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Fall of the Iranian Regime00:07:38
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I saw on television a little while ago in between my watching my great friends on C-SPAN.
C-SPAN is televising this right now live.
So we are not just speaking to Los Angeles, we are speaking to the country.
In a nation divided, a rare moment of unity.
This fall, C-SPAN presents Ceasefire, where the shouting stops and the conversation begins.
In a town where partisan fighting prevails, one table, two leaders, one goal, to find common ground.
This fall, ceasefire on the network that doesn't take sides, only on C-SPAN.
Coming up, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt speaking to reporters about the leaked initial assessment of the U.S. strikes in Iran last weekend.
She also talks about President Trump's tax and spending cuts bill currently under Senate consideration.
With President Trump as Commander-in-Chief, the world is a much safer place.
After decades in which past presidents coddled and enabled the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, President Trump finally ended the immediate threat of a nuclear Iranian regime.
Following President Trump's command, the most powerful military in the history of the world executed massive precision strikes on three of the Iranian regime's key nuclear facilities.
The objective of Operation Midnight Hammer was to destroy the regime's nuclear enrichment capacity and stop the grave nuclear threat posed to the United States, Israel, and the rest of the free world.
The mission, which will go down in the history books, was an overwhelming success.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Raisin-Kaine covered the operation in great detail at their briefing this morning at the Pentagon.
And I encourage every American to watch it.
As President Trump has said repeatedly, the United States of America has the greatest, fiercest, and bravest armed forces ever to stride the face of this earth.
And we couldn't be more grateful and proud of our nation's warriors.
The Iranian regime was weeks away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon that would threaten the entire world before President Trump took this decisive action on Saturday night to obliterate their nuclear capabilities.
The contrast in leadership could not be more clear.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden sent pallets of cash, American taxpayer dollars, in a failed attempt to buy the Iranian regime's compliance with a weak and ineffective deal.
President Trump sent a fleet of American warplanes to destroy Iran's ability to produce a nuclear weapon.
The United States and the entire world are safer because of this president's decisiveness.
Despite agenda-driven leaks by the fake news media aimed at undermining this incredible accomplishment achieved by President Trump and our brave fighter pilots, there is broad consensus emerging already that Iran's nuclear capabilities were indeed destroyed.
The United States, Israel, the United Nations, and even Iran all agree they can no longer build a nuclear weapon.
So why did the president immediately turn to obliterating after the Iranian nuclear threat?
Securing peace.
Within 48 hours of the devastating strike, President Trump and his team brokered a historic ceasefire between Israel and Iran and officially ended the 12-day war.
The Middle East is now shifting away from chaos and bloodshed and moving toward the beginning stages of a new era of peace and stability that President Trump has long called on them to achieve.
This was unthinkable at this time last week.
And this is what peace through strength looks like.
Under President Trump, America will relentlessly advance our interests without being dragged into endless wars.
His fearless leadership guarantees America is once again respected across the world.
Just look at what he was able to accomplish at the NATO summit in the Netherlands.
Many of you were there.
Our allies agreed to invest 5% of their GDP annually in defense because President Trump demanded it.
This will be the most significant reinforcement of NATO's collective defense in the history of the NATO alliance.
And as a result, the United States of America will carry less of the burden and our NATO allies will be stronger than ever before.
As NATO Secretary General Ruda put it, for too long, one ally, the United States, and our taxpayers, I may add, carried too much of the burden of that commitment.
And that changes today.
President Trump made this change possible.
We will produce trillions more for our common defense to make us stronger and fairer by equalizing spending between America and our allies.
This is the Trump effect.
This is what the President meant when he declared that America is back.
Now back here at home, Americans are paying much cheaper prices for gasoline this summer, as both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times pointed out today.
Here's how the Wall Street Journal put it.
Hitting the road this summer won't bring as much of a big hit to your wallet.
The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is about 23 cents cheaper than this time last year.
Analysts say plentiful supply is expected to keep prices down in the coming months.
