00:07He just said it was set back months, not years.
00:10No, I think years.
00:12So, operation Midnight Hammer was brilliant, it was bold,
00:18it was necessary, and it was effective.
00:21They blew these places up in a major league way.
00:25Major league setback years, not months.
00:29And he just said he wouldn't have done it.
00:32You know, I like Sarah Murphy, but that's absurd.
00:35You've got a chance to set back the nuclear ambitions of a religious Nazi by years,
00:41and you don't take it?
00:42That's how World War II starts, how World War III starts.
00:46Learn from World War II.
00:47You appease religious Nazis, you're going to get more religious Nazi behavior.
00:53So I think it's absurd that any member of the Senate would say,
00:57you've got a right to say it, that this wasn't necessary.
01:00You're not going to get religious Nazis to give up their nuclear ambitions by talking to them.
01:06You have to weaken them.
01:07You have to put them on their knees.
01:09And will you ever get there through negotiations?
01:11I don't know, but I'm willing to try.
01:13Obliterated is a good word for me to use.
01:16I can feel people in South Carolina, nobody is going to work at these three sites anytime soon.
01:22They're not going to get into them anytime soon.
01:25Their operational capability was obliterated.
01:28There's nobody working there tonight.
01:31It was highly effective.
01:34There's no reason to hit those sites anytime soon.
01:37None.
01:38In the coming years, you said in setback years.
01:40Does that mean in the coming years there will need to be more U.S. military action?
01:43As long as Iran desires to kill all the Jews and us, you've got to put that on the table.
01:49So the question for all of us is, that happened, what's next?
01:55Negotiations.
01:56I don't mind negotiating with the Iranians, but I want to start with a simple proposition.
02:02Before I sit down with you to negotiate, will you acknowledge Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state?
02:09You don't have to agree with them.
02:11You don't have to like them.
02:12You can hate their policies.
02:13But will you abandon your stated goal of destroying the Jewish state?
02:17If they say no, you should sit at the table.
02:20So here's the question for the world right now.
02:23What's next?
02:24Negotiations.
02:25If they want to change their policy of trying to destroy Israel and come after us and purify Islam, what have you accomplished in the long run?
02:34You've set them back, but I'm looking to change their behavior.
02:37Not invade Iran, not to send American troops on the ground, but to insist that the Ayatollah and his henchmen from this day forward reject the idea that they will destroy Israel no matter what the negotiations hold.
02:50Why would you ask the Jews, the Jewish state, 80 years after the Holocaust, the 80th anniversary was the end of Nazarene in May, to sit down with a bunch of people who want to kill you no matter what you do?
03:03So I talked to Rubio, I talked to the administration, try diplomacy, but if you don't get a commitment up front that Iran from this day forward abandons his stated desire to wipe out Israel, if they're not willing to recognize the Jewish state, you're wasting your time.
03:22Are you concerned about this report?
03:23Senator Murphy was also just critical of the fact that the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was not part of this briefing.
03:31Does that impact the understanding that everybody has?
03:32Not at all.
03:33I mean, listen, you know, I tried.
03:35Senator Murphy opposed pre-invasion sanctions for Russia.
03:38I've never seen any action by this man that would stop a bad guy from doing anything.
03:44I begged him to get on a sanctions bill to tell Putin what happens if you invade.
03:49That was too provocative.
03:51So it doesn't matter what Senator Murphy thinks about me or I think about him.
03:56Here's where we're at.
03:57The program was obliterated at those three sites, but they still have ambitions.
04:02I don't know where the 900 pounds of poly-riched uranium exists, but it wasn't part of the target set.
04:09Are you concerned about that several years, when the administration's saying it's obliterated, it's just that they're not able to build a weapon.
04:18You're saying in several years, perhaps they'll be able to.
04:21That's what I'm saying.
04:22They're obliterated today, but you can reconstitute it.
04:25In the real question, have we obliterated their desire to have a nuclear weapon?
04:30As long as they desire one, as long as they want to kill all the Jews, you still have a problem on your hands.
04:36I don't want people to think that the site wasn't severely damaged or obliterated, it was.
04:41But having said that, I don't want people to think the problem is over, because it's not.
04:45They're going to keep trying this, as long as they change, until they change their stated goal.
04:50Now, will they ever do that?
04:52I don't know.
04:53There's a reporting that the United States, that the Trump administration is planning on briefing Congress less in light of this.
05:02I'm reckless that no one's told him that, no one's suggested that.
05:06It was a good briefing.
05:07I don't know why Gabbard was there, but it was a really good briefing.
05:10Well, to the point that the director of national intelligence wasn't there.
05:13Are you concerned that President Trump specifically and the administration more broadly are not trusting the advice and counsel they're getting from the intelligence community?
05:21I'm fine with her.
05:23I'm one at Radcliffe.
05:24I don't care who's the director of national intelligence.
05:28I don't hear from the CIA.
05:29They're the ones with the asses.
05:30But does President Trump trust the CIA right now?
05:33Yeah, I think one of the biggest, lack of a better term, winners in this all, the whole deal is reckless.
05:40I mean, the president has high confidence in reckless.
05:43I do, too.
05:44But I think all of them perform well.
05:45But the ultimate question is, let's say it's two years.
05:48Let's say it's ten years.
05:49Let's say it's – pick a number.
05:51The threat still exists as long as Iran and the nation state desires to purify Islam, destroy the Jewish state, and come after us.
06:02That's what people need to remember.
06:03I'm not taking away anything from this operation.
06:06I applaud it.
06:07I think the people who did it are heroes.
06:09But I don't want the American people to think that this is over.
06:13It is not over until the regime decides to change their attitude and their behavior.
06:20Now, are they weakened?
06:21Yes.
06:22Can negotiations work?
06:23Maybe.
06:24They've never been this weak.
06:25They've never been on their back hills.
06:27So if there's ever a time to get a deal with Iran, it's right now.
06:32But here's what I think.
06:34There's probably never going to be a deal with these people because they'll never give up their ambitions to destroy Israel, purify Islam and come after us.
06:41Senator, does this mean you're not particularly confident that ceasefire will hold?
06:46I asked that question.
06:49I don't know what behavior Israel is looking for to consider a breach of the ceasefire.
06:55I didn't get an answer to that.
06:57But here's what I believe.
06:59As long as Iran maintains the position that Israel cannot exist as a state, what do you expect Israel to do?
