Speaker 1: Who who Look who the cat dragged back in today
Speaker 1: getting and screaming. I'm sure none other than the dragon. Redbeard, Boy, Dragon,
Speaker 1: you were really really missed by the listeners. Glad to
Speaker 1: have you back. Hope that sight seeing and the rain
Speaker 1: was good, and uh, we really appreciate you.
Speaker 2: I am slightly concerned how the numbers were around here
Speaker 2: without me the ratings, because there were two or three
Speaker 2: Michael Brown listeners on that trip.
Speaker 3: No one of the things seems so quiet. Yes last week,
Speaker 3: let's go first to Fox News Jennifer Griffin and more.
Speaker 4: According to the President. The other thing I can point out, Brett,
Speaker 4: is that this is an operation. In the last eighteen
Speaker 4: years since I've been at the Pentagon, I've never seen.
Speaker 5: Such operational security.
Speaker 4: There was nobody speaking about this any of the preparations.
Speaker 4: There was a complete lockdown, almost a blackout of information
Speaker 4: for the last few days. I'm sitting here in the
Speaker 4: Pentagon right now, I can tell you the hallways are
Speaker 4: empty and all of the information is coming right now
Speaker 4: out of the White House. That is a significant achievement
Speaker 4: because there were no leaks about the timing. Now, sometimes
Speaker 4: I think those who a lot of the flight trackers,
Speaker 4: the open source intelligence flight trackers. That flight radar did
Speaker 4: indicate some of the when the B twos took off
Speaker 4: from white men, but again, nobody really expected that it
Speaker 4: would take place this evening. If you looked at the
Speaker 4: moon schedule, you might have had a clue because it
Speaker 4: was a waning crescent and almost a new moon on
Speaker 4: the twenty fifth, so it would have been very very
Speaker 4: dark over Iran tonight, and you need that in order to.
Speaker 5: Bomb.
Speaker 4: That's the ideal condition for something like a B two
Speaker 4: that is, yes, itself stealth, but it still has to
Speaker 4: be escorted in in case any Iran were to put
Speaker 4: up any planes or there were any opportunities to fire
Speaker 4: on those B twos, which are such valuable and very
Speaker 4: very special planes. Only the US military has this kind
Speaker 4: of weaponry and this capability. No other country in the
Speaker 4: world could have carried off what occurred tonight at those
Speaker 4: three uranium enrichment sites in Iran.
Speaker 6: Jen You're exactly right on the operational security here and
Speaker 6: the fact that there were obviously some red herrings.
Speaker 5: And in a world where decisions.
Speaker 6: Are made and the world digests the decision even before
Speaker 6: it's made because of social media, and everyone's watching everywhere.
Speaker 6: This was a pretty amazing operation when you start thinking
Speaker 6: that the President said within two weeks, we are two
Speaker 6: days from within two weeks, and this happened with a
Speaker 6: post on truth social and no other word. Really getting
Speaker 6: out ahead of that is pretty stunning.
Speaker 3: It's very it's extraordinarily stunning. Traditionally, operations like this you
Speaker 3: inform the Speaker of the House, the Senate Majority Leader,
Speaker 3: and then the chairman's of the Intel Committee, the Armed
Speaker 3: Services Committee, and perhaps a couple of the oversight committees.
Speaker 3: My understanding is they only informed the Speaker of the
Speaker 3: House and the Senate Majority Leader, John Thune, and I
Speaker 3: think that's completely reasonable. Can you imagine now you're going
Speaker 3: to hear in just a minute, raging Cajun Dan Kine,
Speaker 3: the chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, describe exactly
Speaker 3: how this operation took place, Operation Midnight Hammer, in which
Speaker 3: we now, according to Trump, but you know he's prone
Speaker 3: to hyperbole, we obliterated the three nuke sites. Of course,
Speaker 3: Drudge is running this morning with the headline that says,
Speaker 3: satellite imagery underwrites Trump's claim attack obliterated nuke sites. Well,
Speaker 3: nobody knows yet. Because nobody's been down into the tunnels,
Speaker 3: nobody's been underground to see what's happened. So look, everybody
Speaker 3: just chill out for a moment. But back to the
Speaker 3: op sect, the operational security. I find it utterly fascinating
Speaker 3: because if indeed, just I'll pose the question, I'm not
Speaker 3: going to answer before we all pose the question to you,
Speaker 3: if the President, or the Deaf sect, or the Secretary
Speaker 3: of State or anybody else the VP Potus himself had
Speaker 3: informed other than the Speaker and the Senate Majority leader.
