President Trump outlines a decisive U.S. campaign against Iran, claiming destruction of 60 mine boats and total air superiority enabled by the Space Force while retaining human authority over lethal AI tools. He defends a controversial strike on an Iranian school, refuses to declare victory despite eliminating the nation's military capabilities, and pivots to domestic policy via the "Save America Act," which mandates voter ID and restricts transgender sports participation. Addressing global relations, he criticizes Spain's NATO cooperation, dismisses inquiries about Iraq, and promotes a new Texas oil refinery as the greatest ever built, asserting American dominance without committing to withdrawal or remain repatriation. [Automatically generated summary]
And we are also coordinating and serving side by side with all of our partners in the Middle East.
We're on a path to eliminating Iran's ability to threaten Americans and our friends, and we are achieving this through a combination of lethality, precision, and rapid innovation.
Let me highlight a few examples, at least the ones that aren't classified, of how we are achieving lethal effects in entirely new ways.
First, our warfighters are leveraging a variety of advanced AI tools.
These systems help us sift through vast amounts of data in seconds so our leaders can cut through the noise and make smarter decisions faster than the enemy can react.
Humans will always make final decisions on what to shoot and what not to shoot and when to shoot.
But advanced AI tools can turn processes that used to take hours and sometimes even days into seconds.
I continue to be impressed with all the branches of the U.S. military.
The entire team is performing superbly.
Strike operations from our joint force continue, as I've said.
I assess that we are clearly exercising air superiority over vast swaths of Iran.
We have the most integrated air defense umbrella in the Middle East, and our defensive operations from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force teams are performing magnificently.
A note about the Space Force.
Our space superiority has been a critical enabler to this fight.
Unseen by the world.
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More of the same, and we'll see how that all comes out.
Right now, they've lost their Navy, they've lost their Air Force, they have no anti-aircraft apparatus at all.
They have no radar.
Their leaders are gone.
And we could do a lot worse to one another.
We're leaving certain things that if we take them out or we could take them out by this afternoon, in fact, within an hour, they literally would never be able to build that country better.
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A new report shows, a new report says that the military investigation has found that the United States struck the school in Iran.
As commander-in-chief, you take responsibility for that.
That is what?
As commander-in-chief, do you take for the strike on the school in Iran?
A new report says the military investigation has found it was the United States that struck the school.
It's going to be the greatest anywhere in the world.
There's never been anything like it.
It's great that it's going up in Texas.
You know, it's very hard to get refineries done.
This will be like nothing else ever built.
It's a great thing.
Thank you for that question.
Well, look, we've knocked out their Navy.
We've knocked out their Air Force.
We've knocked out all of their anti-defense.
We've taken out 60 mine boats, 59 mine boats, which nobody has ever seen anything like it.
We have the greatest military in the world by far, not even close.
But you know what?
They've inflicted 47 years worth of damage to the world, and now they're a big price.
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Mr. President, would you, are you willing to withdraw the U.S. from Iran, even if they have not turned over and allowed the U.S. to seize their remains?
I'm not going to answer that, but we have hit them harder than virtually any country in history has been hit.
And we're not finished yet.
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Watch Q&A tonight featuring our conversation with California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom on his memoir, Young Man in a Hurry, chronicling moments in his life that influenced his political career.
From mayor of San Francisco in 2004 to becoming governor in 2019.
Doors were open wide because of my father's relationships and that created all kinds of opportunities.
And that took me in many different directions as a business person with restaurants, hotels, and wineries that I started right out of college, pen to paper, to opportunity to serve on the Parking and Traffic Commission.
You only knew if you read the book, Parking and Traffic Commission.
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You were offered the film commission, I believe, by Willie Brown.