Iran is over.. it's completely done.. 100% cooked

Israel struck an attack while Iran's judiciary chief was giving an interview. Uh oh, here we go. So true. Go off, King. Let him know. Let him know. Where's the bomb? I'm waiting. I thought I thought we were getting the bomb. Where's the bomb? What's your Oh [ __ ] Yep. Oh my god. And uh is this recent? I don't know if it is or not. Oh wow. Look at that. He didn't flinch at all. I mean, kind of respect on that, right? Yeah. And he knows he's not going to get hit. Do you know why? It's because he's surrounding himself with a bunch of human shields. I mean, like, if Israel and the US were actually targeting civilians, they would have air strike this parade, but they didn't because they're not targeting civilians. So that's the reason why they felt comfortable and uh confident enough to go out there and do this. So uh human shields are here. Yeah. Isn't that sad? It's so weird, isn't it? Human shield doesn't work with bombs. Yeah, I guess not. And uh I mean at some point you see some [ __ ] like that. It's too late. Yeah, you're right. And bro's probably responsible for ordering the death of thousands over his lifetime. Of course he wouldn't flinch. He's a sociopath. Maybe. And so uh anyway, take a look at this. A taste of their own medicine. Remember when IRGC thugs fired on mourners for slain Iranian protesters? Now they cannot bury their own in peace. A funeral of eight Bajir members of the Carvan checkpoint sent mourners scrambling and fleeing. People are getting fed up with that [ __ ] Fed up with that [ __ ] Oh wow. I have killed civilians in Lebanon. Yeah, they killed civilians in Iran, too. It's what happens. You have a war. You're going to have civilians that get killed. It's just what happens. It's not good. It's just what happens, man. So, now they're the ones that are getting harassed. Oh, this is a new one. I haven't seen this at all. Oh, this is the bomb from like 3 days ago. Holy [ __ ] Look at this. God damn. God damn. You see the mayhem in Israel? No, I didn't. Should I look at that? This the same drone attack we saw from the boat. Yeah, it's still it's still burning. Man, this is going to be really bad for global warming. It is. It's going to be horrible for global warming. And uh Iran, the number one threat of peace and stability middle years. Oh, this is this is something that I think we've seen that before, too. And uh where are these here? I'll look at it, too. The moment Oh, I saw this. Israeli air strike hit another building in Lebanon. Oh, here we go. Come out. God [ __ ] damn. I love it. Yeah. I mean, this is people are terrorists anyway, right? It's they're attacking Hezbollah. How do they know to be recording it? I don't know honestly. Like that's a good question. Like I mean Yeah, like it does seem like kind of It seems very convenient. The guy just happened to be recording at the exact time the bomb hit, but uh I mean it could be multiple different reasons. Who knows? And then oh yeah, I will look at this. There's another video about this. Let me see if I can pull that up and find it. And uh no, this is from before. And uh the dummy uh what do you call it? the drop dummy uh called doornocker. Yeah, I didn't know anything about that. Let's see if I can find it. Yeah, this is it. Here we go. Have been so quickly destroyed and made combat ineffective. Devastated. We said it would not be a fair fight and it has not been. This is from today. As I stated during our first press conference on day two, that was 10 short days ago. Yeah. The combination of the world's two most powerful air forces is unprecedented and unbeatable. Between our air force and that of the Israelis, over 15,000 enemy targets have been struck. That's well over 15,000. I guess they're counting all the ones in Lebanon, too. Holy [ __ ] 1,000 a day. No other combination of countries in the world do that. So today, as we speak, we fly over the top of Iran and Tyrron, fighters and bombers all day, picking targets as they choose as our intelligence gets better and better and more refined. Looking up, the IRGC and Iranian regime, that's insane, sees only two things on the side of aircraft. The Stars and Stripes and the Star of David, the evil regime's worst nightmare. Man, Iran has no air defenses. Iran has no air force. Everybody's excited talking about it. Well, you've got to remember that like a lot of these guys that are in the military now that are in leadership positions probably were the soldiers that had to act like target dummies for terrorists during the war on terror because, you know, you couldn't fire back on terrorists whenever they were shooting you as long as they weren't holding a gun. So, a lot of these guys, this is something they've been waiting for for like 20 [ __ ] years, 15 [ __ ] years. Iran has no need. That's what I think happened. their missiles, their missile launchers and drones being destroyed or shot out of the sky. Their missile volume is down 90%. 