00:00I'm on the Gang of Eight. I got all the briefings. We all understood there was clearly an imminent threat
00:05that Iran was very close to the enrichment of nuclear capability and they were building missiles at a pace that
00:12no one in the region could keep up with.
00:14They were far outpacing our allies and friends and us in our defense capability because we had personnel, installations, members
00:25of the armed services and civilians in the region.
00:27Iran was building up ballistic missiles at such a rapid pace and we knew that their plan was to fire
00:32them upon Americans.
00:34The commander-in-chief and his administration had a very difficult decision to make.
00:39I don't know where Joe Kent is getting his information but he wasn't in those briefings clearly because the Secretary
00:44of State, the Secretary of War and everyone, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Kaine, they had exquisite intelligence that
00:51we understood that this was a serious moment for us.
00:55Had the president waited, I am personally convinced that we would have mass casualties of Americans, service members and others
01:01and our installations would have been dramatically damaged.
01:06And so we had to, the president felt that he had to strike first to prevent those mass casualties.
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