00:00The commander-in-chief and his administration had a very difficult decision to make.
00:04I don't know where Joe Kent is getting his information, but he wasn't in those briefings,
00:08clearly, because the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and everyone, the Joint Chiefs
00:13of Staff, General Kaine, they had exquisite intelligence that we understood that this
00:17was a serious moment for us. Had the president waited, I am personally convinced that we would
00:23have mass casualties of Americans, service members and others, and our installations would have been
00:29dramatically damaged. And so we had to, the president felt that he had to strike first
00:35to prevent those mass casualties.
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