Benjamin Hall spent the majority of his career in the war zone.

He's Fox News senior correspondent, author of that brand new book, read all about it.

So did you have a chance to see the briefing?

I did. Yeah, I watched it.

So a lot of stats thrown out, a lot of optimism.

I think one of the things that stood out to me is that their ability to launch missiles is down 86% and one way attack drone attacks are down 73%.

We're in day five.

Yeah, and I think that the big question is not how many missiles, it's how the U.S. can destroy their launches.

And apparently they are just watching from the skies.

And every time they fire off one missile, the infrared picks it up and that launcher is destroyed almost straight away. I mean, they're watching every time one sets off. So look, we're seeing Iran fire a lot less. My only word of caution is, is Iran trying to play a longer game? Are they holding back a bit because they know they are being hit so quickly? I'm not sure we know that yet, but certainly the stats look good. A couple of

things. The sad, the way I think Iran says is, well, American doesn't have limitless munitions,

and we see the divide at home. If we give them any type of casualties or any type of stress,

and this starts being very costly and the water and energy starts going up, America will buckle and they'll get bored and they'll move on. Exactly. Many of us were asking at the beginning, why on earth would Iran be attacking the Gulf states and Qatar and Saudi Arabia? When those countries had initially said, we don't want to get involved in this war, perhaps even telling the U.S. they couldn't. Well, we think the reason is that Iran felt that America and President Trump were afraid of two things. One is that this would become a much wider regional war, so that's why they're attacking these other countries. They're threatening that. And the other is oil prices. So they're claiming to shut the Straits of Hormuz. They're not actually shut. and the oil prices are rising, but President Trump saying just yesterday, yes, they're rising a little bit now, but they're down a lot from Biden, for example, and they will be even lower once this is over. So neither of those two threats that Iran has put on President Trump are working. And in fact, I think they have backfired on Iran because many of these countries now want to join in the U.S.

They are getting actively involved. And Iran is ever further on the back foot. Do you know they hit Turkey today? Turkey was the one potential ally in the area that was not saying things condemning Iran and was saying, we got to stop these hostilities. Today they hit Turkey. Well, it's interesting to hear. And I think that they shot NATO. We're not sure which country. NATO forces shot down that ballistic missile before it hit Turkey. But there was an interesting question about whether Article 5 would be triggered if a NATO country was hit by Iran. Yes. You forget Turkey is a member of NATO. It is. Absolutely. But so again, I just think this is Iran lashing out and trying to escalate this war.

And the other question is, who is making those decisions?

Where is the command structure in Iran?

They talk about this mosaic.

So I don't think that it is one leader anymore.

I think the different groups now have their own free will to

fire as they wish, because if they talk, they are tracked by the U.S., and then they are targeted.

Right. And you saw the apology come out from the foreign minister when they hit Oman.

Yeah. So, okay, they said, well, the communication wasn't clear. I want you to hear Senator

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