90. Their oneway attack drones yesterday down 95%. Damn. And as the world is seeing, they are exercising sheer desperation in the Straits of Harm. Mhm. Something we're dealing with. We have been dealing with it and don't need to worry about it. were on plan to defeat, destroy, disable all of their meaningful military capabilities at a pace the world has never seen before. Great. Wow. But it's not just that Iran doesn't have a functioning air force or that their entire navy is at the bottom of the Persian Gulf or their missile force is shrinking daily. Even more importantly, they also don't have the ability to build more. That's the most important component. Yeah, he's right about that. Like unless you stop the uh unless you get rid of the cookie factory, deleting all the cookies is just going to wait until there's going to be more cookies. You've got to go after the actual source. You're right about that. 100%. You're 100% spot on with your assessment. We veterans want these IRGC [ __ ] dead. We've been wanting their heads for the better part of 25 years. Yeah. Because I think that a lot of veterans know that most of the places in the Middle East are occupied by Iranian terrorists. That's like that's where a lot of the funding comes from. Not all of it, but that's where a lot of it came from. So like seeing that connection and then seeing that, you know, the the disease rather than the symptom be addressed. I think that's something a lot of guys want to see. Like to emphasize today soon and very soon all of Iran's defense companies will be destroyed. For example, as of two days ago, Iran's entire ballist ballistic missile production capacity. Every company that builds every component of those missiles has been functionally defeated, destroyed. Jesus Christ. Buildings, complexes, and factory lines all across Iran destroyed. So, we're shooting down. I guess this is the reason why they spent so long before they attacked because like this seems like it's very very like to to have all this stuff lined out ahead of time and then to execute on it in like 2 weeks. That's insane. Destroying what missiles they still have in stock. A lot. Yeah. But more importantly, ensuring that they have no ability to make more. Their production lines, their military plants, their defense innovation centers defeated. Iran's leadership is in no better shape. Desperate and hiding, they've gone underground, cowering. That's what rats do. He call them rats. Okay. Wow. All right. Didn't expect that. Okay. Uh that's what rats do. Holy [ __ ] Okay. Let me see this here. Um Hexath didn't see actual combat. Then he went to Iraq to serve as a civil liaison. Then in Afghanistan, he was a trainer for the base. He's yearning for bullets because he never saw them. Okay. So if you think that's true, how do you reconcile that with the fact that the the like the polling amount of people that were actual veterans overwhelmingly support this war? There's like a plus 20 point difference between veterans and non-veterans for support of the war. H how do you how do you reconcile those two realities? There's no shot. That's true. There is veteran. We support this war. Yeah. Hexet did see combat. He he got awards for it. Well, I'm just like the thing is that that's not relevant. It's not relevant. Of course, veterans support it. They don't like terrorists. Okay. So you're just you're just making these comments. So you just don't like Pete Hexath. I'm just saying that he's so aggressive on it because he doesn't really know what it means. But like then you just said but I don't understand the logic here. So he's so aggressive with it. You're arguing. I I don't even want to read this. It's just What are you What are you talking about? We know the new so-called not so supreme leader is wounded. So know he call them rats. That's what rats do. leader is wounded. Yep. And likely disfigured. He put out a statement yesterday, a weak one actually, but there was no voice and there was no video. It was a written statement. He called for unity. Apparently killing tens of thousands of protesters is his kind of unity. Yes. Iran has plenty of cameras and plenty of voice recorders. Why a written statement? I think you know why. I think you know why. Everybody knows why. His father dead. He's scared. He's injured. He's on the run. And he lacks legitimacy. It's a mess for them. Oh my god. Who's in charge? Iran may not even know. Jesus Christ. With every passing hour, we know and we know they know. I love how he just goes up here and he just talks [ __ ] about him. He calls him rats. He says he's going to kill him and he explains how he's going to do it like every other day. That the military capabilities of their evil regime are crumbling. They can barely communicate, let alone coordinate. They're confused and we know it. Our response, we will keep pressing. We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies. Yet some in this crew in the press trying to force tackle. Yeah. Allow me to make a few. Die like a dog. People look up at the TV and they see banners. They see headlines. I I used to be in that business and I know that everything is written intentionally. For example, a banner or a headline. Middle East war intensifies, splashing on the screen the last couple of days alongside visuals of civilian or energy targets that Iran has hit because that's what they do. What should the banner be instead? How about Iran increasingly desperate? Because they are. They know it and so do you. If it's big for national morale or more fake news from Oh, I I agree with you on that, too. I think it's very important that he comes out here and talks like this because it's I think that all of the 21-year-old Chuds that are in the military, I hate to say it, guys, but there's a reason why recruitment is so high. Every 21-year-old Chud that hears, "We're going to kill them like