Trump's Iran strategy questioned as Tara argues ceasefire left key military targets and threats intact.

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00:00 Good morning, Lee. Hey there, Tara. So if, JJ, if you could go in and they left us a mess again every weekend, they do this. I'm sorry, could you fix the stream? That would be awesome. um Good morning. Let's start again. All right. So it I guess it'll be the same way every weekend now. um Trump has told us that it's OK for Iran has missiles and he's fine with it. He's good. Something even Obama. 00:29 wouldn't dare say, that they should have missiles if everybody else has missiles and so they can keep them. And we know where they are, we know where the radar is, we know where the targeting facilities are, we know all of it and we let them have them. And that is how they are able to menace the strait. And I keep saying this and I've said this from the beginning, we bizarrely froze a very successful military operation with 30 % of the targets left. 00:59 Trump admitted, and I've played to the audio, exhaustively, yes, we have 30 % of the targets left. um And we let them have them. Trump almost seemed to change sides as soon as JD Vance and Tucker Carlson got involved. And, because Vance and Carlson are very close, they love Iran, hate Muslims, or hate Christians, hate Jews, love Muslims. That's where we are, at least as far as Tucker goes. I mean, if you watch the stuff he's putting out now, it's... 01:27 It's radical. mean, it is. Christians treated Muslims very badly in Europe. You mean when they were invading? Yeah. No, they killed us. That's what they were doing in Europe. They came here and killed our ancestors. No, no, no, no. They were great. They let us keep our churches. I mean, this is the level of the stuff Tucker Carlson is doing. His son is on JD Vance's staff. He's actually very important staff member. I mean, this is where we're coming from. And when JD Vance got involved, it got weird. Really. 01:57 Really, really weird. And we left about 30 % of the targets. The targets are in the coastal areas. And we know where they are. And you see that every weekend. Now, we know where they are. We have the munitions to hit them. But we don't. We don't hit them. We let Iran use them to menace the straits. So if you're looking at the facts on the ground in Iran, 02:26 You can only come away with one conclusion. For whatever reason, and we don't know what the reason is for Trump, he wants Iran in charge of the strait, and he wants them to have the missiles, the radar, the targeting, the military installations, the launchers, all of it, to menace the strait. Why that is, is something he has not explained to us. But you cannot look at the facts on the ground and see it any. 02:55 other way. We're not, you know, caught in a and we keep repeating this and I said, we're stuck in a morass. We're saying, no, no, this is self created. And Trump admitted it this weekendly. That was what was so shocking. In a post that he put up, and he said, again, we didn't finish. 03:18 There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable and we will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started. So he's admitting he didn't finish it. 03:30 Okay? 03:32 That's a choice. That's why they're in charge of the straight. You let him have what they need to be in charge of the straight. That's a choice. I don't know why he made it, but he did. And it's one of the strangest things I've ever seen. But I wanted to play this. Finally on Fox News, somebody asked the most obvious question. The one that fills me with awe every weekend when Iran embarrasses Trump and we go take out facilities. 04:01 that we let them have for no reason, a no clear reason of any kind. Mary Katherine Ham should get an award for journalism. And she's asking Jennifer Griffin a question. You could tell how uncomfortable Jennifer Griffin is that somebody said a true thing about this. um Mary Katherine Ham's sitting there, Jennifer Griffin's doing reporting for Moran, or on Oran or whatever. And she's po ...

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