March 9, 2026
NEW: “They Were Going to Take Over the Middle East” President Trump’s 1st Live Iran Presser
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RSS Feed President Trump gave his first live update on the war with Iran and the took questions from reporters. Trump made several headlines, first by announcing the war would be over very soon and second by acknowledging he was disappointed in Iran’s choice for its new supreme leader. Trump also addressed the tomahawk missile that hit an all girls school and said Iran was just weeks away from making a nuclear weapon and taking over the Middle East.
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Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Monday, March ninth, and we just listened to President Trump give his first Q and a press conference since the start of the war. We want to hop on here on this episode of Amy and TJ to let you know what came out of that. I guess some newsworthy stuff in there, some stuff I would love to see the evidence of in there, but as good as him take questions, rogues, and I guess, top of everybody's mind, when is this thing going to be over? There's been different messaging out there. He was asked directly about possibly being over this week.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and he refuted that sentiment like, absolutely not. It will not be over this week. But he did say it was going to be over soon, and we keep hearing that soon. And he did say that we are ahead of schedule, that things have gone better, not maybe better than expected, but quicker than expected.
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Speaker 1: And part of the problem the presidents come out here now ropes have been so many people speaking on behalf of the administration, and even the President has been doing different interviews with so many different reporters that the messaging is all over the place, and the messaging, once again, it seems to be moving around.
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Speaker 3: Why did we do this, why did we have to do this? And why do we have to do this?
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Speaker 1: Now we got some new quotes from him, some new timelines, and apparently we all would have been blown to smitherings by now.
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Speaker 4: Okay, I want to know what you think.
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Speaker 2: Do we looked at each other because we were listening, but think our jaws were collectively dropped. And if any of you were listening, if you haven't, you should go back and listen to this part because the President was suggesting, as best I could tell that if we had not done the Operation Midnight Hammer, that within two to four weeks, Iran would have had nuclear weapons, and he was saying that this press conference may not have been able to happen at all, and the implication is.
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Speaker 4: Because we would have all been blown to bits. Yeah, that was a little shocking.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I don't know what to make I mean, he has said this. I mean he has said this more than once though Robes he said this not too terribly long ago, that we had to we looked at each other at that point because he was talking about the reason he had to go to war now is because they were going to attack. He repeated that sentiment here, but he added more to it in this press conference robes. They weren't just going to attack, He said, they were looking at taking over their own, their neighborhood.
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Speaker 2: He said, I counted at least four times, but I started counting later. That Iran was absolutely going to take over the Middle East.
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Speaker 3: It's a direct quote, that is verbatim, and he.
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Speaker 4: Said it multiple times.
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Speaker 2: He said that their missiles were pointed directly at their neighbors. He actually mentioned UAE. I don't think you mentioned another specific country, but he said that they saw that the missiles were pointed at their neighbors. They were going to take over the Middle East.
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Speaker 4: But again he was and he said he was implying no.
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Speaker 2: He directly said that if we had not acted as we did this summer and certainly just recently when we went in with Israel, that Iran not only would have been able to have nuclear weapons, but they would have used them.
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Speaker 1: That's what he said, and he kind of added the part at the end with almost a little smirk. I don't even know if we'd be here, I don't even know if we'd be having this press conference. It was interesting. He'll get follow ups on that. Let's go through the list. Here. Two big things we want to get to the new Supreme leader and information about the girls school. Now, let's start with the girls school. This happened on was it day one to day two? Although the war started, a missile hit a girls school, it ends up killing The last count was at least one hundred and fifty plus dead at that school. Now, news organizations and other analysis has been going on taking a look at this, and the evidence is piling up that it was a US missile that hit that school. So Roe was the president. We knew he was going to be asked about it today. He had already had previously just kind of said, I believe it was Iran. He said that on Air Force one. Correct, he got asked about it twice, and I think it was the second guy who kind of held his feet to the fire a little more. But when he was answering it initially, he he said it might have been a Tomahawk, but we're not the only ones who have American Tomahawk missiles.
