Trump Iran War Press Conference Immediate React /Lt Col Daniel Davis

[0:00] And in fact, it's still going on there live in the White House right now. [0:03] President Trump is speaking before a podium there before the cameras to the American people, [0:08] answering all kinds of questions about two separate things or two related things, but two distinct. [0:14] One is what happened with the rescue of the downed WSO pilot, the weapons special officer pilot, [0:21] the second pilot from the F-15 that was shot down. [0:23] And then the second part primarily is what is going to happen tomorrow at 8 p.m. [0:29] when the deadline comes in, how close are we to negotiated settlement, all that kind of stuff. [0:33] We have Professor Morandi is going to be back with us from the live from Tehran University at 2 p.m. [0:40] So I'm sorry, at 3 p.m., just about 30, 25 minutes from now. [0:45] And we're going to talk a lot with him about some of the things that President Trump just said, [0:49] as well as some other things that some other folks have said. [0:53] And of course, [0:53] the most important thing he's going to tell us what is going on in Iran and really is going to respond to some of the things that President Trump said. [1:00] So we're going to say part of that for him. [1:02] But I did not want to let you go because there are some very important things that President Trump said related, [1:08] first of all, to what happened over this weekend. [1:10] And there's a lot of confusion. [1:11] And this this cleared up some of it, added some other confusion here. [1:15] We're going to talk about that. [1:16] But before I do, before he started this, when he was actually out in front of the White House, [1:21] he was asking some questions. [1:23] And one of the questions that was asked was, what about this deadline? [1:27] Because initially it was supposed to have been tonight at 8 p.m. [1:31] But then he moved that back to tomorrow night in an answer to what may be coming next. [1:34] He said a couple of very interesting things. [1:37] Because we are obliterating that country and I hate to do it, but we're obliterating. [1:42] And they just don't want to say, uncle, they don't want to cry as the expression goes, uncle. [1:47] But they will. And if they don't, they'll have no bridges. [1:52] They'll have no power plants. [1:53] They'll have no anything. [1:55] I want to go. I won't go further because there are other things that are worse than those two. [2:00] And we might have. [2:01] Well, the thing if I had my choice, what would I like to do? [2:06] Take the oil because it's there for the taking. [2:09] There's not a thing they can do about it. [2:11] Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home. [2:14] If it were up to me, I'd take the oil. [2:16] I'd keep the oil. [2:17] I would make plenty of money. [2:18] OK, so this really gives you an insight into the thinking of President Trump. [2:26] Because first of all, he says, you know, we're just knocking the heck out of them and we're beating them up and blowing up all kinds of stuff. [2:31] And but then he says, you know what? [2:33] They just won't cry, uncle. [2:35] So he's viewing this as, listen, I'm trying to ratchet up the pain. [2:39] So they just do, quote, the right thing. [2:42] Many people in President Trump's orbit over the last 12 or so hours have been saying, that's it. [2:47] We're just looking for Iran to do the right thing, which is to submit to President Trump's interest there. [2:54] And then he said a couple of other things. [2:56] He said, listen, now. [2:56] If it's up to me, I just take the oil and that that's a thing that he actually in these comments that he just is still making from the podium, he brought up again because he brought the issue up of Venezuela and he says, you know, look, we took the oil there and he just went on and raved on and on about how much we were making from that. [3:17] And let's see, I think I had a couple of notes here from his comment on there. [3:22] He said, yeah, we've we've had I forget how many hundred hundred million barrels of oil. [3:27] We have taken from them and he said, and it's it's more than paid for the cost of the war, he said, which was about 45 minutes he used that term about 45 minutes of war and that also tells you something because he is like said that whole point was not about getting Maduro to do the right thing, not about getting you to step down, he wanted that oil and now he feels like he has taken it because he says, you know, to the victor goes to spoils and so we're going to take the spoils. [3:55] So, I