Tim Rice

The first is that, frankly, the president didn't give us any new information about Operation Epic Fury.

But the second is that the White House made a big point of prepping the nation for what we were going to hear.

As our own Mary Margaret Olihan reported ahead of the speech, officials laid out the goals for the president's speech, which included highlighting the success of the U.S.

military in achieving all of its stated goals prior to the operation and making clear to Americans that the operation has a limited timetable and that, as the president said, there's just two or three weeks left.

So Trump did all that.

He hit all of those marks, although he did make sure to start by celebrating the historic NASA launch that we saw earlier yesterday.

When it came to the military goals, Trump said we've already accomplished most of them.

Here he is rattling off some of these achievements.

Now, Trump notably rejected the idea that one of the original goals of this mission was to achieve regime change in Iran, but he did note that regime change has kind of happened along the way unintentionally.

And the biggest goal the president stressed is making sure that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.

Here's the president addressing that point and stating his rationale for finally taking down the Iranian regime.

Trump stressed that we've accomplished all of this in just 32 days.

What he repeatedly said was a remarkably quick window of time.

This was clearly him asking the American people to be a little bit patient for the next couple of weeks as we wrap things up over in Iran.

Despite the good news on the energy front, though, he showed that he was all too aware that Americans are very concerned about spiking gas prices.

He also took a moment to address the human cost and honor the fallen American heroes killed thus far in Operation Epic Fury.

So all in all, last night we saw the president seeking to consolidate his messaging on Iran to put a finer edge on it for what he suggested he hoped would be the final stages of this campaign.

We'll now see if that effort helps him win back support in what we're being told is the final couple of weeks here.

White House boarders are Tom Holman has been part of those talks.

And from what I heard from sources, some moderate Democrats who voted to end the shutdown last fall, they could be pivotal here in these next few days.