Trump's approach has been our interest in advancing those interests from the beginning.

And so the fact that intelligence was gathered, whether from Israelis or ours, and always checked by our intel agencies to make sure it's accurate,

a lot of times the best way to start operations is a trigger-based or condition-based moment.

And you can work together on whether that makes sense.

But we were always controlling the throttle about whether or not to go or not go, and ultimately

to advance American interests and protect American lives.

Some might look at that sequence of events and say, well, that it was an opportunity

more than an imminent threat.

I mean, I think much of that discussion is silly and academic.

They've been killing us for 48 years, 47 years.

They have unabated nuclear ambitions.

And when we obliterated their nuclear program

at the end of the 12-day war in Operation Midnight Hammer,

they should have come to the table and said, okay, we get it, you mean business, we're not going to have nukes, and they haven't. And as a result, when the president looks at it, generationally, he sees a threat that would continue to gather. I want to say, though, and the president's been clear about this, it doesn't mean they won't have some get through, as we tragically saw, and we're going

to greet those families at Dover and honor and respect the sacrifice they gave.

And President's been right to say there will be casualties.

Things like this don't happen without casualties.

There will be more casualties.

And no one is, I mean, especially our generation knows what it's like to see Americans come home in caskets.

It's, but that doesn't weaken us one bit.

It stiffens our spine and our resolve to say this is a fight we will finish.

We were pulling in race in New York and we want everyone here to stay in New York.

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