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Trump vows to hit Iran 'HARD' in response to attack on US military · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: An eruption of fighting in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 2: The U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Conducting its first Iran strikes in a month. And just
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  Speaker 1: moments ago, President Trump telling Fox News what happens next.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll bring that to you.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Dana Perino.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Bill.
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  Speaker 2: Great to be with you for another week. I'm Bill Malujian.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you all. This is America's Newsroom. The U.S.
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  Speaker 2: striking targets on Iran's Larak Island. That's where CENTCOM says
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  Speaker 2: Iranian forces were getting ready to launch mines into the
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  Speaker 2: Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 1: And Iran retaliating by firing on U.S. bases in Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: The Jordanian army says it intercepted those attacks. Now this
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  Speaker 1: renewed fighting comes as the U.S. works to further isolate
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  Speaker 1: Iran's economy. President Trump reiterating America's goals in the region.
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  Speaker 4: Iran is a number one leading state sponsor of terror.
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  Speaker 4: You've heard that many times in the whole world. They
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  Speaker 4: cannot have a nuclear weapon. These are very violent, evil people.
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  Speaker 4: And if they had a nuclear weapon, Israel would be gone.
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  Speaker 4: If I weren't president, Israel would be gone. There would
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  Speaker 4: be no Israel. And there would probably be no Middle East.
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  Speaker 1: Trey Yinks is following all of this from Tel Aviv.
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  Speaker 1: You just spoke to the president.
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  Speaker 3: What did he say?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Dana, good morning. President Trump told Fox News there
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  Speaker 5: will be a U.S. response to the Iranian attack on U.S.
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  Speaker 5: forces overnight in Jordan. The president said we're going to
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  Speaker 5: hit them hard. There will be a response. The president
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  Speaker 5: said all of the missiles were shot down with the
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  Speaker 5: exception of one that wasn't going to hit anything significant. Overnight,
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  Speaker 5: Iran launched at least eight ballistic missiles at U.S. forces
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  Speaker 5: in Jordan. The attack came after U.S. forces struck Iran's
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  Speaker 5: Larak Island after identifying preparations for an IRGC rocket launch
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  Speaker 5: that was meant to place new sea mines in the
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  Speaker 5: Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM released a statement saying U.S. forces
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  Speaker 5: took limited precise action against IRGC mine-laying forces, posing an
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  Speaker 5: imminent threat in the Strait of Hormuz. In essence, Iran
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  Speaker 5: created the threat and the U.S. military eliminated it to
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  Speaker 5: protect civilian mariners, commercial shipping, and the free flow of
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  Speaker 5: global commerce. This is the first known U.S. strike against
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  Speaker 5: Iran since late July. Iranian President Massoud Poseshkin spoke today
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  Speaker 5: about the exchange of fire.
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  Speaker 3: We do not seek war. That has been our message
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  Speaker 3: to the world until now. In the face of aggression,
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  Speaker 3: we will not stand by. We are capable of delivering
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  Speaker 3: decisive response. Instability in this region would affect everyone and
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  Speaker 3: create serious problems. Instability is in no country's interest.
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  Speaker 5: The event comes as reports indicate the U.S. may ramp
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  Speaker 5: up economic pressure this week against Iran. Following new sanctions
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  Speaker 5: last week, Iranian officials reacted over the weekend with Iran's
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  Speaker 5: supreme leader, Moshtaba Khamenei, urging more domestic production and less
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  Speaker 5: reliance on the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Dollar.
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  Speaker 5: Overnight, President Trump told Fox News this about the operation
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  Speaker 5: against Iran.
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  Speaker 4: The blockade has been unbelievable. The financial crisis. the financial
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  Speaker 4: hits that we're giving them, we're hitting them very hard.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody's ever been hit like this. And they're a failing
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  Speaker 4: nation right now. And at the right point, we'll either
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  Speaker 4: win or they'll do something. But, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 4: mind winning, just winning. I don't need a signature on
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  Speaker 4: a piece of paper. But we're doing very well. Their
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  Speaker 4: Navy's gone. Their Air Force is gone. Their leaders are gone.
