Secretary of State Mark Rubio told reporters a short time ago that he was expecting Iran's response to U.S. peace proposal at any moment.

The Trump administration has offered to Iran a 15-point plan to end the war, and this comes as the two sides could potentially begin face-to-face negotiations in the near future.

At the same time, the U.S. is sending thousands of troops to the Middle East,

though Secretary Rubio says that Iranian military capabilities can be destroyed without putting

any American troops on the ground. Listen.

We can achieve, we are achieving all those objectives. We are ahead of schedule on most of them,

and we can achieve them without any ground troops. Without any.

Now, in terms of why there's deployments, number one, the President has to be prepared for

multiple contingencies, which I'm not going to discuss in the new year.

And again, I refer you to the Department of War, who will probably tell you the exact same thing.

But we can achieve all of our objectives with our ground troops, but we are

always going to be prepared to give the president maximum optionality and maximum opportunity

to adjust to contingencies should they emerge. Granted, I don't trust these guys as far as I can

throw them, but it's time to start negotiating and Donald J. Trump has started negotiating and

everybody lied about it and they said that didn't happen. CNN, for instance, which is another trash network, you know,

they were taking the word of the Iranian regime. They actually played like four minutes unedited

from Iran television station. That would be like Winston Churchill allowing Joseph Gerbils to broadcast on the radio

during World War II. It's just absolutely foolish, and they're rooting against the United States of

America. And there's something else I'd like to bring up. It's not just the mainstream media.

There's a whole pile of former general officers and flag officers who are actually rooting for the

Iranian regime. And it's shameful. Now you know who these people really are and how they have subverted President Trump

during his first administration and how they're trying to subvert them now when they're civilians.

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