rats," and they're like a They're loving it. This is what they signed up for. Yeah, exactly. Like they This is the thing is that every young guy like do you know what they do? They sit around and and like probably in America, right? They a lot of these guys that join the military have grown up watching movies like 300, Jarhead, American Sniper, Blackhawk Down, or [ __ ] uh you know, Kingdom of Heaven or something like that. And then you have a guy that's running the military with literal crusader tattoos and he's talking about bringing God to the Middle East. He's got [ __ ] uh he's talking about killing these guys like rats. Troy. Yeah. The Marvel Cinematic Universe. God Wills it. Yeah. Generation Kill. All this stuff. I mean like Yeah. This is what they're this is what they're for. This is what they're about, man. Like Yeah. Hell Divers Too. There's another one. CNN reports talking about your generation, they forgot about Iraq. No, it's that the problem is that they remembered. That's the reason why they want it is that they saw what happened at Iraq and they saw how much time was wasted because the military didn't actually have a decisive lethal goal. And whenever they have somebody who did have a decisive lethal goal, I think that's what they want to have happen. That's the whole point. Trump administration underestimated the Iran war's impact on the Strait of Hormuz. Patently ridiculous. Of course, for decades, Iran has threatened shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. This is always what they do. Hold the straight hostage. CNN doesn't think we thought of that. It's a fundamentally unserious report. the so the guys that systematically destroyed every single ballistic missile capability manufacturer in the entire [ __ ] country didn't think about well what if they attack the boats what what if like what what are we talking out. Sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better. Uh-huh. Another example of a fake headline that I saw yesterday. War widening. Uh-oh. Here's a real headline for you for an actual patriotic press. How about Iran shrinking, going underground? See, you see, Iran's leaders are hiding in bunkers and moving into civilian areas. The only thing that is widening is our advantage. Not to mention our Gulf partners stepping up even more now going on the offense and have always been with us on the defense with collective and integrated air defenses. Yeah. It's like Saudi Arabia shooting down the drones is unshakable. Our options maximized and our capabilities still building. We're going up, they're going down. As I said, God, I wish I was American. Canada's the worst. Do you remember whenever the leader of your military went up on stage and started crying about being racist 100 years ago? I'm so sorry, man. I don't know what happened to you guys up there. I really don't. It's bad. Start. President Trump holds the cards. He'll determine the pace, the tempo, and the timing of this conflict. His hand firmly on the wheel as well as on the throttle setting. America first. Peace through strength in action. From day one, as our nation expects and the president demands, our warriors have fought with lethality, precision, and rapid innovation. In fact, today will be yet again the highest volume of strikes that America has put over the skies of Iran and Tyrron. The number of sorties and number of bomber pulses, the highest yet, ramping up and only up. So, it's just they're just going to keep bombing the [ __ ] out of them until yet. The bombing will continue until morale improves. It's pretty simple. Wow. And quantity has a still be ramping. The reason why it's ramping is that now they're attacking smaller um local targets like for example militia bases and IRGC stations rather than focusing on very large military installations because most of those have been destroyed. So like they were basically destroying the strategy and now they're going after the tactics. Does that make sense? That's what I'm guessing, right? And also they don't have any defenses anymore. So it's easier to shoot more stuff with less risk because like obviously each different type of missile and like uh you know like way of attack has a higher and a lower probability of it of there being countermeasures used against it. So whenever you can use things that effectively you can shoot down easily, but if they can't shoot them down, then it's perfect. So yeah, that's really what I'm thinking is happening. That's why I guess we continue to ramp up every tool of AI, of cyber, of space, EW, you name it, we're employing it, blinding, confusing, and deceiving our enemy because we know who the good guys are here. Mhm. And the American people do, too. And that makes my job simple. I serve God, the troops, the country, the Constitution, and the President of the United States, and answer only to those. All in service of victory on the battlefield and the military objectives that we've laid out from day one. Defeat the missiles, missile launchers, and defense industrial base, which I laid out today. defeat the Navy and deny Iraq the ability to have a nuclear weapon. Clear. Feel like that's obviously happened achievable. And Admiral Cooper knows the SEMCOM commander who we spent a couple of hours with last night that in pursuit of those objectives we have his back in every way. His commanders know that and so do the troops in harm's way. Admiral Cooper gets what he