00:00Mr. President, while we were here with you, a mistrial was declared in the Lindsey Clancy trial.
00:04Have you been following that trial? Have you watched anything?
00:07Well, it's hard not to. It's on television so much. It's hard not to follow. I followed it
00:11pretty much, but it's a shame. It's a horrible tragedy. It's a horrible tragedy. I see what's
00:17happened, and it looks like it's a hung jury, and I think the judge just said it's going to be
00:22a
00:22mistrial. I assume there's going to be another trial. It's a terrible situation. Look,
00:29she did a horrible, horrible thing. Can't be worse, but you'll find out what the price to pay
00:36is. There'll be a price. It's going to be a mental institution or jail or something,
00:40but I guess they're going to go through another trial. It's too bad.
00:44Mr. President, the Vice President said yesterday that he would not describe the conflict with
00:48Iran as a war, but the U.S. resumed strikes for the first time in recent weeks. Can you explain
00:53to the American people, if this is not a war, what exactly is it?
00:56Well, I'll tell you what. A lot of people don't call it a war. I call it a military conflict
01:00because it's small potatoes for us. It's not a big thing. We did Venezuela, and we did this.
01:07In Venezuela, we lost nobody. In this, we lost 18 people. And in Vietnam, you lost 100,000 people.
01:15And in other conflicts, you lost tens of thousands of people. I would say that it's intermittent.
01:21You know, we do intermittent strikes. So I heard what he said, and it was interesting because I
01:26think that there's a lot of truth that we're not fighting right now. There's no fighting.
01:31We're taking out a lot of oil. We control the Harmo Strait. We control it very strongly.
01:37We did a hit on certain areas around the Harmo Strait. We took out their radar, as you know. You
01:43know
01:43that very well. We took out some aircraft. We took out some other things that protect for them,
01:48used to protect the Harmo Strait when they had it under very tight control. But now we control it,
01:54and we're taking out. Last night, we took a lot of boats. A lot of ships came through,
01:57and they come through every day. So I can understand what he's saying. It's a military
02:02conflict, but it's very intermittent. I could see somebody not calling it a war yet.
02:06It certainly doesn't feel like small potatoes, Mr. President. 18 people have died,
02:10and this certainly doesn't feel like small potatoes. 18 service members have died.
02:14We're seeing record-long deployments. You initially said this would last...
02:17Record-long? Why is it record-long?
02:18The 82nd airport is now going to be extended to a year.
02:21How long were we in Vietnam? How long were we in Vietnam?
02:22We're seeing record-
02:22No, no. How long were we in Vietnam?
02:23The U.S. Abraham Lincoln was out for more than 250 days at sea.
02:26We were in five months now. And you know what we did in five months? They're not going to have
02:29a nuclear weapon. That's what we did. Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. Because if they did,
02:34you probably wouldn't be standing here very long. Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. We've stopped them from
02:39having. We may hit pickaxe very soon. Because if there was anything going on with pickaxe. But
02:44because of all of the things, you know, we're leading in space now by a lot. When I first took
02:52over my first term, we were a distant third to Russia and to China. We're leading in space.
02:57We know everybody that's moving at pickaxe. We know everybody that's moving everywhere,
03:03all over Iran. And if anything goes bad, we hit them. We hit them hard. But we've been in there
03:09for five months. And in five months, what did we do? We stopped them from having a nuclear weapon.
03:16If we didn't go in there, you wouldn't have Israel right now. You wouldn't have the Middle East.
03:19And they probably would go out in European cities and our cities next. But we stopped them from having
03:25a nuclear weapon in five months. And you know what? We lost 18 souls, 18 great souls. I was there
03:30to greet
03:30the families of those people at Dover. And they're great. I got very friendly with some of the
03:36families. They were incredible families. But and one is too much. But in Vietnam, we lost tens of
03:44thousands of people. In Afghanistan, we lost a lot. Sleepy Joe Biden lost 13 just by standing at an
03:51airport and an airport that they shouldn't have been because they should have used Bagram, not the
03:55local little airport right in the middle of a city. They lost 13. But they lost 78.
04:0078 people in terms of their arms, their legs, their face was just wiped out. You don't mention
04:07that. You don't mention that. What we've done is amazing. We took over Venezuela and we have
04:15essentially taken over Iran. Now, there's been no shooting for days before the hit that we gave
04:22them the other night to wipe out their their that radar. They're very sophisticated. They brought in
04:28radar because we knocked it out once. Now we knocked it out twice. Now we don't notice any
04:32activity. I think they're tired of putting it in and getting blood. But the Strait of Hormuz is taking
04:37a lot of ships. We're getting a lot of ships out of there. A lot of oil is coming out
04:41of the Strait.
04:42There are no mines whatsoever. We have no mines. You know why we took out all the mines? They had
04:47some mines. We took them all with our mines sweepers. They go underwater. Nobody can see them. The best in
04:52the
04:52world. So we're doing a great job. And we will I would say it's a military conflict if you want.
05:00Some people could call to it. I don't think it matters what you call it. What matters is the fact
05:04that we have had tremendous success. We stopped Iran from having a nuclear weapon.
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