"Finish the Job": Marc Thiessen’s Aggressive Plan to Stop a Nuclear Iran
Brian Kilmeade Show
FOX News Podcasts
4.1 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Mark Tieson joins us now. |
| 0:01.6 | You know, he's a famous Washington Post columnist, former speech writer, Fox News contributor. |
| 0:07.2 | Mark, are we going back to war? |
| 0:24.9 | Do you think it's just a matter of time? Well, the ceasefire wasn't the end of the war. It was a pause to give the Iranians a chance to negotiate a deal. And so they have a negotiator to deal and they haven't capitulated when it comes to their nuclear program and their ballistic missiles and their support for terror, then we should go back to war and we should finish the job. Admiral Cooper was about 14 days away from finishing all the |
| 0:30.6 | military tasks that President Trump assigned him. We've got about 80% of what we intended to hit. |
| 0:37.1 | We need to hit 100% of it. |
| 0:38.5 | And then the war can be over without an agreement. |
| 0:41.4 | So I think we need to do it. |
| 0:44.9 | What is your take on the evaluation of the bombings that took place already? |
| 0:50.5 | You know, now we had a chance to examine those satellite images. |
| 0:53.4 | We have seen the bulldozers |
| 0:55.1 | arrive at a lot of the things that were buried underground. How successful was this? Do you think |
| 1:01.1 | there's been an evaluation already at the Pentagon? Well, I think if you talk to most military experts, |
| 1:07.5 | they will tell you, we've taken out 70 to 80 percent of their military capacity, |
| 1:13.3 | right? But 20 to 30 percent is a lot. And we know after Operation Midnight Hammer that he |
| 1:19.4 | immediately started rebuilding, and they will do the same thing unless we damage them more. |
| 1:23.6 | The good news is, is President Trump, you know, the ceasefire wasn't a mistake, |
| 1:28.9 | even if we don't get an agreement, because it allowed us to do two things. One, it allowed |
| 1:32.9 | us to steam ships through the Strait of Hormuz to enforce the blockade. So now we will have |
| 1:37.6 | military action plus blockade. So Operation Economic Freedom and Epic, Epic Fury and Economic, epic fury, and economic fury. |
| 1:47.3 | And this other thing it did, it allowed us to rearm and reloads. |
| 1:50.2 | Jack Keen tells us that we have doubled the firepower right now in the Persian Gulf that we had at the start of the war. |
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