needs. The assets, the authorities, the munitions. Says, "Why are we doing this to Iran and not North Korea?" North Korea is way less of a problem than Iran is. Like realistically, like Kim just sits there in his house and he doesn't [ __ ] with us. He doesn't do anything. He doesn't cause any problems. Like I mean that that's another really big reason. Like they're like nukes. Well, I mean maybe they do, maybe they don't, right? But like also like they're just they're not they're not a threat really. They're [ __ ] but they're not really a threat. Will stop at nothing to win. War is hell. War is chaos. Korea is a private server. And as we saw yesterday with the tragic crash of our KC135 tanker. Um bad things can happen. American heroes. All of them. And as I have with all of them, as we have, we will greet those heroes at Dover and their sacrifice will only recommit us to the resolve of this mission. But war in this context and in pursuit of peace is necessary. Which is why each day on bended knee, we continue to appeal to heaven to Almighty God's providence to watch over and give special skill and confidence to our leaders and to our warriors to those warriors who this nation prays for every single day. I hear from all of you out there who pray for them every day. Stay on bended knee and pray for them. I continue to say to them, God speak. May the Lord bless you and keep you and keep going. Mr. Chairman, over to you. Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for joining us today. Uh before I start with an update, I also want to address the tragic loss of our KC135 refueling aircraft yesterday. The incident occurred over friendly territory in western Iraq while the crew was on a combat mission and again was not the result as SenCom has said was not the result of hostile or friendly fire. We're still treating this as an active rescue and recovery operation. As SenCom announced this morning, four airmen have been recovered and the Air Force and US Central Command will provide updates as information becomes available. Please keep these brave airmen, their families, friends, and units in your thoughts in the coming hours and days. Our service members make an incredible sacrifice to go forward and do the things that the nation asks of them. It's a reminder of the true cost of the dedication and commitment of the joint force. Missing. We're also aware of a fire on board the USS Gerald R. Ford. We're thinking about the crew there who were injured in the fire. We believe and hope that everyone will be okay. Yeah, apparently they didn't get attacked or anything. They just I don't know, somebody set something on fire. We're grateful for that. And for any further questions on that, we'd refer you to Navent or to the Navy. This morning we enter the 13th day of Operation Epic Fury and we continue to make progress towards our military objectives. As the secretary said, today will be our heaviest day of kinetic fires across the operating area. SENCOM continues to attack ballistic missile and drone capabilities so that they are no longer a threat to US forces, our bases, or our partners. Uh they're continuing to destroy the Iranian Navy to ensure freedom of navigation. Uh and this means going after uh Iran's mine lane capability and destroying their ability to attack commercial vessels. It's crazy how they're just attacking all kinds of commercial vessels, people that are totally unrelated to the war just because they want to. and we're targeting their defense industrial base so they cannot rebuild the capabilities that can harm America. Definitely they'll do that. As Admiral Cooper uh said in his update on Wednesday, Iranian combat power continues to decline as a result of the continued strikes. As the secretary talked about, we've attacked over 6,000 targets and our strike packages continue to launch every hour and we've maintained an unprecedented number of uh sorties up over ahead of Iran. SenCom is now persistently over the enemy and a result we've seen a reduction in missile and one-way attack fires. As the secretary said, in less than two weeks, we've rendered the Iranian Navy combat ineffective and continue to attack naval vessels, including all of their Solommani class warships, which were armed with anti-ship missiles and anti-aircraft weapons. I'm surprised they have any left. I'm going to be honest. I'm going to go to the questions and have them go through some of these cuz obviously like this is just more like specific stuff. And uh who's the biggest economic competitor in the past 30 years? China. What will the US have after the war? Iran, Venezuela oil, Iran's oil, Panama Canal. If we get Russia to our side, China's economy collapses. Why? I don't think that's really what's going to happen. Uh I I don't I don't think they're going to get Russia on our side. I think that the main goal is to just get Russia out of Ukraine, right? I mean, that that's basically it in the recovery operations to bring home our lost KC 135 crew. that we keep those service members and their families in their thoughts and prayers. Those are very very very tough days when that knock comes on the door for people on both sides of the door. Again, thank you to our deployed, thank you to uh our fallen and to their families and to the joint force. And with that, I'll turn it back to you, sir. Mr. Chairman, oh, this the questions. Alexander Ingresol, One America News. Um, can