'The Five': Iran has one week to meet Trump's ultimatum

[0:00] One week for Iran to make a deal, or their fate is sealed. [0:03] President Trump warning the regime leaders he hasn't smoked, [0:07] that he is ready to blow them to smithereens if they don't wise up. [0:11] But we've had regime change, if you look already, [0:14] because the one regime was decimated, destroyed. [0:18] They're all dead. [0:20] The next regime is mostly dead. [0:23] And the third regime, we're dealing with different people [0:25] than anybody's dealt with before. [0:27] It's a whole different group of people. [0:29] So I would consider that regime change. [0:31] We're doing extremely well in that negotiation. [0:35] But you never know with Iran, because we negotiate with them [0:39] and then we always have to blow them up. [0:42] And we will probably, I think we'll make a deal with them, [0:46] pretty sure, whether it's possible or we won't. [0:50] The White House says President Trump is leaving all options on the table [0:53] as 3,500 troops arrive in the Middle East. [0:56] Officials say this will help them unleash a major offensive if talks fail. [1:00] Here's Caroline Leavitt. [1:02] The Pentagon has always stated, [1:04] four to six weeks estimated timeline for Operation Epic Fury. [1:08] We're on day 30 today. [1:10] So again, you do the math on how much longer the Pentagon needs [1:15] to fully achieve the objectives of Operation Epic Fury, [1:17] which I will reiterate, destroy the Iranian Navy, [1:21] destroy their ballistic missiles, [1:22] dismantle their missile and drone production infrastructure, [1:26] significantly weaken their proxies throughout the course of this operation, [1:30] and then, of course, preventing Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon. [1:34] But despite U.S. forces laying waste to target after target, [1:38] Democrats are still painting the war as an abject failure. [1:42] I don't support this administration, period. [1:44] They've gotten us into what will be looked at as one of the greatest blunders, [1:48] presidential blunders of our time. [1:50] Donald Trump said we won this war. [1:53] And so the question for President Trump, who's completely delusional, [1:57] is if we won the war, why are they preparing to send thousands of more [2:00] American troops into harm's way? [2:02] Hmm. [2:03] So, Charlie, it seems like, [2:06] the issue here is you have one side, the Democrats, [2:09] who are looking at this through a political lens [2:11] and assume, or basically tell everybody else, [2:15] that Trump is also looking through this through a political lens, [2:18] which means they don't know anything about Trump. [2:21] Yeah, they've not learned anything in 10 years. [2:23] And I love what Spartak has said right there. [2:24] He actually admitted the whole problem for them. [2:27] He said, I don't support anything that this administration does, period. [2:31] So, therefore, no matter what they did, he would have been against it. [2:35] The two... [2:36] The two biggest brain-dead hot takes that come out of all this. [2:40] The first one is that somehow, like, Israel conned Trump into going into war. [2:46] It's the stupidest thing. [2:48] Like, as if the world's largest economy doesn't have, like, [2:52] financial interest in the Strait of Hormuz. [2:54] Like, there aren't actual American interests at play here. [2:59] But the single biggest idiotic hot take is the idea that Trump did this [3:05] for political reasons. [3:06] He doesn't do things like this for political reasons. [3:10] First of all, politicians never do anything in an election year [3:13] for political reasons, because they don't want to have to pay the price for it [3:16] in the election. [3:18] And I think that, to me, what it reveals about these people who are saying [3:22] that he's going to pay a political price and this is, you know, [3:26] that he's doing this for... [3:27] is that those people, those politicians, never do anything [3:31] except things for political reasons. [3:33] They never do something that they believe in. [3:35] They never do something that they believe is the right thing because it's... [3:38] because they believe it's the right thing to do. [3:39] That is a great point, Jessica, that he is obviously paying the price [3:45] in the election. [3:46] If you look at the polls that I know you're going to cite. [3:48] So that doesn't actually jive well with the fact that you guys always say [3:52] he's doing it for political reasons. [3:54] No, he's actually spending kind of the goodwill he's had in the bank [3:59] to make this happen. [4:01] Well, he didn't have a ton of goodwill in the bank, actually. [4:03] And yes, he's depleting whatever was