Speaker 3: And I'm not even sure when that may have been
Speaker 3: done only after the operation started, or maybe after only
Speaker 3: after the bombs had been dropped, I don't know. But
Speaker 3: had it been done before, as is traditionally done Republican
Speaker 3: or Democrat alike, I don't care. I mean, we controlled
Speaker 3: both houses, so the chairman would have been obviously Republicans.
Speaker 3: Would you have trusted them to keep their mouths shut?
Speaker 3: Would you? I would not have trusted them in the least,
Speaker 3: not in the least would have I trusted them. So
Speaker 3: I think the fact that they were able to pull
Speaker 3: this off the way they did is truly fascinating. Now
Speaker 3: I want to get now to General Dan Raisin Kane,
Speaker 3: who gives a detailed breakdown of Operation Midnight Hammer. More
Speaker 3: than one hundred and twenty five US military aircraft are involved.
Speaker 3: Large B two strike package left the continentally the United
Speaker 3: States on midnight Friday. This is just in terms of execution,
Speaker 3: in terms of logistics, in terms of hey, let's just
Speaker 3: go kick the Dorian and let's you know, kind of
Speaker 3: like you know, one of our taxpayer release shots. Let's
Speaker 3: just blow them back out of the house, and then
Speaker 3: let's turn around and go home. That's precisely what occurred.
Speaker 5: This orders.
Speaker 7: US Central Command, under the command of General Eric Carilla,
Speaker 7: executed Operation Midnight Hammer, a deliberate and precise strike against
Speaker 7: three Iranian nuclear facilities.
Speaker 3: Listen closely to the language now he's reading prepared remarks,
Speaker 3: but they have taken great pains. Every single word has
Speaker 3: been carefully chosen not just for political domestic political consumption,
Speaker 3: but for international consumption. Also.
Speaker 7: Last night, on the President's orders, US Central Command, under
Speaker 7: the command of General Eric Gorilla, executed Operation Midnight Hammer,
Speaker 7: a deliberate and precise strike against three Iranian nuclear facilities.
Speaker 7: This was a complex and high risk mission carried out
Speaker 7: with exceptional skill and disciplined by our joint force. I
Speaker 7: want to thank every service member, planner, operator.
Speaker 5: That made this mission possible.
Speaker 7: Their actions reflect the highest standards of the United States
Speaker 7: Armed Forces. This operation was designed to severely degrade Rand's
Speaker 7: nuclear weapons infrastructure. It was planned and executed across multiple
Speaker 7: domains and theaters with coordination that reflects our ability to
Speaker 7: project power globally with speed and precision. At the time
Speaker 7: and place of our nation's choosing, this was a highly
Speaker 7: classified mission, with very few people in Washington knowing the
Speaker 7: timing or nature of this plan. I'll refer you to
Speaker 7: the graphic on the side as I walk you through
Speaker 7: some of the operational details. At midnight Friday into Saturday morning,
Speaker 7: a large B two strike package comprised of bombers launched
Speaker 7: from the continental United States as part of the plan
Speaker 7: to maintain tactical surprise. Part of the package proceeded to
Speaker 7: the West and into the Pacific as a decoy, a
Speaker 7: deception effort known only to an extremely small number of
Speaker 7: planners and key leaders here in Washington and in Tampa.
