[SIRENS] >> Harris: IMAGINE BEING ON THE GROUND IN ISRAEL AND WATCHING THAT COME FROM NEXT DOOR, THE HEZBOLLAH TERRORISTS FIRING ROCKETS INTO NORTHERN ISRAEL LAST NIGHT. YOU KNOW THAT’S ONE OF THE TERROR GROUPS THAT ARE FUNDED AND BASICALLY DIRECTED BY IRAN. THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST NOW IS ON HIGH ALERT AS THE U.S. REPORTEDLY BELIEVES IRAN WILL DIRECTLY ATTACK ISRAEL AS SOON AS TODAY.
PRESIDENT BIDEN IS EXPECTED TO GATHER HIS NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL FOR A MEETING IN THE SITUATION ROOM JUST A FEW HOURS FROM NOW. IT HAS BEEN NEARLY A WEEK SINCE A TOP HAMAS POLITICAL LEADER WAS KILLED IN IRAN AND A HEZBOLLAH COMMANDER WAS KILLED IN LEBANON. CRITICS SAY THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION GOT US HERE. >> THIS ADMINISTRATION GOT THIS THING WRONG FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. THE HOUTHIS ARE ATTACKING U.
S. SHIPS, COMMERCIAL SHIPS AND U.S. MILITARY SHIPS AND THEY FIRED A DRONE INTO ISRAEL. AND IRAN FUNDS HEZBOLLAH, THEY FUND HAMAS.
THIS COULD HAVE BEEN A COMPLETELY PREVENTABLE. THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE DISASTER BROUGHT TO YOU BY REALLY BAD DECISIONS BY THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION. >> Harris: OUR NATION IS BOOSTING MILITARY PRESENCE IN THE REGION.
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DEFENSE SECRETARY LLOYD AUSTIN ANNOUNCED THE PENTAGON WILL DEPLOY ADDITIONAL FIGHTER JETS AND NAVY WARSHIPS INCLUDING CRUISERS AND DESTROYERS, WHICH CAN SHOOT DOWN BALLISTIC MISSILES. TREY YENGST IN HAIFA, ISRAEL, WITH MORE NOW. HOW THAT NATION WHERE YOU ARE IS PREPARING FOR WHAT WE KNOW OR HIGHLY SUSPECT WILL BE AN IMMINENT ATTACK. TREY. >> GOOD MORNING.
ISRAEL IS ON EDGE TODAY AS THE COUNTRY BRACES FOR AN ATTACK FROM IRAN AND ITS PROXIES. THE “WALL STREET JOURNAL” REPORTS THAT IRAN TOLD U.S. AND ARAB DIPLOMATS IT DIDN’T CARE IF A COUNTER ATTACK CAUSED A WAR IN THE REGION. WE DO KNOW JUST YESTERDAY JORDAN’S FOREIGN MINISTER TRAVELED TO IRAN FOR A MEETING.
PRESIDENT BIDEN SCHEDULED TO SPEAK WITH JORDANIAN KING TODAY. BUT THERE IS VERY LITTLE PUBLIC IRANIAN INTERACTION WITH THOSE TRYING TO AVERT A CRISIS.
ISRAEL IS TAKING STEPS TO PREPARE FOR A PROLONGED CONFLICT AS REPORTS SAY THE INITIAL IRANIAN TO COME IN WAVES AND MISSILE AND DRONE ATTACKS. THEIR TOP GENERAL SAYING THIS TODAY. >> WHEN IT RECEIVES A FIRM RESPONSE IT WILL REALIZE IT HAS BEEN WRONG.
THEY KEEP MAKING MISCALCULATIONS. THEY’LL GET A TASTE OF OUR PUNISHMENT AND FIND OUT WHEN, WHERE AND HOW WE WILL RETALIATE. IT IS AMBIGUOUS AND INDETERMINATE. >> PREPARING FOR POWER CUTS AND EVACUATIONS. J JERUSALEM — PREPARATION FOR WAR IN THE NORTH AND WITH IRAN COMES AS FIGHTING RAGES ON INSIDE THE GAZA STRIP.
ISRAELI NEGOTIATORS TRAVELED TO CAIRO, EGYPT THIS WEEKEND FOR TALKS ABOUT A POSSIBLE CEASE-FIRE BUT MADE NO PROGRESS.
ISRAEL RAMPED UP STRIKES AGAINST GAZA GOING AFTER HAMAS BUT KILLING CIVILIANS IN THE PROCESS. THE TOP CENTCOM GENERAL IS MEETING WITH ISRAEL’S DEFENSE MINISTER. THE CORE — >> Harris: WE APPRECIATE THAT, TREY. ROBERT GREEN WAY, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE AT HERITAGE FOUNDATION AND FORMER DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE AGENCY INTEL OFFICER, FORMER GREEN BERET.
