Donald Trump: “There were some threats. And rather than tempting the enemy, we'll capture the enemy and beat the enemy.”

“Intelligence for a specific threat that led you to pull those bombers back from the uk? Yeah, I think we can say that. I mean, they didn't fly out by accident. Yeah, no, but There were some threats. And rather than tempting the enemy, we'll capture the enemy and beat the enemy. But why should we leave them there? So we moved them around a little bit, not very far.” (00:13–00:20)

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