Marc Thiessen on bombing of Iran: “This is the greatest day in American foreign policy since the fall of the Berlin Wall”
Fox anchor Bret Baier: “I think your words are very powerful. I think the caveat here is we are on day one.”
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From the February 29, 2026, edition of Fox News The Big Weekend Show
BRET BAIER (ANCHOR): Marc, history will remember this day, definitely. And the ayatollah has been somebody who has been the center of a lot of focus for decades.
MARC THIESSEN (WASHINGTON POST CONTRIBUTOR): This is the greatest day in American foreign policy since the fall of the Berlin Wall. This is such a consequential moment and you know, if you think about we are celebrating the semiquincentennial of our country, over that time there have been 45 American presidents, 47 presidencies but Grover Cleveland and Trump served twice. And of those, a very small handful have truly change the world. You can look at Ronald Reagan with the fall of communism, you can look at FDR with the defeat of Hitler and the defeat of fascism. Donald Trump is going to stake his place today as one of the most consequential commanders in chief in American history.
And it's important to remember, this have gone could have gone very badly. We just saw the State of the Union where he gave the medal of honor to Eric Slover, the helicopter pilot who carried out that mission against Maduro. That was an incredible risky decision by the president, if that helicopter had gone down it could've been his Desert One. The risk involved in this operation is 10 times that, and he didn't flinch. He made the right decision and he is going to change the world because of it.
BAIER: I mean, I think your words are very powerful. I think the caveat here is we are on day one.
THIESSEN: Sure.
BAIER: Officials are telling us this could last two to three weeks, so we have a lot of getting through to get through.