Mr. President, one of your consistent campaign promises was no new wars going all the way back to 2015. Did you break that promise to the American people? I had to stop a country, very powerful, very dangerous country from having a nuclear weapon because they'd use it. They'd blow up the world. They blow up the Middle east, they blow up Israel, they'd come here, they'd blow up Europe. They're nuts. Okay? They're crazy people. (20:05–20:15)
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Asserts that military action was necessary to prevent a country from acquiring nuclear weapons.
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