00:00Can you, at this moment, acknowledge that that mistake was made and that we were responsible for it?
00:05It's something we didn't want to do and don't want to repeat?
00:11Congressman, to reiterate, the United States does not deliberately target civilians.
00:15Got that part.
00:16Period. Full stop.
00:18Nor are the Iranian people our enemy.
00:20The IRGC is the adversary in this case.
00:23I heard that in your opening statement, Admiral.
00:25I asked you a very specific question, and I'm curious what the answer is.
00:28Sir, the investigation is ongoing.
00:30As soon as it is complete, I'm happy to be as in return as possible.
00:33We will not take responsibility for something we very obviously did.
00:37Sir, it's a complex investigation.
00:39The school itself is located on an active IRGC cruise missile base.
00:43It's more complex than the average strike.
00:46As soon as we're complete, I'm fully committed to transparency, given your important oversight role and the other members here.
00:52Just so you know, and I have an enormous amount of respect for you and an enormous amount of respect
00:56for the Pentagon.
00:57I do not trust that answer.
00:59What we've seen out of the Secretary of Defense and his callous disregard for any sort of rules of engagement
01:06or protecting civilian life may make us suspicious.
01:09You also lifted the oil sanctions on Iran, giving them about $14 to $16 billion.
01:16They can buy a lot of ballistic missiles for that.
01:19Was that part of the plan?
01:20Lifting oil sanctions on them in the course of the conflict?
01:23They killed 14 Americans, we lift oil sanctions on them?
01:28As you know, sir, the U.S. military does not lift sanctions.
01:30That's a policy decision.
01:32Well, it doesn't seem to be going well.
01:33And I would like to know how many more Americans we have to ask to die for this mistake.
01:37Do you know?
01:38I think it's an entirely inappropriate statement from you, sir.
01:41With all due respect, it's not a statement, it's a question.
01:45You're not recognized, gentlemen, from Tennessee.
01:47With all due respect.
01:47Very good.
01:49Let me ask, too, since the conflict has begun, how many drones and missiles has Iran launched?
01:54And how many of those have targeted civilian sites?
01:58And can you give us some examples of the civilian targets that have been struck by those drones and missiles?
02:03Yeah, Congressman, I think the specific number of drones and missiles are best addressed in a classified form, which follows
02:10this.
02:10I'll talk about there.
02:11But what I can say here is Iran deliberatelyā
02:13Can you just give us orders of magnitude, hundreds, thousands?
02:16Thousands.
02:17Okay.
02:17What I can say here is Iran deliberately targeted civilians in the Middle East at least a thousand times.
02:23We've seen many of this play out on TV.
02:25Restaurants in Bahrain, restaurants in neighborhoods in UAE, the same thing in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
02:32We saw before our very eyes on TV, you saw it yourself, cluster munitions going off over Tel Aviv, targeting
02:40civilians.
02:41It was crystal clear.
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