It's the media buzz meter with Howard Kurtz.

The best way I've decided to gauge how much longer the war against Iran will last is to listen closely to the comments by the President of the United States here's Donald Trump in a phone interview with CBS.

I think the war is very complete, pretty much, he said.

Iran has no Navy, no communications.

They've got no air force.

Their missiles are down to a scatter.

Their drones are being blown up all over the place, including their manufacturing

of drones.

Okay.

But later in the day, if Iran does anything that stops the flow of oil within the street

of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America 20 times harder than they

have been hit thus far. Additionally,

we will take out easily destroyable targets that will make it virtually impossible for Iran

to ever be built back as a nation again. Death, fire and fury will reign upon them. But I hope and pray that it does not happen. This is a gift from the

United States of America to China and all those nations that heavily use the Hongruis straight.

Hopefully there's a gesture that would be greatly appreciated. Well, that kind of clears it up,

doesn't it? Yes, he's making very contradictory statements about regime change and so on.

We'll get into that in a second.

I think we just made this story number one.

He says it, by the way, that he's thinking of taking over the street of Hormuz,

which is this

choke point for the world, much of the world, oil supply. But stay with me because I've got some

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