NCS has discovered that the administration is getting ready to deploy a 1,000 troopers with the Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East. That’s along with the hundreds of marines and sailors who’re already on the best way.
Even as we’re listening to from President Trump sending messages like this one from the Oval Office as we speak.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Well, I believe we’re going to finish it. I can’t inform you for positive. You know, I don’t wish to say this, we’ve gained this — this conflict has been gained.
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COLLINS: Of course, one would possibly ask if the President does imagine this conflict has been gained, why hundreds extra U.S. service members are being despatched to the area tonight. That query for the President comes, as he additionally says that the United States and Iran are discussing potential peace talks.
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TRUMP: We’re in negotiations proper now. They’re doing it, together with Marco, JD. We have plenty of folks doing it. And the opposite facet, I can inform you, they’d wish to make a deal.
REPORTER: There’s been stories that the vp is main these negotiations. Is that true?
TRUMP: Well, he’s concerned in them. JD is concerned. And Marco is concerned. And Jared Kushner is concerned, very good man. And Steve Witkoff, good man, is concerned. And I’m concerned.
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COLLINS: As the President cites everybody who helps with these talks. We do know tonight that there have been communications between the United States and Iran, by way of intermediaries, about sitting down and speaking, and that information got here as in President Trump’s telling as we speak, he stated it might not have been precisely well-received by his Pentagon chief who was within the room.
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TRUMP: I stated, Pete, and General Raizin’ Caine, I believe this factor goes to be settled very quickly.
Here they go, Oh, that’s too dangerous.
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TRUMP: Pete didn’t need it to be settled.
(END VIDEO CLIP) COLLINS: And when Secretary Pete Hegseth, whom the President was referring to there, was requested to provide his replace on the conflict from the Oval Office as we speak, this assertion from Secretary Hegseth stood out.
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PETE HEGSETH, DEFENSE SECRETARY: And that’s why we see ourselves as a part of this negotiation as properly. We negotiate with bombs.
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COLLINS: Apparently, these bombs, that are nonetheless dropping tonight, haven’t stopped the Iranians but, in keeping with President Trump, from sending him what he has described, mysteriously so, and White House officers have declined to elaborate within the hours since this remark, after he stated the Iranians despatched him a really huge current.
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TRUMP: They did one thing yesterday that was superb, really. They gave us a gift, and the current arrived as we speak, and it was a really huge current value an amazing amount of cash. And I’m not going to inform you what that current is, nevertheless it was a really important prize, they usually gave it to us, they usually stated they had been going to provide it. So, that meant one factor to me. We’re coping with the appropriate folks.
REPORTER: Was it nuclear-related?
TRUMP: No, it wasn’t nuclear-related. It was oil and fuel associated.
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