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The United States conducted this operation with a clear goal in mine. I haven't got a chance to see a lot of reporting. I don't understand what the confusion is. Let me explain it to you, and I'll do it once again as clearly as possible. Perhaps you'll report it that way. The United States is conducting an operation to eliminate the threat of Iran's short range ballistic missiles and the threat posed by their navy. Particularly to naval assets. That is what it is focused on doing right now, and it's doing quite successfully. I'll leave it to the Pentagon and the Department of War to discussed the tactics behind that and the progress that's being made. That is the clear objective of this mission. The second question I've been asked is why now? Well, if there's two reasons why now? The first is it was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone, the United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond and respond against the United States. The orders had been delegated down to the field commanders. It was automatic, and in fact it bared to be true because, in fact, within an hour of the initial attack on the Leadership com pound. The missile forces in the South and in the North for that matter, had already been activated to launch, in fact, those that already been prepositioned. The third is the assessment that was made that if we stood and waited for that attack to come first before we hit them, we would suffer much higher casualties, and so the President. Made the very wise decision. We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an. Attack against American forces. And we knew that we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even those killed, and then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn't act. Going back to the purpose, the purpose of this is to destroy that missile capability. Why does Iran want that ballistic missile capability? What they are trying to do and have been trying to do for a very long time is build a conventional weapons capability as a shield where they can hide behind it, Meaning there would come a point where they have so many conventional missiles, so many drums, and can inflict so much damage that no one can do anything about their nuclear program. That is what they were trying to do is put themselves in a place of immunity where the damage they can inflict on the region would be so high that no one can do anything about their. Nuclear program or their nuclear ambitions. They are producing, by some estimates, over one hundred of these missiles a month. Compare that to the six or seven interceptors that can be built a month. They can build one hundred of these a month, not to mention the thousands of one way attack drones that they also have. They've been doing this for a very long time, and by the way, they've been doing it under sanction. You see the attacks they're conducting right now. They're attacking airports, they're attacking hotels, They're hitting not just military bases, they're. Attacking our embassies directly. They're attacking facilities that have nothing to do with war or with military And that's a weekend Iran, that's in Iran, despite years of sanction. Imagine a year from now or a year and a half from now, the capabilities they. Would have to inflict damage on us. It's an unacceptable risk, especially in the hands of a regime that's run by radical clerics. The Ayahtola is a radical was a radical cleric. That entire regime is led by radical clerics who don't make geopolitical decisions. They make decisions on the. Basis of theology, their view of theology, which is an apocalyptic one that has to be taken very seriously as well. So that was the purpose for what this operation is all about. That's what it's focused on. As the President said earlier today, it is on or ahead of schedule. I will defer to the Department of War to discuss the progress being made. At a tactical level. But it was the right decision and an important decision for the safety and security of the world. Does Congress halfway? It is the President of Minology is Congress. And what did there absolutely was an imminent threat, and the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us, and we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded, because the Department of War assays that if we did that, if we waited for them to hit. Us first after they were attacked, and by someone else. Israel attacked them. They hit us first, and we waited for them to hit us, we would suffer more casualties and more deaths. We went proactively in a defensive way to prevent them from afflicting higher damage. Have we not done so, there would have been hearings on Capitol Hill about how we knew that this was going to happen and we didn't act preemptively to prevent more casualties and more loss of life. He was forced to strike because of it. And it Israeli action. No First, well, let me two things I would say. Number one is no matter what ultimately, this operation needed to happen. That's the question of why now. But this operation needed to happen because Iran in about a year or a year and a half would cross the line of immunity, meaning they would have so many short range missiles, so many drones that no one could do anything about it because they could hold the whole world hostage. Look at the damage they're doing now and this is a weekend Iran, imagine a year from now. So that had to happen. But obviously we were aware of it, rarely intentions and understood what that would mean for US, and we had to be prepared to act as a result of it. But this had to happen no matter. What President Trump said overnight that his top choices to now run with Iran were killed in strikes. So the United States had a gird plan for how they intention handle this power back in Iran to make sure that core line does not feature. So two things and two things can be true. Number one is our mission and our focus is the destruction of their ballistic missile capabilities and their ability to manufacture them, as well as the threat posed by their navy to global shipping. That's their objective. That said, we would not mind, we would not be heartbroken, and we hope that the Iranian people can can overthrow this government and establish a new future for that country. We would love for that to be possible. But the objective of this mission is the destruction. Of their ballistic missile capabilities and of their naval capability. That are you saying that there is. No responsibility, no plan with the US at least play. A role in whatever government comes in. I mean, we might well see how circumstances play out. But you I'm telling you what the objectives of this operation are The objectives of this operation are to destroy their ballistic missile capability and make sure they can't rebuild it, and make sure that they can't hide behind that to have a nuclear program. That's the objective of the mission. That said rebundantly clear, we would love for there to be in Iran that's not governed by radical Sheiah clerics. As I've said myself repeatedly for years, the leadership of that country does not reflect the people of Iran, and I think that's been pretty apparent in the protests that you've seen. If there's something we can do to help them down the road, we'd obviously be open to it, but that's not the objective. The objective of this mission is the destruction of their ballistic missile caples. Not God will for the United States, but right now g change is not gone will in. The United States for many, many decades. I'm even sure the American of that things will not get worse. For the next regime