These are the cheapest gas prices at this point of the summer since 2021.
And despite all the doomcasting from liberal pundits, oil prices on Tuesday were lower than before the Israel-Iran conflict began.
As President Trump continues to unleash American energy, our country will have even more efficient, reliable, and affordable energy to protect our national security and fuel our people.
Later this afternoon here at the White House, the President will host a one big beautiful event in the Easteroom to rally Republicans to get the One Big Beautiful bill across the finish line.
At that event, he will be joined by everyday Americans from across the country who will massively benefit from the common sense policies and provisions within this bill.
This is the largest tax cut for working and middle-class Americans in history, and it's going to put more money into the pockets of hardworking Americans.
Families will see an average increase in take-home pay of more than $10,000 per year.
Americans earning between $30,000 and $80,000 per year will see a 15% tax cut.
Overtime and tipped workers will save thousands of dollars annually, and our amazing seniors will receive historic financial relief by reducing the tax burden on their Social Security benefits.
Simply put, this bill is going to unlock the golden age of America.
And we look forward to continuing to work with the Senate and the House to see this bill on the President's desk for signature by Independence Day.
Here in our new media seat today, we have Colin Anderson with the Washington Free Beacon who will kick off our question and answer.
Colin, go ahead.
unidentified
Thank you, Carolyn.
We reported yesterday on a briefing from the Israeli Defense Minister in which she said the U.S. and Israel are working together to monitor any attempts from Iran to rebuild their nuclear program and also that if Iran was to do so, the U.S. and Israel would work together to once again destroy that nuclear program.
Look, the President, as I said in those opening remarks, Colin, and thanks for being with us today, views the Middle East on its way to peace and prosperity.
And the President used strength on Saturday night.
The whole world saw that the United States is indeed the most lethal fighting force in the world with those precision strikes on Saturday evening.
But the president wants peace.
He always has.
And right now, we're on a diplomatic path with Iran.
The president and his team, namely Special Envoy Witkoff, continue to be in communication with the Iranians and especially our Gulf and Arab partners in the region to come to an agreement with Iran.
As for our alliance with the state of Israel and that friendship and that partnership between the United States and the State of Israel, I would argue it has never been stronger.
And we see a new era in which perhaps some of these Gulf and Arab states can sign on to the Abraham Accords.
That was one of the president's most signature accomplishments in his first term, and he'd like to see more of those countries sign on in this second term.
And so we look forward to sustaining a long, endurable peace in the region, and the president wants to do that through a diplomatic solution.
But as he proved on Saturday night, he's not afraid to use strength if we need to do it.
Gabe.
unidentified
Thanks, Caroline.
The President mentioned in a True Social Post that no enriched uranium was moved from Ford.
What about the other two sites, Isfahan and Natanzin?
How can the President be so sure that no uranium was moved?
Well, what I can assure you is that the United States and our intelligence agencies and Director Ratcliffe and the President's entire national security team were obviously watching these sites very closely in the weeks and the days leading up to the attack on Saturday, which I will add was one of the most secretive and successful operations in United States history.
I think many of you in this room would agree with that because none of you in this room knew about the strike on Saturday until it took place.
So we were watching closely and there was no indication to the United States that any of that enriched uranium was moved prior to the strike.
unidentified
From any of the sites.
Correct.
And then one more thing, Carolyn.
Next week, the President mentioned there to be talks with Iran.
He didn't mention any details and Iran has not confirmed them.
Can you share any details about any potential talks next week?
We don't have anything scheduled as of now, but I spoke to our Special Envoy Witkoff at length this morning and I can assure all of you we continue to be in close communication with the Iranians and through our intermediaries as well, namely the Qataris, who have been an incredible ally and partner throughout this entire effort.
And as I said, this administration is always focused on diplomacy and peace, and we want to ensure we can get to a place where Iran agrees to a non-enrichment civil nuclear program.
And there are many other requests that the United States has.