Speaker 7: The main strike package comprised of seven B two Spirit bombers,
Speaker 7: each with two crew members proceeded quietly to the east
Speaker 7: with minimal communications. Throughout the eighteen hour flight into the
Speaker 7: target area, the aircraft completed multiple inflight refuelings. Once over land,
Speaker 7: the B twos linked up with escort and support aircraft
Speaker 7: in a complex, tightly timed maneuver requiring exact synchronization across
Speaker 7: multiple platforms in a narrow piece of airspace, all done
Speaker 7: with minimal communications. This type of integration is exactly what
Speaker 7: our joint force does better than anyone else.
Speaker 5: In the world.
Speaker 7: At approximately five pm Eastern Standard Time last night, and
Speaker 7: just prior to the strike package entering Iran, a US
Speaker 7: submarine in the Central Command Area of responsibility launched more
Speaker 7: than two dozen Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles against key
Speaker 7: surface infrastructure targets at Esfahan. As the Operation Midnight Hammer
Speaker 7: strike package entered Iranian airspace, the US employed several deception tactics,
Speaker 7: including decoys as the fourth and fifth generation aircraft pushed
Speaker 7: out in front of the strike package at high altitude
Speaker 7: and high speed, sweeping in front of the package for
Speaker 7: enemy fighters and surface to air missile threats. The strike
Speaker 7: package was support by US Strategic Command, US Transportation Command,
Speaker 7: US Cyber Command, US Space Command, US Space Force, and
Speaker 7: US European Command. As the strike package approached for dou
Speaker 7: and Natance, the US protection package employed high speed suppression
Speaker 7: weapons to ensure safe passage of the strike package, with
Speaker 7: fighter assets employing preemptive suppressing fires against any potential Iranian
Speaker 7: surface to air threats. We are currently unaware of any
Speaker 7: shots fired at the US strike package on the way in.
Speaker 7: At approximately six forty pm Eastern Standard time two ten
Speaker 7: am a Ran time, the lead B two dropped two
Speaker 7: GVU fifty seven massive ordnance penetrator weapons on the first
Speaker 7: of several aim points at four doh As the President
Speaker 7: stated last night, The remaining bombers then hit their targets
Speaker 7: as well, with a total of fourteen mops dropped against
Speaker 7: two nuclear target areas. All three Iranian nuclear infrastructure targets
Speaker 7: were struck between six forty pm.
Speaker 5: And seven h five pm Eastern time.
Speaker 7: Again, that's about two ten in the morning local time
Speaker 7: in Iran, with the Tomahawk missiles being the last to
Speaker 7: strike at Esfahan. To ensure we retain the element of
Speaker 7: surprise throughout the operation. Following weapons release, the midnight Hammer
Speaker 7: strike package exited Iranian airspace and the package began its
Speaker 7: return home. We are unaware of any shots fired at
Speaker 7: the package on the way out. Iran's fighters did not fly,
Speaker 7: and it appears that Iran's surface to air missile systems
Speaker 7: did not see us. Throughout the mission. We retained the
Speaker 7: element of surprise. In total, US forces employed approximately seventy
Speaker 7: five precision.
Speaker 5: Guide of weapons during this operation.
Speaker 7: This included, as the President stated last night, fourteen thirty
Speaker 7: thousand pounds GBU fifty seven massive ordnance penetrators, marking the
Speaker 7: first ever operational use of this weapon. I know that
Speaker 7: battle damage is of great interest. Final battle damage will
Speaker 7: take some time, but initial battle damage assessments indicate that
Speaker 7: all three sites sustained extremely severe damage and destruction. More
Speaker 7: than one hundred and twenty five US aircraft participated in
Speaker 7: this mission, including B two stealth bombers, multiple flights of
Speaker 7: fourth and fifth generation fighters, dozens and dozens of air
Speaker 7: refueling tankers, a guided missile submarine, and a full array
Speaker 7: of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft, as well as hundreds
Speaker 7: of maintenance and operational professionals.
Speaker 5: As this secretary said.
Speaker 7: This was those largest B two operational strike in US
Speaker 7: history and the second longest B two mission ever flown,
Speaker 7: exceeded only.
Speaker 5: By those in the days following nine to eleven.
