00:00Let's start by talking about Iran. I mean, what a lot has changed since we spoke a week ago.
00:08I mean, are you astonished, I'm sure you are, at the pace of change, the pace of developments with regards to Iran?
00:15I am and I'm not, because I think that President Trump really wanted to move very quickly and swiftly.
00:21I also think Israel had a lot to do with it, was very influential in getting the United States to do this jointly.
00:30And so I think things moved at a very rapid pace, though we were all a little bit surprised.
00:35I think this might have been planned for a very long time, maybe since the president even took office, they have been planning for this.
00:43Right. So we had the, since we spoke a week ago, we had the U.S. strike at the weekend on those nuclear facilities in Iran, three separate facilities.
00:53We had the Iranian response on Monday, which was to attack a U.S. military base in Qatar.
01:01And then we had pretty quickly thereafter the declaration of a ceasefire brokered by President Trump.
01:07I mean, all very quick. A lot of the debate in the U.S. still seems to be about just how damaging those strikes were on the Iranian nuclear facilities.
01:18I mean, what's your take on all of this?
01:20Well, they keep going back and forth. And this morning, Pete Hexeth, the Secretary of Defense, held a very stern press conference
01:29and called out even the likes of Fox News that typically most Americans would say leans on the side of conservative
01:36and called him out on really not reflecting the news properly and not reporting the news properly
01:43and also saying that you guys want to see the president fail and that's why you report it.
01:49And so it was a very heated exchange.
01:52And I think that's because CNN kind of started this and then they just kept talking about how, well, it really wasn't hit.
01:59And if you see on social media, a lot of the liberal comments are more focused on this didn't really do anything.
02:06And the setback was very minimal.
02:08I think now you're seeing all the heads of the agencies that are relevant here, Department of Defense,
02:14intelligence and security all come out and say, no, this was a strike.
02:18It was a real strike and it did affect them in a very big way, in a very major way.
02:24And so while we can't anticipate how many months they have or how many years they have that they can come back and re-enrich,
02:33I think the bottom line is that we got Iran to be on its knees.
02:38And Iran is in a place where it cannot continue to at least attack or be in a place where it can't come to the table
02:46to negotiate as the United States and President Trump wanted it to.
