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Trump's back is not 'up against the wall' with Iran · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Here now with reaction Greenberry, Combat Metteran, Nick Fredis, and
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  Speaker 1: Hudson Institute fellow Jeremy Hunt. Gentlemen, thank you mister Hunt.
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  Speaker 1: Secretary Buss, it makes clear that we are going to
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  Speaker 1: quote collapse this regime, and he told CNBC that economic
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  Speaker 1: pressure alone means the US won't be able won't need
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  Speaker 1: to start full full scale combat.
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  Speaker 2: Again, do you agree, well, first and foremost, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we're dealing with the barbaric, murderous regime in Iran. And
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  Speaker 2: President Trump did not start this war. He is finishing
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  Speaker 2: a war that Iran started with US forty seven years ago.
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  Speaker 2: As they've been attacking American troops, attacking our allies all
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  Speaker 2: around the world. And so now with the economic sanctions,
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  Speaker 2: with the economic squeeze, what it does is it enables
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  Speaker 2: us to stop Iran from being able to fund all
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  Speaker 2: their proxies around the world, being able to attack. And
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  Speaker 2: you have all the pnitions attack us in different places
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  Speaker 2: around the world. And so what that does is that
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  Speaker 2: squeeze them there. But we do have to have an
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  Speaker 2: all the above approach. I mean, let's remember these are
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  Speaker 2: the same people who did October seventh, who have been
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  Speaker 2: attacking with properties all around the world, and so it's
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  Speaker 2: important that we continue to show them that, look, we
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  Speaker 2: have options. President Trump, his back is not against the wall.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the legacy media likes to paint this
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  Speaker 2: picture that President Trump is somehow it is back against
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  Speaker 2: the wall without options. He is the commander in chief
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  Speaker 2: of the greatest military in the world. We have options,
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  Speaker 2: and honestly, we have an opportunity to finish them off
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  Speaker 2: if we so choose.
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  Speaker 1: And Nick, I think that many of the cabinet officials
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  Speaker 1: are making a similar point. So certainly Secretary best Send
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  Speaker 1: and the clip we saw, but also Secretary Chris Wright
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  Speaker 1: of Energy makes clear that even with these blockades roughly
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  Speaker 1: fifteen barrels a day or now leaving the region, overall
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  Speaker 1: nine million through the street. And so when the President
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  Speaker 1: says economic pressure, economic d day, coupled with obviously all
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  Speaker 1: of his military tools, do you think that we're winning?
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  Speaker 1: And by winning, how do you define that? How can
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  Speaker 1: we convince Americans that this has been a very positive
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  Speaker 1: action for them keeping your rant out of getting a
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  Speaker 1: nuclear device.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's very fair to say that anything that
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  Speaker 3: we can do to prevent around from getting a nuclear
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  Speaker 3: weapon is absolutely essential. I completely support this. I think
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of Americans too that also question the
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  Speaker 3: timing of this because the Iranian regime is waiting for
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  Speaker 3: one thing, and one thing only, the midterms. They're hoping
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  Speaker 3: Democrats actually take control in the midterms because they believe
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  Speaker 3: that that's going to be able to prevent the president
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  Speaker 3: from being able to stop the iatola. Now, I'll be
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  Speaker 3: honest with you, I think long term, there's no such
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  Speaker 3: thing as a lasting deal without the fall of the regime.
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  Speaker 3: And the question is is how do you achieve that
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  Speaker 3: without the United States engaging in a nation building exercise.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the only way to do that is
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  Speaker 3: to strip the Iranian regime of the one leverage point
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  Speaker 3: that they have left, and that is being able to
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  Speaker 3: prevent well from leading the straight out home moves. And
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  Speaker 3: as we're starting to see more success and commercial shipping
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  Speaker 3: be able to get through, as we're starting to see
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  Speaker 3: more people that are willing to take that risk, I
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  Speaker 3: think that's going to have a positive impact overall. Not
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  Speaker 3: to mention the fact that when the Iranian president, which
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  Speaker 3: again is not the Iyatola, but when the Iranian president
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  Speaker 3: says that he's ere for an end of the war
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  Speaker 3: at this point. That signifies that there's growing division within
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  Speaker 3: the Iranian government, and that's what you also want to see.
