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Trey Yingst: So a couple 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 Witkoff they had enough highly enriched uranium at 60% 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% 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 Witkoff 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 Fordow, 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.
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Real quickly, Trey, because you had the phone call with the President as he's doing these operations, did 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.
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Yes, 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.
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