Those details continue to really, they're just starting.
Of course, the operation was just on Saturday night, but we are in touch.
And if there is a meeting, we will let you know as we always do.
Brian.
unidentified
Thank you, Caroline.
It's two.
One on trade.
On the July deadlines coming up for the trade deals, is that deadline still hard and fast for the president, or is he now considering even coming to trade deals after that deadline?
I think the president has been asked this quite a few times by many of you in the media.
I've heard him answer it at press conferences and at gaggles.
He just spoke about it on Air Force One.
The deadline is not critical.
The president can simply provide these countries with a deal if they refuse to make us one by the deadline.
And that means the president can pick a reciprocal tariff rate that he believes is advantageous for the United States and for the American worker.
And he will continue to do that.
But as for the deals, our United States Trade Ambassador, Jamison Greer, I speak to him frequently.
He's working very hard, and he has had very good and productive discussions with many of our key trading partners.
unidentified
And on the One Big Beautiful bill, there's conversations on the Hill right now about the Medicaid cuts.
I'm curious if the final bill that the president's been talking about comes to him and it has Medicaid cuts in it, will he sign it or would he rather just Congress do away with those cuts?
So the President had some harsh words for both Israel and Iran on Tuesday as he was departing from the NATO summit after they both violated the ceasefire, he said.
What's your response to Americans who are worried that peace isn't going to last and think that Israel is trying to plunge us into another endless war on their behalf?
I think the fact that the president was able to successfully negotiate a ceasefire when nobody thought that was possible, it was a surprise to everyone in this room.
It was a surprise to the world, but the president got it done because he wants to see peace in this world.
He does not want the United States to be dragged into these conflicts.
Again, he's not afraid to use strength if he has to, but the president has already proven he can put America first and deliver on peace at the same time.
You know, after Carrie Lake, she testified in the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the ways for armed abuse and the ROG, really, in Voice of America and USAGF.
The President called for Congress to kill it.
What does that look like, and is the President willing to sign an executive order?
Well, I believe that action would have to be legislative through Congress, and the President directed Congress to get that done in his Truth Social Post yesterday.
If there is any executive action that can be taken to cut some of the waste, fraud, and abuse or do away with the program entirely, I'm sure our great Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, is already looking into it.
And if it can be done, it will be done here at the White House.
Well, I can assure you what the CIA director said: that when we look at the entirety of the intelligence that we have to this date, it concludes that these strikes on Iranians, the Iranian nuclear facilities, were absolutely successful.
It was a total obliteration, as the president said.
And not only does our own intelligence say that, but also the Iranian foreign minister has said that.
We saw Israel conclude the same thing based on their own intelligence.
We also had the United Nations say that as well.
So I think the only other time the United Nations, Israel, Iran, and the United States has agreed on something is that it's that the sky is blue, but they all agree that Iran's nuclear facilities were completely demolished.
And I would just like to re-emphasize, you mentioned this was a low-confidence, preliminary intelligence assessment.
And the entirety of that assessment was not leaked to the media.
Only tidbits of that assessment were leaked to CNN.
And we have seen this playbook run before, where you have people in the intelligence community or perhaps on Capitol Hill, we don't know, but I believe the FBI is investigating to find out who that leaker was because it's illegal and they should be held accountable for that.
Leaked bits and pieces of an Intel assessment to push a false narrative.
And it's to the same reporter, I will add, Natasha Bertrand of CNN, who has done this in the past.
In 2020, it was Natasha Bertrand who had 51 intelligence analysts falsely lie to her, but she still put it on paper for some reason that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation.
We all know that's not true, right?
We can all agree on that now.
That was a lie from the intelligence community.
Also, in 2020, this same reporter, Natasha Bertrand, wrote that a top intel agency ruled out the man-made lab leak theory of the coronavirus origins.
Again, the president was right about that.
This reporter wrote a lie from the intelligence community to seek a narrative she wanted to prove.