you tell us a little bit more about the Straight of Hormuz and when it might be fully operational again? And um, how do we ensure our objective of denying Iran a nuclear weapon if they continue to align with our adversaries? That's true. That's a good question. I'll take it and chime in, Mr. Chairman, if you'd like at all. Um, I I want to emphasize what the chairman said about that. The only thing prohibiting transit in the straits right now is Iran shooting at shipping. It is open for transit should Iran not do that. Now, there's a reason why we chose as one of our primary objectives, destroy the Navy. We understood the ability to interdict shipping is something Iran has done for 40 years. It's key terrain. They've used it as leverage. The world is Yeah, they've done this multiple times before. The idea that the government didn't plan for this is [ __ ] Of course, they plan for this uh to fight back in that context. And so, um we've heard them talk about taking various measures uh and we're planning for all of them. So, we have a plan for every option here. We're working with our inter agency partners and uh that's that's not a straight we're going to allow to remain contested or with a lack of of flow of of of commercial goods. So, we're we're aware of that. We're laser focused on our military objectives, but also want to make sure our partners across this government understand we're working with you to make sure that energy flows and that's that's an important part. Uh and the second question was on the nuclear capability. As we've said from the beginning, their strategy shifted just from defense of their nuclear facilities to a conventional umbrella of so many missiles uh that no one would challenge their ability to their u the opportunity to defeat their missile their nuclear capabilities and it was growing by that's the reason why they got the missiles is so they can protect the nukes like I mean that's obviously that's the entire plan. with it weakest going at that ballistic missile capability creates an opportunity to ensure at any point in time that Iran give up their nuclear capabilities or if need be you prevent them from doing it as the president has done once already with operation midnight hammer uh obliterating those capabilities. So the conventional side is a huge part at getting at denying nuclear capabilities. If you have anything you want to add. Um appreciate the question. And I'm not going to comment on what we may or may not be thinking about any options that the joint force could be tasked to do in the future whether it's on the nuke matter or this guy seems really competent by the way like he he does else thank you but we have options of the minds that are in the straight of hormos and and our ability to you know obliterate them. We retain a range of options to solve a whole variety of problems. Um and uh that is uh one set of options that we have uh uh you know that we hold on to. So absolutely. Thank you. He's kind of boring though. Yeah, that's the reason why with Daily Wire. Uh thank you both for the update. ABC News has updated it story from yesterday clarifying that the FBI report on Iran possibly striking California was unverified. I just want to ask you what impact did that original reporting have on the public? Does Iran even have the ability to conduct such a strike? And then just really quickly on another note, um what role did Vice President Vance play in counseling the president uh on this conflict? Can you speak to some of the media reporting uh suggesting that there is a division there? That reporting on Oh boy, that's a that's a drama question. Uh-oh. California um obviously had no impact on us. Uh also we're used to bad reporting. We're used to ill-informed reporting and so it doesn't change how we operate but we engage with it to prove that it's not true as Sentcom has done so well. Uh ultimately uh I look at the reports on a daily basis of threat our inter agency's all over it. My partners across government are all over looking for indications and warnings keeping the American people safe. Uh there's a lot of things Iran has said it can do for me for a long time. Let me guess, they can't do it. Thank including engaging their proxies and getting them involved in the fight which they haven't been able to do. Uh so we're watching that very closely. As far as as far as the vice president, uh he's an incredible member leader of this team as well alongside the president and the secretary of state. Uh I can't say enough great stuff about this team, how it works together, how it provides options to the president uh and and the vice president every single day is a they're trying to keep disc they're trying to create discord and discontent between Trump and Vance because Vance seems to be less supportive of the Iran war. I don't really see why he has to be supportive of it. Like we have like 50 problems in the country. Why does he have to be 100% locked in on this one problem? It's like it's a stupid premise to begin with. Voice in that. An indispensable voice in that actually. Um in the middle there red. Yeah, exactly. Michael Gordon, Wall Street Journal. Uh Iran is thought to have uh 440 kg of highlyenriched uranium in at least two locations and several thousand kg of lower prior purity material. Can you conclude this mission successfully without physically taking control of that material or are you counting on diplomatic