Mike Johnson: “The mission is very simple. It's twofold. We take out…”

“We had a narrow and unique opportunity, a window of opportunity to act. And if that window had passed, it would have been much more difficult for us to achieve the mission. The mission is very simple. It's twofold. We take out [Iran's] ability to launch ballistic missiles and to produce ballistic missiles and we downgrade their Navy. That's it. That's what we're doing. It's short in scope. It does not violate the law in any way. It was explained here very well.” (01:45–01:58)

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