And guess what?
We now know that's the truth.
Also, in 2024, Bertrand pushed the suckers and losers hoax.
She also pushed the Fine People hoax, which was taking the president's words purposely out of context.
And then last October, and I believe this is notable, Natasha Bertrand published an article in Politico from the intelligence agency.
She said that John Ratcliffe was speaking without any evidence when he said Iran was attempting to undermine President Trump's presidential campaign.
And then we, of course, found out that was absolutely true.
In fact, the Biden administration declassed an Intel report which said they had high confidence that Iran had done exactly what Ratcliffe alleged.
They did run an influence campaign to hurt President Trump's candidacy.
In fact, we know the Iranians tried to take President Trump's life.
And so, this is a reporter who has been unfortunately used by people who dislike Donald Trump in this government to push fake and false narratives.
She should be ashamed of herself.
And that's not what reporting is.
Journalism is trying to find the facts and the truth.
And this week we saw this same reporter being used to push a fake narrative to try to undermine the president of the United States and, more importantly, the brave fighter pilots who conducted one of the most successful operations in United States history.
And I think the American people fully know that this operation was a complete and total success.
Elizabeth.
unidentified
Thank you, Caroline.
The Miami Herald recently published a story saying the Trump administration was targeting migrant foster children.
The Trump administration has denounced this as false.
Could you clarify the Trump administration's position on protecting migrant children, particularly the 300,000 lost under the Biden administration?
Yes, I saw that Miami Herald article yesterday and I was aghast at the headline.
It's egregious to accuse this administration of trying to target foster children.
That is not at all what is happening at the Department of Homeland Security.
And I learned that the Department of Homeland Security actually tried to work in good faith with this reporter to get this story right, to explain that this administration is trying to protect foster children.
We are trying to keep children out of harm's way, even if that means their parents are not law-abiding citizens.
We want to protect children, unlike the previous administration, which allowed children to be trafficked and raped and in some cases killed because of the open border policies.
Unfortunately, the Miami Herald just completely degraded themselves with this report, despite having a full list of facts from the Department of Homeland Security.
It's another example of fake news.
And the May border numbers speak for themselves.
Not a single illegal alien was allowed into this country because of this administration's border policies in the month of May.
That means not a single child was allowed into this country, possibly with human smugglers or human traffickers.
And we know that was happening at the rate of thousands and thousands of children every single month in the previous administration for four years.
And you didn't see any reporting of that from the Miami Herald, but now they're trying to accuse this administration.
And we tried to give them the facts and they refused to report them.
This administration wants to ensure that classified intelligence is not ending up in irresponsible hands and that people who have the privilege of viewing this top-secret classified information are being responsible with it.
And unfortunately, clearly, someone who had their hands on this, and it was a very few people, a very few number of people in our government who saw this report, that person was irresponsible with it.
And we need to get to the bottom of it.
And we need to strengthen that process to protect our national security and protect the American public.
Mary Margaret, go ahead.
unidentified
Thank you, Caroline.
Sure.
You just laid out a lot of different stories about disinformation that Natasha, excuse me, that Natasha Bertrand had pushed during her time at Politico and at CNN.
Why would any member of the Trump administration leak anything to her?
That's just the reality of this country, unfortunately.
But I can assure you, the president's team is strong, especially the national security team.
Everyone is very proud of the president, of our commander-in-chief, and of our military for the successful operation that took place on Saturday night.
unidentified
Thanks, Carolyn.
The president was obviously very pleased with getting his NATO allies to increase defense spending.
He's made the same demands of Asia-Pacific allies of the United States, including Australia, where I'm from.
How does the NATO result impact negotiations with Asia-Pacific allies?
Does it say strengthen the President's resolve to say, well, you know, our NATO allies have done it.
Yeah, I mean, look, if our allies in Europe and our NATO allies can do it, I think our allies and our friends in the Asia-Pacific region can do it as well.
