00:00Hello. First, I want to commend President Trump and his national security team and our brave and skilled pilots and their crews for a brilliantly executed mission on Saturday night.
00:14Second, I want to condemn the selective and unlawful leaking of a report from the Defense Intelligence Agency, which explicitly said was preliminary, was done with low confidence, was done with numerous intelligence gaps that could lead to a broad range of conclusions.
00:37And I also want to address what I think are the effects of not only the United States' military efforts against Iran, but also the Israeli Defense Forces.
00:51You have seen several experts in the last couple of days who, I think it's fair to say, are not Donald Trump partisans.
01:01Use words like, effectively destroyed, catastrophic damage, set back for years.
01:09That includes Raphael Grossi, the director of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency.
01:18David Albright, a renowned and respected former weapons inspector in this field.
01:23Norm Rule, who was the national intelligence manager on Iran during the Obama administration, all, again, used phrases like, effectively destroyed, catastrophic damage, set back for years.
01:39So, without any classified information whatsoever, I think it's safe to say that we have struck a major blow alongside our friends in Israel against Iran's nuclear program that is going to make America safer, our friends in the region safer, and protect the world from the risk of an Iranian nuclear weapon for years.
02:01Mr. Chairman, there was a report that the Trump administration is going to limit its free things to members of Congress because of this leak. Have you pushed back on that?
02:09I've seen the report. I'm not aware of that. No one in the Trump administration has raised it with me.
02:14I understand their frustration that just hours after that report from the Defense Intelligence Agency was posted to Congress's...
02:23It was leaked. Obviously, it was leaked by someone who was trying to put our pilots and their crews and the president and his national security team to worst light.
02:33I don't know if it was from Congress. I don't know if it was from someone inside the administration opposed the president's policy.
02:39But as I said, that report was preliminary. It was done with low confidence.
02:43It said it had numerous intelligent steps. It assumed the worst-case scenario with perfect conditions in Iran.
02:49I believe that this mission was a tremendous success and that we have effectively destroyed Iran's nuclear program.
02:57Mr. Chairman, how is the top of the argument that the ceasefire can hold at this point, given especially what you heard in this report?
03:03The ceasefire will hold if Iran lives up to its end of the bargain.
03:08If Iran starts trying to attack Israel again or to attack U.S. interests in the region again,
03:14then both the president and the prime minister have said rightly that we will have to go back and we'll have to show Iran, once again, that we mean business.
03:22Senator Kahn, did the Democrats seem satisfied with this? They didn't express so many reservations in the police.
03:28They should be satisfied. They got very good answers from John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, from Pete Hextap, the Secretary of Defense,
03:36from General Kahn, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and from Marco Rubio, who I'd point out is not just the Secretary of State,
03:42but he's also the National Security Advisor, something that I believe is almost unprecedented in terms of the access and briefing that the Democrats get.
03:48Now, maybe they're going to come out and tell you they're not satisfied.
03:52Some Democrats, some in the media, seem to have such a case of Trump derangement syndrome,
03:56that they're rooting for the survival of Iran's nuclear program versus celebrating the success of our pilots and their crews.
04:03But I think the answers they got in there should be totally satisfied.
04:07And was there discussion of the leaks in there at all?
04:09Yes, there was condemnation of the leaks by both the briefers and Republicans and Democrats for that matter.
04:17We should not ever leak classified information.
04:19Mr. Chairman, if there's additional force required necessary to do further damage to Iran's nuclear program,
04:24do you think that action should be vetted or consulted through Congress?
04:29Well, first off, as I said, I think we've caused catastrophic damage to Iran's nuclear program.
04:36That's not to say they might not try to reconstitute it at some time.
04:39But for those of you around 10 years ago during the debate over Barack Obama's nuclear weapons program,
04:46we often use the phrase vast nuclear infrastructure because it does take a vast infrastructure.
04:51And I know everyone's very focused on what happened at a couple of these underground bunkers
04:57or what happened with canisters of uranium.
05:00But if you look at the whole span of what happened over 12 days,
05:03the targeting of Iran's nuclear scientists, the underground bunkers,
05:08the centrifuges, the centrifuge manufacturing sites, the gas to metal conversion sites,
05:13that's why we're confident, since all of those are single points of failure
05:17in an effort to get a nuclear weapon, then we have had an extraordinary success.
05:22Now, again, both the president and Prime Minister Netanyahu have said
05:25that Iran should not try to reconstitute their nuclear weapons program.
05:29And if they do, then all options will remain on the table.
05:32Well, the law applies equal to everyone, and no one should leak classified information.
05:43Do people in both parties seem satisfied by the amount of damage caused?
05:48Is there agreement in the room?
05:49I think you'll have to ask some of our Democratic colleagues.
05:51I suspect those who are satisfied won't stop here,
05:55and those who are dissatisfied will stop.
05:58Do you have some sense of where the enriched uranium is at this point?
06:02Has the intelligence community figured that out at this point?
06:05I don't have a comment on that.
06:07I will say it was not part of the mission to destroy all their enriched uranium
06:11or to seize it or anything else.
06:14Again, it's not a Mission Impossible movie.
06:16There's not a single thing out there that can be done or not done
06:21to allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon.
06:23It's the entire chain of events and people and places
06:26that you have to put together to get a nuclear weapon.
06:30The scientists, the centrifuges, the repair parts,
06:33centrifuge manufacturing, the cascades of centrifuges,
