President Trump: As you know, the department that Markwayne takes over today is currently shut down by radical-left democrat thugs in congress, who have blocked all funding for DHS because they are trying to shield illegal alien criminals, gang members; they want to protect them from being taken out of the country. Drug dealers, murderers; they're protecting them all.
President Trump: The democrats in congress do not care how much American blood they shed in their demented pursuit of open borders. From Sheridan Gorman to Jocelyn Nungary , Laken Riley; their quest to flood our country with illegal aliens has left countless American victims in it's wake.
President Trump: You know, if you read the papers, you'd think we're tied. You'd think we're in a tough battle. We are roaming free over Tehran. The city, Tehran, as opposed to Iran. We're roaming free, we can do whatever we want. And as you know, today we were going to have the privilege of shooting down a very big electricity generation plant, one of the biggest in the world, and one shot to the right location ends the plant. It collapses. And we held off based on the fact that we're negotiating.
Reporter: What was the turning point to make you want to pursue a ceasefire? A few days ago you said you wanted to continue bombing Iran, now you want to pursue peace talks. Was there something that-
President Trump: The fact that they're talking to us, and they're talking sense. Remember, it all starts with, they can't have a nuclear weapon…they've agreed they will never have a nuclear weapon. They've agreed to that.
President Trump: Think of it, they shot a hundred missiles at one of our aircraft carriers, the Abraham Lincoln, one of the biggest ships in the world, actually, and out of a hundred and one missiles shot, every single one of them was knocked down in the sea. Think of that. Think of what that means. A hundred and one missiles, highly sophisticated, very fast missiles, shot, out of a hundred and one, all one hundred and one were shot down, and now, for the most part, lie at the bottom of the sea.
President Trump: I don't trust anyone. Do you think I trust them [those in Iran]? I don't trust them…They're gonna make a deal. They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually. They gave us a present, and the present arrived today. It was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money. And I'm not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize, and they gave it to us, and they said they were going to give it, so that meant one thing to me, we're dealing with the right people.
Reporter: Nuclear related?
President Trump: No, it wasn't nuclear related, it was oil and gas related. And it was a very nice thing they did, but what it showed me is that we're dealing with the right people.
President Trump: You know, I don't like to say this; we've won this. This war has been won. The only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news. I mean, the New York Times; you read the New York Times, we're not winning a war where they have no navy, and they have no air force, and they have no nothing, and we literally have planes flying over Tehran, and other parts of their country; they can't do a thing about it.
Secretary Hegseth: Never in history has a modern military; Iran had a modern military. A modern navy, a modern air force, modern air defenses, leadership, massive bunkers; never has a modern military been so rapidly and historically obliterated. Defeated. From day one, with overwhelming firepower. The air campaign that we've conducted, that Israel's conducted alongside us, was one for the history books. Truly. And it's because we have a president of the United States, that when he sends his warfighters out to fight, he unties their hands, to actually go out and close with and destroy the enemy as viciously as possible from moment one.