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NewsNation's Kelly Meyer just spoke with the president on the phone about these developments. I mean, fervent posts on social media. Kelly, you asked him specifically about all of this breaking news. Um, share with us the conversation.
>> Yeah. Hey, Marty. So, I just got off the phone with the president and we are here in Las Vegas. We are traveling with him as he makes his way uh to Arizona today. But he has been posting this stream, as you mentioned, of of post on true social. So I called him and asked and just got right to the point because the the posts sound as though this has been agreed to. And when I asked did Iran agree to the main sticking point here of stopping enriching uranium, you know, getting which is meaning getting rid of their ability to create these weapons, he said yes. So I asked I said did they agree to stop enriching uranium? He said they agreed to everything. And then he asked are he asked me are you surprised? So I asked him are you surprised? And he said I'm not surprised by anything. And then he said I'll see you later. and the call ended. So, uh, it seemed as though from the way that these posts are coming across on his true social page that this was a successful morning. He didn't give any more detail into what calls have been happening this morning. It's now what, 7:45 here in Las Vegas, 10:45 um, in the East Coast. And he might have been having these conversations through the night and into the morning, but he's saying this is a great and a brilliant day for the world. He's saying that Iran agreed never to close the straight again. um and all of these different post. So it gives the indication that there has been big massive movement uh in getting this deal with Iran.
>> Meanwhile, >> Prime Minister Karma arriving now, Elise Palace in Paris. He is going to meet the French president Emanuel Macron. The agenda item is what they and other world leaders can do to aid in the efforts to reopen the straits of Hormuz. a pretty warm relationship as evidenced there between the two center-left leaders. Uh their work cut out for them on uh what they can do to get these straits of Hormus open. Much of the important negotiations taking place of course in Pakistan uh potentially further meetings between American and Iranian negotiators next week. Uh but he is there to aid in those efforts with other Western leaders there in Paris.
>> Boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy. So we got to talk about the weak and woke NATO leaders who are now trying to join in on the victory lap that is currently taking place as it looks like President Trump and Iran they're closing in on a deal. Now the details of the deal remain unclear. Right. President Trump is basically saying we got everything from Iran and we're not really giving them much right in return.
>> Well, Sandra, and of course, the president, as you said, has been uh sharing a lot of good news today. Those conversations with Iran uh continue, as he said, with a lot of meaningful, productive progress. Uh but at the end of the day, the president all along uh even before he ever took office has been very clear. Iran, a country that for 47 years has chanted death to America, has threatened our troops in the region uh and all across the world, uh can never possess a nuclear weapon. So that is why he took on courageously an action in Operation Epic Fury, something that past presidents talked about but didn't have the courage to take on. Uh whereas now we have achieved all of our military objectives in that operation. Iran's ballistic missiles are destroyed. Their navies at the bottom of the the ocean, their proxies are weakened. uh and that has now also given us maximum leverage to participate in these negotiations. So, as he said, uh those continue with a lot of meaningful progress uh and we will certainly keep you apprised uh as those updates come in.
>> Yes. And President Trump just got on Air Force One for a quick trip to Arizona for an event that we'll see later on today. He didn't take any questions, but he just told CBS News uh he basically explained why it is that he is so confident a deal is about to be closed with the Iranians. He says that they have agreed to let United States uh not troops, just somebody from the United States go into Iran with some Iranian officials to collect leftover uranium, what he calls the nuclear dust, and then bring it back somewhere to the United States. That has been the key to all of this. The president earlier today disputed a report in Axios that the US might unfreeze $20 billion in Iranian money in exchange for getting them to fork over all this uranium. He says not a dollar will be exchanged in any way. So, we will definitely hear more about this once he gets to Arizona, but there's a lot happening and it is possible that he doesn't want to get ahead of his team who are talking directly to Tyrron.