left. [4:05] Because he's not a politician. [4:08] I'm glad you agree with Charlie. [4:10] He is a new kind of politician, a politician who doesn't care about winning that much, [4:15] I guess, or who's having more trouble with the facts on the ground [4:19] than some politicians who came before him. [4:22] I wasn't going to set any polling, though, but I'm glad we got that out there anyway. [4:26] A few things that came out of the weekend that I think are important to touch on. [4:33] Trump was bragging about the 20 tankers. [4:36] That got by the Strait of Hormuz as if that was a big win for the Americans. [4:40] And none of them were American tankers. [4:42] They were Pakistani tankers. [4:43] And that came as a direct result of negotiations between Pakistan and the Iranians. [4:48] The Iranians like it because they're making more money than they ever have before. [4:51] And it's an affirmation of the fact that we have been closed out of that conversation. [4:56] The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Iranians launched two times more missiles [5:00] on a daily basis than a week ago. [5:02] Now, that's concerning about their ability to, [5:06] and to rebuild. [5:08] And Marco Rubio put out a statement talking about the clear objectives. [5:13] And I think he even said you should write this down. [5:14] So I did. [5:16] One, destruction of Iran's air force. [5:18] Two, destruction of their navy. [5:20] Three, severely diminishing their missile launching capabilities. [5:24] Four, destruction of their factories. [5:27] We have moved away from what Caroline Leavitt was even saying from the podium today [5:31] because she was talking about nuclear programs. [5:33] That's not on the list anymore. [5:35] Getting rid of the nuclear. [5:36] That's not on the list anymore. [5:37] That's not on the list anymore. [5:37] What happened to eradicating their support for proxy forces? [5:41] The regime change, what Trump said is ridiculous. [5:43] Like there's a new guy there. [5:44] So it's a regime change. [5:45] The regime change was supposed to be a free Iran, right? [5:49] That these people would be able to actually come out of their houses [5:52] and have a peaceful existence. [5:54] And we don't even talk about those things anymore. [5:57] So we, well, Dana tried and Donald Trump wasn't very interested in that. [6:01] So I'm saying that looking at the facts on the ground, [6:07] and not just going with this narrative that because the president wants it to be so, [6:11] that it's the reality, is objectively the correct thing to do. [6:14] I'm not saying that through a partisan lens. [6:16] I'm not saying I just object to everything that he's going to do. [6:19] Look at our European allies. [6:20] Look at the things that I just talked about, [6:22] the way that the economy is performing. [6:23] And I think it speaks for itself. [6:25] So, Jessie, everything Jessica said is independent of her feelings about Trump. [6:30] Just like all the Democrats. [6:32] Nothing partisan at all. [6:32] There's nothing partisan there. [6:33] I'm glad that we got that out of the way. [6:35] I'm glad she said the Iranian economy is doing. [6:37] Better than ever. [6:40] You think the Iranian economy is doing well? [6:43] They're getting bombed to smithereens, Jessica. [6:45] You don't think they're making more money from. [6:47] No, they're not making that much money, Jessica. [6:49] They are. [6:50] No, they're not. [6:51] Listen, Donald Trump is like the American Eagle. [6:53] On the one hand, he's got the olive branch. [6:56] On the other hand, he's got a bundle of arrows. [6:59] I don't know what's going to happen. [7:00] I can wake up Friday and there could either be a peace treaty or we could have Marines going in. [7:05] And I don't think the gay Ayatollah knows. [7:07] I don't think he knows either. [7:08] And that's how we like it. [7:09] You've got to keep him on his toes. [7:11] He's weighing options right now. [7:12] Both options are very high risk and very high reward. [7:16] And they might extend that timeline. [7:18] Four to six weeks timeline. [7:20] Four weeks, Jessica, is four times seven is around 28. [7:23] This would be about a month. [7:25] Just trying to do the math for you. [7:26] One of those options, seizing the uranium. [7:29] So you'd go in under fire, send in the Marines, special task force. [7:35] You'd have to probably use the discombobulation. [7:37] You'd have to bring in an excavator, which we used against Maduro's crew. [7:40] Makes everybody throw up. [7:41] And then they all pass out. [7:43] So then you'd have to bring in excavators and engineers. [7:46] You'd have to kind of dig through the tunnels. [7:48] You'd seize the uranium, put them in caskets, throw