Ashley Smith Thomas discusses President Trump's awareness of Israel's strikes on Iran

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Over the weekend, the fighting intensified with Israel and Iran.
Lieutenant Colonel retired Jonathan Conriquez, a former IDF spokesperson, talked
with Fox News over the weekend after Israel launched its
historic Operation Rising Lion and was asked what is Israel
trying to achieve with this operation?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
The goal is to rid Israel of an existential threat,
the existential threat being Iranian nuclear weapons. The underlying intelligence
is that Iran was making very significant efforts to achieve
those weapons in the have been making significant efforts in

(00:40):
the last weeks and months, and that there was therefore
an urgency for Israel to operate.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
And there's also a big threat to President Donald Trump.
Israeli Prime Mister Benjamin Att Yahoo revealing that Iran tried
to assassinate.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
These people who chant death to America. Try to assassinate
President Trump twice and forty one of your Marines in
Beirut killed and injured, thousands of American soldiers in afghanistand
any rock. Try to bomb a restaurant in Washington, d C.
Chat that's to America, burn the American flag? Do you
want these people to have nuclear weapons? And the means

(01:17):
to deliver them through your cities, of course not so
we're defending our thoves, but we're also defending the world.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, joining us now. Ashley Smith Thomas more on this, Ashley,
your thoughts as a political strategist. It looks like Iran's
weak armed forces military can't really sustain long term here.
Israel seems to have the upper hand right now, even
though there have been deaths in Israel.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Yes, first, thank you for having me. It's really interesting
to just watch and see what is taking place there
in the Middle East right now. I mean this comes
on the heels of the US and Iran negotiating Iran's
nuclear program, as President Trump was hoping that Iran would
make a deal. When speaking to Reuters on Friday, President
Trump had stay that he had given the Iranian sixty

(02:01):
days to come to an agreement, and that time had
expired with no deal. So on the sixty first day,
Israel struck Iran. President Trump's stated quote, Iran cannot have
a nuclear bomb, and we're hoping to get back to
the negotiating table. We will see. There are several people
in leadership in Iran that will not be coming back.
As you mentioned, there was top leaders within the IRGC

(02:23):
that were killed in the first initial strike which impacted
the Iranians military because these leaders were part of their
air defense system. And so it's very interesting again to
see what is going to take place. There's been a
lot of question of whether the US is going to
get involved or not. President Natanya, who has been some

(02:45):
reports to alleged have been trying to encourage the United
States to participate and get involved in helping them eliminate
Iran's nuclear program once and for all. President Trump has
not ruled out the US's engagement, how i, where he
and his administration has been distancing itself from the Israeli
strikes by reiterating that the US military had no involvement

(03:08):
with what is taking place right now. They're in the
Middle East. So it's going to be interesting to see
what happens here in the coming days, if not weeks,
if Israel will be able to officially annihilate Iron's nuclear program,
or if the US is going to have to come
in and finish it off.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Well, I got to tell you, it reminds me of
kickball games when you have two captains and when you
were kids, and you know, you pick your first pick,
and it's like, well, I want this guy on my
team because he's really good. It's like every country that
gets into conflict. They went the United States to be
on their team first one out of the gate. And
most of the times we so get involved, and maybe
I'm not sure we should all the time. Certainly we

(03:46):
don't want Iran have a nuclear weapons. In fact, Nan
Yahoo said Israel intelligence that had covered significant Iranian nuclear activity.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
We can't have ran have nuclear weapons. And by the way,
shows that they intend to give these nuclear weapons to
their Huti proxies and others, and that's nuclear terrorism on
a global scale. It threatens everyone. And the last thing
is they have plans to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles right

(04:16):
now eight thousand kilometers very soon, just at a little distance,
and they can reach the eastern seaboard of the United.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Statesike Centertor to Lindsay Graham telling Face the nation over
the weekend, Iran's nuclear programs got to be destroyed.

Speaker 5 (04:28):
The worst possible outcome for the world is for the
Iranian nuclear program to survive after all this. How do
you destroy their program through diplomacy? I prefer that or
through military action.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, diplomacy really doesn't do all that much. But by
the way, thank you President of Barack Obama. Yeah, I know,
for lifting the Iranian military and Iranian bad guys up
with that palllet of money you sent a long time ago.
Appreciate your funding of this bad cause. Also Lindsey Graham
continuing on, you know, and elaborating what should be done
to actually eliminate that nuclear capability there.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
If diplomacy is not successful and we left with the
option of force, I would urge President Trump to go
all in to make sure that when this operation is
over there's nothing left standing in Iran regarding their nuclear program.
If that means providing bombs, provide bombs, if that means flying,

(05:25):
busting bombs, whatever bombs, if it means flying with Israel,
fly with Israel. The worst possible outcome for the world
is to take the Iranian nuclear program on and leave
it standing one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
There you go.