negotiations uh to provide some measure of control leading to its removal? You've mentioned missiles, you mentioned drones, military industry. You haven't stipulated that taking care of that material is a mission priority. Uh we've said from the beginning deny Iran nuclear weapons as a core mission. We have we retain options across the spectrum. They're probably because it's such a high like a high-profile thing or like high severity thing. They're probably not going to say what they're going to do with it. Ensure that they never do. Makes sense. And President Trump has said that and that's why this mission actually couldn't have been possible without Midnight Hammer. Without what those B2s did going across and obliterating those facilities that set the condition for the opportunity to do what we're doing now. So, he's kept the president's kept his eye focused on nuclear capabilities. And I will say we have a range of options up to and including Iran deciding that they will uh give those up which of course we would welcome. They weren't willing to do a negotiation. Uh I would not never tell this group or the world what we're willing to do or how far we're willing to go. Uh but we have options for sure. Great right next to him. Me? No. Right there. Right here, sir. Right here. I'll take it. Quarter zip right there. Yep. No, you Yep. Okay. Thank you, sir. Every time I hear quarter zip, I just think provide some guidance. It's been 13 days in. Can you please provide some guidance, both of you, about the strike on the girls school? Um, there's been reporting. They are not going to let up on this, man. Oh my god. It's like, what do you want them to say? Like, I I think that honestly what they should do is they should just simply just keep giving the same generic answer over and over and over until they eventually just stop asking the question. I think that's what that that's what I would do because here the the reality is that the media will not accept an outcome that doesn't mean that the United States or uh Israel is at fault. Like even if Iran did bomb the school if the investigation shows that to be the case, they will just say that the uh the government's lying basically it's important. Um, I I think that it's being obviously over represented and it is I mean, yeah, obviously it's bad, but I think that what they're doing is they're trying to use this as some sort of like emotional like some like emotional bludgeon that they can effectively beat over everybody and say, "Oh, you killed a you killed a school full of girls. You did this. You did this. You did this." Like, I mean, really, I don't think anybody supports having that happen. But when you're having a war, accidents happen and we don't even know whether who did it or not. Like it's it's hyperfixated on and it's being done with the express purpose and goal to delegitimize American and Israeli attacks on Iran to make us look like we are the bad guys. That's why it's being done. And so yeah, you like why even like I think that you make a mistake by even trying to play into this type of narrative. And uh someone clearly supports it. No, they don't. I mean, do you think that mistakes never happen with bombings? We just had a plane crash and six people die. Mistakes happen all the time. Do you think that they wanted to crash the plane and kill themselves? No. That's just what happens. Like I I I don't see how like I mean really just think about it logically for three seconds. It's a person press's job to be critical of the government, bro. Um, I think that they are not really being critical of the government. I think they're being partisan and biased. I think that they've already they've already asked this question 15 times. This isn't the press is not being critical of the government. They are not they are complicit in effectively enabling enemies. They're completely biased about it. They're not being critical. that indicates the preliminary inquiry even though it's ongoing has determined that the air strike was carried out um by the United States. Uh given that there is another competing narrative uh that this was done intentionally, can you provide us with some guidance about whether uh this uh was the case? Secondly, um we are also getting uh we had heard yesterday from energy secretary Wright that said that the US Navy would not be ready until the end of the month to provide escorts through the state of Hormuz. Is that an accurate assessment? And if so, can you tell us why? Thank you. Well, with an issue on your first topic, an issue of such seriousness, um we don't we're not going to let reporting lead us or force our hand into indicating uh what happened in a particular situation because the truth matters. So, I can report that Sentcom has designated an investigating officer to complete a command investigation. Uh the command investigation will take as long as necessary to address all the matters surrounding this incident. And the investigating officer is from outside scentcom and is a is a general officer. But I will note to this group and to the world, there's only one entity in this conflict uh between us and Iran that never targets civilians. Man, literally never targets civilians. I look at the process that's used on dynamic strikes or on boat strikes and others. We have a very uh highfidelity process in that case. So, we don't target. Iran does. We will investigate. We'll get to the truth and