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Speaker 4: Correct, he said, several countries have them.
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Speaker 2: But then he did specifically say that Iran also has Tomahawk missiles and it was very possibly Iran, as well, so when the follow up question came a few questions later, the reporter, it was a male reporter, he actually went pretty strong and said, why is it that everyone else is saying something different than you. No one else is saying that those were potentially or that was potentially an Iranian missile. Even your own defense secretary has said we are investigating.
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Speaker 4: Why are you the only one saying this?
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Speaker 2: It was it was one of the only questions that actually held the President's feet to the fire, and he backed off, and he backed I was so surprised. I thought Trump was going to be angry. I thought he was going to fire back, and he actually said, you know what, it could have been iron Yes, it could have been one of their missiles.
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Speaker 4: And he said, but I.
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Speaker 2: Will let the investigation take place, and whatever I will stand by, or I will deal with whatever that investigation shows to be true, or we'll live with That's what he said, I'll live with whatever the investigation show.
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Speaker 4: So he did back away from that a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: He also gave us some more quotes about why we had to attack wherebes it's this idea we had to do this or they were going to strike. But he gave us another good belief quote. If you remember that, what was the original?
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Speaker 2: The origin was, oh right, So it was he had a feeling based on feeling, and then Carolyn Levitt had to follow up saying he had a feeling based on facts. We've been saying this back and forth to one another over the weekend, just you know, for the fun of it, because it's a it is it's an interesting way to put something. But so, yes, it's all about the president's feeling. He had a feeling, he had a belief. This is where he's saying today, I have a belief. So he's gone up from a feeling to a belief.
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Speaker 1: But he went double belief in his quote here and he said this. He said, I believe upon information and belief that it was going to take over the Middle East. They were looking to take over the Middle East. I believe upon information and belief.
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Speaker 2: You and I looked at each other when he said that, So is belief. Does that make you feel a little bit better than a feeling.
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Speaker 1: I believe upon information and belief it was going to take over the At least he's a wordsmith. Look, this is this is only that only jumped out it never would have. It was only because the feelings and facts.
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Speaker 2: Then, yes, then he had a feeling based on facts, and that's why he made the decision, because he had a feeling that Iran was going to attack. Now he has a belief upon information and belief that Iran was going to take over the Middle.
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Speaker 4: East, and that's why he no.
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Speaker 2: It is it is amazing how each time we get a slightly different or a very different response as to the why and how he came up with this plan and why.
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Speaker 4: Now that's been the interesting thing.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he did talk about Steve Wycoff, He did talk about Jared Kushner saying that Iran He did reiterate this today in the presser that Iran absolutely refused to stop seeking a nuclear weapon period. And once he realized so, he said, once I heard from Steve, once I heard from Jared, I knew that this was we were going to have to do things the hard way.
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Speaker 1: Well, of course, in the Brest conference today, we expected Robes, We anticipated the first question. It was going to be his feeling about the new Supreme Leader, who of course is the son of the old Supreme Leader. Some stuff has been trickling out in some of the interviews he's been doing, but it was not really clear what his feeling was. It was the first question from the first reporter. He ends up skipping over it. I don't know if you just forgot to get to that part of it or not. But he didn't answer it. But somebody asked them the question later, and I guess we have clarity now about how he feels about the guy.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 2: I was a little surprised by his answer because he was very he was very strong in his language before there was a successor named, and he did even mention the possibility that Harmone's son could be named and said it would be unacceptable. He made a very strong remark that you know it, basically, they won't be in power long if I'm not okaying this, if I'm not overseeing this.
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Speaker 4: But today he backed out a little bit.
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Speaker 2: He he didn't come out as so. He said he didn't want to go there basically, is what he told reporters.
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Speaker 4: I don't think that would be fair. I don't want to put a target on his back.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's me was clear that he was disappointed, is how he said it in the selection. But I think just once he was asked that directly about if he is a target and that's what you mean, and his language when he say it wouldn't be appropriate, it'd be inappropriate to say if the Supreme Leader has a target on his back.
