He said it about an hour and a half ago, he said it. The imminent threat. I want you to listen to this logic chain. The imminent threat to the United States was that Israel was going to attack Iran. And we anticipated that in retaliation, Iran was going to attack our interests. Therefore, imminent threat. That's not what we mean by imminent threat. There are no bank shots when we're describing an imminent threat. (05:12–05:17)
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Asserts that the perceived imminent threat was based on a potential Israeli attack on Iran.
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