mean, it's like a podcast. [3:57] I mean, this is something that should alarm every American. [4:03] This is not who we are. [4:05] It's not who we were, I guess, with him in the charge. [4:08] And as long as he's allowed to by the Congress and both the House and the Senate, by the American people, if we allow this to happen and sit passively by, then I guess tacitly we're OK with it. [4:20] I'm personally not OK with it. [4:22] I'm just just incensed by this. [4:25] I find it reprehensible. [4:27] It's brigantine. [4:28] It's the literal thing. [4:29] One of the reasons why I joined up in the military back in 1985 [4:33] when I first became a private is because I wanted to defend my country [4:37] against potential people like this that wanted to use force [4:41] to take something that didn't belong to them. [4:43] We used to stand against that kind of thing. [4:47] And now here he's holding it up as an example of something to pursue. [4:52] And then he, don't miss this. [4:54] This seems like a small part of that soundbite there. [4:57] But it's not, and don't miss it. [4:59] He said, unfortunately, the American people want us to get out. [5:05] He considers that a problem, a problem to navigate and to associate [5:09] or to get rid of. [5:12] But he still then goes back again. [5:15] But I think we should take the oil, which tells you he is not going to do this easily. [5:20] He is not trying to get a negotiated settlement. [5:23] Let's just be blunt and crystal clear. [5:26] Make sure nobody is fooled by this because they're attempting to fool you. [5:29] And they want to couch this in all kinds of moralistic ways, [5:32] which they've been doing periodically, scattershot and contradictory before [5:36] because they don't really care about it. [5:38] They're just trying to put covering over it so that the truth is not put before your face, [5:43] which is they just want to steal the resources of this country [5:47] and turn them into a subservient vassal, another country whose oil wealth we can steal. [5:54] And so then now that's going to make us an even bigger power, oil power, [5:59] and give us more control. [5:59] Over the whole affairs of the global economy, at least that's the intent. [6:05] I have grave doubts that we're going to succeed in doing that. [6:07] But that's what he's thinking. [6:08] He got successful with what happened in Venezuela, and now he is looking to do something here. [6:13] The cost is a little higher, but he's willing to go down that path. [6:17] That is a problem here, and it's unfortunate. [6:20] So the United States military is not just trying to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. [6:25] He said that during the remarks here. [6:27] That's a lie. [6:28] He he will concurrently, even in his. [6:30] The question and answer portion of what's still going on, he said that listen, [6:35] we obliterated their ability to have a nuclear weapon last year. [6:39] Intelligence confirmed just right before, I guess maybe two weeks ago, they haven't resuscitated it now. [6:48] Others will claim later. [6:49] Well, they did. [6:49] They were doing somewhere else where they were thinking about her. [6:51] Lindsey Graham, of course, sings that song and dance all the time. [6:54] But the actual intelligence community said, no, that's not what we're doing or that's not what they're doing. [7:02] They haven't done that. [7:03] They have not reiterated or revived a nuclear weapons program because they didn't have one. [7:11] There was no nuclear weapons program before. [7:14] Now, as we've talked many times, President Trump continues to lay this fiction down that they were trying to get a nuclear bomb. [7:21] But all of our intelligence says that they weren't. [7:23] And then one other thing that one thing he did say during that time I'm going to talk about right now is that he went back to this old weird trope where he's saying that the only reason. [7:34] The only reason that we had to hit them here is because they were going to have a nuclear bomb. [7:38] And thank God, he said, I took us out of that disastrous Obama era JCPOA joint for you understands where the nuclear deal and that is as irrational as it can be. [7:52] That's something close to saying, you know what? [7:56] I saved us from getting wet by filling up a swimming pool. [8:01] What you fill up a swimming pool, you're going to get wet because otherwise, if it's dry, the. [8:06] You wouldn't get wet if you got in the pool, but if you fill it with water, it's kind of physically impossible not to. [8:11] That's the situation with the JCPOA, because that