"The Regime Is Never To Be Trusted... Be Prepared To Use Force" | VADM (ret.) Miller on Fox News

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[00:00:00]I'm going to bring in now in focus Vice Admiral John Fozzie Miller and the former CENTCOM naval forces commander and just ask you about the military portion of this Vice Admiral and welcome to the program by the way. Peter Doocy is going to stay with us and Peter if you have a question we'll pull you right on screen. I want to start with how you hold pat now through this deal for 60 days cuz we can't just pull our military forces out of there. So what does the mission look like during a potential pause in this for longer?

[00:00:32]>> Well, good morning Harris. Thanks so much for having me.

[00:00:35]Uh we're going to have to stay engaged in in the region and in particular of course in the Strait of Hormuz. Uh and it's during the the length of the six ceasefire. So for the next 60 days, uh but then afterwards I think we'll we'll need to as well. Oddly enough the the Iranian regime has a history as they get close to a negotiated deal of behaving in a more belligerent fashion and we're seeing that right now uh in the strait.

[00:01:00]They they've conducted some attacks uh against uh shipping. They've conducted some attacks allegedly against US uh naval warships and uh and we've responded to most of those. So uh it's not surprising to me that they're acting in a belligerent fashion.

[00:01:16]Even after we get a deal I think there will be certain uh instances that happen in the strait itself that will require the US security measures to make sure that the ships that are going through can get through unimpeded. So this is even though it may be negotiated we're going to have to continue to be prepared to use force uh to keep the negotiation on track and to keep the deal in place.

[00:01:38]>> Look, I've got this Truth Social in front of me and this is how we've just learned about all of this from the President of the United States on his Truth Social post. Uh it's lengthy, it's got some detail in it and this part I think jumps out. No money will be exchanged until further notice. Other items of far less importance have been agreed to. I will be meeting now in the situation room to make a final determination.

[00:02:00]Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. So, that's the bottom like third of this.

[00:02:07]What does that tell you? Because the the US blockade of the Iranian ports has debilitated their economy over there.

[00:02:14]So, the carrot still hanging in the wind is going to be whether or not they get any money.

[00:02:22]>> Right. There's There's two ways the regime can get money and they're interested in both of them and and we're not. The first, of course, is unfreezing of assets. And I think that's specifically what the president is referring to in the Truth Social post. But, in addition to that, it's their ability to export oil, which our blockade is preventing them from doing. If I understand the deal correctly, they will open up the Strait of Hormuz and then we will do a phase opening of the blockade and allow shipping into and out of Iranian ports, which would include, of course, oil.

[00:02:56]>> I I want to get to something that General Jack Keane said, that the United States needs to have enforcement mechanisms in this deal. Let's watch.

[00:03:05]>> It's unlikely they're going to change, no matter what deal we put together. At the end of it, they're going to want to recover everything that they're losing and go back to their original goal. So, in the deal, and our negotiators understand this, we've got to have the provisions in there to prevent as much of that as possible from happening. The second thing is, we know they're going to cheat. Look at this.

[00:03:27]Right now, what's taking place? Just this week alone, with the violation of the ceasefire in the Straits of Hormuz.

[00:03:32]Who's doing that? The Iranians are doing that. And we had to react to it.

[00:03:37]>> Vice Admiral, I want to get your reaction to that. That that we need to have a mechanism to monitor this. To a mechanism of enforcement.

[00:03:49]>> The regime is never to be trusted. And and so we have to be prepared even during the 60-day ceasefire and then beyond that to maintain the Strait of Hormuz open and free so that shipping can get in and out of the Gulf unimpeded. The Iranians from time to time will interfere with that over the next 60 days and they'll do it after a final peace agreement is settled. They did it before hostilities broke out back in February. So General Keane is exactly right. We have to watch them. We have to be prepared to use force to make them do the things that they've agreed to on paper.

[00:04:25]>> All right, Vice Admiral, I just want to reset for all those people who may be tuning in as they head into their weekend. This may be as close as we have been to seeing any actual movement in this. We know that the President of the United States has been waiting patiently to see what Iran would do. And now we know he's in the situation room right now. Could be very close to a final determination is what he has just put on his Truth Social. Our correspondent Peter Doocy, I want to bring you back with any final thoughts and also we have the Vice Admiral with us.

[00:04:56]>> Hey Harris, I would go one step further.

[00:04:58]This is definitely the closest that we have been to a deal because we have not heard from the President this thing that he says at the end that other items of less importance have been agreed to. To date it is basically just been these guys are giving us the run around. We might call the bombers back in.

[00:05:14]Something else to note here. President Trump says that no money will be exchanged.

[00:05:21]When he ran for President, he was a big critic of this Obama era Iran deal and he talked a lot about pallets of cash on the back of a plane that were taken somewhere for the Iranians to get it.

[00:05:33]We don't know if no money exchanged though means that no money will be unfrozen because as a result of these Iranian sanctions that the US sanctions that we put on Iran, there are tens of millions of dollars in various accounts all over the world. It adds up to billions, and the Iranians really want that unfrozen. We don't know if no money will be exchanged means that all of that money will stay frozen. Uh if it is if they are being intentionally specific or intentionally vague, um but that remains to be seen.

[00:06:08]>> And you were giving us kind of the lay of the land of the daily briefing uh that he gets, not the daily briefing, but the uh >> Yeah, the president's daily brief, his intelligence briefing.

[00:06:18]>> brief, his intelligence brief. Thank you very much. And how that would be different in the Oval Office, not impo- not impossible, but diff- different with all the people assembled. So, he's in the situation room. If you'll just relay that for us before we go to break.

[00:06:31]>> Yes, uh the Oval Office when there is not a press corps in there is a secure information facility, but it doesn't have all of the all of the feeds and all of the screens and all of the live maps connected already the way that the situation room downstairs does. So, they could set all that up for the president in the Oval Office. It would make for a nice photograph, but everything exists in the situation room for a for for a situation just like this. He can beam in the CENTCOM commander wherever it is that he is speaking from. He can beam in somebody on a ship who is draggin' uh draggin' something trying to make sure there are no mines in the strait. He can beam in J.D. Vance wherever he is.

[00:07:10]Everybody can be right there. Uh they also have a a long table uh in the situation room, and it's right next to where they have some snacks. So, >> Oh my goodness. Okay.

[00:07:20]>> yeah, it's a it's it's just >> on the hook until that part. I was like, "Okay, we're we're we're in it." And and now we're snacking. Uh I want to thank both of you gentlemen. Peter, thank you for your great reporting.