Tara questions Trump's decision to leave Iran's Strait assets intact.

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00:03 Yet another weekend where when Iran opens fire on something, we discover that we can take out their military facilities after all, hitting military surveillance sites, radar systems, communication systems, drone storage facilities, and mine laying capabilities. It's according to US Central Command. 00:32 Also, ballistic missile sites. 00:37 So, every Monday I pretty much start my show this way. Why did they have those? Why didn't we take them out? 00:47 And these particular sites along the Strait of Hormuz, because that's where they are, are what gives Iran the power to menace the Strait. And yet, we leave them there. We let them have them. Trump's gone from we had to take out the missiles because they were a shield for the nukes to, well, it's okay if Iran has missiles. The problem is we didn't finish the war. 01:17 We just bizarrely stopped in the middle. And by the way, in the middle of winning bigly, pulled a 180 and quit. But we quit leaving behind facilities along the street that allow Iran to menace those ships. In other words, as I've been saying for a long time, 01:42 Iran isn't shutting down the street because we can't defeat them or we're in a quagmire or some other kind of problem. We're stuck. Iran shuts down the street because Trump lets them on purpose. And what was so wild is he admitted that this weekend. Again, there may come a point he... 02:07 rights on true social when we are no longer able to be reasonable and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started. So he admits here, yeah, I didn't finish the job. 02:20 Again, we knew where the sites were, I told you that last week. We could hit them anytime we want. And the fact that we did this week proves number one, we had Let Iran have them. We had Let Iran control the Strait and three, we got the munitions to take them out because we did it. So why did he let Iran control the Strait? Why did he let Iran have all of those facilities? I don't know. 02:50 But it boggles my mind that more people aren't asking this question. Why does Trump want Iran to control the strait? Because clearly he does. Until finally, this weekend, somebody asked the question. It happened on Fox News. Mary Katherine Hamm, and she was on one of those shows. She's a commentator. She's sitting there. Jennifer Griffin is reporting. 03:18 listing all of the sites we took out along the strait, the ones that allow Aranda to control it via actual, like via the drones, these drones facilities, or the implied threat of a ballistic missile hitting a cargo ship, which would be huge. And Mary Catherine Hamms is confused as I am. We hit them, we took them out, they've been here the whole time. obviously know they're there. Why are they there? It's baffling. Listen to her confusion. 03:47 Listen to Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin get a little awkward. Well, uh Jennifer, sounds like this Mary Catherine sounds like a lot of these are coastal targets and specifically offensive targets. Why are they still there? Were they targeted during the first round of these things that they were able to build back up during ceasefires? It's an excellent question, Mary Catherine. What we do know is that the US military had a target list of very vast. 04:15 target list and that when the ceasefire back in early April was called, it was called somewhat suddenly. And at that time they did have plans to carry out the continued targeting of these sites, particularly along the Strait of Hormuz and those coastal areas. They had worked, I think, for the days and weeks prior to that, they had targeted a lot of inland sites. These are, it is surprising because we've heard that there were explosions tonight. 04:44 on Ketchum Island, which was hit last night as well. 04:50 We didn't take him out. We let Iran have the power over the strait. And it drives me nuts when people say it's a quagmire, Trump didn't anticipate, straight to hormones. Oh no, he ...

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