Discussion on US-Iran Relations and Military Action

Yesterday, you told us 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 were asking me that. You f- the follow-up.

And I said, "No." I told you this had to happen

anyway.

Sorry.

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 in that answer.

This was a question of timing, of why this had to happen as a joint

operation, not

the question of the intent.