11 posts from Thursday, June 11, 2026

the United States military unleashing powerful strikes overnight against the Iranian regime. President Trump exclusively telling Fox News in a phone call from the situation room that 49 Tomahawk missiles were launched at targets across Iran, one of those targets just 40 miles outside the capital of Tehran. We also know that other targets were hit along the southwestern coast of the country. The president says we hit them very hard tonight and described the strikes as violent and vicious. President Trump also giving some new insight into the behind the scenes of what was taking place during those hours. He was in the situation room with Vice President J.D. Vance and Special Envoy Kushner and Wickhoff when the phone rang. It was the Iranians, President Trump says, on the other end, calling on him to stop the bombing. He said he'll stop the bombing if they sign the agreement that is currently on the table. And again, the latest information that we have, the Iranians did respond to those U.S. strikes overnight against their country. They launched ballistic missiles and drones at Gulf countries, including Bahrain and Kuwait. And even as far as Jordan, the Jordanian army says they shot down 20 incoming ballistic missiles. Guys. So, so Trey, right now we're to believe with the time shifting that we're shaping the battle, it seems, using your term and the military term in order to hit them much harder, take down, you know, blind them and then have your way with them. So do you believe today is it will be an escalation or is when you say continuing to bomb was that yesterday? Yeah, it's a great question. When I spoke with the president, I asked him what happens if the Iranians don't sign the deal. And he said, we'll bomb the S out of them tomorrow night. So the president is leaving the military option on the table because he understands that the bombing campaign in the past 48 hours was a shaping operation. They were going after the air defense systems that remain inside of Iran and the radar sites that the Iranians try to use to identify foreign aircraft over their territory. The reality now is the United States controls the skies of Iran and the Iranians can do very little when these strikes take place. Another important note here is what we are hearing from the Iranians today. Through state media and official channels, they are saying that the Strait of Hormuz is closed. But they've said that before. And ultimately, we found out from President Trump yesterday that millions of barrels of oil were actually being taken out of the Persian Gulf as a result of a secret operation conducted by U.S. forces to support these vessels, ships that had millions of barrels of oils on board. And so again, it gives you a dichotomy of what's actually happening on the ground and what you hear from Iranian state media. But what took place overnight was significant. And I asked the president, does this mean the ceasefire is over? And he simply said that this is not really a ceasefire because it's one of the worst ceasefires in history. The Iranians have been launching strikes. They shot down using a drone, a U.S. helicopter, an Apache with two U.S. service members on board. And ultimately, that led to these new strikes by the U.S. military. Now, the president also in the room was alongside Vice President J.D. Vance. And I asked the vice president about the negotiation process. And he said, we're certainly dealing with both the very highest levels of the political leadership, but also the IRGC. The vice president and the negotiating team understands exactly who they're dealing with here. But they also understand what President Trump told me yesterday. They are now tapping the United States along. And the president is using bombs to negotiate, putting new pressure on the Iranian regime because he understands it's not only the military pressure that we saw last night, it's also the economic pressure as a result of the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports. We know that Iranian exports across the border down about 90 percent. They're extracting crude oil at a rate of 50 percent. And it is crippling the Iranian economy. They're losing hundreds of millions of dollars every week. And so the president has some strategic patience here to play with because the Iranians are under an immense amount of domestic political pressure. And last night, they saw that they can't even defend against new incoming attacks. So guys, thank you, Trey. What do you say to our viewers who love Donald Trump and they support him? They trust him. They believe he's talking to the right people and making the right moves. But they're tired of this. And they see that the midterms are around the corner. They want our economy to get back on track and our gas prices to drop. What do we need to do to get out? So a couple of things here. In terms of the gas prices, the president, by doing this secret operation, has been able to relatively stabilize the oil prices. And that's part of the reason, because this operation was ongoing that we learned about yesterday. More broadly, as it relates to Operation Epic Fury and why this began, President Trump simply told me this began to ensure that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon that threatens U.S. forces, allies, or even the United States in the future. And the reality is the Iranians showed up to the negotiating table at the beginning of this year. And rather than say they're open to making a deal with the United States and they'll never have a nuclear bomb, they told U.S. Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff they had enough highly enriched uranium at 60 percent purity to create 11 nuclear bombs. That's just one step away from weapons-grade material. And this is a regime, as we've seen in the past, that will publicly say we have friends in the Gulf. We're friends with Bahrain and Qatar and Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. And then launch missiles and drones against their civilian population. And so the president had that information along with U.S. intelligence that indicated they were very close in that breakout time toward a nuclear weapon. And so the answer to your question is this. As it relates to what is taking place in the short term, the president has indicated, when I've talked to him previously, when this is over he believes gas prices are going to drop. But primarily he wants to either ensure that Iran does not have this highly enriched material in their country through an agreement or on the battlefield. And that's really what we're looking at here. Two options according to the president. Either the Iranians are going to make a good-faith deal that opens the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping. This critical waterway that accounts for around 20 percent of the global energy supply when you're looking at crude oil and liquefied natural gas that comes from places like Qatar. And also ensure that they'll never have a path to a nuclear weapon. And that's a very difficult negotiation process that the vice president and special envoys Kushner and Wyckoff are working on with counterparts in the region, including the Qataris and those in Islamabad, Pakistan. Because there is that highly enriched uranium that was buried in the aftermath of Operation Midnight Hammer last summer at the end of the 12-day war. And when the president took those B-2 bombers over those Iranian nuclear facilities like Isfahan and Fordo, he actually buried that highly enriched uranium deep underground. And so he wants to ensure that it's either diluted and destroyed or removed from the country. And if the Iranians are unwilling to do that, then we're looking at a situation where this is likely going to go on for a matter of weeks, if not longer. Real quickly, Trey, because you have the phone call with the president as he's doing these operations, that you get the impression that negotiation now is over. That it's an ultimatum almost. Either you sign the deal with no negotiations more. I've given you as much as I can, or the war continues. Yeah, certainly there is a new equation. The president told me last night we'll bomb the S out of them tomorrow night if they don't sign the deal. Because he's done being tapped along, he told me, as it relates to this negotiation process. And the Iranians are notorious for dragging out negotiations. And that's something when you look at the region, they have a reputation for. But they're in a situation right now that they've not been in in 48 years. Because not only are they taking immense military pressure with the US military controlling the skies of their country, the US military also controls their critical ports where they make their money to support their military activities. But also when we look back just a few months, and we think about what happened during Operation Epic Fury, they've lost their ability to deter those in the region. Because their production lines were taken out in strikes that were ordered by US Central Command alongside the Israelis. They not only went after the launching positions of these drones and missiles, but they took out the production facilities that would allow them to create more.

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And overnight, the U.S. military unleashed powerful strikes against the Iranian regime. CENTCOM says Iranian military surveillance capabilities, along with air defense systems and communications sites, were hit. Speaking from the Situation Room, President Trump told Fox News 49 Tomahawk missiles hit locations as close as 40 miles from the capital of Tehran. Positions were also targeted along the southwestern part of Iran. The president described the strikes as violent and vicious. Also, President Trump says top Iranian officials called him directly, asking him to stop the bombing. Secretary of War Pete Hegcess spoke before the strikes began. Instead, they're going to have tap, tap, tap bombs dropping on key facilities in Iran from the United States of America. And that's not because we want to restart anything, we don't have to restart. It's because we are -- the War Department is prepared to set the terms to ensure that we get the kind of deal President Trump expects. In response to these strikes, the Iranians launched ballistic missiles and drones toward Gulf countries, including Kuwait and Bahrain. Also, the Jordanians say they shot down at least 20 Iranian ballistic missiles. Guys? So, Trey, you know what's interesting in the response? They don't go after Qatar, they don't go after Saudi Arabia, they don't go after the UAE. Is that intentional? Is there something to be reading to that? The reality is, the