Speaker 7: Well prior to the strike, General Carilla elevated force protection
Speaker 7: measures across the region, especially in a Rock, Syria and
Speaker 7: the Gulf. Our forces remain on high alert and are
Speaker 7: fully postured to respond to any Iranian retaliation or proxy attacks,
Speaker 7: which would be an incredibly poor choice.
Speaker 5: We will defend ourselves.
Speaker 7: The safety of our service members and civilians remains our
Speaker 7: highest priority. This mission demonst rates the unmatched reach, coordination,
Speaker 7: and capability of the United States Military. In just a
Speaker 7: matter of weeks, this went from strategic planning to global execution.
Speaker 7: This operation underscores the unmatched capabilities and global reach of
Speaker 7: the United States Military. As the President clearly said last night,
Speaker 7: no other in the no other military in the world,
Speaker 7: could have done this. I joined the President and the
Speaker 7: Secretary and being incredibly proud of the air crews, Naval forces,
Speaker 7: cyber operators, planners and support teams and commanders who made
Speaker 7: this mission possible. It is their skill, discipline, and teammate
Speaker 7: teamwork that makes this operation possible. I am particularly proud
Speaker 7: of our discipline related to operational security, something that was
Speaker 7: of great concern to the President, the Secretary General, Carilla
Speaker 7: and me, and we will continue to focus on this.
Speaker 7: As we stand here this morning, many assets are still
Speaker 7: airborne and we have hundreds deployed. I asked that we
Speaker 7: keep our warfighters on their way home and our deployed
Speaker 7: service member in our thoughts. Our joint Force remains ready
Speaker 7: to defend the United States, our troops, and our interests
Speaker 7: in the region.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Logistics, capabilities, operational security. It shows that when we want
Speaker 3: to do something and we want to do it in
Speaker 3: and out quickly, effectively, and try to minimize any opportunity
Speaker 3: for retaliation which can still occur, but for any sort
Speaker 3: of immediate retaliation to protect those that were in the skies,
Speaker 3: and on the basis that we can do this despite
Speaker 3: all of the other peripheral issues we'll talk of out today.
Speaker 3: You know, Oh, my gosh, does the President have the
Speaker 3: authority to do this? Oh, this is a violation of
Speaker 3: the constitution. Oh my gosh, this is a violation of
Speaker 3: the War Powers Act. Everybody take a deep breath, because
Speaker 3: if you think that this is a violation of the
Speaker 3: War Powers act then you maybe have slept through the past.
Speaker 3: I don't know, twenty five years or so. I don't
Speaker 3: think that it is, and I'll walk through and explain why.
Speaker 3: But I think what you know, Trump's headed over to
Speaker 3: the g twenty or not he headed to NATO. He's
Speaker 3: headed to NATO. I think tomorrow and despite what Macron
Speaker 3: or Starmer or anybody else may be saying publicly, privately,
Speaker 3: they will be saying thank you, thank you now for
Speaker 3: domestic political reasons, For their own personal political reasons, they
Speaker 3: may say the exact opposite public Publicly, everybody is saying
Speaker 3: thank you. This is the role that the most powerful
Speaker 3: nation on earth must play, whether we like it or not.
Speaker 3: This is what we need to do now. I don't
Speaker 3: think it's over with. I don't know what. I've got speculation,
Speaker 3: just as every other armchair expert has right now speculation
Speaker 3: about what they think may be coming next. You know,
Speaker 3: we watched after the we toppled Saddam Hussein. We watched
Speaker 3: people you know, rejoicing in the street, only only to
Speaker 3: what only to see one military junta replaced by another
Speaker 3: military junta. So I would just caution and we don't
Speaker 3: get too excited. But I would encourage us to just recognize,
Speaker 3: irrespective of all of the other issues that surround this
Speaker 3: one operation, at least revel in the operation, at least
Speaker 3: revel in the ability of the United States, as he said,
Speaker 3: to strike anywhere in the world at any time of
Speaker 3: our choosing. And that's precisely what we did. And you
Speaker 3: compare that to the past four years of appeasement. Holy cow,
Speaker 3: at least with regard to the US military. It's back, baby,
Speaker 3: It's back now. When we get back. Lots of issue
Speaker 3: war powers. What's going to happen on the ground in
Speaker 3: Iran next, what's going to happen domestically in terms of
Speaker 3: the mid terms. Lots of things stuck about.
