Tara says Trump left Iran's military intact, allowing Tehran to threaten the Strait of Hormuz.

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00:04 Donald Trump admitting this weekend what I've been telling you for long time, he didn't finish the war. He just stopped cold. Leaving between 25 and 30 % of the military targets behind. And we saw that this weekend. As Jennifer Griffith explained on Fox News, when Mary Katherine Hams seemed confused, well, wait a minute, why are these sites still here? Good question. She said, yeah, well, we didn't really finish the ones on the coast. 00:34 coast of Strait of Hormuz? Yeah. Those. You mean the ones that let them control the strait? um And we left them. Yeah. 00:52 Why do that? I don't know, but at this point, this is a strategy. This is a norm. And remember, Trump says they get to keep their missiles. It's only fair because other countries have missiles. Yeah, but the other countries aren't hitting Iran randomly with those missiles because they're mad. They're not attacking Iran. 01:18 To the extent they're using any kind of firepower, it's to shoot down Iran's missiles. As Iran terrorizes the Middle East, yet Trump says stuff like this. I mean, they have to have some because other people have some. You gotta have some. Somebody said, you shouldn't give them one. I I have guys. I like some of these guys. But I don't think they're smart. Sir, you shouldn't let them have any missile. I said, well, what am I gonna do? I'm gonna let... 01:46 Saudi Arabia have missiles but they can't have them? Yes sir. It can't just work that way, you know? It doesn't work that way. And missiles aren't the problem. Missiles, they hurt a little location but they don't blow up the planet. Oh, they'll blow up a cargo ship. They know it. That's why they're afraid to transit the strait. 02:08 Trump's admitted he didn't finish the war and he admitted it again this weekend. Saying, you know, if they don't start behaving in a true social pose, I'm gonna have to finish the war. Why didn't you finish the war? It's a central mystery. It's baffling. 02:28 There may come a point, he writes this weekend, when we are no longer able to be reasonable and will be forced to militarily complete the job. We very successfully started, so we miss he did not finish it. Which is what General Jack Keene, a close friend of Trump's, Trump gave him the Medal of Freedom and also tried to appoint him to Heges' position. Keene turned him down. His wife had just died of cancer. But the two men are still friends. Well, remember we shut down the operation after four to five weeks. We had 25 % of the targets to go. 02:58 and some of those were certainly ballistic missiles. And Keen admits this is a problem. Well, remember, we shut down the operation after four to five weeks. We had 25 % of the targets to go and some of those were certainly ballistic missiles. So our audience understands the Iranians after the 12 day war last June, they buried their ballistic missiles in tunnels deep under the ground where we can't penetrate. So what did we do? We rubbled the entrances. 03:26 so they couldn't get the missiles out. And since the two months of the ceasefire, what have they been doing? They've been going back, excavating, and we're watching all of this, and pulling those missiles and launch systems out and putting them around the country. They got somewhere in neighborhood of 2,000 ballistic missiles left. That's not insignificant. They also have all their original leadership. We were told that the layers were killed, they weren't. Their most formidable leaders 03:55 are still alive, were never taken out and are running both negotiations and the war. And we've allowed them to have radar, drone facilities, we had a drone facility this weekend, um and missiles, missile launchers, all of it. We let them have it. So whatever you think of it, this is a deliberate strategy by Trump. Trump wants Iran in control of the strait. 04:24 The question is why.

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