that comes in there and replaces the end well, we would love to see this regime be replaced. And ultimately, as the President has said, he calls no no, But let me finish my answer as the President said he would love for the people of Iran to use this as an opportunity to rise up and remove these leaders. They've been wanting to remove them from a long time. We've seen successive waves of protests, and we've seen them slaughter people. Okay, but the objective of this mission is to make sure they don't have these weapons that can threaten us in our allies in the region. That's why we're doing what we're doing now. And while we would love to see a new regime, the bottom line is, no matter who governs that country a year from now, they're not going to have these ballistic missiles and they're not going to have these drones to threaten us. That's the objective of this mission is to deny them. The ability to use ballistic missiles to threaten their neighbors, to threaten our bases, to threaten our presence in the region, and ultimately as a shield behind which they can do whatever they want. With their nuclear weapons ambition. We were not going to let them hide behind that, and that's why this was such a critical mission to undertake now while they were at the weakest point, and not a year from now, where they could inflict even more damage and perhaps already be behind that point of immunity. Right here, you and then you, yes, if your critics and Congress have said that that they should. Have a role, they should be able to weigh in here and there are going to. Be war powers presidations vocused the Congress later this week. Why not notify Congress of this in this Congress? Well, we did. We notified Congress. I mean, we notified the Gang of A. We notified congressional leadership. There's no law that requires us to do that. The law says we have to notify them forty eight hours after beginning hostilities. We've done that. I think the notification will went today. But we did notify members of Congress in advance. But we can't notify five hundred and thirty five members of Congress. The Congress can vote on whatever they want, but there's no law that requires us to do that. And I want to say something because I see people on TV. Look, that's fine, if they want to take a war powers vote, they can do that. They've done that, They've done that a bunch of times. But there's no people keep saying that we have there's no law that requires the president to have done anything with regards to this to begin with, no president's presidential administration has ever accepted the War Powers Act as constitutional. Not Republican presidents, not democratic president That said, we have followed a notification at forty eight hours. And we're here today. I've done more Gang of Eight briefings then I got. In the four years that Biden was president and I was a member of the Gang of Eight. All that said, we've complied with the law one hundred percent, and we're going to continue to comply with it. We've done the notification, you know, and we officially to Congress, but we did notified members of Congress. We just can't notify five hundred and thirty five people, that's not possible. But we did the Gang of Eight twice. I briefed them last week and then I called them the night before the operation. Can you tell us what united is the sector of the administration members about the strike on the building in southern Iron the iritans saying, is the school that was course a large times including children kill? Yeah, I've seen those reports. I don't have I would refer you not because I'm not trying to answer your question. But I don't want to get it wrong. The Department of War would be investigating that if that was our strike, and I would refer your question to them, and I'll make sure they're aware that you have that question. But we'd like to know America an American missile. Well, clearly, the United States would not deliberately target a school. Our objectives are missiles, both the ability to manufacture them and the ability to launch them and the one way attract drones. That's would be our focus, and that's what we would be focused on. We would have no interest and frankly, no incentive to target civilian infrastructure. The Iranians are, on the other hand, targeting civilian infrastructure. You guys have seen it. I'm sure you've seen it. They're hitting hotels, they're hitting embassies, they're hitting airports, they're hitting oil infrastructure. Well, it'd be very tragic, But I can't speak to the details behind it because I just don't have it. It would be a tragic outcome if it's happened. I don't have the details. As to what led to it. But what is clear that the United States would not target deliberately target a school. They are, on the other hand. Deliberately targeting civilians as you've seen, because you know why, they are a terroristic regime. They sponsored terrorism and they participate in terrorism. About rising energy prices, given a spiking of oil prices today, yes, and we knew that going in would be a factor, and so we have a program in place that will begin to be implemented by Secretary Right, Secretary of Vest and we talked about it last night. Again about this program. We talked this morning and starting tomorrow you will see us rolling out those phases to try to mitigate against that. Obviously, markets are going to be reacting to news of what's happening. And again a reminder, think about it. Okay, this terroristic regime led by radical clerics has the ability potentially to shut off twenty percent of global energy. That's the kind of leverage they have because of their navy. We're going to destroy their navy. But there is a plan in place. We anticipated this could be an issue, and Secretary Right Investment will begin to roll out those steps starting tomorrow to mitigate to mitigate against the impact that could happen. To this. Brie, do you think it's on the ground and how long we pat the plant to last. Well, we don't. Let me say two things about it. Number one, the President always has the options to undertake whatever operations he decides to do as the commander in chief. That said, we believe the objective that we have set for this mission, which is the destruction of their bistic ballistic missile capabilities, both launch capability and manufacturing, can be achieved without ground forces. Right now, we're not postured for ground forces, but obviously. The President has those options. He's never going to rule out anything. But right now, our focus is on the destruction of their ballistic missile launchers, their ballistic missile stockpiles, and their ballistic missile manufacturing capability, as well as their one way of tract thrones and their navy. Because of the threat it poses to global shipping. How long. I can only do one more right there, right there in the middle, Yes, sir, going on right now in the US Center. Launch any exchange whatsoever outside? No, not at this time. I mean, we always have people that reach out from inside of governments. You don't know if they're authorized to reach out or not. They're suffering a tremendous amount of damage. Honestly, again, I'm not going to give away the details of our tactical efforts, but the hardest hits are yet to come from the US military. The next phase will be even more punishing on Iran than it is right now. Someone was screaming, how long will it take? I don't know how long it'll take. We have objectives. We will do this as long as it takes to achieve those objectives, and we will achieve those objectives. The world will be a safer place when we're done with this operation. All right, Thank you guys.