Transcript · English → Spanish
Discussion on Iran and Israel Conflict
Que Israel iba a atacar a Irán y que por eso teníamos
que intervenir. Hoy, el presidente dijo que—
No.
Irán iba a—
Sí, su afirmación es falsa. Eso no es lo que él…
Me preguntaron muy específicamente. ¿Estuvo allí ayer?
Sí, yo hice la pregunta.
De acuerdo.
Espere un momento.
Había totalmente una amenaza inminente, y la amenaza inminente era que sabíamos
que si atacaban a Irán, y creíamos que los atacarían,
que nosotros
sabíamos que si atacaban a Irán, y
creíamos que los atacarían, que vendrían inmediatamente a por nosotros.
No, ¿hizo usted, fue usted a quien yo…
Porque alguien me hizo una pregunta ayer:
"¿Intervinimos debido a Israel?".
Y dije… Usted me preguntó, eh, me re— con la repregunta, y dije:
"No". Le dije
que esto tenía que suceder de todos modos.
Está bien.
El presidente tomó una decisión, y la decisión que tomó fue que Irán
no iba a
tener permitido ocultarse de- detrás de su programa de misiles balísticos,
que a Irán no se le
iba a permitir ocultarse detrás de su capacidad de llevar a cabo estos ataques.
Esa decisión ya se había tomado. El presidente, sistemáticamente, eh,
tomó la decisión de
destruir sistemáticamente esta capacidad terrorista que tenían, y nosotros lo llevamos
a cabo. Fui muy claro con esa respuesta.
Esta era una cuestión de sincronización, de por qué esto tenía que ser una operación
conjunta, no
la cuestión de la-
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Original transcript (English)
That Israel was going to strike Iran and that that's why we needed to get involved. Today, the president said that- No ... Iran was gonna get- Yeah, your statement is false. So that's not what he...
I was asked very specifically. Were you there yesterday? Yes, I asked the question. Okay. Wait a minute. There absolutely was an imminent threat, and the imminent threat was that we knew
that if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked, that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us. No, did you, were you the one that I...
'Cause somebody asked me a question yesterday, "Did we go in because of Israel?" And I said... You asked me, uh, you f- with the follow-up, and I said, "No." I told you this had to happen anyway.
It's fine. The president made a decision, and the decision he made was that Iran was not gonna be allowed to hide be- behind its ballistic missile program, that Iran was not
gonna be allowed to hide behind its ability to conduct these attacks. That decision had been made. The president systematically, uh, made a decision to systematically destroy this terroristic capability that they had, and we carried that out. I was very clear on that answer.
This was a question of timing, of why this had to happen as a joint operation, not the question of the-