Speaker 8: I suppose the only issue with the bombing of the
Speaker 8: nuclear facilities in Iran is our own Second Amendment right
Speaker 8: to bear arms and the right to self defense, which
Speaker 8: Iran may now be able to claim. On the other hand,
Speaker 8: I get that the reason we don't want them to
Speaker 8: have the nuke is because they have a high likelihood
Speaker 8: of using it, sort of like a criminal with guns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm only laugh chuckling, because that's the point that
Speaker 3: everybody misses. I saw some posts on x over the
Speaker 3: weekend about well, you know, if we're going to do
Speaker 3: this to the Iranians, then the Israelis need to you know,
Speaker 3: come forward and be honest about what kind of nukes
Speaker 3: they have, and they ought to agree to dismantle theirs too. Okay, well,
Speaker 3: then so should the Russians, so should the North Koreans,
Speaker 3: so should Beijing, so should Pakistan and India. Let's just
Speaker 3: let's all seeing kumba, y'all now, and just you know,
Speaker 3: everybody just will have you know, a complete you know,
Speaker 3: instead of a non proliferation policy, you know where we
Speaker 3: don't want anybody else to get them, we will just
Speaker 3: do a complete We're gonna de nuke the entire world,
Speaker 3: because well that's in a fairy tale, that's how things
Speaker 3: would work. The difference, as you so succinctly point out,
Speaker 3: is that the Iranians the number one sponsor of state
Speaker 3: terror in the region, someone that has since nineteen seventy
Speaker 3: nine been killing, you know, capturing and killing American civilians
Speaker 3: and military personnel, and then all others, who wants to
Speaker 3: destroy this country, who wants to destroy Israel, who quite
Speaker 3: frankly wants to have control over all of the Middle East.
Speaker 3: They were willing to use them. That's why they were
Speaker 3: building them, and that's when we took it out. So
Speaker 3: now their nuke program wants, you know, once buried beneath
Speaker 3: the mountains, spinning behind all those centrifuges. Everybody talks about, Uh,
Speaker 3: we don't know what the damn and final damage assessments,
Speaker 3: the battle damage assessments, are still ongoing, but at least
Speaker 3: the initial intelligence confirms that the strikes were And what
Speaker 3: I've read and what a couple of people in DC
Speaker 3: have told me, is that they were devastatingly effective. Not
Speaker 3: a single weapon was missed, not a I mean not
Speaker 3: a single weapon missed, and not a single plane was harmed.
Speaker 3: Not a single warning reached Tehran in time, and even
Speaker 3: if it had, the Israelis already had control of the airspace.
Speaker 2: You heard.
Speaker 3: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs point out that they
Speaker 3: do not believe that one shot was fired or that
Speaker 3: one plane took off. No drones, no missiles, nothing. Now
Speaker 3: geopolitically this that that event is going to be parsed
Speaker 3: for decades. But I wonder, my very first thought is
Speaker 3: what message does Operation Midnight Hammer? Does it sin to Pyongyang,
Speaker 3: to Beijing, to Moscow, and I think the answer is unambiguous.
Speaker 3: Now I'll tell you what the answer is. We can
Speaker 3: talk for days about what it means. The answer is unambiguous,
Speaker 3: and that is that American deterrence is no longer just theoretical.
Speaker 3: Our deterrence is operational now. The strike also underscores the restoration.