guaranteed or as close to guarantee that you could possibly come that they wouldn't have a bomb because they had a very low level of allowed enrichment. [8:24] Three point six, seven percent, a tiny amount of material that they could stockpile and all kinds of other off ramps, other kinds of things that would ensure that they could. [8:36] Make a bomb. [8:36] And of course, all kinds of IAEA inspectors. [8:41] It wasn't flawed or was it perfect deal? [8:43] There was some limitations on where people could go, but in all the known nuclear sites and all the things that they could do, they were not able to they were not going down that path. [8:52] They had a fatwa against it. [8:53] And by all evidence from 2003 up until today, they were not pursuing a nuclear weapon, or at least up until President Trump's bombing last year knocked out the inspector. [9:05] So we don't actually know what's going on. [9:07] Now, and if they are going once because we pushed them into it, that is the irrational thing. [9:12] So so President Trump again today claimed that had he not gotten out of the deal that was designed and enforced to prevent them from getting a bomb, he said they would have had one. [9:24] And it's I guess he's he's good at this in a perverted sort of way of saying something so many times over and over and over that after a while people just get beat down because it is so irrational. [9:38] And the logical that now that it just doesn't even get commented on, nobody in the the the gallery brought the issue of nobody said, I'm sorry, Mr. [9:47] President, but that's illogical. [9:48] How can how could them being in the JCPOA result in a bomb? [9:54] It's it's illogical. [9:55] It can't have happened. [9:56] It's the opposite. [9:57] By getting out, you got rid of the constraints. [10:00] And that's the reason they went from three point six seven to 60 percent enrichment all the time in response to something we were doing. [10:08] And. [10:08] In response to the sanctions that we put on them, in response to things that the Israelis were doing to them, and they kept saying, we're going to do this, I think, in 2021 is when they went up to 60 percent and they said they would like to return to the constraints of the JCPOA if only we would have we'd get back in the deal. [10:27] But we didn't. [10:28] Of course, that was during the Biden administration. [10:31] And then, of course, Trump is well, we know what he's done since he came into office here. [10:35] So it's important to know while he's sitting there talking. [10:39] Don't just say, well. [10:40] It's the president of the United States. [10:41] And of course, he's coherent and logical and rational. [10:43] And so we have to listen to what he says when it's not. [10:47] And when he says stuff like that, that is illogical and it's and it's not even possible to be and it defies any kind of obvious reality. [10:58] That's what we need to understand. [10:59] So that's what a lot of this was what was happening down here. [11:03] And then one one video I do want to play from this press conference before we break contact here and bring in Professor Morandi. [11:10] He says, look about. [11:12] We need it. [11:13] Well, I'll let him speak for himself. [11:15] You've said Iranians would be mad if you stopped these attacks. [11:19] But why would they want you to blow up their infrastructure to to cut off their power? [11:23] Wouldn't that be punishing Iranians for the actions of the regime? [11:26] They would be willing just they would be. [11:28] And it's suffering. They would be willing to suffer that in order to have freedom. [11:33] The Iranians have and we've had numerous intercepts. [11:38] Please keep bombing bombs that are dropping near their homes. [11:42] Please. [11:42] Keep bombing. [11:44] Do it. [11:45] And these are people that are living where the bombs are exploding. [11:48] And when we leave and we're not hitting those areas, they're saying, please come back, come back, come back. [11:54] These are the people. [11:57] I don't know what they do. [11:58] All I can tell you is they want freedom. [12:01] So all that all I can tell you is they want freedom. [12:04] So we'll just keep bombing and killing them and we'll destroy their ability to even survive as a nation. [12:10] Send them back to the Stone Age. [12:13] But you said in that previous soundbite. [12:14] So just before going in there and then he wants you to believe. [12:18] And again, this is the same category here. [12:21] I believe something that's illogical and irrational, but he's saying it and there's nobody on that stage