00:00As you would, as any leader would want, you want to own that responsibility.
00:03So I said I'm going to be the one to make the call after getting all the information and make sure it's the right strike.
00:08There's a lot of intelligence that goes into that building that case and understanding that a lot of people providing information.
00:14And by the way, Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat.
00:20The American people are safer because narco terrorists know you can't bring drugs through the water and eventually on land if necessary to the American people.
00:30The first couple of strikes, as you would, as any leader would want, you want to own that responsibility.
00:35So I said I'm going to be the one to make the call after getting all the information and make sure it's the right strike.
00:40That was September 2nd.
00:42There's a lot of intelligence that goes into that building that case and understanding that a lot of people providing information.
00:48I watched that first strike lot.
00:50As you can imagine, at the Department of War, we got a lot of things to do.
00:53So I didn't stick around for the hour and two hours, whatever, where all the sensitive site exploitation digitally occurred.
01:00So I moved on to my next meeting.
01:01A couple of hours later, I learned that that commander had made the, which he had the complete authority to do.
01:07And by the way, Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat.
01:13He sunk the boat, sunk the boat and eliminated the threat.
01:17And it was the right call.
01:20We have his back.
01:21And the American people are safer.
01:23Because narco-terrorists know you can't bring drugs through the water and eventually on land if necessary to the American people.
01:32We will eliminate that threat.
01:33And we're proud to do it.
01:34So you didn't see any survivors, to be clear, after that first strike?
01:38I did not personally see survivors, but I stand, because the thing was on fire.
01:44It was exploded and fire, smoke, you can't see anything, you got digital.
01:47This is called the fog of war.
01:49This is what you and the press don't understand.
01:52You sit in your air-conditioned offices or up on Capitol Hill and you nitpick and you plant fake stories in the Washington Post about kill everybody.
02:00Phrases on anonymous sources, not based in anything, not based in any truth at all.
02:05And then you want to throw out really irresponsible terms about American heroes, about the judgment that they made.
02:11I wrote a whole book on this topic.
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