Speaker 3: I think of competent, calculated, and a credible US military doctrine,
Speaker 3: a well defined mission, limited in scope. I mean it
Speaker 3: may be huge, but limited in scope and get in,
Speaker 3: get out. You know, in this era of you think
Speaker 3: about how many red lines did Obama? I mean, let's
Speaker 3: go back to Wells, go back to Clinton. Have you
Speaker 3: ever stopped and thought about why Pyongyang, why Kim Jong
Speaker 3: in that dynasty, why they have nukes? Because Bill Clinton,
Speaker 3: it was incapable of doing what Donald Trump did. You
Speaker 3: can talk all you want, and you can continue to talk,
Speaker 3: and you can even do like Trump's done here. You
Speaker 3: can blow the S word out of them and say
Speaker 3: do you want to come to the table now, because
Speaker 3: we'll still talk to you. Bill Clinton had that opportunity,
Speaker 3: and we would not have a North Korea with nukes.
Speaker 3: So you can talk about red lines going all the
Speaker 3: way back to Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush,
Speaker 3: Barack Obama. Now Trump didn't do anything because nothing was
Speaker 3: going on. Everybody was laying a little lame quiet. He
Speaker 3: actually reached out to Kim Jong un and tried to
Speaker 3: do something. Didn't accomplish anything, but he tried. And you
Speaker 3: notice when he tried, he didn't draw any red lines
Speaker 3: because he knew if he drew a red line, he
Speaker 3: would have to follow up with it. But drawing a
Speaker 3: red line and then following through on it underscores the
Speaker 3: restoration of competent, calculated, incredible US military doctrine. And as
Speaker 3: I said, in the era of televised red lines and
Speaker 3: diplomatic vapors, it just disappears. In its place stands a
Speaker 3: doctrine of decisive engagement, strategic clarity, and overwhelming power projection.
Speaker 3: It's if the details of that operation, the operational security,
Speaker 3: the logistics, everything don't give you goosebumps about how just
Speaker 3: damn good we are, then you're not really paying attention.
Speaker 3: You know, It's kind of worth remembering. This is not
Speaker 3: the first time that the Trump doctrine has punctuated American
Speaker 3: policy with actual action. Because we had the killing of
Speaker 3: all the money in twenty twenty, which was likewise dismissed
Speaker 3: by the critics. Yet what did it do. It scared
Speaker 3: the of Jesus throughout the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the IRGC,
Speaker 3: and it recalibrated perceptions of our weakness. Operation Midnight Hammers
Speaker 3: cut from exactly the same cloth, but it was exponentially
Speaker 3: larger in scale, larger and sophistication, and I think almost
Speaker 3: as importantly it was larger in symbolism. And the other
Speaker 3: thing that strikes me simply because having been involved in
Speaker 3: things like you know, Bush making a secret trip to
Speaker 3: tay not to Tehran, to Baghdad in the middle of
Speaker 3: the Iraq War, and having been involved in some of
Speaker 3: that planning, the deception was elegant, absolutely elegant. You know,
Speaker 3: when Trump hinted that he would sign in two weeks,
Speaker 3: in hindsight reads less like a delay and more like
Speaker 3: just a simple misdirection. It lulled Tehran, it quieted Washington.