>> We're going to see the actual details, but I am confident that it's going to be a strong deal. I'm also confident that no matter how strong the deal is, uh you're going to have doomers, black pillars, uh leftists, Democrats, they're going to find ways to poo poo it, right? Even though we're going to be in a much better situation than we were going into uh this conflict with Iran in regards to their military being destroyed, their navy being destroyed, their air force being destroyed, uh their military infrastructure being destroyed, uh their leadership being wiped out, they're broke. Okay? They ain't got right at this point, right? They've been humiliated completely. And we have secured the strait from them with our blockade, right? Uh all of that. We did all that, okay? And NATO didn't help. NATO didn't help at all. Right? They sat on the sidelines and twiddled their thumbs and had meetings about having meetings to potentially possibly get involved without Trump. Right? even though Trump has been pressuring him to get involved to send uh some of their mind sweepers in order to help uh secure the straight to make sure that the straight is safe for passage even though I am skeptical uh that Iran even planted the mines in the straight in the first place but still you have to do the sweep you have to check because you just never know and that's just a part of ensuring safe passage right which is you know essential for them right it's more important for them than it is for us but yet we ended up doing all the work so NATO has once again proven to be useless However, again, after all the work has been done, then they're trying to show up to the party and to take a victory lap and President Trump is shutting that down. So, that's what we got to talk about here today. As again, uh you had these leaders, Kier Starmer and other European leaders, they met today, right, uh without us, right, to talk about what they're going to do in order to help secure the straight moving forward into the future. And they're getting roasted for it. You may be able to see the cars gathering behind me as a small group of world leaders gather at the Alise in Paris to discuss reopening of the Strait of Hammuz. This is a meeting that's being co-chared by Emanuel Macarron and Kier Stalmer. We've seen Friedri Mers of Germany and Georgia Maloney of Italy come in behind us, but it's expected that the other 30 or so leaders who are joining will join virtually. There's already been a bit of a rift over whether America should have been invited. Emanuel Macron said that he wanted this to be a meeting of countries not involved with the fighting which would have of course exclude the US. But Friedrich M of Germany and Karma uh of course our prime minister said that the US was welcome to join. Donald Trump paid no heed to that invitation. He's not interested in working with European countries particularly on reopening the straight. He said that he could reopen the strait all by himself, which does make you wonder what could this meeting come to. If the US isn't involved, is there any point in these leaders gathering today? Perhaps there is. Germany has said that it would be willing to send mind sweepers to the straight of Hermuz to clear the strait and make it possible for commercial ships to pass, but they have said Berlin has said that that won't be quite yet. It might not be for a long time. They're a long way from making that decision. As for what kind of contribution the UK could actually make, it's not quite clear. UK naval resources are severely limited and it's thought that perhaps there's not very much in practical terms that the UK can do to help. That is why perhaps Kama is putting so much effort into this diplomatic mission in France. And I think perhaps that both he and Emanuel Macron who is also facing troubled waters at home. He's a lame duck president. he can't serve another term and he is very very unpopular in the elise. I think both of these two men are very much hoping that a big diplomatic push and some movement in the stra could help to distract domestic voters back home from uh the sagas that they are both facing. I think in K Star's case given the pitch and level of this saga that's a very tough ask.
>> Wow. Embarrassing, humiliating, right? Absolutely humiliating especially for the Brits. The British Navy used to be feared worldwide. Okay. The Royal British Navy used to be the most powerful military force on the planet and they've been reduced to this. This is shameful. Absolutely shameful. It is sad how the Brits have fallen. Right. So anyways, uh they're meeting about having meetings where they may or may not. right, actually contribute something, but it's too late, right? It's too late. We've already done the heavy lifting, but they met anyways uh despite the announcement from Trump and this is what this is what they had to say.