But as for our specific relations in those discussions, I'll let the President speak on those.
unidentified
Can I just ask as well, when he had to leave the G7 early, he missed out on a number of bilateral meetings that were scheduled with other world leaders, including the Prime Minister of Australia.
Obviously, President Zelensky has managed to meet since then, but are there plans afoot to make up for those meetings with the world leaders that he missed out on?
Yeah, I think many of those world leaders understood the situation happening in the Middle East and the urgency and the need for the president to get back to Washington to monitor that situation.
And obviously that was the right call, considering the success of not only the operation on Saturday night, but also the ceasefire that the president has since brokered on behalf of not just our country, but the entire world, frankly.
But he has made up a couple of those meetings and he has had direct phone calls with some of those leaders he was supposed to meet with as well.
Not all.
unidentified
Ed.
Oh yeah, thanks, Carolyn.
So to clarify on trade, so what happens to the countries other than China on July 9th?
That's again a decision for the President to make and our Secretary of Energy.
There's no imminent plans to do that from what I understand.
But as you have seen with the plummeting of oil prices in this country, it's because this President and our Department of Energy have really tapped into our resources here and we have an increase of supply, unlike the previous administration, that totally hampered our domestic energy efforts, but totally robbed and drained our strategic petroleum reserves.
So when the time is right, the president will make that decision.
But right now, we are utilizing the resources that God blessed us with right here in our country to produce energy for our people.
Supreme Court Ruling Side00:03:38
unidentified
Does the president believe the parliamentarian of the Senate should be removed?
I haven't spoken to him about that and I'll let him speak on it.
However, again, he knows this is part of the process and the inner workings of the Senate and he wants to see this bill done.
And he remains very much engaged in these conversations and in this process with lawmakers in both the Senate and the House side and the whole White House does as well.
In the back.
Yes, Lydia.
unidentified
Thank you, Caroline.
Earlier today, the president stated that these photos out of Fordeaux that were showing nuclear materials being removed, suspected of showing that, were just concrete workers.
Look, the president shared that statement with all of you, and I already answered the question about whether uranium was moved prior to the strike, and the answer is no.
unidentified
Is there a chance that the DIA report becomes public at any point?
The camaraderie at the Republican Study Committee was great.
Members expressed their feelings about the bill, but as we saw, the bill passed through the House despite many people believing it could not.
So the House is ready to receive this bill back from the Senate so they can pass it and bring it to the President's desk.
So it was a great meeting, and Republicans are very unified.
And we also talked about the mayoral race in New York City and how the victory of the Democratic primary candidate really shows how far left and unhinged the Democrat Party has become.
And Republicans truly are on the right side of every issue in this country.
We are on the side of no men in women's sports, on the side of low taxes, secure borders.
So that was the topic of discussion.
And the unity was strong, and the camaraderie was high.
And I know everyone looks forward to being here at the White House for the bill signing next week.
Sure.
unidentified
Thanks, Caroline.
The Supreme Court ruled this morning that South Carolina is allowed to deem Planned Parenthood as not a qualified health care provider and that will block it from receiving Medicaid funds.
Does the White House have a statement on that ruling?
And would the President support a standalone bill from Congress to defund Planned Parenthood at a federal level rather than letting each state determine it?
I'll let the President speak on that legislative priority.
But as for the Supreme Court ruling, the President has always maintained that Americans should not be forced to violate their conscience and their religious liberty by having their tax dollars fund abortions.
And we're glad the Supreme Court ruled on that side today.
Or yesterday.
unidentified
Then on Iran, but on a domestic matter, in January, President Trump revoked security details for several former administrations, including Mike Pompeo, Mark Milley, and John Bolton.
Given the heightened tensions with Iran right now, is he considering restoring those security details?
If I could follow up on Traydon, then I have a question about the bill as well.
Are you saying at this point that there's no plans to extend that July 8th and July 9th deadline, especially with everything that's been going on from Iran to the tax bill on Capitol Hill?