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Speaker 4: I'm surprised.
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Speaker 2: I thought he would have said he better watches back because we're coming for you. I actually thought he was going to go there, and he didn't. And then he went on to pivot to talk about his own assassination attempt and how in this in these strikes they were able to get the guy who was trying to kill him.
00:09:59
Speaker 1: And the analysts will tell you that what you're seeing there is the president trying to manage expectations publicly. You can't go too He's looking. I don't want to say an all ramp just yet, but you gotta find some kind of way. They just put the sun in what are you going to do now?
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Speaker 4: Right?
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Speaker 1: So you have going to commit to regime change. So that might be a way of the President looking for a way to not completely obliterate the possibility of some kind of compromise.
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Speaker 2: Wow, because I was actually thinking that maybe he thought, just world leader to world leader, it wouldn't be appropriate to talk about taking out another world leader in a press conference, given the fact that he has been the victim of such targets as well. So here's me thinking about it on a completely different level.
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Speaker 4: That's just that's just me.
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Speaker 1: You were giving the president credit for civility, I want statesmanship.
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Speaker 4: Because I really thought his language would be stronger.
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Speaker 2: You actually have his exact quote when initially asked about Hamanai. He said, I was disappointed because we think it's just going to lead to more of the same problem. So when you hear a statement like that, disappointed because it's going to lead to more of the same problem. Why would you be putting forth all this energy and all this effort trying to change the direction of Iran from being war driven and nuclear bomb forward, Like, why would you That would be a necessary part of the endgame, a necessary part of getting out of the war that you started because you were trying to stop the direction of the country, and now you have somebody who's literally going to take the country.
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Speaker 4: In the same direction.
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Speaker 3: Think they're starting that drumbeat a little bit.
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Speaker 1: We heard that messaging from the President a little bit, talking about I want to make sure that they aren't able to start this up for a long, long time, setting a different type of goal that's not regime change. He can come out and say we have wiped them out to the point it will be forty years according to the experts before they ever and you can claim victory.
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Speaker 2: I guess, but you also know you've now if Haminae would stay in power. We talked about this actually in an earlier podcast. We not only killed his father, but his mother, his wife, a child of his Like, this is somebody who is going to make death to America his personal mission more than it already may have been.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know how.
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Speaker 1: Look he's a guy, no matter what, he's a human being, and there's just some way you react court things like that. Look we're just said no way of ever necessarily knowing. But man, you make a good point about the family. But something else that came up in the press conference today with the President was who has been so complementary of the work that they the US military is doing. All Right, we continue here on Amy and TJ. We'll wrap up here in just a moment. Just I wanted to hop on. The President just wrapped up really within fifteen minutes of us being on the microphones here, just wrapping up his first time rose taking questions. We've seen him in some live comments, we have seen him in some taped comments, but this was important to get him in front of reporters.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and so he took I mean he didn't take that many questions, but I would say he took maybe less than ten questions.
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Speaker 4: But we did get some answers.
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Speaker 2: On a lot of headline making news today, from who is responsible will the United States if it's proven that the US missile actually is the missile that hit that girl's school in Iran, killing upwards of one hundred and fifty young girls, would we take responsibility?
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Speaker 4: And we did.
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Speaker 2: Hear the President say that if the investigation shows something, he'll live with it, but he still kept pointing the finger back at potentially other countries in Iran. But he did address some of the pressing headlines. What was interesting he was asked about his conversation with Vladimir Putin, and again some of what the President had to say today in the press conference, I was not expecting this was among them.
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Speaker 3: This was a bizarre. This was so bizarre, wasn't it?
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Speaker 1: Even if I assume it's true, he shouldn't have told us.
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Speaker 4: It's strange.
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Speaker 2: It was like he was bragging what his friend said about how great he was exuver he's talking about Vladimir Putin.