>> Thank you very much, Emmanuel. Uh we just had a very productive uh meeting bringing together 49 countries around a very simple message and proposition that the world needs the straight of Hmus fully open uh because that is how we keep prices down for our people and stop the global economic damage. So we've all agreed there was real unity in the meeting that we've just had. We want to see a return to talks and a lasting agreement including the reopening of the strait. Um we welcome the announcement that was made during our meeting. But we need to make sure that that is both lasting and a workable proposal. And if anything, it reinforces the need for the work that we've been doing this afternoon because we're very clear uh that uh the mission that we're putting together is a defensive uh mission um and that comes after uh a ceasefire. So um that's why we brought the international group um together uh to indicate how we will play our part. And there are a number of elements. first uh to deliver the diplomatic push for peace based on the fundamental principle that the strait should be reopened immediately with no tolls and no restrictions and there was absolute unity on those points across all of the states.
>> Yeah. So if you believe that, right, where's the urgency, right? It's funny how they talk about how this stuff should be done immediately, but yet they don't want to move, right? They moving like snails. But they they say, "Oh, well, it should be open immediately." What he's saying is the United States needs to open it immediately. That's what he's really sad because if you really feel that way, why are you slow walking this, right? What What's the issue here? You have the United States military, our Navy doing most of the heavy lifting. All you got to do is come in and play a support role. All you got to do is come in and to sweep some minds that may or may not be there. And again, they're hesitating on that. So again, this is shameful. This is embarrassing. This is embarrassing. The Europeans should be embarrassed what they become. They become soft and weak, right? And I think that this conflict has shown the world that they like they're nothing, right? They're a paper tiger. I think everybody on the planet is a paper tiger except us, right? Let's keep it 100. I think China's a paper tiger. Iran just got exposed. NATO's getting exposed. Russia's not who we thought they were. We the big dogs, right? We still the big dogs on the block. Let's keep it 100. I think that's what this conflict has shown the world that we still running right? Let's keep it 100. They can't do nothing without us. Listen to these people. Ending today. Um and that tr transcends the other differences that countries who are with us this afternoon may have because the whole world needs to see a solution here. Um second that we need to manage the economic shock by avoiding unnecessary trade restrictions supporting energy and food security and supporting industry so that shipping can resume as soon as conditions uh permit. Thirdly and crucially, we agreed to accelerate our military planning. I can confirm that along with France, the UK will lead a multinational mission to protect freedom of navigation as soon as conditions allow. This will be strictly peaceful and defensive as a mission to reassure commercial shipping and support mine clearance. So, so basically what he's saying is that after the heavy work is done, they'll come in months later, right? Months later, and they'll have some some some military capabilities there, right? Some some some novel uh units there, right? In order to ensure that this doesn't happen again, right? Basically, to prevent Iran from doing this and from them being caught off guard again. That that's what he's saying. But again, the problem is is that they they waited until after we did all the heavy work. Now they want to come in later when the conflict is done and say, "Oh, we'll go later and to make sure that this doesn't this doesn't happen again." We're going to see if they actually follow through on this. But this is what he said. We invite all nations with an interest in the free flow of global trade to join us. Some have already indicated their readiness to contribute. We will take this forward with a military planning conference in London next week where we will announce more detail on the composition of the mission and over a dozen countries have already offered uh to contribute um assets. But look, reopening the strait is a global necessity and a global responsibility. We need to act to get global energy and trade flowing freely again to bring down prices for working people. Our citizens need to see a return to peace and stability and we will play our full part. Thank you, Emanuel.
>> Wow. Embarrassing. So embarrassing. So Trump has responded right to this little meeting. He says, "Now that the Hamu Strait situation is over, I received a call from NATO asking if we need uh any help. I told them to stay away unless they want to load up their ships with oil. They were useless when needed." A paper tiger. President Donald J. Trump. This is what Trump had to say.
>> We We spend trillions and trillions of dollars on NATO. And when I asked them to get involved on a much smaller uh situation which is Haros and and they weren't there for us. Remember what I said? They weren't there. None of them. They weren't there. So we were there on Ukraine. I mean we should have it would have never happened if I were president. But nevertheless when they've had problems over the years we were there when we asked them to get involved on a very minor skirmish by comparison to what it could be.