we'll share it when we have it. Absolutely. And what was the second about the straight of four moves about the Navy Secretary? It's a tactically complex environment before I think we want to take anything through there at scale. We want to make sure that we do the work pursuant to our current military objectives to to do uh to do that safely and smartly. So, we're continuing to develop and we do a lot of work. And like I said, this is it is dynamic, but this is I think almost by 20% the largest day of of strikes. Uh, and as I said, our intelligence just gets better and better. That feedback back loop feeds itself. And as we refine those targets, it it exponentially increases what we can hit and why to include strategic things the world's talking about. And it's our job to have a plan for it. I don't know what to do to address it uh and ensure that the president has options. Uh, we've done that from the beginning in this department. He'll have options on that on that topic as well. That strike, sir. Um, an investigation is an investigation. It's what it is. It doesn't mean anything other than that. Ryan Morgan with the Epic Times. Uh, regarding today's busy day of strikes. Um, yeah. Last week you guys discussed the progress of the air campaign to gain air superiority and a transition from these uh standoff weapons launched at range to more uh overhead strikes. Can you now say that uh these strikes today are going to rely entirely on standin over-the-top weapons or are standoff range weapons still in play? It's a great question. Uh I can say based on the report I read this morning at 0600 uh only 1% of the munitions we're using today are standoff munitions. The rest are over the top. Somebody says uh do you think this will be any different than the war in Afghanistan? Religious zealots never surrender. I could see this going on for years. You know what's really funny is that what I think is funny about it is the fact that yes, very obviously, of course, religious outlets don't surrender, but also um they already are. They already are. They're already roaching out at this very moment. The entire idea that you can't break this type of narrative is crazy. Of course, you can. You absolutely typing a plethora uh which was which is our goal from the beginning. You use standoff which are more exquisite. You transition to a much larger magazine depth ensuring that you're preserving all the capabilities you have and your options across uh the force. Absolutely. Has placed any mines since the war started. Is Iran placing new minds? Um we've heard them talk about it just like you've reported recklessly and wildly about it. Um but there's we have no clear evidence. We have no clear evidence of that. Thank you, sir. Mr. Secretary, given everything the US have accomplished in the last 24 hours, as of today, how do you define success in this military option and has that definition changed from day one? And also regarding Iran government telling countries hosting US American bases that they could face attacks? Um what is the Pentagon doing about that? First question is what is the objective? How do you define success as of today? Yeah, I mean we like we define success again 13 12 days in 13 days in by reaching the military objectives that we've laid out. Launchers, missile launchers, defense industrial base, their navy, the ability to project power in the naval sense leading toward denying them to get a nuclear weapon. And we've got internal metrics that look at that that we represent to the president who then can decide um how how long he'd like to continue in pursuit of those mil those military objectives. So that hasn't changed. There's a lot of things a lot of people talk about uh what they want us to do or what we should do or what we should stay focused on. And again, I've I've addressed this before and I think it's worth saying again. Um mission creep or expansive missions or prolonged timelines or democracy building or nation building, you you name it, has not been part of what President Trump wants us to be involved in. We're seems like it's a huge [ __ ] mistake to do that. That's whenever you get entangled in indirectly for something here. This particular mission set uh but also recognizing this country's conditioned to previous leaders whether it's George W. Bush or Barack Obama or Joe Biden who had these expansive nebulous mission sets that kept changing the timeline kept moving and kept pouring more troops in and on the ground and then pretty soon everyone wonders like I did in Afghanistan in 2012, what's our mission here? Yeah, I'm not I'm not clear what it is. Yeah, we're we're taking the opposite approach here and saying we've defined these objectives. We're pursuing those objectives. The president has his hand on the throttle and will decide ultimately when they've been reached that serve the purposes of the United States of America, American interests first. Yeah, right here. Thank you, Secretary Hexf. Polls show over 80% of Republicans support the president's military action in Iran, but there's some consternation in parts of the party, particularly from your fellow Fox News alum, Tucker Carlson. He called the war disgusting and evil and then said of unconditional surrender which the president has called for means foreign troops get to rape your wives and daughters. Have you heard these comments and what's your reaction to them? Um what the Yeah. Okay. We're