Steve Yates

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The President's Daily Brief · The PDB Situation Report | August 8th, 2026: The Iran War Exposed a Dangerous U.S. Weakness & America’s New Nuclear Strategy · 8 Aug 2026 podcast

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Morning Wire · Trump Punishes Iran & El-Sayed Senate Radical? | 7.10.26 · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

It's a pleasure.

Thank you for having me.

Well, I don't expect the ceasefire or a deal to be what delivers an ultimate outcome, but I do expect the president is going to keep his options open.

He's going to hit hard.

He's going to be very, very blunt.

And then he's going to leave the door open to continued talks.

He sort of intimated that Kushner and Witkoff could be going and meeting with other people in the not-too-distant future.

But I think that's just part of his style for how he's looking to try to manage this into a landing place, which is not yet defined.

Well, I do think that the IRGC, the Revolutionary Guard, has to be degraded further.

They are committed in a messianic way to a mission that really is incompatible with making peace with the United States, Israel, and other neighbors in its near abroad.

When you have that reality, I just firmly believe that wars only end when power compels one side to acquiesce.

So what I mean is we're going to have to hit them hard enough and degrade the IRGC far enough that maybe the people of Iran finally have a prospect that it's safe to step outside and express their view.

It's definitely degrading the points from which Iran has been engaging in what I would consider to be harassment attacks.

They haven't been controlling the Strait of Hormuz or the Gulf.

They have been basically controlling it by terror, by a threat.

So it's not necessarily what they're capable of, it's the fear that they're able to create, which is terrorism 101.

I think that we are degrading their ability to deliver that, but you never get to zero.

There's just going to be weapons in the world and remnants that can do this kind of thing.

I do think that we need to hit especially all the islands that are in the Gulf, that those are repositories of weapons and other means of control that the IRGC has been using.

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