>> They weren't there. So, I don't think they'd be there for large governments and therefore I think they've got themselves a problem.
>> They really do. They really do. So, again, during this press conference, uh, President Trump trashed NATO leadership, right? They trashed some of our so-called allies u for their inability to actually contribute in any significant way in this conflict. Take a look.
>> Joining me now though, Friday night panel time, Sky News contributor Joe Hilderbrand. We love having Joe with us. Sydney and Mia Schlit in executive director of the Samuel Griffith Society here in Melbourne. Welcome to you both. I woke up this morning to vision of a Sky News microphone uh held by Jonathan Kursley being thrust into the face of the US President Donald Trump. Uh good on Jonathan. A world exclusive. He got to ask him about Australia's involvement in the Iranian war. Uh Donald Trump wasn't all that happy with what we were not doing. Have a look at what he said >> on Australia. Mr. President, you asked for 3 and a half% increase like 5% you did with NATO. Australia has only gone for 3%. Are you satisfied with that decision? Would you >> Well, I'm not happy with Australia because they were notific because they were not there when we asked them to be there. So Australia Australia was another one. They were not there happy having to do with harm. I'm not happy.
>> Very brave of Jonathan to do that. And uh this is uh Anthony Albanesei was down at the Viva oil refinery fire today. Jetted in from I think he was in Malaysia. Here's what he had to say when asked about it. I've seen the Sky News footage and the way that the question was asked and the way that the follow-up was asked as well and there wasn't an answer given. I I refer to my previous answers day after day after day when I've been asked. They're exactly the same. There's been no new requests at all.
>> The quote from the US president is we asked them to be there, Prime Minister. That's a direct quote from the US president. That's pretty black and white what he said.
>> Well, I've answered the question,
>> Joe. I note that he said there's been no new requests. Now, I mean, I know you can get into the nuance of language, but does that mean there was a an older request at the start that we've never been told about?
>> I think what's probably the most likely is that there were sort of informal feelers put out? I mean, you never get a formal in in a relationship like that between Australia and the US, you would never ever get a formal request unless you knew in advance that the answer was going to be a fullthroated yes. And so what you would do is you would have um lower level diplomats talking to each other all the time, feeling each other out, saying, "Look, do you think that you know if we asked this or if we did this that Australia would do this and then there would be feedback saying, look, we could probably do this but not this and blah blah blah blah blah." So just hypothetically for example, it may well be that you know Donald Trump asked for Australia to join you know the offensive capacity against Iran and Australia said look we can't really go that far but we'll back your campaign and we'll send you a defensive capability in the form of the RAF wedge tale and some SAS troops. So it looks like we're there with you but we can't take part in the offensive. We can just do defensive work and that way we can play it back home and you can be happy and people shake hands on it. Donald Trump maybe interpreted that as Australia not doing enough and that's why he's um still got his knickers in and not but um but he's been saying this about pretty much every country in the world. That's the other thing we hear it in Australia because it's about us. He's saying it about, you know, South Korea, Japan. He's given an absolute bollocking to the UK, which is America's so-called special relationship. You know, France, you name it. So, I think we can take it with a grain of salt.
