Emily Maitlis

We are going to destroy their military and we are going to retake their nuclear material.

And it's all going to happen very quickly.

And here we are over 100 days on from that.

And Iran, the regime is in place.

The sun has taken over from Ayatollah Khamenei.

you have got the Republican Guard still able, with command and control, to fire missiles with precision into Israel and into Gulf states.

There has been no progress made on the nuclear material and the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before 28 February, is still firmly shut, driving up prices.

Israel and the United States kidded themselves that they could achieve this militarily and it would all be done so quickly.

And nothing like that has happened.

The regime is in place.

Israel and the US have fired endless missiles, have committed millions and billions of dollars to this campaign, and they haven't succeeded.

And let's consider the other autocrat in the White House.

And, you know, you just have to replay again.

I'm sorry.

All the things that Donald Trump said that propelled him to power, his disillusionment with what had happened with the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq and the forever wars.

and the commitment of American troops overseas that seemed to go on without end and body bags being flown back to America.

And what was this all about?

And it's time to focus on America itself and to be America first and to close it, you know, just to draw up, pull up the drawbridge and live within America.

That is what he told the American people.

That was his big selling point.