busy executing on behalf of great patriotic Americans with a clear mission uh that's 47 years overdue. Uh and we're going to execute on that regardless of what people say about it. Yeah. Right here. You have said that the US military has essentially uh aerial superiority, naval superiority over Iran, yet we're not escorting ships to the straight of Hormute. Why? How did you not plan for this? We we planned How did you not plan for this? Oh my god, bro. Like these guys these people are such rats. How did you not plan for this? Like what a [ __ ] idiot. Give me I'll be right back. Give me a second. All right, I'm back. We're good. Sorry about that. Let me continue for it. We recognize it. because ultimately uh we want to do it sequentially in a way that makes the most sense for what we want to achieve and ensure that we're we're sending the right signals uh to the world when we do so. So when Chris Wright speaks or we speak, it's based on a full assessment of of what we're what we're up against, what we want to say to the world, how that we want them to see and understand the conflict. It's like this whole idea of the war widening. That's what the press wants to make it look like, like it's widening and chaos is ensuing. No, we're actually closing in on grabbing hold of and controlling what what objectives we want to achieve and how we want to achieve them. Shape it's called shaping operations and setting the conditions. But when you shape the environment, you don't always tell I mean foolish political leaders and foolish military leaders of the past we'll hang an exact deadline on it or here's exactly when we'll do what we're going to do or here's how long it's going to take us and then if you I think that Trump has made that mistake multiple times where like he's given definitive like things and then obviously it didn't happen that way and then he looked bad and so I think it's very obvious that they're trying to avoid that as much as possible that uh maybe you meet it but if you don't you fail ending the uh war on day one. We're sending those signals working across the inter agency moves is something we've paid attention to from the beginning. Uh and the American people can rest assured that uh we will ensure that our interests are advanced. No doubt. Yeah. Right there. Green jacket Mike with the Washington Examiner. How many American casualties have there been and where were the American service members when they were injured? uh I mean it's a bunch of return to duty. So, we've had a whole the large large majority have uh gone in for some medical treatment, return to duty. We've had uh in Kuwait, uh Jordan, uh down across the southern flank a little bit, a variety of places, most from oneway attack uh strikes. But I want to clarify that. I think what we try to do here is clarify those numbers rather than saying um KIA or WIA wounded. be more clear about that because the overwhelming majority almost 90% thank god. Um are returned to duty minor minor injuries returned to duty and so that number can can look a certain way and our job is to add some fidelity to it. Russia Mr. Secretary thank you Mr. Secretary David Zia real America's voice. Can you share what types of munitions have been used on the attacks on commercial shipping? Have any hit mines and are USVs on man surface vehicles being used? And just a quick followup, whether any arrest uh in Fort Campbell with the drone thefts. Oh, I'm not familiar with the the Fort Campbell thing. Uh the this the strikes Iran has taken on shipping up north in the vicinity of Kuwait have been, I believe, from surfacetosurface missiles up there. Um we've not seen any USV uh activity out of Iran uh that we've we've seen in the Gulf at this point, nor have any ships hit mines or anything. still flowing through the no one more time right here. Thank you so much. Um Heather Mullins, Lindell TV, my first question is President Trump is with Xiin in a couple weeks. How much support if any has China been given the Iranian regime and then the second question just you know I know President Trump calling for an unconditional surrender from Iran given that the US is working in partnership with Israel on this whole operation. Is Iran expected to meet demands of both countries or just the US? And what are that's a good question? Well, we're we're we're proud to partner with the incredible capab capabilities the Iranians or excuse me, the Israelis have. Uh but our objectives are our objectives. And so when those are met uh as as we meet those, we'll we'll set the uh we'll set the tempo of of when those are met. What was the first question? He's meeting with Xiinp has a a historic relationship with President Xi. Um they look forward to to having a dynamic conversation uh two two powers. Um President Trump ultimately uh has established I think we're just going to keep selling China more of the oil and then China's going to let Iran fall. I think that's what's going to happen. That's the best case scenario that's best for both China and America and it just [ __ ] Iran. Like that's the smart thing to do. Like if I was Trump that's what I would do. that relationship which advanced the United States of America and that meeting will continue to ensure we advance that. That's all I've got. Thank you very much. Appreciate it, man. Well, there it is. And uh he did do that. I mean, hopefully, right? It also improves relations. Yeah, definitely.