>> Yeah. So, you see that, you know. Now, what we have here are our so-called allies getting roasted by the president for agreeing to have a meeting about having a meeting about having a meeting where they talk about potentially what they may or may not do, right? What they may or may not contribute to their own security because let's be real, um, this negatively affects them more than negatively affects us. The straight or hammoo is not really our problem. We don't get our oil or natural gas from the straight. We just don't Okay. Uh we get most of our oil from ourselves, right? And in fact, it this situation kind of helped us because uh it forced countries to divor diversify uh their uh supply chains, right? And a lot of them have to come here in order to get oil. And that's good for us. It's good for our industry. And and that's the underrated part about what President Trump is doing uh is that he basically made these countries realize, hey, it's not a good idea to be dependent on Middle Eastern oil, right? It's not a good idea to be dependent on that region for security, right? For energy security and it's better to be dependent on us, the United States of America, than it is to be dependent on them. So, it's a good thing for our industry. The only bad thing is that yes, we've had to pay higher gas prices. That sucks, but it's very short term, right? And I think that ultimately if we get the deal that we're looking for uh from Iran, then in the long run, it'll be worth it in the sense that hey, we don't have to deal with this problem anymore. Uh we now have an Iran that is more cooperative. Uh they don't get any nuclear weapons. Uh hopefully uh our relations improve and we can move forward, right? uh pass this and we don't have to deal with this again. That's what I'm hoping for. The reality is though is that NATO has proven to be completely and totally useless. I think it's time for us to take a serious hard look about decoupling from NATO and letting them go out on their own, right? They're pretending like that's what they're going to do anyways, right? The whole point of this this alliance here that they're trying to form, right? These nations, these 40 nations, is to prove they can do something without Trump. But as you can see, they're very slow. It's very bureaucratic, right? It's very political. They can't really do much, right? They're having a hard time doing much at all because they can freely go to the straight and to help security. They just choose not to because they're waiting on us. So even when they're putting on a show like they are independent of us, that they can do stuff without us, it's still very clear that they're dependent on us. And that is a humiliating part about this, right? Seriously, the Europeans got to step up, right? Like, you have to be able to fend for yourself and actually do things on your own without us. I'm not saying that we should not have a cooperative relationship and partnership with our European allies. We should, but it can't be so one-sided that we are quite literally um your military. We do everything for you and we don't really get much benefit. We showed up when you needed help with Ukraine. Ukraine is not a NATO country, but we showed up anyways and we spent our tax dollars. We sent our weapons to Ukraine to help them fight Russia. Russia is not a threat to us. At least not in the same way they're a threat to the Europeans. They're not. Ukraine was not a NATO country, but it was about NATO. It was about protecting NATO. And we did. We showed up like President Trump outlined. We asked them to do something very small, something very insignificant, which to come in and to secure their own oil shipping lanes. And they couldn't do it, at least not in a timely manner. So now they want to show up at the last minute when the hard work is done. Nah, that's not good enough, right? That's not good enough. Nobody's going for this. So I I really do think that this exposed NATO and I do think that we should seriously re-evaluate uh this so-called alliance, right? This strategic partnership moving forward into the future because we can't have a relationship like this. This this is a relationship where you have a whole continent basically dependent on us and they don't really give us much of anything in return. And it it can't function like that. At the end of the day, partnership means that you you need to help each other both ways, right? Like if we come to your need when it comes to Ukraine, then you come to our need when it comes to um you know, opening up the straight, right? Or securing the straight or playing a support role uh in our military operations. That makes sense. That's fair. But, you know, I think a lot of these European leaders uh see President Trump uh at least in their countries as probably not very popular. So, I think part of it is political. I think part of it is them saying, "Well, you know, Victor Orban just got voted out, so therefore, you know, maybe, just maybe, uh, these right-wing movements might not be that popular. Let's distance ourselves from Trump. He's only going to be around for the next three years, right? We don't want to be seen as folding to him or whatever." I think that's kind of what it is. I think it really is about trying to stick it to Trump more so than anything else, to be honest with you. But sticking it to Trump has exposed uh these individuals is very very very useless cuz you can't really stick it to Trump, right? Trump is not somebody that can be played with. He can be messed with like that. And I think that they're finding out the hard way. So at this point, uh they're not really needed. But I do encourage them to show up anyways and to help secure the straight going into the future so that this never happens again because again, this is not really our problem. This is their problem more so than anybody else's problem. and they should play their own part in securing their oil shipping lanes. And the same thing goes for our so-called Asian allies as well too. Japan, South Korea, etc. They need to step up, right? Every country should have a decent military, right? You you can't depend on our military to do everything for you. But let me know what you guys think. Make sure you like, comment, and subscribe. Most importantly, share a black conservative perspective. Peace.