Gen Jack Keane: There is NO DEAL to be made here

President Trump is set to speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, as sources tell Fox the two may restart military action against the Iranian regime soon.Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst is live in Tel Aviv with the latest.Hi, Trey.

Guys, good morning.Regional intelligence sources tell Fox News they assess the Iranians believe they can drag out the current stalemate for at least two weeks.But the prevailing assessment inside Iran is that President Trump may resort to restarting military action and Tehran is now deliberately pursuing a strategy of deception and delay with the hopes that buying time will complicate any potential return to war.These sources say Iranian officials are looking at the World Cup and America's 250th anniversary as a backstop that could could work in their favor.Tension remains high across the Middle East as the region waits to see if the war will resume in the days ahead.So far, efforts toward a diplomatic solution have failed, with Iran unwilling to make the necessary concessions to reach a deal.

President Trump spoke on his return flight from China, indicating he didn't like the first sentence of the Iranian response to the U .S.peace proposal.

I looked at it, and if I don't like the first sentence, I just throw it away.What was the first sentence?An unacceptable sentence.Because they fully read no nuclear, and if they have any nuclear of any form, I don't read the rest.So 20 years is not enough for you, it's got to be a permanent...No, 20 years is enough, but the level of guarantee from them is not enough.

In other words, it's got to be a real 20 years.

Overnight, President Trump shared a series of AI images on True Social.One shows the president standing at a control center that says, Space Force, with outgoing missiles on the screen behind him.The other shows him commanding the Navy with the caption, it was the calm before the storm.This comes as the Iranians have accused the United States of changing their negotiating position.

An attack on our nuclear facilities has already taken place once and they claim they completely destroyed them.Yet now they are once again talking about attacking the facilities.These contradictory statements truly indicate the depth of America's confusion regarding their objectives in this war.

On Saturday, the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group returned to the United States after a carrier deployment that was the longest since the Vietnam War.Secretary of War Pete Hegseth called the work of these sailors phenomenal.

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 who went three times around the globe to defend the flag right there, which can only do what this strike group does.

Morale remains high across the U .S.military, as there are still tens of thousands of American service members deployed across the Middle East.

Lisa.Trey, as always, we appreciate your coverage.Thank you.All right.Well, this morning, a new report out that President Trump's close advisers fear China may invade Taiwan within the next five years.One of them telling Axios this.

Xi is trying to move China to a new position where he's saying we're not a rising power where you're equal and Taiwan is mine.Fox News Senior Strategic Analyst, retired four -star General Jack Keane joins us now.General, it's always great to see you.Appreciate you coming on.

I wanted to be here.

Always good to see you.I wanted to ask you about this.I saw this recently in a Fox News report, a war game conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies earlier this year simulated what would happen following an amphibious attack on Taiwan by China.And it revealed that the United States would likely run out of long range missiles, guided missiles with our precision guided missiles within a week.We're pretty overextended right now in Europe with Ukraine, as well as the Middle East with Iran.Do we even have the bandwidth to take on China with Taiwan right now?

Yeah, the answer to that is that China has dominated us militarily in the region in every platform except submarines.But you don't have to go platform to platform with an adversary to deter them.We proved that with the Soviet Union.You know, they dominated us 10 -to -1 in divisions, in airplanes, tanks, artillery, et cetera.But we had enough forward -deployed capability, and we had the political will, as well, to effectively impose cost on them and put in question whether they could succeed or not.And that's what our deterrence is about in the Indo -Pacific region.

We're not going to go platform to platform with them, but make sure we have enough capability there.and also in our own capability, and with our allies and partners.And with that, we believe that we can impose that kind of cost on them and put in question whether these war games that we've played—and, to be frank about it, they're all in public sources.We have lost multiple war games time and time again when you play that game.But the reality is, I think the usefulness of war games, it shows us what our vulnerabilities are and what we have to fix.And we're about doing that very rapidly in the Department of War right now.

The number two appointee there, a man that came in with a business background, is taking complete charge of those business practices and putting everything on acceleration.So we're about fixing some of the shortfalls that we have.And certainly, we have protected the ammunition that Admiral Paparo needs in the event that conflict breaks out.And he has revealed that in public testimony as well.

more extended, overextended with.Iran since then.Real quick, before we move to Iran, do you agree with that five -year assessment?

The five -year assessment, President Xi is telling us, since he took power, that he intends to take Taiwan.He talks about this every single year.I don't know what the surprise is here.The reality is, so our audience understands, there's a geopolitical objective to take Taiwan, because they believe it's theirs, even though they've never owned it since they took power in the late 1940s.But there's a second objective.And that is technological.

The most advanced chips in the world are made in Taiwan.They make the most advanced chips for A .I.And that is the objective here as well.Whoever owns that capability is going to own the future in terms of A .I.

development.It's very important is the secondary mission here.

Absolutely.You know general do want to get in Israel here.Israel and the United States reportedly preparing to resume combat operations against Iran as soon as this week after peace talks stall.You know, General, the Iranian regime is built for resilience.So how do you break a regime under that scenario?

Well, you kill them, number one.You take away their military capability, number two.And you break their will as a result of it.And we're going to do all of that.We're going to—we had two weeks left in the campaign.We're going to execute that.

It's a combined campaign, U .S.and Israel.We'll go right back after the IRGC and what sustains the regime.The weapons systems that we haven't destroyed are certainly going to be on the table, the remnants of whatever nuclear elements are left.And then we're going to take down every revenue source that they have and put this regime on a path to not just military defeat, but economic collapse.

That's what we'll see.And then we'll open up the Straits of Hormuz, as well.

Real quick, before we go, we've taken out many of their leaders, as you pointed out—you know, kill them, take them out, which is what we've done.But we've also taken out a lot of the leaders who can make decisions and enforce those decisions from a diplomatic standpoint.Do you think—is diplomacy dead with Iran?

Well, I think President Trump has exercised an enormous amount of strategic patience here.He was given some indications that these guys were willing to make a deal, and he's given them five -plus weeks to come forward with something.And obviously, what they were doing, their objective was, I think, to delay, not to make a deal.And the president has ran out of patience.I don't think there's any deal to be made here.And the problem I've always had with the deal, even if the deal is perfect, what we do with any deal is we have to give them money to to adhere to what they want in the deal.

They want their frozen assets to be given to them.That's $100 billion.They want sanctions removed.If we ever did that, what are we really doing?The regime not only survives, but we wind up financing their recovery.

Well, that's a good point.

So, that's why they're interested—that's why they're interested in a deal.They don't just want to survive.They want to be able to recover.And we're not going to do that.

Yeah, that's a great point.General Jack Keane, it's always an honor to see you, sir.Thank you for bringing your wisdom and insight to us this morning.Take care.See you soon.