One of the reasons why you rehearse it is to see if it's even feasible to basically go to the President and say, is this something that's even an option on the table? The truth of the matter is that This mission could not have been briefed to Congress because there wasn't even a in the realm of possible until very late in December. when all of our efforts to negotiate with Maduro had failed and the President was finally presented these options and made these decisions. It was also a trigger based operation. (48:26–48:35)
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Asserts that briefing Congress on the mission was not possible until late December due to its uncertain feasibility.
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