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  Speaker 4: All of their anti-aircraft.
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  Speaker 5: The region now waits to see how the United States
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  Speaker 5: will respond to that attack on U.S. forces overnight. Bill, Dana?
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  Speaker 1: Ask you about what you are hearing about what's happening
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  Speaker 1: inside Iran, not with the leadership, the current leadership, but
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  Speaker 1: with the people there. It's been over six months now.
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  Speaker 1: They have very little Internet access. The inflation is out
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  Speaker 1: of control. How much are they suffering?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're starting to get new images from inside of
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  Speaker 5: Iran that show long lines at gas stations, rising food prices,
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  Speaker 5: and severe economic indications about the Iranian rial that crossed 2.1
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  Speaker 5: million rial to one U.S. dollar today, a historic low
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  Speaker 5: for the country's currency. This is taking place amid the
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  Speaker 5: backdrop of these ongoing U.S. economic sanctions and the U.S.
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  Speaker 5: naval blockade that is making it extremely challenging for the
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  Speaker 5: Iranians to export any crude oil to prop up their economy.
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  Speaker 5: And so the Iranian people are starting to speak out.
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  Speaker 5: We have heard some statements and sound bites from people
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  Speaker 5: there on the streets of Iran that say the cost
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  Speaker 5: of goods is rising there, especially in the capital of Tehran.
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  Speaker 2: Trey, with this latest attack, you know, obviously Iran still
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  Speaker 2: has the capability to shoot off a few missiles here
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  Speaker 2: and there, but it seems... just so different from the
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  Speaker 2: start of the war in the past couple of years
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  Speaker 2: when Iran was fighting with Israel, when there were barrages
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  Speaker 2: where we were seeing hundreds of missiles coming at a time.
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  Speaker 2: I remember watching you do live shots where there were
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  Speaker 2: just missiles falling out of the sky like a meteor shower.
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  Speaker 2: What does it say to you about Iran's missile capabilities
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  Speaker 2: now that after six months of war, they're really only
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  Speaker 2: able to shoot a handful of missiles?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a great question. Look, the bottom line here,
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  Speaker 5: the Iranian military is degraded but not destroyed. And that's
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  Speaker 5: very important to look at because more than six months
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  Speaker 5: now into this conflict, the Iranians still do have the
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  Speaker 5: ability to launch ballistic and cruise missiles along with drones.
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  Speaker 5: The UAE says they shot down an incoming Iranian drone
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  Speaker 5: earlier today. And it gives you a sense of what
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  Speaker 5: remains in their arsenal along with the threat of these
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  Speaker 5: sea mines that, according to U.S. Central Command, they were
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  Speaker 5: trying to place more of in the Strait of Hormuz. Now,
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  Speaker 5: they say they control this critical waterway that so much
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  Speaker 5: of the world's oil passes through, but we do know
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  Speaker 5: in the backdrop the U.S. Navy is overseeing an operation
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  Speaker 5: to get millions of barrels of crude oil out of
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  Speaker 5: the Persian Gulf each day. And so there's no indication
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  Speaker 5: that this is anywhere close to over.
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  Speaker 3: And you see these.
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  Speaker 5: Conflicting statements back and forth, but for the first time
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  Speaker 5: this weekend, Iranian officials admitted that these sanctions are having
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  Speaker 5: an effect. The Iranian president, Massoud Poseshkin, said in an
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  Speaker 5: interview with state media he doesn't know what to tell
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  Speaker 5: people that say that sanctions have no effect on Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Trey Yinks, thank you so much and for getting that
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  Speaker 1: quick comment from the president that we could bring to
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  Speaker 1: our viewers.
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  Speaker 3: We appreciate you.