the human intelligence that
was required to say this funeral lives in this building
on this floor and this is their apartment.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
To be able to do that.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Is just extraordinary and it has to shake the Iranians
knowing that the Israelis are able to operate so.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Freely inside of Iran.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
And to your point, they were able to create these
bases where they had drones that helped take out some
of the air defense systems around Tehran before Israeli jets
were even starting their first attackerments. So when you're living
in the enemy's territory, and this is a bit different
from what Ukraine did. Ukraine was very very the initiative
(07:37):
there to be able to take these trucks in and
have the drones pop off. These are actually rarely intelligence
operatives inside bad guy territory working with a punity to
start the raids that we have seen that have that
have led to what's what's going on tonight.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And while we look at these live pictures where they
are searching services right now where they ron did hit
targets inside Israel, Let's take it to the White House.
Our senior White House correspondent, Selena Wang. Selena, it wouldn't
have been clearly appropriate for the President to mention anything
(08:18):
about what's happening here in the place that he was
celebrating the armies two hundred and fifty years celebration there
on the parade route. But we haven't heard from him.
We haven't heard from him when the initial attack happened.
We didn't hear anything yesterday, and so far we haven't
heard anything out of the White House today.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Yeah. I mean, this is the first time we've seen
the President on camera since Thursday, and the President Thursday morning,
he gave a call to a flurry of reporters and
really seemed to shift his tone on this. I'd actually
asked the President about imminent Israeli strikes shortly before they happened,
and at the time, the President was warning Israel not
to do this, saying that this would derail those ongoing
(08:59):
US Iranian nuclear negotiations, making it very clear that he
wanted a diplomatic solution, and in fact, the scheduled a
meeting Kira between US and Iranian officials for another round
of nuclear talks has actually been canceled. That was scheduled
actually for tomorrow and Oman, so that is no longer happening.
But the President since then on Thursday, he had changed
(09:21):
his tune, calling those initial Israeli strikes excellent, saying that
Iran got hit hard, they had a chance to make
a deal, they didn't take it. But to your point,
we haven't heard from the President in several days since
that initial wave of strikes, but US officials have confirmed
that the President has made calls to several world leaders,
including to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. And while the US
(09:43):
did not get itself involved militarily in that initial wave
of attacks, the US has been helping Israel to defend itself,
helping to shoot down those missiles again helping to defend
a US ally. But still huge questions here about what
this all means moving forward. And I just want to
point out one notable call that the President had, which
(10:03):
is with Russias Vladimir Putin. The President posted on social
media just hours before that military parade began that he
had Putin spoke to each other, that Putin wished him
a happy birthday. They also spoke about the conflict in
the Middle East, and according to Russian state media, Putin
offered to mediate the conflicts between Israel and Iran.
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