00:00Senator, do these strikes set back in the Iranian nuclear program months or years?
00:05Clearly, damage was inflicted on the Iranian nuclear weapon, and we do not want or have the capability to build a nuclear weapon.
00:17That has been the position of the United States and the overwhelming majority of Democrats in the world for decades.
00:24It is going to take time to get a final assessment of how much damage.
00:30The thing that I've had some concern about is when people jump to a conclusion too early.
00:38Clearly, the president making a comment on Saturday night before any assessment of total obliteration.
00:47Listen, I hope that is the final assessment.
00:50But if not, does that end up providing a false sense of comfort to the American people of that matter in the world?
00:58We, I was glad to hear members down there stand up for the strength and integrity of our intelligence community, how good they are.
01:09I hope that would be reflected more often by this administration and not being willing to blow off or ignore the inclusions of the intelligence community.
01:18That is absolutely critical.
01:20But to get to the point where Iran does not have the ability to enrich uranium that they possibly use for military purposes, you're going to need diplomacy.
01:37You're going to need inspectors on the ground.
01:39It's clear, and again, this is long before this brief, that some of the enriched uranium was never going to be taken out by a bunker-busting arm.
01:51So some of that obviously remains a lot.
01:55So we've got to get to that diplomacy goal.
01:58We also need to get the full assessment of what the level of damage done.
02:03And boy, I sure hope that some of the extraordinarily strong words that were said about the integrity and quality of our intelligence community,
02:11that message will resound in the White House.
02:15Do you think that the Director of National Intelligence should be part of that final absence?
02:20And what do you make of her absence today?
02:24I make no judgment.
02:27I obviously have great concerns about the DNI, concerns that she literally fired people from the intelligence community because they would not change the intelligence product.
02:40That's the way we only need to say four words, four letters, a rock.
02:44So I was very satisfied.
02:47So based on what you learned, do you believe Iran is now more motivated or less motivated to go for a rush?
02:53There are.
02:56Obviously, if you don't have all of the enriched uranium, eliminated, some of those keeping the base existing,
03:05how quick on a rush would you believe for a bomb wouldn't necessarily be deployed for missile?
03:13There are some questions I've submitted.
03:16And do you agree with Senator Graham that further military strikes need to be on the table in the coming months or a year?
03:22What I think we ought to see is what happens next.
03:28And I hope, and again, I'll be planning on talking about this.
03:31The only way we get certain is with inspectors on the ground making sure not only about the inventory but the fact that what this regime,
03:41it's a bad regime, might be trying to do in secret.
03:44That will only come to diplomacy and the fact that it appears that the United States and the one are going to enter into those negotiations next week.
03:51That's a good thing.
03:52Senator Warner, can you share?
03:53I have been extraordinarily consistent with leaks of any kind should be prosecuted.
04:10I simply wish that the administration would adhere to that same level of secrecy about classified information that shouldn't be shared on non-classified channels like Sigma.
04:21And the fact that we still don't know whether participants on some of those calls have ever even had their phone scrubbed for malware.
04:28That is not practice.
04:29Were you aware of the DIA assessment before CNN reported on it?
