'The Five': Trump RIPS Iran's 'weak' proposal...

[0:00] Well, the high-stakes showdown with Iran could be reaching a breaking point. [0:04] President Trump eviscerating the terror regime's lackluster counterproposal to the latest U.S. [0:09] peace proposal. [0:10] Here's what 47 said earlier. [0:12] A lot of people said, well, does he have a plan? [0:16] Yeah, of course they do have the best plan ever. [0:18] Very simple plan. [0:19] I don't know why you don't say it like it is. [0:21] Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. [0:23] And they give us a stupid, it's a stupid proposal. [0:27] Nobody would take it, although Obama would have taken it, Biden would have taken it. [0:30] What they took was far worse. [0:32] You have the moderates and you have the lunatics. [0:35] And I think the moderates are more respected. [0:39] The lunatics want to fight till the end. [0:41] For the time being, the ceasefire remains in place. [0:44] It's unbelievably weak, I would say. [0:48] I would call it the weakest right now. [0:51] After reading that piece of garbage they sent us, I didn't even finish reading it. [0:55] They said, I'm not going to waste my time reading it. [0:58] I would say it's one of the weakest right now. [1:00] It's our life support. [1:03] And leave it to the Dems to always root for America's failure in the conflict with Iran, [1:08] just as a way to try to stick it to President Trump. [1:12] This conflict has been a massive disaster. [1:16] And Donald Trump himself is an embarrassment on the world stage. [1:19] What is a president willing to give up? [1:22] What are the Iranians willing to accept? [1:24] And they're now in a better position than they were, ironically, several months ago. [1:30] The regime negotiated, also points out why it was so stupid to start this war in the first place. [1:35] It's actually put Iran in a stronger position, at least for now. [1:40] Oh, Gillianne, can you please help make sense of this and why the Democrats, [1:44] or how the Democrats can say that Iran's in a stronger position now? [1:48] Well, they're clearly not. [1:49] Ask the IRGC how they're feeling. [1:52] Three short months ago, they had a Navy. [1:54] They had endless stockpiles of missiles. [1:57] They had copious amounts of drones. [2:00] Now they are militarily degraded, economically decimated. [2:05] Several dozen of its leaders are as dead as the 42,000 peaceful protesters that they killed. [2:10] And the list goes on. [2:12] And the president holds all the cards. [2:14] The U.S. is in a very strong position here, Emily, because this is what leadership looked like. [2:18] We have a commander-in-chief who's not going to do what other presidents did, [2:23] coddle, capitulate, and cave to the state sponsor of terror, the largest in the world. [2:29] The calls for death to America and death to Israel were so loud [2:32] that there's a guy that won't ignore it anymore. [2:34] He won't look the other way at this inhumane state sponsor of terrorism who has killed more [2:41] Americans than pretty much any other country. [2:44] Wake up, everybody. [2:45] And look, Jack Reed saying that is just false. [2:48] You're allowed to say what you want on TV. [2:50] He's not under oath. [2:51] In fact, when he's interviewing witnesses on his committees in the United States Senate, [2:56] the witnesses are under oath. [2:57] Jack Reed and Cory Booker never are. [2:59] So they have no incentive to ever tell the truth. [3:01] How in the world, by any measure, is Iran in a better place now? [3:05] Just two weeks ago, or last week, they tried to shoot at two of our destroyers [3:09] and couldn't even come close. [3:10] They were like a kid at a carnival game with a water pistol. [3:13] So to say Iran's in a better position, Iran was in a much better position when Barack Obama [3:18] was giving them billions of dollars, pallets of cash. [3:20] They were in a much better position when John Kerry went over there to negotiate the JCPOA. [3:25] They were in a much better position when Israel was on its heels. [3:28] They were in a much better position when the Gulf states weren't helping us out. [3:33] And so by any measure, we are winning. [3:37] But war takes time. [3:38] And I would remind my people, I would remind my friends who have objections to this war, [3:44] peace through strength also necessitates the strength part as well. [3:49] Last point, because Cory Booker, New Jersey, what do we have, 10 million people now in my home [3:54] state? [3:54] I'm a Jersey girl forever. [3:55] We can't do better than this guy. [3:57] He's so jealous of Donald Trump that it makes him zealous about a war that the U.S. is winning. [4:03] He represents the United States of America. [4:05] He ought to behave like that when he's on a Sunday show. [4:07] Look at him. [4:08] He ran for president in 2020. [4:11] Cue the laughter. [4:12] He ran for president. [4:14] And you know how many electoral votes he got? [4:16] Zero. [4:17] The same number as Kamala Harris, the same number as all these people who are jealous [4:22] of Donald Trump because he's the president and Cory Booker is not. [4:25] What is his body of work? [4:27] What is he doing that he's giving China and North Korea aid and comfort to insult our commander [4:33] in chief and our president when he's on his way to China to show who the real superpower is? [4:39] Zero. [4:39] The same number of hairs on his head, Kennedy. [4:41] Yes. [4:42] Talk to us about, too, the— [4:43] And he also was a lackluster tight end at Stanford, I'm told. [4:47] Oh. [4:47] I know. [4:48] That explains a lot, doesn't it? [4:49] Exactly right. [4:49] Yes, it does. [4:50] Talk to us about the future for us and for Iran, like what we could expect, because it [4:56] seems like the Democrats are expecting either instantaneous results and instant gratification with zero [5:02] forgiveness for movement two steps forward, one step back, and also it seems like they're [5:06] unprepared for a stronger alliance with the Gulf states, with the United States, which is what is [5:12] happening. [5:13] It's interesting. [5:14] You're absolutely right about that, and I think that the United States and Israel are looking at [5:18] this in two very different ways. [5:20] Israel is more hawkish here. [5:23] They want to extract the uranium from the ground with or without a deal, and they've been [5:30] telegraphing that pretty clearly. [5:31] And I think if you look at what the United States is doing, they have a more global strategy. [5:38] And I don't mean that in terms of the planet. [5:40] I mean in terms of pulling out and wanting to make sure that there is peace going forward. [5:45] And, you know, this is sort of a multilayered part of the president's foreign policy. [5:50] And I'm one of those people—I don't like war. [5:52] I don't like conflict. [5:53] I think the quagmire that you could get yourself into very quickly oftentimes isn't worth it. [5:58] But I will give the president enough grace to say, if this is something where it started [6:04] with the Abraham Accords that he is only going to add on to, and it is going to change the face of [6:11] especially energy policy in the Middle East to make us all safer, and to make countries like Iran that [6:17] wants to cooperate with their neighbors, if it is going to help people who were displaced by the [6:23] revolution in the late 70s, if they can go back to their homeland, then those are all net benefits. [6:29] And it also—if peace and prosperity are the gold, and that is the American foreign policy [6:35] that everyone should stand behind. [6:37] And I think we have to be very careful of not demonizing everything the president does, [6:42] because it also comes off being very anti-American. [6:45] And you have to be able to—if there are wins, you have to be able to grant those if you ever [6:51] want to build upon them if Democrats regain Congress and, at some point, the presidency. [6:57] Especially with our military servicemen and women fighting over scenes and in harm's way. [7:01] Charlie, I have a question, and it's on that tack, because there's a fissure, frankly, [7:06] between the Republican Party, where many say that Israel has different objectives, [7:11] and therefore we should not have yoked ourselves to our ally. [7:15] But to Kennedy's point, don't we have a shared interest in obliterating, [7:20] to use Hillary Clinton's terminology about Iran, a sworn enemy that the can was just being kicked [7:26] down the road from prior administrations? [7:27] Well, I think one of the dumbest things that we have heard from some quarters on the right [7:33] of Trump supporters, or former Trump supporters, is this idea that Trump is acting at the behest [7:38] of Israel. [7:39] It's absurd, as if America doesn't have any interest in the Middle East in terms of oil [7:46] and things like that. [7:47] It's absurd. [7:49] Donald Trump—if you—anybody knows anything about Donald Trump, you know, he's not going [7:53] to be working at the behest of anybody other than, I think, the United States of America. [7:56] But I think Kennedy also makes a really, really great point. [8:00] And you're against war. [8:02] I'm against war. [8:03] You know who else is against war? [8:05] Donald Trump is against war. [8:06] He doesn't want to do this. [8:07] He recognized that this was a real problem, and it needed to be addressed, so much so that [8:12] he was willing to do it in the middle of an election year, which there's not a single [8:16] politician in our lifetime who has ever had the guts to do something like that. [8:20] And he did it because he actually believed in it. [8:23] And one of the things that I think gets lost in all of this is, like you say, if they're [8:30] going to build on the Abraham Accords and actually solve a problem that has been a nightmare [8:35] for our country for decades, especially over the past 25 years, where we have been embroiled [8:41] in some unending wars, if it ends the incentive for future politicians to get involved in never-ending [8:50] wars in the Middle East, I give him all the grace period that he needs in order to accomplish [8:56] that. [8:56] Because I don't, I trust this guy way more than I trust any of the buffoons that might [9:02] follow him and get us into another one of these stupid wars. [9:06] Well, you know, it's interesting because we have this back and forth with Democrats and [9:13] Republicans. [9:14] Obviously, I'm not listening to any of these Democrats who are trumpeting this, you know, [9:18] Iran is in a better position. [9:19] It's just, it's nonsense. [9:20] And I think most people know that. [9:22] But I am tuning into various voices who are against the war. [9:25] I'm like, sell me on this. [9:27] Because to me, it looks like the U.S. is in a very advantageous position. [9:31] So I want to hear from these people, maybe like-minded people, maybe people on the right, [9:35] but they haven't sold me. [9:36] But you know who has? [9:37] I have this app on my phone. [9:38] I listen to radio stations all around the world. [9:41] It's great. [9:42] The world and in Europe, they have a rosier view of this war than you would expect. [9:49] And the headline that jumps out, multinational coalition seeks to secure Hormuz. [9:55] What are they talking about? [9:56] The U.S., Israel? [9:57] No, it's France and the U.K. [9:59] They're in there now. [10:00] Add that to Saudi Arabia, UAE. [10:02] I just wrote these down. [10:03] These are all helping out the U.S. effort in the region. [10:07] Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait. [10:09] So if you look at the way the world is reacting to this instead of U.S. politics, [10:15] you see it's a lot closer to what Donald Trump, his description of what's happening there. [10:20] And the, you know, this back and forth, it's to be expected, right? [10:27] But look what is going on. [10:32] And, you know, that's the way it's proceeding. [10:38] Yeah, a multinational coalescence. [10:41] And to underscore your point, this is why the Secretary of War said [10:44] his biggest adversary are the Democrats on the Hill.