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Trey Yingst: So a couple things here.
In terms of the gas prices, the President, by doing this secret operation, has been able to relatively stabilize the oil prices.
And that's part of the reason, because this operation was ongoing that we learned about yesterday.
More broadly, as it relates to Operation Epic Fury and why this began, President Trump simply told me this began to ensure that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon that threatens U.S. Forces, allies, or even the United States, in the future.
And the reality is the Iranians showed up to the negotiating table at the beginning of this year.
And rather than say they're open to making a deal with the United States and they'll never have a nuclear bomb, they told U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff they had enough highly enriched uranium at 60% purity to create 11 nuclear bombs.
That's just one step away from weapons-grade material.
And this is a regime, as we've seen in the past, that will publicly say "we have friends in the Gulf, we're friends with Bahrain and Qatar and Kuwait and Saudi Arabia."
And then launch missiles and drones against their civilian population.
And so the president had that information along with U.S. Intelligence that indicated they were very close, in that breakout time, toward a nuclear weapon.
And so the answer to your question is this: As it relates to what is taking place in the short term, the President has indicated, when I've talked to him previously,
when this is over, he believes gas prices are going to drop.
But primarily he wants to either ensure that Iran does not have this highly-enriched material in their country through an agreement or on the battlefield.
And that's really what we're looking at here.
Two options, according to the President.
Either the Iranians are going to make a good faith deal that opens the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping This critical waterway that accounts for around 20% of the global energy supply when you're looking at crude oil and liquefied natural gas that comes from places like Qatar.