Richard Blumenthal: 'I Am Concerned About Our Vulnerability To Potential Retaliation By Iran Within The' US

On Thursday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) spoke with reporters about the Iran strikes.

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00:00I am most concerned about our vulnerability to potential retaliation from Iran within the United States.

00:09This administration has disbanded a number of the Department of Justice and FBI units

00:16that are responsible for investigating and prosecuting the right-wing fringe terrorists

00:24or other kinds of groups that could use drones or other tools to make us more vulnerable.

00:33Hopefully get some of the classified intel that we've been told around the Battle Damage Assessment.

00:37BDA has taken a long time, daylight imagery, night-time imagery, hopefully SIGINT confirmation.

00:42I haven't added any information yet as classified, so hopefully we'll hear today that the BDA confirmed what we hope,

00:47which is the nuclear program is severely debilitated, if not destroyed.