00:00Director Gabbard, last year you testified that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon.
00:04Do you stand by that statement? Yes or no?
00:09Context matters with that statement. Iran had all of the materials and capabilities to do so.
00:16Mr. Chairman, I reclaim my time. It's an easy answer. You either stand by what you said last year or
00:22not.
00:22It is a serious question that requires the totality of the information available.
00:27I reclaim my time. I reclaim my time.
00:31Did you... When President Trump was asked about your testimony, he said you were wrong.
00:38Were you lying or not?
00:41I stand by the intelligence community's complete assessment.
00:45Director Ratcliffe, when it came to the director's testimony, she said that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon last
00:53spring in Congress.
00:56And so the Supreme Leader has not authorized the nuclear weapons program.
01:01Do you agree with what she said or not? Yes or no?
01:05The director's right here. She can speak for herself.
01:07Oh, so I thought this was an intelligence community briefing.
01:14Let's move on.
01:16Trump also said he didn't care what you thought or said.
01:20Should he care about what you have to say when it comes to intelligence?
01:24I continue to provide the president with the intelligence community's assessments on all matters.
01:30So let me just kind of get this straight.
01:33The department, you said that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon last year.
01:40President Trump said he didn't care what you thought and you were wrong.
01:45They engaged in Operation Midnight Hammer.
01:48He then says it was obliterated.
01:51We hear later reports that, in open source reporting, that it was only set back by a few months.
01:58Then at the beginning of this war, he said that they were weeks away.
02:04I just want to kind of get a sense of were they weeks away of achieving a nuclear weapon?
02:11Yes or no?
02:14Congressman, this is a serious matter, and you've made some very serious mischaracterizations here.
02:19Yes or no? Were they weeks away? Yes or no?
02:21And so it would be a disservice to you and the American people to answer this question with Amir.
02:24Reclaiming my time. Reclaiming my time. Were they weeks away or not?
02:28The American people need to know if this was an imminent threat or not.
02:32If they're weeks away or not. If they're months away or not.
02:36None of this dodging. Were they an imminent threat?
02:40Yesterday you said that only the president, only the only person who can determine what is an imminent threat is
02:50the president of the United States.
02:51Do you stand by that statement?
02:53Yes, I do.
02:56Director Ratcliffe, do you agree with that assessment?
03:00That the president is the only person that can determine if something is an imminent threat or not?
03:05The president's commander-in-chief gets to make a decision about what's an imminent threat.
03:09The intelligence community...
03:10Well, the intelligence...
03:11Reclaim my time.
03:12Is it...
03:13Reclaim my time.
03:14The intelligence community has provided a body of intelligence...
03:17Reclaim my time.
03:17The reason why is that if the president can determine and ignore what you're doing, why do you guys even
03:23have a job?
03:24Why even...
03:24Like, why do you even advise them?
03:26So you're saying tomorrow the president of the United States can say China is an imminent threat.
03:32And then he can take his own...
03:34No matter what the intelligence says, he can take his own action.
03:38So that's what you're basically saying.
03:39Okay, let's go on.
03:41Director Gabbard, you said that North Korea has intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach the homeland.
03:48Yet, the Defense Department said that Iran was at least 10 years away from achieving an intercontinental ballistic missile that
03:58can reach the homeland.
03:59Which one is a more serious threat?
04:01North Korea or Iran?
04:06These threats are taken within the context of the total body of intelligence reporting.
04:13So that's...
04:14It should be.
04:16And that's my point.
04:19It's not just about having the capability of building a weapon.
04:23It's if they can actually deliver that weapon.
04:26If they can...
04:27They have the intention of doing that.
04:30How many weeks away are they?
04:34I haven't like...
04:35We haven't heard that there were weeks away.
04:38We haven't heard that there are months away.
04:41We're like...
04:42But that's what we're waiting for.
04:45Imminent, to me, means is that they're mobilizing troops.
04:49They're moving things into position.
04:52Artillery.
04:53They're getting ready to attack.
04:56But everything that we've heard is that this is not the case.
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