00:00On the issue of our presence in the region, here's the baseline I want to set for everybody.
00:04The baseline is this.
00:05We have 30,000 to 40,000 American troops stationed across eight or nine facilities in that region.
00:10All are within the reach, theoretically, not theoretically, in reality, all are within the reach.
00:15Of an array of thousands of Iranian one-way UAVs.
00:20And Iranian short-term ballistic missiles, short-range of ballistic missiles.
00:25That threaten our troop presence.
00:26We have to have enough force and power in the region.
00:30Just on a baseline to defend against that possibility.
00:34That at some point...
00:35As a result of something, the Iranian regime decides to strike at our troop presence in the region.
00:40The president always reserves the preemptive defensive option.
00:43In essence, if we have indications that, in fact...
00:45They're going to attack our troops in the region to defend our personnel in the region.
00:49We also have security...
00:50We also have security agreements, the defense of Israel plan, and others that requires to have a force posture in the region to defend...
00:55And so I think it's wise and prudent to have a force posture within the region.
01:00That could respond and potentially, not necessarily what's going to happen, but if necessary...
01:05Repreemptively prevent the attack against thousands of American servicemen and other facilities...
01:10In the region and our allies.
01:12I hope it doesn't come to that.
01:13But that's, I think, what you're seeing...
01:15What we're seeing now is the ability to posture assets in the region to defend against what could be an Iranian...
01:20threat against our personnel.
01:21They certainly have the capability to do it because they've amassed.
01:25Thousands and thousands of ballistic missiles that they've built, despite the fact that their economy is collapsing...
01:30And they keep spending money on that.
01:35I think it's close to the fact that they're trying to move to the region.
04:05I hope they make a deal.
04:07They should have made a deal the first time they'd have a country.
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