that's going to contradict him. [12:29] Ergo, it must be true. [12:30] Well, it's, of course, not true. [12:32] Now, there are a handful of people and I have I've talked to an Iranian expat who lives in this country, who lives here in the Washington, D.C. [12:40] area, who hates the regime and has been looking for ways to to have them overthrown. [12:45] And from within for for many, many years, his family suffered and his friends suffered egregiously because of the the government there. [12:53] So he would love to see them gone. [12:54] He is adamantly opposed to having his country destroyed by Israeli and American bombs. [13:02] If they're going to change the government, they want to be able to do it from the inside on their time schedule in their way, not because it's forced on somebody else. [13:10] And of course, they're not stupid. [13:12] And they see this has nothing to do with freedom. [13:16] For the Iranian people, this has everything to do with taking the Iranian oil. [13:22] So let's be crystal clear on that. [13:23] And by the way, I ask my friend here, is this true? [13:27] And he said, well, there's a handful of people, especially a lot of these royalists from Reza Pavi, I think his name is from the Shah, the son of the previous Shah, who was overthrown because they were exploiting the people so bad. [13:41] He said that there are a handful of them who have been celebrating, literally a handful. [13:45] But the vast majority of people. [13:46] The people are not celebrating in Iran and Tehran specifically and saying, yeah, come bomb us. [13:53] To the contrary, that most people, the vast majority of people have rallied around the flag, as was obviously and easily predictable. [14:01] That is the vast majority. [14:03] President Trump didn't even mention any of that because that would counter his preferred outcome. [14:08] He doesn't want you to say, well, I know we started hitting them and the others, a few people have said this, but the most people, even those who didn't like the regime, are now rallying around it. [14:16] And they're protesting and walking the streets in support of the government. [14:21] He's obviously not going to say that. [14:23] That's what's happening. [14:25] And so President Trump is, again, distorting reality, just fabricating outright lying. [14:30] I mean, there's every bad pejorative you want to use description. [14:35] That's what he's doing right there with great gusto and conviction. [14:39] And unfortunately, a lot of people are not going to be watching this show. [14:42] They're not going to be looking on social media. [14:44] They're not going to see what the other side says. [14:47] They're just going to listen to what President Trump says. [14:48] And some of his other advisors and actually, Gary, I want to put one other one up here and I want to look at speaking to those who are supporting President Trump. [14:58] This is the people in America are going to on our networks are going to hear what President Trump said. [15:03] And then I'm going to show you Representative Crawford, because this is a U.S. [15:07] representative who's going to say something that is also just as detached. [15:10] But if this is the only message you hear, you're probably going to support the administration. [15:15] Watch this. [15:19] What he is telling people is that. [15:21] I want to give them a diplomatic out. [15:23] He's trying to give them every opportunity to make the right choice, do the right thing. [15:28] And and I think that window is going to be open for a little while longer. [15:33] But after that, it's going to close decisively and the president will take action, do the [15:38] right thing. [15:40] I want the people of Iran to do the right thing by surrendering to the United States [15:47] under fire and handing over their oil wealth. [15:50] I mean, and he says that with a straight face. [15:52] I mean, he says that with a straight face. [15:53] I mean, he says that with a straight face. [15:54] He says that with a straight face. [15:55] Do the right thing. [15:56] Do the right thing. [15:58] We'll write in whose description, certainly not in any kind of general sense, not in a [16:04] human sense, because no matter whether you love or hate the Iranian regime, it is should [16:10] be beyond question that some other power can't come in and say, I like your oil. [16:15] I'm going to take it. [16:17] I'm anything. [16:19] I'm going to take it. [16:21] Are you going to be okay with the Chinese going? [16:23] You know what? [16:24] I'm sick and tired. [16:25] I want to ease not doing what I've told them