them in trucks, drive them to an airstrip, and fly them out of town. [7:55] This has never been done before in combat. [7:57] It's only been done in Ukraine and Georgia. [7:59] Very, very dangerous. [8:01] The other thing we've all talked about, seizing Karg and seizing the Strait. [8:05] Which you said was supposed to happen. [8:06] He did the same method. [8:07] I'm going to mess with the markets before the open, which the Iranians predicted. [8:11] I bet it's going to happen pretty soon. [8:13] I bet you it's going to happen pretty soon. [8:15] One way or the other, it's going to be open. [8:17] So they're going to have to go in, and then they're going to have to hold that territory. [8:20] You're right. [8:21] They'll have to hold Karg or hold the coastline. [8:23] And that's just the way it's going to be if you need to achieve the mission. [8:27] You are right, though. [8:28] I mean, the Iranians do have thousands of drones still. [8:30] They still have 100 missiles. [8:32] And those can sometimes get through air defenses, although the air defenses have been 90% of the time. [8:38] Effective. [8:39] So Lindsey's going to backfill some of those defensive systems. [8:42] That's great. [8:43] But here's the deal. [8:44] Once you take Karg, it takes their queen off the chessboard. [8:48] And then you can really negotiate from a much stronger position. [8:51] The next two weeks, we'll probably see the most dangerous and decisive action of the war so far. [8:58] And I can just pray it goes well. [9:00] I think I can speak for myself that I pray it goes well. [9:03] It's beautiful. [9:05] Dana, I haven't seen you since Thursday. [9:07] And might I say you're... [9:08] Even more attractive today than you were on Thursday. [9:10] Thank you. [9:11] Thank you. [9:13] So President Trump is in a situation that most commanders and chiefs find themselves in at some point. [9:19] And that is having to make decisions that are like a tough decision and a tougher decision. [9:24] And all the options are difficult. [9:26] But he, to me, has been making some decisions that would be questionable politically. [9:31] Like, for example, letting the Russian oil cargo get to Cuba. [9:35] But that is a decision. [9:38] That in an ideal world, would he have wanted to do that? [9:41] Probably not. [9:42] But in order to keep the market fluid and to avoid a humanitarian disaster in Cuba at the moment. [9:47] So he's saying, OK, we can do that. [9:49] He also did something this week that we have been talking about for a while. [9:53] And not a lot of people picked up on it. [9:55] But remember, we kept talking about the denominator. [9:58] Yes. [9:58] So people say, oh, well, we bombed this many and we bombed this many. [10:01] But like, of how many? [10:03] So last night, he told the Financial Times, we have taken out 13,000. [10:07] And we have 3,000 more to go. [10:10] Nice. [10:10] So I was like, OK, so that shows you a military success. [10:14] But yes, more needs to be done. [10:16] But I really think that the Iranians are feeling it because they are, one, encouraging terrorist threats in our country. [10:25] So over the weekend, France disrupted a terror attack directly linked back to the Iranian issue. [10:31] And then what Iran said today is that they are threatening U.S. students who are studying in the Middle East. [10:36] So that's just in. [10:38] I don't know what political price he could possibly pay. [10:42] He's not running for president again. [10:44] If it's the midterms, I don't know if he cares that much. [10:48] He's going to do what he can. [10:49] But he understands history and knows that it's probably likely that the Republicans won't be able to hold it, even if they try. [10:55] So the political price to me is not weighing in on some of these very tough decisions. [11:02] Remember that advice I gave you about work? [11:04] You should always work to get fired. [11:06] That's what he does. [11:07] It's like if you just play it. [11:09] It's the same. [11:09] It's the same. [11:10] Nothing good happens. [11:11] Is that what you do every night? [11:13] I hope to get fired. [11:14] Yes. [11:14] That's what I have done. [11:15] And he's the only politician we've ever had who is always willing to spend political capital on something other than just getting himself reelected. [11:23] Yeah. [11:23] It's the complete opposite of how he's painted as this narcissist who's worried about his poll numbers when, in fact, all he's trying to do is build capital so he can spend it. [11:32] Not worried about his poll numbers. [11:33] He says everything is fake. [11:35] He does like good poll numbers. [11:36] Yes. [11:37] But when they're low, he's like, eh, whatever. [11:39] Doesn't bother him.