00:00On our streets, in our communities, and in our businesses tomorrow, and every day thereafter.
00:08So, Senator Mullen, I'm going to start with a question I have asked every one of the president's nominees.
00:14If directed by the president to take an action that would break the law, would you follow the law or
00:19follow the president's direction?
00:22Senator, thank you for the questions and thank you for the concerns.
00:25First of all, I've enjoyed working with you on several different issues.
00:29We've had very blunt conversations.
00:31To answer your question, the president would never ask me to do that.
00:35Well, certainly everyday Americans who have served on juries would disagree with you about that.
00:40And the example he has set calls into question that answer.
00:45I have limited time, as you well know.
00:47In the past 14 months, Secretary Noem has fundamentally broken the American People's Trust in the Department of Homeland Security.
00:55The top priority of whoever leads this department next must be...
01:00I have no doubt Iran has noticed that.
01:02For weeks, the Houthis have hunted commercial vessels and military targets, forcing Washington to respond with overwhelming force.
01:11And now, another war front is reigniting.
01:16Israel has resumed its military operations in Gaza, ending a brief ceasefire.
01:23Israeli fighter jets are pounding Hamas targets, with Tel Aviv calling the renewed offensive a necessary move for national security.
01:32With the Houthis targeting Israel and clashing with U.S. forces, and Trump issuing direct threats to Iran, the Middle
01:42East is now staring at the brink of all-out regional war.
01:55Because we have been able, for the most part, to shoot them all down, what incredible technology.
02:01The patriots have been unbelievable, and other things.
02:05And the laser technology that we have now is incredible.
02:09It's coming out pretty soon.
02:10We're literally lasers.
02:12We'll do the work of, at a lot less cost, do the work of what the patriots are doing, or
02:18what other things are doing.
02:20The situation was very quickly approaching.
02:22The point of no return, and the United States found it intolerable, in my opinion, based on what Steve and
02:31Jared and Pete and others were telling me, Marco, so involved,
02:35that I thought that they were going to attack us, I thought they would, if we didn't do this, at
02:40the time we did it, I think they had in mind to attack us.
02:43And if you notice, they did something which was very foolish, very stupid, I would say.
02:47They attacked their neighbors.
02:49And their neighbors were largely neutral, or at least weren't going to be involved.
02:57And they got attacked.
02:58But, and it had the reverse effect.
03:01Upended traditional diplomacy once again, lashing out at America's NATO allies, saying,
03:06We no longer need or desire their assistance, and we never did.
03:11Over the past few days, the president has been piling pressure on countries to show more support for America's war
03:16efforts.
03:17But to Trump's disbelief, his calls have largely been met with reluctance or outright refusal.
03:23Despite the fact that we helped them so much, we have thousands of soldiers in different countries all over the
03:29world.
03:30And they don't want to help us, which is amazing.
03:34I mean, amazing.
03:35I think NATO's making a very foolish mistake.
03:38And I've long said that, you know, I wonder whether or not NATO would ever be there for us.
03:44So this is a, this was a great test.
03:46Because we don't need them, but they should have been there.
03:49Let's speak to chief presenter Katrina Perry, who is at the White House.
03:53Katrina, people on the BBC's YouTube page have been commenting that President Trump appears to change his opinions from day
03:59to day.
03:59What do you make of the president's latest burst of criticism?
04:03Because my attitude is, we don't need anybody.
04:07We're the strongest nation in the world.
04:09We have the strongest military by far in the world.
04:12We don't need them.
04:13But it's interesting.
04:15I'm almost doing it in some cases, not because we need them, but because I want to find out how
04:19they react.
04:22Now, Trump says that some countries have told him that they are eager to help, but we still don't know
04:26which ones he's talking about.
04:28And many allies have actually publicly rebuffed the president.
04:32Like Germany, for example, their defense minister is asking, quote, what does Trump expect a handful or two handfuls of
04:39European frigates to do in the Strait of Hormuz that the powerful U.S. Navy cannot do?
04:44This is not our war.
04:45We have not started it.
04:47It's hard to get more blunt than that, Anna.
04:51And the president is also doing this, at least according to recent American history, particularly the lead up to the
04:58Iraq war, without doing this in advance.
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