SO WE WANT TO TAP INTO FIRST OF ALL OBVIOUSLY THE GLOBAL POLITICS IN ALL OF THIS. I WANT TAKE LEAN ON YOUR MILITARY ACUMEN AS WELL. LET’S START WHERE WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE PART THE U.S. MUST PLAY RIGHT NOW.
>> THANKS FOR HAVING ME ON. THE PREVIOUS COMMENTS ABOUT A SERIES OF DISASTROUS POLICY CHOICES THAT HAVE DISMANTLED OUR DETERRENTS GOT US TO THIS POINT. A SERIES OF DECISIONS GOT US TO THIS POINT WHERE IRAN JUDGES THERE IS NO OPPOSITION TO THEIR EXERCISE OF POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
IT CAN’T BE DIVORCED FROM THE ECONOMIC SITUATION. THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF DESTRUCTION OF THE RED SEA AND FORECASTING DESTRUCTION TO GLOBAL ENERGY MARKETS ARE CONTRIBUTING TO WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE MARKETS.
IT IS LIKELY TO GET WORSE. WE COULD SEE A SERIES OF ACTIONS TAKEN BY IRAN FOR WHICH LITTLE TIME AND PREPARATION CAN OCCUR. AND FROM WHICH WILL OCCUR FROM A VARIETY OF AXIS ALL AROUND THE COMPASS POINTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND ADD WE CAN’T EXCLUDE ATTACKS IN EUROPE, ASIA AND UNITED STATES FROM IRANIAN OPERATIVES AND SURROGATES AND PROXIES. >> Harris: I WANT TO ASK ABOUT THE SERIES OF ACTIONS BY IRAN BECAUSE WHEN YOU SAY THAT, IT MAKES ME UNDERSTAND BETTER WHAT YOU JUST DESCRIBED AND THAT IS THEY KNOW WE’RE HURTING ECONOMICALLY TODAY. THEY ARE WATCHING THE MARKETS.
THEY SEE THIS AND YOU SAY IT IS TIED TO THE ENERGY AND WHETHER OR NOT WE CAN GET TO THOSE THINGS THAT FEED OUR ENERGY NEEDS HERE. SHIPPING LANES AND WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN DOING AND CHINA WITH SHIPPING LANES THERE.
THAT MATTERS NOW. >> THERE IS NO QUESTION THE DESCRIPTION OF THE RED SEA BY THE HOUTHIS CONTRIBUTES TO THE INFLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. THAT’S THE FORECASE OF WHAT COULD OCCUR.
GLOBAL ENERGY MARKETS ARE — AND THE PETROLEUM RESERVE IN THE UNITED STATES HAS DIMINISHED. PAIN COULD BE SEVERE AND ACUTE. IT COULD ACCELERATE THE TRAJECTORY TOWARD RECESSION. >> Harris: HOW DO YOU THINK ISRAEL THINKS ABOUT THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION? >> DISAPPOINTMENT WOULD BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT AND DISGUST IN MANY QUARTERS.
INSTEAD OF SUPPORTING ISRAEL AND TRYING TO DEFEND THEMSELVES IN THE REGION WE’VE CONSTRAINED THEM AND ALLOWED THEIR LARGEST OPPONENTS TO ATTACK THEM AND THE UNITED STATES LARGELY AT WILL.
SO IRAN NOW IS SHORING UP ITS GAINS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THIS IS THE RESULT OF A POLICY OF INTEGRATING AND APPEASING IRAN INTO THE REGION WHICH THE CURRENT U.S. ADMINISTRATION HAS MADE THEIR POLICY IMPERATIVE. NO WONDER WHY ISRAEL IS SORELY DISAPPOINTED IN THE ADMINISTRATION’S POLICIES THAT GOT US TO THIS POINT.
>> Harris: I WILL ASK FOR GRACE FOR MY TEAM. I HAVE TO GET TO THE MILITARY NOW. QUICKLY, WHAT SHOULD WE BE DOING MILITARILY AT THIS POINT? ARE WE DOING ALL THAT WE CAN? >> NO, I DON’T THINK WE ARE.
THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FORCES IS HELPFUL. WE NEED TO ACCELERATE TO PROVISION TO CAPABILITIES AND WE NEED TO LOOK TO OUR DEFENSES INSIDE THE UNITED STATES RECOGNIZING IRAN HAS CAPABILITIES ACROSS THE WORLD AN IN THE UNITED STATES BECAUSE OF OUR OPEN BORDERS. THIS HAS TO BE DONE IMMEDIATELY. >> Harris: I DON’T THINK WE CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT THE NUMBER OF TERRORISTS OR PEOPLE ON THE TERRORIST SUSPECTED LIST THAT HAVE CROSSED UNDER THIS ADMINISTRATION. I JUST DON’T THINK YOU CAN HAVE THIS CONVERSATION.
SO I’M GLAD YOU BROUGHT UP BORDER. IT FACTORS IN MIGHTILY.
