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March 11, 2026 19:46-19:50 - CSPAN
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President Trump Speaks to Reporters

President Trump asserts the war against Iran is prosecuted at an unprecedented level, citing 47 years of Iranian malignancy and blaming Biden's "stupid open border" policies for migration. He promises rapid tapping of the strategic petroleum reserve after Democrats rejected a $25/barrel deal, while claiming U.S. dominance over Iran due to its lack of air power. Although noting the ability to destroy Tehran's electric capacity in an hour, he emphasizes avoiding such destruction, concluding with gratitude to reporters before returning to C-SPAN programming. [Automatically generated summary]

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Building A Country In Good Shape 00:02:10
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Of course, it's being investigated, but you have a lot of things happening, and all we can do is take them as they come.
And the war itself is being prosecuted as well as anybody has ever seen.
And this is other countries telling me too.
Big countries, powerful countries, they said they've never seen anything like it.
And they also agree with what I'm doing.
They say it's an evil country, and it's been for 47 years that way.
unidentified
And if they try to hit us back, have you been briefed about how many Iran sleeper cells there could be inside the U.S. right now?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I have been, and a lot of people came in through Biden with this stupid open border.
But we know where most of them are.
We've got our eye on all of them, I think.
unidentified
If it does.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
They came in through the open border policies of sleepy Joe Biden, one of the worst, the worst president in the history of our country.
And we've got our eyes on all of them.
But the war itself is being prosecuted at a level that nobody's seen before.
It's pretty amazing to watch.
unidentified
Can you give us a timeline on when you're planning to tap the strategic petroleum reserve, a timeline of when that could happen?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
We're going to be doing it very quickly, and then we'll fill it up.
We'll fill up our reserves.
You know, if you remember, I filled them up, and then I had a deal to go at the highest level, a level that's never been, and Schumer and the Democrats for $25, and it was turned down.
You remember that, Peter?
Almost before your time, but not quite.
But it was, we had a deal at $25.
Think of that.
$25 a barrel, and the Democrats turned it down.
We're going to tap it out like it's never been, but they turned that down, and now it's a lot higher.
unidentified
Are you considering having the U.S. Treasury Department buy oil futures as a means to keep the oil prices down or bring the oil?
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Well, we're going to be in very good shape.
You see what's happening.
They are pretty much at the end of the line.
Doesn't mean we're going to end it immediately, but they've got no Navy.
They've got no Air Force.
They've got no anti-air traffic, anything.
We Must Win This War 00:01:21
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
They have no systems of control.
We're just riding free range over that country.
And now we're going to look very strongly at the Straits.
The Straits are in great shape.
We've knocked out all of their boats.
They have some missiles, but not very many.
I think we're in very good shape.
The main thing is we have to win this.
They win it quickly, but win it.
And there are many people, I'm just watching some of the news.
Most people say it's already been won.
It's just a question of when.
When do we stop?
We don't want to let it regrow.
And ideally, we would like to see somebody in there that knows what they're doing.
In other words, they can build a country.
Now, one other thing, we can hit sections of Tehran and other places that if you do it, it'll be almost impossible for them to rebuild their country.
And we don't want that.
But we can hit electric, we could take apart their electric capacity within one hour, and it would take them 25 years to rebuild it.
So ideally, we're not going to be doing that.
Thank you very much, everybody.
unidentified
Thanks for the questions.
Those were the latest comments from President Trump.
We return now to our scheduled programming already in progress.
C-SPAN, Democracy Unfiltered.
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