Iran war will end "whenever I want it to end," Trump says as cost tops $47 billion
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[0:00] All right, with less than one week one
[0:01] week to go until election day, President
[0:03] Trump is not slowing down his midterm
[0:05] campaign blitz to support Republican
[0:07] candidates. The president will hold a
[0:09] rally in Chilikati, Ohio tonight. This
[0:12] will mark his third visit to the state
[0:13] this month alone. While campaigning in
[0:15] Texas yesterday, the president addressed
[0:17] the war with Iran again promising voters
[0:19] that it will be quote over very quickly.
[0:22] >> Could be over whenever I want it to be
[0:24] over.
[0:27] Somebody asked me before, "When will the
[0:28] war in Iran end?" I said, "Whenever I
[0:31] want it to end."
[0:33] >> CBS News senior White House
[0:34] correspondent Ouija Jen joins us now. Uh
[0:37] it's been eight months, Ouija, since the
[0:39] war with Iran began. Also, the president
[0:41] said he could get Vladimir Putin to stop
[0:43] the war with Russia on day one of his
[0:46] presidency. He's now promising voters
[0:48] that he can end the war whenever he
[0:50] wants to. Obviously, I mean, he could
[0:52] stop bombing them. he could stop, you
[0:54] know, sending uh warships and and and
[0:57] aircraft carriers to the region. Uh but
[0:59] that doesn't mean the war is over. It
[1:01] doesn't mean that the United States will
[1:02] have successfully won the war. So, how
[1:04] is he able to get people to, you know,
[1:07] cheer and clap when he says those things
[1:08] when we kind of know it on the face of
[1:10] it to not be true?
[1:13] >> Well, the president can be quite
[1:15] convincing obviously at these rallies
[1:17] also consider the audience. These are
[1:20] MAGA loyalists who have waited three to
[1:22] four