Pete Hegseth said tonight will be the most intense day of Iranian strike

00:00 Well, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth today said that today slash this evening would be the most uh intense day of strikes in the Iranian conflict. It's been going on for 11 days now, speaking during a press conference at the Pentagon. Hegseth said, U.S. forces were continuing operation with the goal of dismantling Iran's military capabilities while ensuring the conflict ends on the terms 00:29 determined by the United States. ah are winning with an overwhelming and unrelenting focus on our objective, objective, Hegseth said. The secretary said that the campaign's objective include, now this is the one of the things that the Democrats, I mean, good grief. We don't even know what our objective is over there. What are we doing over there? 00:56 Well, he lays it all out for you and they've been doing that since the beginning. Destroy Iran's missile stockpiles, destroy their missile launchers, eliminate their ability to manufacture missiles, destroy the Navy. 01:12 permanently deny Iran the ability to develop nuclear weapons. That's it. He promised that today will be yet again our most intense day of strikes inside of Iran. He said, we will not relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated, but we do so on our timeline and at our choosing. Somebody saw a thing today where Iran was saying, I found it kind of amusing when they said this. uh 01:40 We will surrender on our timeline. And I thought, wait a minute, are you admitting that you are thinking about surrendering? I could just see this big pile of rubble with a placard standing out of it. We determine when we surrender. So we will see. But Brit Hume, which by the way, if you watch Fox News at all, uh you know that Brit Hume is not, he's not MAGA, all right? 02:10 And even though he tries to play him partial, you can tell he's not a huge fan of President Trump. But listen to what Britt Hume said over on Fox News. Your thoughts on this news conference where the president is clearly optimistic about where the military operation is and maybe sees an end, light at the end of the tunnel here. Yeah, I think that's right, Brett. And I think his confidence is based obviously on what he's hearing from the commanders over there, that the mission is ahead of schedule. 02:37 that they did far more in the first few days to wipe out iran's retaliatory capacity uh... than they expected they might be able to and that there's not a lot left over there to menaces uh... that raises and of course you get to the question of oil prices which are a tangible and widely felt consequence of this conflict that american people feel very keenly every day and obviously they're eager to get that under control if they can and i think that uh... the fact here is that 03:04 It's not the Iranian military that's keeping the Straits of Hormuz closed. It's the worry that the ship insurers have about crossing the Straits of Hormuz and what might happen there in the midst of conflict. Once this subsides a bit, the U.S. military presumably would be able to offer escorts if needed. president didn't seem to think they might even be needed. But we're not in a situation where there's a massive oil shock worldwide. 03:34 I think he's right to assess this as a short-term fact of life owing to the uncertainty created by the conflict. But it is something he has to deal with because this is politically, oil prices are politically exceedingly sensitive. Well, it's untenable for the long term. Yeah, and it absolutely is. But he goes on to say that, I mean, he's praising President Trump and his confidence after that very upbeat press conference that he gave, but that's where we are right now. 04:05 This is a conflict, 47 years in the making. 04:12 And a lot of people are out there saying, listen, this isn't a war Donald Trump started. This is a 47 year war that we've been fighting with Iran that Donald Trump is ending. 04:23 And so far, every one of them tragic, and our hearts go o ...