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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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