00:00We had to start this war, you just said, 60 days ago, because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat.
00:09Now you're saying that it was completely obliterated?
00:11They had not given up their nuclear ambitions, and they had a conventional shield of thousands of...
00:16So Operation Midnight Hammer accomplished nothing of substance.
00:20It left us at exactly the same place we were before.
00:23So much so that we had to start a war.
00:24Their facilities were bombed and obliterated.
00:26Their ambitions continued, and they're building a conventional shield of missiles.
00:31All right, let me try again.
00:32It's the North Korea strategy.
00:33You know this very well.
00:34The North Korea strategy was use conventional missiles to prevent anybody from challenging them so they could slow walk their
00:40way to a weapon.
00:41President Trump saw Iran at its weakest moment, took an action to ensure, in a way that only the United
00:47States of America could do with our Israeli partners.
00:49And yet they still haven't given up their nuclear weapons.
00:52So they haven't broken yet.
00:54Okay, we haven't gotten there yet.
00:56For all of the...
00:57Well, their nuclear facilities have been obliterated underground.
01:00They're buried and we're watching them 24-7.
01:03Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
01:03So we know where any nuclear material might be.
01:05Reclaiming my time for just a quick second here.
01:08We had to start this war, you just said, 60 days ago, because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat.
01:16Now you're saying that it was completely obliterated?
01:19They had not given up their nuclear ambitions and they had a conventional shield of thousands of missiles.
01:25So Operation Midnight Hammer accomplished nothing of substance.
01:28It left us at exactly the same place we were before.
01:31So much so that we had to start a war.
01:44And yet they still haven't given up the nuclear weapons.
01:56And yet they still haven't given up the nuclear weapons.
02:00All right, one other question, if I could get to it.
02:03A question about Iran, and I'll give you the final 30 seconds to answer.
02:08Was Iran moving precipitously towards nuclear weapons capability, Mr. Secretary?
02:16Even after the obliteration of Midnight Hammer, what was clear is that the intention of Iran
02:21remained in the pursuit of nuclear weapons.
02:24And after, as hard as they were hit by Israel, it created an opportunity to get rid of the
02:29conventional shield.
02:30That's why we talked about missile production and the Navy and the defense industrial base,
02:34to set them back from blackmailing the region and the world in pursuit of nuclear weapons,
02:38because we understood how much they could continue to pursue them.
02:42They have 60% enriched uranium.
02:44They say they have enough to build 11 bombs.
02:47Even at 60%, is that enough to make a dirty bomb?
02:50Is that a yes or no?
02:51Does anybody have an answer for that?
02:54I mean, I wouldn't want to state anything that might be classified, so I'm going to talk
02:57about that in this setting.
02:58And by the way, in World War II, a congressman was in a closed briefing and learned that the
03:03reason the Japanese hadn't sunk any U.S. submarines is they didn't know our submarines could go
03:08below 250 feet.
03:09So we went out to the media and told them that, and we started losing submarines and losing
03:14American sailors.
03:15So a lesson for all of us in Congress, be careful how we, so thank you for considering
03:20that.
03:21I would say this, if they had a nuclear bomb, would that kill hundreds of people potentially,
03:26thousands of people potentially, or millions of people potentially?
03:32The history shows us what the lethal potential is of a nuclear weapon, and so you'd have
03:37to assume the higher end of that range, and given the radical nature of this regime and
03:42the likelihood of them to use it, it gives you a sense of the threat.
03:45Well, I think the threat is too great to wait, and I have to commend this President Trump for
03:49having the fortitude, and the Secretary of War, and the joint force for making sure we stop
03:55this threat.
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