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VP Vance:
The Gulf Coast Coalition loves this deal because they think that it makes Iran weaker.
They hated the Obama deal because they thought that it made Iran stronger.
They know more about this, and they have more to lose than anybody, including the United States of America, so I trust their judgment.
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Watters:
The only people saying America lost this war?
Iran and the Democrats.
Everybody else recognizes the reality.
We buried their leaders, their military, and their dust.
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VP Vance:
Number one, their nuclear program has been completely destroyed.
Their capacity for enrichment, the facilities at which they were using to develop enrichment and develop a potential nuclear weapon, those facilities are still destroyed.
Their conventional military is still destroyed.
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Watters:
We did it in three months with no ground troops, 13 casualties, God bless their souls, cracked open the strait, took over the world oil market, and aren't sending the mullahs a dime.
We blocked China's Belt and Road and made them think twice about taking Taiwan.
Kicked Russia out of the region.
They've been kicked out of Venezuela, Syria, Iraq, Iran.
And we brought the Jews and the Arab Muslims closer together.
Even if the deal goes south, which it very well could, Iran is financially and militarily crippled, and their nuke program's dead and buried.
But if this thing holds - and hopefully it does - Kushner, Witkoff, Rubio, Hegseth, and Vance deserve a lot of credit.
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VP Vance:
Now, I have seen some progressive criticisms of me personally saying, what experience does the vice president of the United States have with hostile,
high stakes negotiations?
And I would point those progressive critics to the fact that just two days ago, I spent over an hour on The View.
I mean, look, Joy Behar is way tougher than the Iranians, and she and I are best friends now.
So we're going to get to a good place.
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Watters:
Peter Schweitzer is the president of the Government Accountability Institute.
Peter, how do you think this deal is going down in D.C.?
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Peter Schweitzer: I think a lot of people on the left and on the right are being critical of it,but I think they're lacking in imagination in what Trump is trying to do here.
Look, everybody wants there to be a final solution to have the Iran problem solved.
That's not in the cards.
The question is, where do you go from here?
Iran is in an enormously weakened position.
If you look at the estimates of just the economic damage they've faced, you talked about their military has basically been decimated.
The estimates are that they have suffered economic costs of between 40 and 50 percent, Jesse, of their entire gross domestic product.
That's massive.
So the question is, you know, they are a fanatical regime, but fanatics believe in self-preservation as well.
And so there's an opportunity to do a deal.
Look at the way that this has been structured.
What Trump is doing is saying Iran is going to commit to these things.
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