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Speaker 1: It's a way of him saying, I just got a stamp of approval from a guy who knows war, who knows how to invade countries. Right, Yeah, it was just hard. Here was the quote from the president quote. Putin was very pressed with what he saw.
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Speaker 2: In fact, he was taking notes as he continues his war with Ukraine.
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Speaker 4: No, it was it was.
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Speaker 1: Strange, okay, And Robes added that last part, by the way I did that.
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Speaker 4: He did not say that. That was just me being yes.
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Speaker 3: It was just it was just the odd What did.
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Speaker 2: You make of the Cuba conversation too? That also was a little interesting. And was expecting that.
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Speaker 3: Stand by, we're about to take over Cuba is what I got out of it.
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Speaker 2: I actually thought that might be the case too, because did he not talk about a friendly takeover?
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Speaker 3: Yes, it could be a friendly one, maybe not.
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Speaker 4: He said takeover, Yes he did.
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Speaker 2: That is the word that stopped me in my tracks, and we rewound his We would back.
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Speaker 4: Up a couple of times.
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Speaker 2: That was one of them, because did he just say that we're either going to have a friendly or a not so friendly takeover of Cuba?
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Speaker 4: And then yes, talked about Marco Rubio. He really likes the guy.
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Speaker 3: You know what, I like Marco Rubio.
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Speaker 1: He's a hustler, he's I think he's at this point he might end up being the most qualified dude for the presidency. I am this is not about his politics. I just see a politician who is seasoned. He has been around a long time. He has been through a lot. He is managing a relationship with Trump. I don't know how he still manages relationship with the Senate. Those kinds of guys who can.
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Speaker 2: Well. President Trump also is equally impressed because he said that he thinks Marco Rubio will go down as the greatest secretary of State in history.
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Speaker 4: We shall see when he likes you.
00:16:36
Speaker 1: He loves you, folks. We just want to hop on give you those updates. We think that's it for the night, right, No, who's coming out?
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Speaker 2: Please?
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Speaker 4: I really hope not.
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Speaker 1: We need to go to sleep, all right, Well, folks, we always appreciate you spending some time with my dear Amy Robot.
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Speaker 3: I am TJ. Holmes will talk to you.
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Speaker 1: Also, they do things
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Monday, March ninth, and we just listened to President Trump give his first Q and a press conference since the start of the war. We want to hop on here on this episode of Amy and TJ to let you know what came out of that. I guess some newsworthy stuff in there, some stuff I would love to see the evidence of in there, but as good as him take questions, rogues, and I guess, top of everybody's mind, when is this thing going to be over? There's been different messaging out there. He was asked directly about possibly being over this week.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and he refuted that sentiment like, absolutely not. It will not be over this week. But he did say it was going to be over soon, and we keep hearing that soon. And he did say that we are ahead of schedule, that things have gone better, not maybe better than expected, but quicker than expected.
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Speaker 1: And part of the problem the presidents come out here now ropes have been so many people speaking on behalf of the administration, and even the President has been doing different interviews with so many different reporters that the messaging is all over the place, and the messaging, once again, it seems to be moving around.
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Speaker 3: Why did we do this, why did we have to do this? And why do we have to do this?
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Speaker 1: Now we got some new quotes from him, some new timelines, and apparently we all would have been blown to smitherings by now.
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Speaker 4: Okay, I want to know what you think.
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Speaker 2: Do we looked at each other because we were listening, but think our jaws were collectively dropped. And if any of you were listening, if you haven't, you should go back and listen to this part because the President was suggesting, as best I could tell that if we had not done the Operation Midnight Hammer, that within two to four weeks, Iran would have had nuclear weapons, and he was saying that this press conference may not have been able to happen at all, and the implication is.
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Speaker 4: Because we would have all been blown to bits. Yeah, that was a little shocking.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I don't know what to make I mean, he has said this. I mean he has said this more than once though Robes he said this not too terribly long ago, that we had to we looked at each other at that point because he was talking about the reason he had to go to war now is because they were going to attack. He repeated that sentiment here, but he added more to it in this press conference robes. They weren't just going to attack, He said, they were looking at taking over their own, their neighborhood.
