00:00Even in your printed testimony today on page six and your last paragraph on page six as a result of
00:07Operation Midnight Hammer, Iran's nuclear enrichment program was obliterated, there's been no efforts to try to rebuild their enrichment capability,
00:14you omitted that paragraph from your oral opening. Was that because the president said there was an imminent threat two
00:25weeks ago?
00:25No, sir, I recognize that the time was running long and I skipped through some of the portions of my
00:33oral delivered remarks.
00:34You chose to omit the parts that contradict the president. The president continues to say as well that, you know,
00:41he had no idea, was shocked that the Iranians had moved to take over the Strait of Hormuz.
00:47Did you, um, provide any intelligence that would say that it would be, um, that it was not likely that
00:55the Iranians would try to move on the Strait?
00:57I'm not aware of those remarks and I think those of us here at the table can point to the
01:02fact that historically the Iranians have always threatened to leverage their control.
01:08But why would the president say he was amazed?
01:10I'm not aware of those remarks.
01:11What about the comments the president made that thought that he was surprised again, reports, um, that Iran struck the
01:17adjacent Gulf states?
01:19Again, I'm not aware of those remarks.
01:21We have been and continue to provide the intelligence.
01:23Well, let me ask you this. Did you brief the president?
01:25Did you brief the president?
01:26Did you brief the president if he starts a war of choice that the likely result would be that Iran
01:34would strike adjacent Gulf nations?
01:37And closed the Strait of Hormuz?
01:40Did you brief him on those two facts that I think have been consistently the, uh, assumptions of the intelligence
01:48community?
01:49I have not and won't divulge internal conversations.
01:52I will say that those of us within the intelligence community continue to provide the president with all of the
01:58best objective intelligence available to inform his decisions.
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