Speaker 3: It gave time for the planners to position the assets,
Speaker 3: finalize the routes, conduct the rehearsals. It wasn't procrastination, it
Speaker 3: was preparation. And it worked and I you know, I
Speaker 3: think I don't have this in my note if I'm
Speaker 3: want to say one other things, because I've now seen
Speaker 3: pictures of the National Security team sitting in a situation
Speaker 3: room going through the plans, and you know, Trump being
Speaker 3: given all the options if I take this option, while
Speaker 3: the ramifications, if I take this option one of the ramifications,
Speaker 3: and there's one picture that stuck out in my mind,
Speaker 3: and that picture is the usual the usual gang is there,
Speaker 3: but sitting to the I think it was appeared to
Speaker 3: be to the President's left, probably about two or three
Speaker 3: seats down, with Susie Wiles, chief staff. I don't think
Speaker 3: we give her enough credit for keeping Trump. Now, don't
Speaker 3: get me wrong, I'm not saying that Trump needs as
Speaker 3: much as he needed before, because I think the assassination
Speaker 3: attempt changed everything about the way he thinks about stuff,
Speaker 3: including the appointment of someone like Susie Wiles to beat
Speaker 3: the chief of staff to maintain order within that entire
Speaker 3: West Wing organization. Now, as I said, an operation of
Speaker 3: this magnitude does not occur in a vacuum. Diplomatic repercussions, Well,
Speaker 3: that's going to occur, and our allies in the Gulf
Speaker 3: will weigh their next moves very carefully, but that caution
Speaker 3: is preferable to their passivity. What matters now is not
Speaker 3: that some are uncomfortable, but that Iran no longer possesses
Speaker 3: a functioning nuclear weapons program. And so the B two's
Speaker 3: hung quietly across the pas it bound for Guam as
Speaker 3: the Tomahawks return to their tubes as the Pentagon completes
Speaker 3: its assessment. One truth remains absolutely inescapable. I think Operation
Speaker 3: Midnight Hammer has changed the world now from that statement,
Speaker 3: and I do believe it's changed the world. The discussions
Speaker 3: that NATO will be entirely different than they would have
Speaker 3: been a week or two ago. I think all discussions
Speaker 3: with world leaders, enemies and allies alike will now be different.
Speaker 3: They'll see him Trump striding into a meeting and they
Speaker 3: won't say it, but they'll think to themselves, a guy's
Speaker 3: got balls, Yeah, yep, and uh yeah. Now what does
Speaker 3: it mean in terms of changing the world, Well, I
Speaker 3: think that, But in terms of what happens next day two,
Speaker 3: so to speak, I don't know. I do know that
Speaker 3: this strike will be studied in the war colleges for generations,
Speaker 3: and not just because it was successful. But I think
Speaker 3: also because it reveals a lot about twenty first century warfare.
Speaker 3: What's probably the most powerful tool in the arsenal, the
Speaker 3: b twos, the mops, the bunker buster bombs, as they're
Speaker 3: colloquially known. No, I think secrecy. Secrecy is power, and
Speaker 3: precision is persuasion and deterrence when credible, When deterrence is
Speaker 3: backed up by action, deterrence becomes peace. Trump promised us
Speaker 3: peace through strength. And this weekend the world saw exactly
Speaker 3: what he means by that, what he means by that.
Speaker 3: Now day two, Yes, day two, and the I pulled
Speaker 3: up one of the headlines on Drudge. Some lawmakers in
Speaker 3: both parties question the legality of Trump's around strikes. Multiple
Speaker 3: Democrats raised constitutional concerns about the strikes, even some Republicans do. Well,
Speaker 3: we'll start diving into that in a minute.
Speaker 9: It's hard to listen to these Democrats talk about this
Speaker 9: bombing of the bunker. They are ridiculously partisan. If Trump
Speaker 9: creed cancer, they would talk about how economically bad it
Speaker 9: is that people will be out of a job because
Speaker 9: there's less cancer, and some hospitals will have to close down.
Speaker 9: These people have gone so far out of their minds.
Speaker 3: It's a sobering moment that makes you pause and just realize,
Speaker 3: oh wow, the work the rest of the world really
Speaker 3: is much more backcrap crazy than when we thought it was,
Speaker 3: and they truly are.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 3: Danny Denon, who is the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations,
Speaker 3: gave a great speech at the United Nations that you know,
Speaker 3: the Security Council has been meeting all weekend. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: what are we gonna do? What are we gonna do?
Speaker 3: You know, one thing the United Nations could do that
Speaker 3: would make them useful for the first first time in
Speaker 3: probably their history would be, why don't you, uh as
Speaker 3: as the world, demand free and fair, open elections in Iran?
Speaker 3: And why don't you put together an election oversight, some
Speaker 3: protocols and go see and organize free and fair elections
Speaker 3: in Iran Once you do that. But no, the Israeli
Speaker 3: ambassador has to lecture them, and it's scathing. Oh it's
Speaker 3: very polite when just somebody's saying he's just quartering and
Speaker 3: drawing them. Now's the time to guarantee that it never returned.