iran has recognized that their nuclear program was indeed severely damaged but they also said that the US strikes only strengthen their ability and their determination to complete their nuclear program how do you respond to that sir is that a provocation from Iran well I would say Iran’s going to have to say a lot of things right now in order to bolster their image especially internally you know in the media there’s a lot of things uh they’ll say for domestic consumption uh but we’re watching very closely what they do again that’s the intel community our job as the chairman I mean the chairman laid it out so beautifully our job is to be prepared and how proud are you how proud am I i I didn’t know the full story of those men and women 15 years ago who’ve been pointing at that target that makes me proud to be an American that’s an awesome story i hope we can tell more aspects of that in an unclassified way in the future uh that that’s that’s a great thing to know our job is to be prepared when the commander-in-chief calls uh based on those assessments so of course our IC the intelligence committee will keep watching what Iran does and pay attention to that but the president has created the contours the opportunity for a deal for peace in something that the world said was intractable that wasn’t possible and we got that peace that ceasefire that option because of strength because of his willingness to use American military might that no one else on the planet can do with the kind of planners and operators that the chairman just laid