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  Speaker 3: But listen, I've fought in this part of the world before,
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  Speaker 3: and it's not easy. If you want a long term
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  Speaker 3: solution with Iran, it's going to have to come with
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  Speaker 3: a regime change. And I don't want the United States
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  Speaker 3: to be involved in another nation building exercise. But if
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  Speaker 3: we play our cards right, if we take away the
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  Speaker 3: regime's ability to control the straightorh Hoome moves, I think
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  Speaker 3: it seriously takes away the only leverage point they still have.
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  Speaker 1: And Nick, just to say with you for a moment,
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  Speaker 1: the President has been consistent all along. He has said
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  Speaker 1: two big things. One is the whole point here is
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  Speaker 1: to make sure Iran is not nuclear capable. Number Two,
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  Speaker 1: he thinks regime change has to come from within. He
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  Speaker 1: hopes the people of Iran take over their country. Watch
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  Speaker 1: those protesters put down by their own government. Do you
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  Speaker 1: actually think with the Iranian president signaling he wants to
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  Speaker 1: end a war, do you think that he's really Iran
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  Speaker 1: is actually blinking or are they just preparing a response
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  Speaker 1: these sanctions and tap tap tapping along waiting out the
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  Speaker 1: midterm result.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're trying to wait out in midterm results
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  Speaker 3: as long as they possibly can. But the unfortunate thing
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  Speaker 3: that we saw with the protests, and you're absolutely right,
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump laid out four different objectives for these various strikes,
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  Speaker 3: and we've seen success along many of those objectives. The
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  Speaker 3: real question of long term regime change is, once again
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  Speaker 3: the President's right, it has to be organic to the
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  Speaker 3: Iranian people. The United States military cannot do the heavy
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  Speaker 3: lifting for that. The real question is going to be
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  Speaker 3: is there significant Is there is there sufficient organic support
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  Speaker 3: for overthrowing the regime In the meantime, I think what
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  Speaker 3: we need to do is make sure that they never
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  Speaker 3: have the ability to get a nuclear weapon, and so
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  Speaker 3: that's unfortunately going to continue to result in military strikes
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  Speaker 3: from time to time, certainly economic sanctions. But the more
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  Speaker 3: that we can apply pressure on this regime and provide
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  Speaker 3: space for the Iranian people to be able to make
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  Speaker 3: that decision, the better off of that we're going to
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  Speaker 3: be long term. But again, if there's anything that all
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  Speaker 3: of this has proven at this stage of the game
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  Speaker 3: is that there is only one leverage point that the
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  Speaker 3: Ayatola has and that is threatening the straight or horror moves,
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  Speaker 3: and there's a number of ways that we we could
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  Speaker 3: potentially deal with that point of leverage long term, that
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  Speaker 3: could rob them of any power that they have over
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  Speaker 3: the region.
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  Speaker 1: And Jeremy Death to Israel, death to America, Iran challenge
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  Speaker 1: chanted it loudly and proudly for decades. Finally President Trump
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  Speaker 1: had heard enough. How in the world has this become
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  Speaker 1: a partisan issue in that you have an entire Democratic Party,
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  Speaker 1: many of our Jewish Democratic members in the Senate criticizing
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  Speaker 1: President Trump overtaking on Iran, and I think sort of
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  Speaker 1: sides with a Ran on certain things.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly right. I mean, it's really saddening to see
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  Speaker 2: how people who are you know, live in the same
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  Speaker 2: country as us for ports of love America, just like
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  Speaker 2: we do, but just because of politics, are willing to
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  Speaker 2: side with the regime that has been so barbaric and
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  Speaker 2: has done so many horrific acts, killed, spilled American blood.
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  Speaker 2: Let's remember this, Americans have been killed at the hands
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  Speaker 2: of this murderous regime. Of course, what we saw on
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  Speaker 2: October seventh was so evil and so brute and so Finally,
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  Speaker 2: as I said before, President Trump is putting an end
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  Speaker 2: to all of this that's been going on for decades.
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  Speaker 2: This war did not start just several months ago. This
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  Speaker 2: has actually been decades in the making. And so what
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  Speaker 2: we're doing right now is showing decisive action, actually showing
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  Speaker 2: force to put an end to it. Because what we
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  Speaker 2: saw in the Obama and Obama and the Biden years
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  Speaker 2: is just pacifying this terrorist regime does not get us anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: We have to come in with actual American strength, as
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  Speaker 2: the greatest military on earth, and show them that they
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  Speaker 2: are out of options and that it's time that we're
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  Speaker 2: opening up the strait of her moves and we're ending
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  Speaker 2: this regime that has been wreaking havoc around the world.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Nick and Jeremy.
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