radar systems and air defense systems were taken out over the past 48 hours. And these were systems they tried to rebuild, President Trump told me, during the ceasefire. And so, the United States once again controls the skies of Iran. And so, the Iranians have very limited options in terms of actually responding to these U.S. strikes. And according to reports, no damage was caused to U.S. military facilities in response to the strikes with this Iranian ballistic missile fire. The Iranians today are once again saying the Strait of Hormuz is closed. We have heard this rhetoric before from the Iranian regime, and then President Trump announced yesterday that the United States was actually secretly moving millions of barrels of oil out of the Persian Gulf. And it gives you an indication of Iranian propaganda versus reality on the ground. And so, again, Iran has very limited leverage right now, not only at the negotiating table, but also on the battlefield. But Trey, can I just follow up what Brian was alluding to? After the first series of strikes, there were some statements from the Iranians alluding to uniting the Arab world again, the Gulf states. Is there any fracture between our coalition with the Gulf states, or this -- this is just Iranians being delusional? Yeah, the Iranians aren't quite clear with what's actually happening in the region. There is a united front against their regime right now because they're launching missiles and drones, not only toward military targets, but also civilian targets in the Gulf. An 11-year-old girl was injured in Bahrain due to this attack overnight. When we step back here, the president is now negotiating with bombs. He told me overnight that if they are unwilling to sign an agreement, we'll bomb the S out of them tonight. And so, this is really expected to be ongoing if the Iranians are unwilling to make that good-faith deal. But the sense that I got speaking with President Trump, who was inside the situation room during our call, and he was alongside Vice President J.D. Vance and Special Envoy Kushner and Wyckoff is that the United States understands who they're dealing with. Vice President Vance, who is leading the negotiations, really laid out exactly who the Iranians are, and he has a firm grasp on the games that they're trying to play at the negotiating table. And President Trump is fed up with that, and he said the Iranians have been tapping the U.S. along, and he's not going to stand for it. And that is why he launched these strikes overnight to put new pressure on the Iranian regime. And these were much more extensive than what we saw before. 49 Tomahawk missiles soaring through the sky and ultimately slamming into these targets within inches of the location they were expected to hit. The president was getting real-time updates in the situation room, ordering these strikes overnight. And again, we do expect more strikes to continue if the Iranians do not sign on the dotted line. Trey, the president mentioned yesterday that while this conflict has been ongoing, he was secretively removing oil through the Straits of Hormuz in the middle of the night until Iran found out -- now he said it was really hard for him to keep this quiet. But he wanted to tell the American people, where did that oil go? Did that help with our gas prices, help drop it a little bit? It's a great question, and that's actually part of the reason that oil prices have stabilized, because there was this secret operation going on behind the scenes. And we understand, according to President Trump, around 150 vessels with oil on board were able to make it out of the Persian Gulf. These are likely vessels coming from Gulf countries, not from Iranian territory. But it's an indication that the president found a way to actually keep escorting these vessels despite the fact, again, that the Iranians said they were in control. And that's why it's so interesting today. You have top Iranian officials releasing statements this morning saying in response to U.S. strikes, the Strait of Hormuz is closed. Well, they said that before, and the United States was moving millions of barrels of oil out of the Persian Gulf. And so, again, this is a lot of rhetoric from the Iranian regime. And while this is happening, the president is playing 40 chess against the Iranians. He's not only stabilizing the oil markets, but he's now bombing the Iranian regime again to take out their air defense systems and their radar sites. A message to those in Tehran that if you want to play this game any longer, these strikes will continue. And once again, U.S. forces control the skies of your country. And just a real quick question, Trey, are we bombing right now? No, we're not bombing right now. According to U.S. Central Command, these strikes ended overnight. They were quite extensive, not just targeting those positions outside the Iranian capital of Tehran, but along that southwestern coast next to the Persian Gulf. At this moment, there's no exchange of fire taking place. And as you could imagine, there are some regional diplomats that have reached out to us this morning to say that talks are ongoing. The reality is things are in a different place than they were 48 hours ago. The president drew a red line, the Iranians crossed it, and ultimately he is responding with force.

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