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Currently in the Situation Room with Vice President J.D. Vance along with Special Envoys Kushner and Witkoff. The President giving new insight into what is taking place as we speak. There is an ongoing bombing campaign against the Iranian regime. The President tells Fox News that 49 Tomahawk missiles were used to hit targets inside of Iran, some of them as close as 40 miles from the Iranian capital of Tehran. The President said that U.S. fighter jets are also operating over the skies of Iran, taking out radar systems and air defense systems in the southwestern part of the country, close to the Persian Gulf. This is all taking place as the Iranians are trying to get the United States to stop the bombing campaign. President Trump told me that Iran called him tonight. Top Iranian officials and President Trump spoke directly, according to the commander-in-chief tonight, as the president was sitting in the situation room. And he told me that the Iranians asked them to stop bombing. And the president said to me, the bombing will stop shortly. I asked him what will happen if the Iranians do not sign an agreement that was put forward by American negotiators. President Trump said, quote, we'll bomb the S out of them tomorrow night. And so the president is leaving the military option on the table if the Iranians are unwilling to sign this good faith deal THAT WOULD ULTIMATELY OPEN THE STRAIGHT OF HORMUZ AND ENSURE THAT THEY CANNOT ADVANCE A NUCLEAR PROGRAM TOWARD A NUCLEAR BOMB. THAT IS THE BOTTOM LINE HERE THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS REITERATED OVER AND OVER AGAIN. THE REASON OPERATION EPIC FURY BEGAN WAS TO PREVENT THE IRANIAN REGIME FROM OBTAINING A NUCLEAR