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Speaker 2: He said, I counted at least four times, but I started counting later. That Iran was absolutely going to take over the Middle East.
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Speaker 3: It's a direct quote, that is verbatim, and he.
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Speaker 4: Said it multiple times.
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Speaker 2: He said that their missiles were pointed directly at their neighbors. He actually mentioned UAE. I don't think you mentioned another specific country, but he said that they saw that the missiles were pointed at their neighbors. They were going to take over the Middle East.
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Speaker 4: But again he was and he said he was implying no.
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Speaker 2: He directly said that if we had not acted as we did this summer and certainly just recently when we went in with Israel, that Iran not only would have been able to have nuclear weapons, but they would have used them.
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Speaker 1: That's what he said, and he kind of added the part at the end with almost a little smirk. I don't even know if we'd be here, I don't even know if we'd be having this press conference. It was interesting. He'll get follow ups on that. Let's go through the list. Here. Two big things we want to get to the new Supreme leader and information about the girls school. Now, let's start with the girls school. This happened on was it day one to day two? Although the war started, a missile hit a girls school, it ends up killing The last count was at least one hundred and fifty plus dead at that school. Now, news organizations and other analysis has been going on taking a look at this, and the evidence is piling up that it was a US missile that hit that school. So Roe was the president. We knew he was going to be asked about it today. He had already had previously just kind of said, I believe it was Iran. He said that on Air Force one. Correct, he got asked about it twice, and I think it was the second guy who kind of held his feet to the fire a little more. But when he was answering it initially, he he said it might have been a Tomahawk, but we're not the only ones who have American Tomahawk missiles.
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Speaker 4: Correct, he said, several countries have them.
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Speaker 2: But then he did specifically say that Iran also has Tomahawk missiles and it was very possibly Iran, as well, so when the follow up question came a few questions later, the reporter, it was a male reporter, he actually went pretty strong and said, why is it that everyone else is saying something different than you. No one else is saying that those were potentially or that was potentially an Iranian missile. Even your own defense secretary has said we are investigating.
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Speaker 4: Why are you the only one saying this?
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Speaker 2: It was it was one of the only questions that actually held the President's feet to the fire, and he backed off, and he backed I was so surprised. I thought Trump was going to be angry. I thought he was going to fire back, and he actually said, you know what, it could have been iron Yes, it could have been one of their missiles.
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Speaker 4: And he said, but I.
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Speaker 2: Will let the investigation take place, and whatever I will stand by, or I will deal with whatever that investigation shows to be true, or we'll live with That's what he said, I'll live with whatever the investigation show.
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Speaker 4: So he did back away from that a little bit.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: He also gave us some more quotes about why we had to attack wherebes it's this idea we had to do this or they were going to strike. But he gave us another good belief quote. If you remember that, what was the original?
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Speaker 2: The origin was, oh right, So it was he had a feeling based on feeling, and then Carolyn Levitt had to follow up saying he had a feeling based on facts. We've been saying this back and forth to one another over the weekend, just you know, for the fun of it, because it's a it is it's an interesting way to put something. But so, yes, it's all about the president's feeling. He had a feeling, he had a belief. This is where he's saying today, I have a belief. So he's gone up from a feeling to a belief.
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Speaker 1: But he went double belief in his quote here and he said this. He said, I believe upon information and belief that it was going to take over the Middle East. They were looking to take over the Middle East. I believe upon information and belief.
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Speaker 2: You and I looked at each other when he said that, So is belief. Does that make you feel a little bit better than a feeling.
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Speaker 1: I believe upon information and belief it was going to take over the At least he's a wordsmith. Look, this is this is only that only jumped out it never would have. It was only because the feelings and facts.