to. [16:27] They should have done the right thing. [16:29] But now then we're just going to go take the island. [16:32] We already condemned the Russians because they said we don't want NATO on our border. [16:38] And so they said, we're going to go and we're going to force you out. [16:42] You're either going to compel to us and not have NATO in there, or we're going to go take [16:46] it. [16:47] And of course we condemn them. [16:48] Well, they can't do that. [16:49] That's wrong for them. [16:50] That would be wrong for China to do. [16:51] But for us, no problem. [16:54] It's no problem at all. [16:55] If we want their oil, we'll just take it. [16:57] They either give it to us or they die. [16:59] Is that the kind of country you want to belong to? [17:02] Is that the kind of country you want to live in? [17:04] You want to fight and die for it? [17:06] No, I won't. [17:07] I don't have time to go through it here. [17:08] I've only got just a few minutes left, but they went through a lot of details and we'll [17:13] be covering this in a subsequent story here later or so later on. [17:17] But he talked about all of how the two extractions went for the F-15 pilots, both the front seat [17:25] and the back seat. [17:26] Dude. [17:27] 44 Bravo, the two pilots that were extracted successfully. [17:32] And we've shown you that earlier today about some of the wreckage that was done to the [17:37] planes and just some of the disasters, mechanical things that happened. [17:42] But the description of what the troopers actually did was truly phenomenal. [17:46] It was amazing under enemy fire, how much resources were put together, how hard these [17:50] guys fought for their brother in arms, and they would literally move heaven and earth [17:54] and do a thing. [17:55] It was. [17:56] It was inspiring. [17:58] But holy crap, you're asking these guys to go to all this trouble. [18:02] So one man, Donald Trump can steal the oil of another country. [18:07] Is that what we're fighting for? [18:10] That is insane. [18:13] Why do we have people going into into there? [18:15] Why don't we have 13 Americans dead and at least 330 wounded, although it's apparently [18:21] upwards around 700, according to the intercept. [18:24] Unfortunately, I don't trust anything our government says, so I don't know what the [18:27] truth is. [18:28] Only I know it's a lot. [18:29] What have they been wounded for? [18:31] What were those Americans killed for? [18:33] So President Trump can take the oil of another country and what was he? [18:37] He's a billionaire already. [18:38] He's not going to get any more money. [18:40] What is he going to do with it? [18:42] But that's what he's asking us to fight for. [18:44] He said in this conference here, unfortunately, the American people want us out. [18:50] He finds that inconvenient that the American people don't want their troopers killed so [18:55] that you can take their oil. [18:59] This is a real problem, folks. [19:01] This is a real problem. [19:02] This is an ugly situation here. [19:04] And it's being done in broad daylight on national television, primetime telecast. [19:12] It was that we were just showing here a minute ago. [19:14] And because this has become normal for him, most of the reporters just write down what [19:18] he said and they'll put it in their articles. [19:22] There's very few that are going to be saying this. [19:24] You need to hear this. [19:25] Share this with people, folks, whether that's share it with our with our podcast information. [19:30] Share this link here. [19:31] Share this link here. [19:32] Share it on our social media, on X, whatever Instagram, we're all over the place. [19:38] Share this with people. [19:39] This version. [19:40] Don't let them just hear whatever the major mainstream media is going to say, where they'll [19:43] just put a few headlines and they'll put a few quotes with no context. [19:47] You need to understand what he said is nonsense. [19:50] It's a lie. [19:51] And it's designed to exploit somebody else for his case that he doesn't care about the [19:54] cost in blood of your sons and daughters. [19:57] That's a problem to me, not something I'm OK with. [20:00] Appreciate you guys. [20:01] We will be back with. [20:02] We'll be back with Professor Morandi here in about five minutes. [20:06] Really eager to see what he has to say, because he's going to be talking about what the reality [20:09] is on the ground from Iran and what we might can expect at 8 p.m. tomorrow. [20:14] Thanks, folks. [20:15] And we'll see you in a few minutes on the Daniel Davis Deep Dive.