Tommy Vitor

I don't know if you caught Pete Hegseth's press conference with Raisin Cane, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, but seeing him there take questions from like the new fake Pentagon press corps was absolutely demoralizing.

No, it was profoundly demoralizing.

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So we're recording at midday Pacific time on Monday.

CENTCOM says that U.S.

forces have destroyed more than a thousand targets so far, including Iranian ships, subs, IRGC command centers, missile sites.

The Israelis have hit hundreds of targets as well, especially that first wave of regime change targets that included top Iranian political and military officials.

Since we recorded Saturday, Ben, Iran has confirmed that the Supreme Leader is dead.

He was killed, I think, in an Israeli strike with intelligence provided by the US or that's what's been reported since.

So this is a seismic event in Iranian history as this guy has been in charge since 1989, and it will now set off a succession process that will probably take a little while.

It also seems like the President of Iran was incapacitated in the strike to the point where he can't run the country anymore as that authority has been delegated to somebody else.

Four service members are confirmed dead.

American service members, I believe, all were in the army and were hit by an Iranian drone in Kuwait.

Three American F-15s were shot down over Kuwait as well, reportedly in a friendly fire incident.

They were shot at by Kuwaiti air defenses.

Thank God all six of them ejected safely.

Trump and his various messaging opportunities.

We'll get into that in a minute.

i said the operation could last four more weeks or maybe five more weeks so he refuses to put a specific timeline or goal behind that estimate he's also refused to rule out putting u.s boots on the ground in iran so that's something to look forward to could certainly imagine some sort of future u.s or israeli like commando operation to get uh iran's nuclear materials for example um hezbollah is now involved they're firing rockets at northern israel the israelis are responding in kind

There have been some very scary incidents at US embassies and consulates where those facilities have gotten attacked in places like Lebanon or other Muslim countries like Pakistan.