BREAKING: U.S. Strikes Iranian Facilities After Attempted Attack On Navy

0:00 Hey everybody, Tim Miller from The Bull Work here.

0:01 We got some breaking news.

0:03 Uh the war is back on.

0:04 Well, for those of us, you know, who can observe reality and for whom

0:10 words have meaning and actions have meaning, uh the war is very clearly back on.

0:15 Uh seeing as we are firing at Iranian ships

0:19 and assets and Iran was firing at our ships, uh to me that is a war.

0:24 uh by any definition uh the administration uh

0:27 is desperate to described as anything other than that.

0:30 Um but uh we have kinetic action, whatever you want to call it,

0:36 um this evening uh over in the straight of Hormuz.

0:39 I want to just kind of give you a little

0:40 timeline of what happened uh and run it down here.

0:44 Um we're taping this at about 8:00 Eastern time.

0:48 Uh, so you know, if there are ongoing developments,

0:50 uh, we'll obviously be monitoring them along with you.

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1:02 Jen Griffin, the last real reporter at Fox News,

1:06 uh, posted this a little bit ago.

1:08 New US military just carried out strikes on Iran's Kasham port and Bondar Abbas.

1:16 uh senior US officials tell her um they also

1:19 told her this is not the restarting of the war.

1:21 One thing that these guys are very good about messaging

1:25 wise is telling people that they're not in the war.

1:29 They've not been very good about explaining their objectives.

1:32 They haven't been very good about explaining their strategies.

1:34 They haven't been very good about, you know,

1:37 using uh traditionally grammatically correct sentences,

1:42 you know, subjectverb predicate.

1:43 They're not very good at any of that.

1:45 that they are they're all singing from the same hymbook.

1:49 This is not a war.

1:50 We're still ceasefiring.

1:51 We're firing but also ceasefiring.

1:53 Um you'll see that as we move on.

1:55 So So that was Jen Griffin had that first.

1:58 Still Stewart over at Reuters.

1:59 I've shouted out before guy that is important to follow closely on this.

2:03 He has this statement from uh the military.

2:07 US Central Command Sentcom uh says

2:09 that they've eliminated inbound threats and targeted Iranian

2:13 military facilities responsible for attacking US forces

2:17 uh including missile and drone launch sites, command and control locations

2:20 and intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance nodes.

2:24 That sure sounds like a word to me.

2:26 Um the military added that Iran had launched multiple missiles

2:30 drones and small boats at these three US Navy destroyers.

2:34 uh the Truckton, the Peralta, and the Mason.

2:36 Uh they were tra uh transiting the Straight of Hormuz as part of the on again

2:42 off offagain project freedom uh getting boats out of the straight of Hormuz.

2:46 Uh so these destroyers were fired at uh for being in the straight

2:51 or on obviously trying to demonstrate they still have control of the strait.

2:56 Um those destroyers were were transiting from the straight of Hormuz

2:59 or through the straight of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman

3:02 uh when they were attacked uh and then uh we uh

3:06 fired back at the Iranian assets that were attacking our destroyers.

3:10 It's just kind of a silly aside.

3:12 I like my one of my criticisms of the West Wing back in the day was like

3:17 in order to make the show work when

3:19 there were like big announcements like this, like we

3:20 had a war and here's what happened

3:21 in the war um like the president Bartlett or CJ

3:25 Craig would like lay out exactly what happened um

3:28 in detail so the viewers would know what happened.

3:31 But like in a in the real world like people like know what

3:34 happens from the news and so that's like not how the announcements worked.

3:38 Um, but uh, you know, now reality has imitated art because Donald Trump likes

3:43 to not only be the president of the United States,

3:46 but kind of like the nation's news anchor.

3:48 Um, like the dumbest, you know, kind of like a homeless man's Tony Dopal.

3:53 Anyway, um, he uh, gave us the details of what happened in these attacks.

3:58 Obviously, take this with a grain of salt.

3:59 This is coming from Trump, as you'll see here.

4:02 He uses some he takes some rhetorical license I think uh with what happened.

4:08 But uh here's the story of what happened to the destroyers

4:11 as told by our president on his social media feed.

4:14 Three worldclass American destroyers just transited very successfully

4:18 out of the straight of Hormuz under fire.

4:21 There was no damage done to the three

4:22 destroyers but great damage done to the Iranian attackers.

4:25 They were completely destroyed along with numerous small boats which are

4:29 being used to take the place of their fully decapitated navy.

4:32 These boats went out to the bottom of the sea quickly and efficiently.

