Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Tonight's CNN Global War coverage begins with the Declaration of Victory from the President of the United States.

We've won. Let me say, we've won.

You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. We won the bet. In the first hour it was over.

We won.

He said that this evening at a political rally in Kentucky, we won, not we're winning or will win this, just we won.

Had any president anywhere in front of anybody at any time ever said such words,

it would be reasonable to conclude that the war was over, except it is not.

That is a drone hitting a farm in Oman, part of what appears to be Iran's campaign against oil and gas facilities in the region.

If the war were in fact already won, Iran's Revolutionary Guard would not be able to launch

what it today called the most intense and heaviest operation of the war, but apparently

it has. If we've won,

as the president said today, the enemy would not have been able to fire on and hit ships in

the Strait of Hormuz through which about a fifth of the world's oil normally travels, but it is.

This is new video of one of two oil tankers now burning in the Gulf after apparently coming

under attacking the waters off of Iraq.

And if the war was already won and the strait were in quote great shape, as the president just said moments ago,

the straight is in great shape, he said. He would not have also just announced that the country would be releasing 172 million barrels of oil from the nation's strategic reserves.

Victory would also mean the enemy and its surrogates would no longer be pouring missiles into northern Israel.

But they are again tonight. This is new video of it. Yet the president declared victory today,

and then just a few minutes later, he kind of undeclared it.

We don't want to leave early, do we?

We got to finish the job, right?

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