Watters: These people are LUNATICS...

Fox News alert, the president's just issued a final warning to Iran, saying the clock is ticking and the regime knows what's going to be happening soon.Sources tell Axios this, it's time for the Iranians to throw a bit of candy out.We need some real sturdy and granular conversation.If that's not going to happen, we will have a conversation through bombs, which will be a shame.In less than 24 hours, the president will be meeting with his national security team inside the Situation Room to review war plans.Generals say we're on the brink.

The president has exhibited a huge amount of patience here since the ceasefire on April the 8th.And we've tried to work a deal with these guys, and it just doesn't seem possible.And where we are, we're on the cusp of going back into military operations.When we stopped Bill and Dana, we had two weeks to go, a little less than 30 percent of the targets.Those targets remain, but we have better intelligence now.after these five, six weeks.

So, that target list has expanded.It's considerably more comprehensive.

The Iranians sent a new proposal late Sunday night, but it was only token improvements from the last offer, you know, the same one that the president ripped up after reading just the first sentence.The White House told the Iranians thanks, but no thanks.According to sources, the pressure's on them to be responsive in the right way.But they haven't been showing us the right signs.This weekend, Iranian drones hit a nuke plant in the UAE.These people are lunatics.

The president told Fortune, quote, they scream all the time.I can tell you one thing, they're dying to sign a deal.But they make a deal, and then they send you a paper that has no relationship to the deal you made.I say, are you people crazy?Despite that, the president's giving them one last chance to have a come to Allah moment.Just moments ago, POTUS told Pete to take his finger off the trigger.

We were getting ready to do a very major attack tomorrow.I put it off for a little while.Hopefully, maybe forever, but possibly for a little while.Because we've had very big discussions with Iran.And we'll see what they amount to.I was asked by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and some others if we could put it off for two or three days, a short period of time, because they think that they are getting very close to making a deal.

And if we can do that, where there's no nuclear weapon going into the hands of Iran, I think, and if they're satisfied, we will be probably satisfied also.

The president has firm demands.Hand over the uranium, and then and only then will Iran get any relief.If the Iranians can't agree, the president has instructed the Pentagon to be prepared to go forward with a full, large -scale assault of Iran, which could come on a moment's notice.There could be another option, the circle of death.

He wants to get the nuclear dust.There's another way to do it, and I talked to him about it yesterday.Draw a circle around where we know it's at.Call it the circle of death.Anybody that goes inside this circle is going to die until we can find a way to deal with this.The goal is to make sure they can't retrieve it.

They can't make a dirty bomb.They can't further enrich.Their enrichment capability has been obliterated at least for a couple of years.

The circle of death freezes their nuke program, but it doesn't open the strait.Carg Island's gone 10 days without loading up a single tanker.They're maxed out and the wall of steel's holding strong.85 ships have been turned around.Blockade runners aren't even trying anymore.

We now have a tremendous, we built really a steel wall where no boats are blockaded, where no boats are Not one boat has been able to get through our blockade.Look, our military is the greatest military anywhere in the world.I just left China, and I will say, President Xi was very, veryof our military.

Besson went to France to tell our allied banks to blackball the mullahs.

We call upon all our G7 and indeed all of our allies and the rest of the world to follow the sanctions regime so that we can crack down on the illicit finance that is fueling the Iranian war machine and get this money back to the Iranian people.

It's not just the Iranians who are feeling the pressure from the blockade.It's also the Chinese.Beijing just announced their economy is in a little bit of a slowdown.Spending just hit a four -year low.and investment in real estate are deteriorating.One analyst says, quote, the oil shock has now arrived and it's hitting the economy harder than expected.

And China's declared the frozen straits created severe conditions and are now saying publicly it needs to reopen.Everyone's getting squeezed.U .S.Treasury yields are almost at a 20 -year high.That's a warning sign.

This summer, there's going to be an energy crunch.We'll be all blasting our air conditioning and driving and flying to vacation.Basically, it's supply and demand at this point, and it's going to push prices higher.The president knows Americans are facing an energy shock, so he's giving peace a chance.But if the gay ayatollah stays persnickety, 47's ready for a love tap.According to him, could be before Memorial Day.

One way or the other, the street's bullish on the US military getting the job done.

Does the Strait of Hormuz need to reopen almost at any cost?

It will eventually reopen.I don't know.I don't know.You're talking about the military's been playing for things like this for 40 years.They have plans.I don't know what those plans are.

And I hope it works.I just don't know.The private sector could be stepping up, too.The Wall Street Journal reports that the administration could break the stalemate by authorizing privateersto attack enemy shipping.So if you're looking for a summer job and have a sense of adventure, ahoy.

And defense companies are already stepping up to the plate, deploying robo -mine hunters to the Gulf with next -generation sonar technology, clearing a wider and wider route for when the president hopefully restarts Project Freedom.And the Brits, well, are letting us play with their toys.The Royal Navy sending us Seafox drones and Kraken catfish and needlefish vessels to detect and destroy mines by remote control.On top of that, POTUS is making sure our oil supplies loaded up.Oil majors like Exxon and Shell are returning to Alaska, saying the state is the world's hottest play.They say, quote, once you know what you're looking for, it's like finding balls on a dog.

Doug Burgum's rocking a hard hat, and he's ready to drill, baby, drill.

Japan, our great ally, we have close to 50 ,000 troops there.92 % of Japan's oil was coming through the Strait of Hormuz.South Korea, we have 28 ,000 troops, a bunch of their dependents on the Middle East.They all want to buy more energy from Alaska.So the long -term geopolitical function and role of Alaska is immense.And of course, with President Trump, this is the biggest geopolitical shift we've seen in anyone's lifetime, away from the Middle East and moving towards the Western hemisphere.

It takes the Japanese 35 days to get oil from the Strait of Hormuz from Alaska takes him eight and there's no pirates in the North Pacific.The president is asking for patience but says no pain no gain.He can see the light at the end of the tunnel.Jamie Dimon said the enemy had it coming.

They've been raping, killing and murdering for 47 years.Why the Western world allowed proxy weapons

The president swore not to let problems fester for the next commander -in -chief.Over the weekend, the U .S.Africa Command struck and killed a top ISIS leader hiding out in Nigeria.The United States goes where the enemy goes.And when we put in the work, we deserve some R &R.

The USS Ford just came home from a record -setting deployment from the Maduro raid to Iran.Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was there to greet the soldiers.

It's exceptional, phenomenal.That's why I was proud to give the presidential unit citation to them for their 330 -day deployment all the way around the globe.Absolute resolve, epic fury.It's an incredible story.And the only story that should be told today is of the heroism and the skill and the professionalism of these sailors.

We'd like all the boys home soon, but we understand they have a job to do.Sometimes it feels like your job is full of meetings, meeting after meeting after meeting that don't go anywhere.And then you hear you're about to go back to work, and you get called into another meeting.But maybe the president's two to three day delay is another famous head fake, kind of to launch a surprise attack.We have no idea.Like usual, we'll see what happens.

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