4:36 Uh he goes on, "Missiles were shot

4:38 at our destroyers and were easily knocked down.

4:41 Likewise, drones came and were incinerated while in the air.

4:45 They dropped ever so beautifully down to the ocean very much like a butterfly

4:50 dropping to its grave." But that's official

4:54 statement from the president of the United States.

4:56 A normal country here.

4:57 He's he's you might think that the next sentence

5:00 that when he starts it with a normal country,

5:02 he he's kind of like contrasting what a normal country would

5:06 do versus what he was doing right here in this statement,

5:09 but that's that's not it.

5:10 He he sees himself as normal for some reason.

5:12 Uh he's critiquing Iran here.

5:14 So this is Trump continuing on.

5:16 A normal country would have allowed these destroyers to pass,

5:19 but Iran is not a normal country.

5:21 They are led by lunatics, all caps,

5:25 and if they had the chance to use a nuclear weapon,

5:27 they would do it without question.

5:28 But they'll never have that opportunity.

5:30 And just like we knocked them out again today,

5:31 will knock them out a lot harder and a lot more

5:34 violently in the future if they don't get their deal signed fast.

5:40 So there's Trump.

5:42 A lot to unpack there.

5:43 Um, you know, again,

5:46 he's trying to kind of walk this line about how this isn't really a war.

5:48 This was just another little skirmish.

5:50 Um he I guess you know he's very much the you know the everyone is 12 meme.

5:56 The president is 12.

5:58 He's very focused on the things going boom describing the things that go boom.

6:03 Um you know kind of like a deranged 12year-old.

6:08 You know he enjoys killing butterflies and insects and watching them die.

6:14 Uh so he's describing that vision.

6:16 You know something that brings him joy.

6:19 Um, and uh, I think and then he he

6:23 reverts to kind of this attack language on Iran.

6:25 You you might remember it wasn't too long ago that he's talking

6:27 about how the new leaders of Iran are actually pretty sensible guys.

6:32 You know, they're normal chaps.

6:34 We're dealing with them.

6:34 They're not crazy like the other guys that we killed.

6:37 You know, we can work with these guys.

6:38 They're smart.

6:38 And if they're smart, they'll do a deal with me.

6:40 Um, and they are smart.

6:41 So, they will do a deal with me and we'll get a deal in one to two weeks.

6:44 So, Trump's been saying for 9 10 weeks now.

6:46 And um and now you see a little

6:49 rhetorical pivot here to um they're not smart guys.

6:52 They're not good guys, better guys leading Iran.

6:54 Now they're lunatics.

6:56 Lunatics.

6:56 All caps.

6:58 And they might nuke us even.

7:01 So uh you know, if you took the president seriously,

7:05 that'd be pretty concerning.

7:06 But um since we don't, it just seems like, you know,

7:10 he's trying to do this thing where he he's trying

7:12 to be both good cop and bad cop in one person.

7:16 You know, I'm going to be nice to him,

7:17 then I'm going to try to rough him up, then I'm going to be nice to him.

7:19 Hasn't been working so far.

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8:42 Then we're back now after a period of time where

8:44 like a deal like Brett Bearer had the exclusive last night.

8:47 Let's just get this clear.

8:48 last night before the war started.

8:51 You got to trust him.

8:52 He's the straight news man at Fox News.

8:54 Brett Bayer had the exclusive.

8:56 He spoke to the president.

8:58 Uh the president's been talking to his Iranian counterparties.

9:01 And man, this deal is coming any minute now.

9:04 Uh I believe Brett said that uh he was

9:07 told that it was going to happen within the week.

9:09 We're going to have a deal.

9:11 Move in the right direction.

9:12 I had a phone call with the president uh a short time ago and he

9:16 is optimistic about this u this deal

9:20 this memorandum of understanding thinks it is

9:22 going to lead to things he's cautiously optimistic I should say um but thinks

9:27 and I asked him what the time frame would be he puts it at a week

9:31 um getting everything wrapped up

9:34 24 hours after that report by Brett Bayer uh we have destroyers

9:37 getting fired at in the straight of Hormuz we're sinking their ships.

9:43 Um, there's also some ancillary fire in the UAE.

9:46 Like, doesn't seem like it.

9:50 Doesn't seem like we're a week away.

9:52 You just keep trusting those reports from Brett Bear.

9:54 Um, so we've now gone away from that.

9:58 You know, again, last night Trump was talking to Brett Bearer about

10:01 how close we are on we're on the on the 10 yard line.

10:04 It's going to happen.

10:06 Now, it seems less a little less so.

10:08 They're lunatics.

