00:00¿Es there a diplomatic exchange going on right now between U.S. and Iran?
00:03Any exchanges whatsoever outside of Iran?
00:05No, not at this time.
00:06I mean, look, we always have people that reach out from inside of governments.
00:09You don't know if they're authorized to reach out or not.
00:11They're suffering a tremendous amount of damage.
00:14Honestly, again, I'm not going to give away the details of our tactical efforts,
00:17but the hardest hits are yet to come from the U.S. military.
00:21The next phase will be even more punishing on Iran than it is right now.
00:24Someone was screaming, how long will it take?
00:26I don't know how long it'll take.
00:27We have objectives.
00:28We will do this as long as it takes to achieve those objectives,
00:31and we will achieve those objectives.
00:32The world will be a safer place when we're done with this operation.
00:36And was there an imminent threat?
00:38Did you tell lawmakers that there was an imminent threat?
00:40There absolutely was an imminent threat,
00:41and the imminent threat was that we knew that if Iran was attacked,
00:44and we believed they would be attacked,
00:46that they would immediately come after us.
00:48And we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded
00:52because the Department of War assessed that if we did that,
00:55if we waited for them to hit us first after they were attacked,
00:58and by someone else, Israel attacked them,
01:00they hit us first, and we waited for them to hit us,
01:03we would suffer more casualties and more deaths.
01:05We went proactively in a defensive way to prevent them from inflicting higher damage.
01:09Had we not done so, there would have been hearings on Capitol Hill
01:12about how we knew that this was going to happen,
01:14and we didn't act preemptively to prevent more casualties and more loss of life.
01:18Just agree!
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