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Speaker 2: Then, yes, then he had a feeling based on facts, and that's why he made the decision, because he had a feeling that Iran was going to attack. Now he has a belief upon information and belief that Iran was going to take over the Middle.
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Speaker 4: East, and that's why he no.
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Speaker 2: It is it is amazing how each time we get a slightly different or a very different response as to the why and how he came up with this plan and why.
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Speaker 4: Now that's been the interesting thing.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he did talk about Steve Wycoff, He did talk about Jared Kushner saying that Iran He did reiterate this today in the presser that Iran absolutely refused to stop seeking a nuclear weapon period. And once he realized so, he said, once I heard from Steve, once I heard from Jared, I knew that this was we were going to have to do things the hard way.
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Speaker 1: Well, of course, in the Brest conference today, we expected Robes, We anticipated the first question. It was going to be his feeling about the new Supreme Leader, who of course is the son of the old Supreme Leader. Some stuff has been trickling out in some of the interviews he's been doing, but it was not really clear what his feeling was. It was the first question from the first reporter. He ends up skipping over it. I don't know if you just forgot to get to that part of it or not. But he didn't answer it. But somebody asked them the question later, and I guess we have clarity now about how he feels about the guy.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 2: I was a little surprised by his answer because he was very he was very strong in his language before there was a successor named, and he did even mention the possibility that Harmone's son could be named and said it would be unacceptable. He made a very strong remark that you know it, basically, they won't be in power long if I'm not okaying this, if I'm not overseeing this.
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Speaker 4: But today he backed out a little bit.
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Speaker 2: He he didn't come out as so. He said he didn't want to go there basically, is what he told reporters.
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Speaker 4: I don't think that would be fair. I don't want to put a target on his back.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's me was clear that he was disappointed, is how he said it in the selection. But I think just once he was asked that directly about if he is a target and that's what you mean, and his language when he say it wouldn't be appropriate, it'd be inappropriate to say if the Supreme Leader has a target on his back.
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Speaker 4: I'm surprised.
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Speaker 2: I thought he would have said he better watches back because we're coming for you. I actually thought he was going to go there, and he didn't. And then he went on to pivot to talk about his own assassination attempt and how in this in these strikes they were able to get the guy who was trying to kill him.
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Speaker 1: And the analysts will tell you that what you're seeing there is the president trying to manage expectations publicly. You can't go too He's looking. I don't want to say an all ramp just yet, but you gotta find some kind of way. They just put the sun in what are you going to do now?
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Speaker 4: Right?
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Speaker 1: So you have going to commit to regime change. So that might be a way of the President looking for a way to not completely obliterate the possibility of some kind of compromise.
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Speaker 2: Wow, because I was actually thinking that maybe he thought, just world leader to world leader, it wouldn't be appropriate to talk about taking out another world leader in a press conference, given the fact that he has been the victim of such targets as well. So here's me thinking about it on a completely different level.
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Speaker 4: That's just that's just me.
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Speaker 1: You were giving the president credit for civility, I want statesmanship.
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Speaker 4: Because I really thought his language would be stronger.
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Speaker 2: You actually have his exact quote when initially asked about Hamanai. He said, I was disappointed because we think it's just going to lead to more of the same problem. So when you hear a statement like that, disappointed because it's going to lead to more of the same problem. Why would you be putting forth all this energy and all this effort trying to change the direction of Iran from being war driven and nuclear bomb forward, Like, why would you That would be a necessary part of the endgame, a necessary part of getting out of the war that you started because you were trying to stop the direction of the country, and now you have somebody who's literally going to take the country.
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Speaker 4: In the same direction.
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Speaker 3: Think they're starting that drumbeat a little bit.
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Speaker 1: We heard that messaging from the President a little bit, talking about I want to make sure that they aren't able to start this up for a long, long time, setting a different type of goal that's not regime change. He can come out and say we have wiped them out to the point it will be forty years according to the experts before they ever and you can claim victory.
