CSPAN - President Trump Speaks to Reporters Aired: 2026-03-11 Duration: 03:33 === Building A Country In Good Shape (02:10) === [00:00:00] 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. [00:00:07] And the war itself is being prosecuted as well as anybody has ever seen. [00:00:12] And this is other countries telling me too. [00:00:14] Big countries, powerful countries, they said they've never seen anything like it. [00:00:19] And they also agree with what I'm doing. [00:00:20] They say it's an evil country, and it's been for 47 years that way. [00:00:26] 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? [00:00:34] I have been, and a lot of people came in through Biden with this stupid open border. [00:00:39] But we know where most of them are. [00:00:41] We've got our eye on all of them, I think. [00:00:44] If it does. [00:00:45] 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. [00:00:56] And we've got our eyes on all of them. [00:00:58] But the war itself is being prosecuted at a level that nobody's seen before. [00:01:04] It's pretty amazing to watch. [00:01:05] Can you give us a timeline on when you're planning to tap the strategic petroleum reserve, a timeline of when that could happen? [00:01:11] We're going to be doing it very quickly, and then we'll fill it up. [00:01:14] We'll fill up our reserves. [00:01:16] 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. [00:01:29] You remember that, Peter? [00:01:30] Almost before your time, but not quite. [00:01:33] But it was, we had a deal at $25. [00:01:36] Think of that. [00:01:37] $25 a barrel, and the Democrats turned it down. [00:01:41] We're going to tap it out like it's never been, but they turned that down, and now it's a lot higher. [00:01:48] 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? [00:01:56] Well, we're going to be in very good shape. [00:01:57] You see what's happening. [00:02:00] They are pretty much at the end of the line. [00:02:02] Doesn't mean we're going to end it immediately, but they've got no Navy. [00:02:06] They've got no Air Force. [00:02:07] They've got no anti-air traffic, anything. === We Must Win This War (01:21) === [00:02:11] They have no systems of control. [00:02:14] We're just riding free range over that country. [00:02:18] And now we're going to look very strongly at the Straits. [00:02:20] The Straits are in great shape. [00:02:23] We've knocked out all of their boats. [00:02:25] They have some missiles, but not very many. [00:02:28] I think we're in very good shape. [00:02:30] The main thing is we have to win this. [00:02:32] They win it quickly, but win it. [00:02:35] And there are many people, I'm just watching some of the news. [00:02:39] Most people say it's already been won. [00:02:41] It's just a question of when. [00:02:43] When do we stop? [00:02:44] We don't want to let it regrow. [00:02:46] And ideally, we would like to see somebody in there that knows what they're doing. [00:02:50] In other words, they can build a country. [00:02:52] 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. [00:03:04] And we don't want that. [00:03:06] 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. [00:03:16] So ideally, we're not going to be doing that. [00:03:17] Thank you very much, everybody. [00:03:19] Thanks for the questions. [00:03:22] Those were the latest comments from President Trump. [00:03:24] We return now to our scheduled programming already in progress. [00:03:30] C-SPAN, Democracy Unfiltered.