10:10 We're going to have to knock them out again.

10:11 Now, we're not doing civilizational threats anymore, but very serious threats.

10:15 We're going to lock them knock them out a lot harder

10:18 and a lot more violently if they don't get the deal signed fast.

10:23 And um you I just want to throw this up here.

10:26 This was the best tweet of the week for me.

10:27 For any wrestling fans, you'll enjoy this.

10:30 Uh this really tickled me.

10:31 I got a big big kick out of this.

10:34 Uh this is a meme account on on social media.

10:36 Not Jerome Pal posted this.

10:38 Uh, here's a picture of Trump threatening Iran for weeks.

10:43 Is that Triple H or is that I don't know some Chris Jericho?

10:46 I think that's Triple H.

10:47 Running back and forth.

10:48 I'm going to jump on you.

10:50 I'm going to jump on you.

10:51 I'm going to give you the death drop.

10:54 You know, you're going to get pinned any minute now.

10:57 What the What?

10:59 Why is Michael just lying there?

11:01 WELL, WHY SLOW DOWN AND STOP?

11:04 WHAT IS IT?

11:05 IT'S A MOCKERY.

11:06 Since this threat, uh, Trump has done a phone call now with ABC News.

11:11 He tells them it was just a love tap that the ceasefire is still on.

11:18 So, simultaneously, we easily knocked down all of their things.

11:24 They dropped like a butterfly, dropping to its grave.

11:27 We completely destroyed their small boats.

11:30 They had a decapitated navy.

11:32 Like, that's happening.

11:32 And also, it's just little left tap.

11:34 Nothing nothing to see here, guys.

11:35 Nothing to see here.

11:36 Don't tell me it's war cuz then I might have to go

11:38 to Congress or then I might have to deal with the fact

11:39 that I've created a total disaster that I thought was only

11:41 going to be two weeks and turned out to be 10 weeks.

11:43 It's really still a ceasefire,

11:44 but we're also just kind of doing some little bombing here and there.

11:47 Just a little love bomb.

11:49 I like getting love bombed.

11:51 Um the Iranians have a little bit of a different take.

11:55 This is via Jeremy Scill.

11:56 This is a statement from the spokesperson of Iran's armed forces.

12:01 Um he said that the US has violated the ceasefire.

12:05 Uh lengthy statement uh a key part here at the end.

12:09 The criminal and aggressive America and its supporting

12:12 countries must know that the Islamic Republic of Iran

12:16 as in the past powerfully and without the slightest

12:19 doubt will respond decisively to any aggression and division.

12:24 So seems like they think they're in a war.

12:27 We'll see how this stuff all shakes out.

12:29 And I think this is there've been a little you

12:32 know there's been some action kinetic action since the ceasefire started.

12:35 This is you know the most significant uh that we've seen.

12:38 I I do think as I led um I think that all of us here who

12:44 are you know on Earth one living in reality can just call this what it is.

12:47 We are we are in a war.

12:48 The war is still on.

12:50 Um, the president might not want to be conducting the war

12:53 in the most aggressive way possible because you know he's

12:55 because he knows he's gotten himself into a total quagmire

12:58 and he doesn't really want to escalate cuz I mean he's weak.

13:04 Like again like if this was Jimmy Carter

13:05 or Joe Biden we'd know what to say about this.

13:08 The president is weak.

13:08 That's what the Republicans would be saying about them.

13:11 president is too weak to back up his talk and he's too weak to do

13:16 what is necessary to open the straits

13:18 so that people aren't suffering with higher prices.

13:22 So because he's too weak to do anything um

13:26 and because the Iranians aren't giving him what he wants,

13:29 he's just going to do these random little bombings and then

13:31 pretend like we're not in a war when we are.

13:33 So it's a state of play.

13:35 Final takeaway.

13:36 I don't know if Malcolm Nance originated this line,

13:38 but he's where I saw it, so I'll give him credit.

13:41 Um, I think that the net net of the news tonight.

13:45 Um, and what's particularly relevant for viewers in America,

13:49 but across the world who are suffering from higher gas prices

13:52 and higher prices on other uh related items, is this nacho.

13:57 Not a taco, it's a nacho.

13:59 Not a chance opens.

14:00 And that's kind of where we're at right now.

14:02 So, uh, we'll leave it there.

14:04 Um, uh, like I said, we'll continue to keep our eye on this.

14:07 Um, I'll be back and on the pod tomorrow,

14:10 of course, and discuss any additional developments.

14:14 And, um, enjoy your evening.

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14:19 We'll see you soon.