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Speaker 2: I guess, but you also know you've now if Haminae would stay in power. We talked about this actually in an earlier podcast. We not only killed his father, but his mother, his wife, a child of his Like, this is somebody who is going to make death to America his personal mission more than it already may have been.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know how.
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Speaker 1: Look he's a guy, no matter what, he's a human being, and there's just some way you react court things like that. Look we're just said no way of ever necessarily knowing. But man, you make a good point about the family. But something else that came up in the press conference today with the President was who has been so complementary of the work that they the US military is doing. All Right, we continue here on Amy and TJ. We'll wrap up here in just a moment. Just I wanted to hop on. The President just wrapped up really within fifteen minutes of us being on the microphones here, just wrapping up his first time rose taking questions. We've seen him in some live comments, we have seen him in some taped comments, but this was important to get him in front of reporters.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and so he took I mean he didn't take that many questions, but I would say he took maybe less than ten questions.
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Speaker 4: But we did get some answers.
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Speaker 2: On a lot of headline making news today, from who is responsible will the United States if it's proven that the US missile actually is the missile that hit that girl's school in Iran, killing upwards of one hundred and fifty young girls, would we take responsibility?
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Speaker 4: And we did.
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Speaker 2: Hear the President say that if the investigation shows something, he'll live with it, but he still kept pointing the finger back at potentially other countries in Iran. But he did address some of the pressing headlines. What was interesting he was asked about his conversation with Vladimir Putin, and again some of what the President had to say today in the press conference, I was not expecting this was among them.
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Speaker 3: This was a bizarre. This was so bizarre, wasn't it?
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Speaker 1: Even if I assume it's true, he shouldn't have told us.
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Speaker 4: It's strange.
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Speaker 2: It was like he was bragging what his friend said about how great he was exuver he's talking about Vladimir Putin.
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Speaker 1: It's a way of him saying, I just got a stamp of approval from a guy who knows war, who knows how to invade countries. Right, Yeah, it was just hard. Here was the quote from the president quote. Putin was very pressed with what he saw.
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Speaker 2: In fact, he was taking notes as he continues his war with Ukraine.
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Speaker 4: No, it was it was.
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Speaker 1: Strange, okay, And Robes added that last part, by the way I did that.
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Speaker 4: He did not say that. That was just me being yes.
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Speaker 3: It was just it was just the odd What did.
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Speaker 2: You make of the Cuba conversation too? That also was a little interesting. And was expecting that.
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Speaker 3: Stand by, we're about to take over Cuba is what I got out of it.
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Speaker 2: I actually thought that might be the case too, because did he not talk about a friendly takeover?
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Speaker 3: Yes, it could be a friendly one, maybe not.
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Speaker 4: He said takeover, Yes he did.
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Speaker 2: That is the word that stopped me in my tracks, and we rewound his We would back.
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Speaker 4: Up a couple of times.
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Speaker 2: That was one of them, because did he just say that we're either going to have a friendly or a not so friendly takeover of Cuba?
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Speaker 4: And then yes, talked about Marco Rubio. He really likes the guy.
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Speaker 3: You know what, I like Marco Rubio.
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Speaker 1: He's a hustler, he's I think he's at this point he might end up being the most qualified dude for the presidency. I am this is not about his politics. I just see a politician who is seasoned. He has been around a long time. He has been through a lot. He is managing a relationship with Trump. I don't know how he still manages relationship with the Senate. Those kinds of guys who can.
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Speaker 2: Well. President Trump also is equally impressed because he said that he thinks Marco Rubio will go down as the greatest secretary of State in history.
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Speaker 4: We shall see when he likes you.
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Speaker 1: He loves you, folks. We just want to hop on give you those updates. We think that's it for the night, right, No, who's coming out?
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Speaker 2: Please?
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Speaker 4: I really hope not.
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Speaker 1: We need to go to sleep, all right, Well, folks, we always appreciate you spending some time with my dear Amy Robot.
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Speaker 3: I am TJ. Holmes will talk to you.
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Speaker 1: Also, they do things