Watch Live: Trump speaks at White House briefing room
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[0:00] countries that are their neighbors.
[0:02] But it's a failing country. It's got
[0:05] 301% inflation.
[0:07] It's got
[0:09] problems like you don't want even think
[0:10] about. They're not paying their
[0:12] military. They're not paying their
[0:13] guard.
[0:14] Their navy is gone. Their air force is
[0:16] gone. They have 158 ships. They're
[0:18] underwater. They have
[0:20] 268 planes that were scattered all over
[0:22] the runways
[0:24] of Iran. So their military is
[0:26] essentially gone. Their manufacturing
[0:29] capability is reduced to about They can
[0:31] still make
[0:32] some limited numbers of missiles and
[0:35] drones, but it's basically about 85%
[0:38] gone.
[0:40] And they're talking to us and they're
[0:41] talking very politely.
[0:43] Then we'll see what happens, but there's
[0:45] a good chance that that could get
[0:47] uh ended. So
[0:49] at the conclusion of the military
[0:52] engagement, the American people and the
[0:55] people of the world will be far safer
[0:58] and more secure than they've been in
[0:59] many, many years because Iran was
[1:02] killing many people. You know, that war
[1:03] was started in
[1:05] 1979. We didn't start the war. They did.
[1:08] Even if you go back to the SS Cole, that
[1:10] was
[1:11] their That was their situation and
[1:14] a lot of people were killed. A lot of
[1:15] American people were killed. A lot of
[1:17] people throughout the world were killed.
[1:19] And if you go back just over the last
[1:21] seven or eight months, 75,000 at a
[1:24] minimum protesters have been killed.
[1:27] So it's a nasty place, but uh
[1:30] we think that
[1:32] it's in pretty good shape. We'll see
[1:33] what happens. I don't guarantee
[1:35] anything.
[1:36] But if we do have to go back in, we are
[1:38] locked and loaded and ready to go. With
[1:41] tha