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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm so pleased to welcome back to the show my
friend Jen Griffin. Jen is chief national security correspondent for
Fox News. Prior to the Pentagon job, she reported from
war zones around the world, lived in Israel for several years,
covering things like the Second Intifada, and she is the
best national security correspondent working in the country today. Jen,
welcome back to the show. It's good to have you.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Thank you so much. Rov.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I don't want to spend a lot of time on
the overall headlines. I think people know them. I want
to start by asking you, what is something interesting you
have learned since you started work this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, I think the most significant thing is in the
last hour, we've learned that there's significant intelligence warnings focused
on Cutter right now. Of course, Cutter is where the
US has its largest airbase in the Middle East. Ten
thousand US troops are normally based there, Lots and lots
of warplanes normally hangared there, and it's just a few
(00:53):
minute flight from Iran. And we understand that there's significant warnings,
intelligence warnings that Iran is moving into position possible short
range and medium range crews and ballistic missiles that could
be targeting that base or other American targets in Cutter.
The airspace over ALLUDEID has been closed. Cutter announced that
(01:15):
just moments ago, as well as embassy personnel at the
US embassy and other embassies in Dohak Cutter have been
told to shelter in place. Many had been sent home.
Many of the family members of US embassy staff and
airman had been sent home earlier last week. And we
did have some satellite images from last week that showed
(01:35):
that the US had moved many of its unhangared aircraft
out of valid deeds so as not to be a
target for the Iranians. But very very significant warnings right now.
And we also just saw that the Iranian president issued
an alert saying that the strikes over this weekend that
the US carried out on those three nuclear targets in
(01:56):
Iran will not go unanswered.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Ross Well, okay, one comments and one question. First, Obviously,
we have a huge basin Cutter and Iran. If they
decide to attack, Americans would consider that. But Cutter is
an interesting choice in that you know, if Iran misses
Cutter and hits something in Cutter. Cutter has been the
most pro Islamo fascist regime of the Gulf Arab States.
(02:19):
So that's an interesting choice. You can respond to that, well,
do you want to say anything about that?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Well, what I would say is I agree with you.
It is unusual you would think that Cutter is probably
one of the it's been serving a mediating role between
Iran and Iranian proxies and the Israelis as well as
with the US. So it is significant. But we also
understand that airspace over UAE, the United Arab Emirates, where
the US also has a very very large base where
(02:47):
a lot of its warflight fighting planes, the F twenty
twos and F sixteens and others are based, that is
now closed. So it is obvious that to me that
the US military was always expecting a response from Iran,
and that those bases we've been warning, those two in
Cutter as well as UAE, as well as Bahrain. Don't
(03:08):
forget Bahrain, which is home to the US Navy's Fifth League.
Those are prime targets. You'll remember, after custom Sulamani was
killed when President Trump was president in twenty twenty, the
US military took out their top general when he was
visiting Iraq and shortly after that, it took about ten
days for an Iranian response. This time, we expect the
(03:30):
response response to come a lot sooner. But the Iranians
fired dozens of ballistic missiles at US bases in Iraq,
and it was only through the grace of God that
American airmen and troops were not killed in that strike.
I believe there were a number of traumatic brain injuries
as a result of the concussive issues with those ballistic missiles.
(03:54):
So the US knows that Iran is going to respond,
and it is important that Iran, from the Iranian regimes
point of view, that it be something very big and
spectacular to show that its population that they still are
in business and to keep their sort of dignity intact.
So I don't think that it'll be as long as
(04:16):
ten days. In fact, right now, it really feels, based
on sources that I'm talking to, that it could be
imminent and even this evening.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Okay, I know you have a ton to do and
you got other places to go, so i'mone ask you
just one last question, and it relates to what you
were just talking about. So I would argue that the
Iranian regime has been trained since Reagan and unfortunately including Reagan,
that the US simply won't react, at least not in
(04:45):
a major way, to any any damage that the Uranians cause.
And in a way, I don't blame them for figuring
that forty years of history would continue. But then they
challenged the wrong guy, and Donald Trump reacted.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, you have to go interrupt because there are posts
occurring that their explosions heard. Oh boy, Hunter, capital of Doha.
So we're going to have to get back to reporting.
But oka, I think everyone should probably watch and it's
a pretty serious development.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Okay, I've got Fox on in my studio right now.
Thanks Jen. All right, that's Jennifer Griffin, chief National security
correspondent for Fox News, and great to get her, even
for five minutes.
