00:00I appreciate the briefing. This briefing should have happened immediately after these strikes.
00:10There's a real question as to why the Director of National Intelligence is not allowed to be in these briefings.
00:18That's a question that we should get answered.
00:21Listen, to me it still appears that we have only set back the Iranian nuclear program by a handful of months.
00:29There's no doubt there was damage done to the program.
00:32But the allegations that we have obliterated their program just don't seem to stand up to reason.
00:44So obviously I can't share any details from this briefing, but I just do not think the President was telling the truth when he said this program was alliterated.
00:54They were certainly damaged under the program, but there is significant, there's still significant remaining capability.
01:03What do you think the DIA analysis is accurate?
01:07Well, the DIA analysis is preliminary, but, and again, I can only speak to what's been reported openly.
01:17But if the Iranians still retain significant enriched material and centrifuge capability, then it could only be setting back the program months, not years.
01:33Does the administration have an analysis or an opinion of whether Iran is going to be more motivated or less motivated?
01:39I'm not going to talk about anything from the briefing.
01:42I mean, I walk away from that briefing still under the belief that we have not obliterated the program.
01:48The President was deliberately misleading the public when he said the program was obliterated.
01:54It is certain that there is still significant capability and significant equipment that remains.
02:03Does it allow the potential for British rights?
02:07Knowing what you know now, if the President had come to Congress to get approval to authorize this mission, would he have had your vote?
02:17No.
02:18Ultimately, the only way to truly constrain Iran's nuclear program is diplomacy.
02:25You cannot bomb knowledge out of existence.
02:27No matter how many scientists you kill, there are still people in Iran who know how to work centrifuges.
02:32And if they still have enriched uranium, and they still have the ability to use centrifuges, then you're not setting back the program by years.
02:41You're setting back the program by months.
02:43The only path forward is diplomacy.
02:46And I just have not heard a realistic path from this administration about diplomacy.
02:51Of course, all of us would love a diplomatic agreement in which Iran promises to hold no enriched material.
02:59But that has not been a reasonable predicate for negotiations in the past.
03:04It is not likely to be a reasonable predicate for negotiations in the future.
