00:00First, Mr. Vice President, Democrats are already calling you the Farad Czar.
00:04What's your reaction to that title?
00:06And then second, given your past skepticism of foreign adventurism,
00:13are you completely on board with the current war on Iran?
00:16So I like Farad Czar.
00:18It's certainly what we're going to do.
00:19And look, we have to do it.
00:20As the President said, this is a problem that has festered in this country for far too long,
00:24and far too few people have actually wanted to do anything about it.
00:27That's what makes this administration different,
00:30is that we actually tackle the problems the American people have been confronting.
00:33So I'm very happy about it.
00:34And look, I think that I know what you're trying to do, Phil.
00:38You're trying to drive a wedge between members of the administration, between me and the President.
00:43What the President said consistently, going back to 2015, and I agreed with him,
00:47is that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon.
00:49We have taken this military action under the President's leadership.
00:52I think all of us, whether you're a Democrat or Republican,
00:55should pray for a success and pray for the safety of our troops,
00:58that's the approach that I've taken.
00:59Make it as successful as possible.
01:02So there's no hesitation, given your past statements, with the current operation?
01:07What do you mean there's no hesitation with my past statements?
01:10Given your skepticism of foreign-adventarism, you were a critic of the global war on terror previously.
01:16Well, I think one big difference, Phil, is that we have a smart president,
01:19whereas in the past we've had dumb presidents.
01:21And I trust President Trump to get the job done, to do a good job for the American people,
01:25and to make sure that the mistakes of the past aren't repeated.
01:27Absolutely.
01:28Thanks, man.
01:28Look, J.D.'s been great.
01:30But here's the simple thing.
01:31And I have, you know, some people, I don't want wars.
01:33I want wars less than almost anybody.
01:36Peace to the strength.
01:38But you know what?
01:39I've watched Iran for a long time.
01:41I've called them out 20 years ago when I was a civilian that liked watching the world.
01:48And they're violent, vicious people.
01:50The leadership, violent, vicious people.
01:53They killed 32,000 protesters over the last three weeks.
01:57They put out a memo two days ago saying,
02:00if you protest, we will shoot you and kill you in the streets.
02:05And somebody said, oh, there's not that many protests.
02:09Well, first of all, there are bombs going off all over the place.
02:11But even if there weren't, who's going to do that?
02:15You know, who's going to do it?
02:15They don't have any guns.
02:16And the other ones have latest-in-line machine gun, right?
02:19And every form of gun you can have,
02:22they shoot them right through the middle of the head.
02:25They're violent people.
02:26If they had a nuclear weapon, they would use it.
02:30And sometimes I'll have some of the people that, you know, feel very strongly,
02:33like I do about wars.
02:35And I say, do you think Iran is violent and do you think their people are violent?
02:41Yes, leadership.
02:43Do you think they should have a nuclear weapon, which is massive power?
02:49I don't even want to discuss how powerful, because it's depressing.
02:53And they said, no, they shouldn't have.
02:56Definitely they shouldn't have.
02:58They said, and you don't want to fight war?
03:00No, no, we don't want to fight war.
03:02So these are naive people that, frankly, are stupid.
03:06If you believe that Iran should have a nuclear weapon, there's something wrong with you.
03:12No, no, we don't want to fight war.
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