I'm so pleased to welcome back to the show my
friend Jen Griffin. Jen is chief national security correspondent for
Fox News. Prior to the Pentagon job, she reported from
war zones around the world, lived in Israel for several years,
covering things like the Second Intifada, and she is the
best national security correspondent working in the country today. Jen,
welcome back to the show. It's good to have you.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Thank you so much. Rov.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I don't want to spend a lot of time on
the overall headlines. I think people know them. I want
to start by asking you, what is something interesting you
have learned since you started work this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Well, I think the most significant thing is in the
last hour, we've learned that there's significant intelligence warnings focused
on Cutter right now. Of course, Cutter is where the
US has its largest airbase in the Middle East. Ten
thousand US troops are normally based there, Lots and lots
of warplanes normally hangared there, and it's just a few
(00:53):
minute flight from Iran. And we understand that there's significant warnings,
intelligence warnings that Iran is moving into position possible short
range and medium range crews and ballistic missiles that could
be targeting that base or other American targets in Cutter.
The airspace over ALLUDEID has been closed. Cutter announced that
(01:15):
just moments ago, as well as embassy personnel at the
US embassy and other embassies in Dohak Cutter have been
told to shelter in place. Many had been sent home.
Many of the family members of US embassy staff and
airman had been sent home earlier last week. And we
did have some satellite images from last week that showed
(01:35):
that the US had moved many of its unhangared aircraft
out of valid deeds so as not to be a
target for the Iranians. But very very significant warnings right now.
And we also just saw that the Iranian president issued
an alert saying that the strikes over this weekend that
the US carried out on those three nuclear targets in
(01:56):
Iran will not go unanswered.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Ross Well, okay, one comments and one question. First, Obviously,
we have a huge basin Cutter and Iran. If they
decide to attack, Americans would consider that. But Cutter is
an interesting choice in that you know, if Iran misses
Cutter and hits something in Cutter. Cutter has been the
most pro Islamo fascist regime of the Gulf Arab States.
(02:19):
So that's an interesting choice. You can respond to that, well,
do you want to say anything about that?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Well, what I would say is I agree with you.
It is unusual you would think that Cutter is probably
one of the it's been serving a mediating role between
Iran and Iranian proxies and the Israelis as well as
with the US. So it is significant. But we also
understand that airspace over UAE, the United Arab Emirates, where
the US also has a very very large base where
(02:47):
a lot of its warflight fighting planes, the F twenty
twos and F sixteens and others are based, that is
now closed. So it is obvious that to me that
the US military was always expecting a response from Iran,
and that those bases we've been warning, those two in
Cutter as well as UAE, as well as Bahrain. Don't
(03:08):
forget Bahrain, which is home to the US Navy's Fifth League.
Those are prime targets. You'll remember, after custom Sulamani was
killed when President Trump was president in twenty twenty, the
US military took out their top general when he was
visiting Iraq and shortly after that, it took about ten
days for an Iranian response. This time, we expect the
(03:30):
response response to come a lot sooner. But the Iranians
fired dozens of ballistic missiles at US bases in Iraq,
and it was only through the grace of God that
American airmen and troops were not killed in that strike.
I believe there were a number of traumatic brain injuries
as a result of the concussive issues with those ballistic missiles.
(03:54):
So the US knows that Iran is going to respond,
and it is important that Iran, from the Iranian regimes
point of view, that it be something very big and
spectacular to show that its population that they still are
in business and to keep their sort of dignity intact.
So I don't think that it'll be as long as
(04:16):
ten days. In fact, right now, it really feels, based
on sources that I'm talking to, that it could be
imminent and even this evening.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Okay, I know you have a ton to do and
you got other places to go, so i'mone ask you
just one last question, and it relates to what you
were just talking about. So I would argue that the
Iranian regime has been trained since Reagan and unfortunately including Reagan,
that the US simply won't react, at least not in
(04:45):
a major way, to any any damage that the Uranians cause.
And in a way, I don't blame them for figuring
that forty years of history would continue. But then they
challenged the wrong guy, and Donald Trump reacted.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, you have to go interrupt because there are posts
occurring that their explosions heard. Oh boy, Hunter, capital of Doha.
So we're going to have to get back to reporting.
But oka, I think everyone should probably watch and it's
a pretty serious development.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Okay, I've got Fox on in my studio right now.
Thanks Jen. All right, that's Jennifer Griffin, chief National security
correspondent for Fox News, and great to get her, even
for five minutes.
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