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Mike Johnson: “We had to take out the capability of their ballistic…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Speaker Johnson Joins Scott Wong for a Fireside Chat

Published | Video Starts at 02:09

But my understanding was, from all the briefings that I got, that this was limited in scope to the mission that has been well articulated by the President and Secretary of War, Secretary of State, that We had to take out the capability of their ballistic missiles. They were producing them at a rapid rate in Iran. at a scale and a scope that was too quick for our allies in the region to keep up. And it presented a real and imminent danger. (02:09–02:15)

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Asserts that Iran was rapidly producing ballistic missiles, necessitating U.S. action.

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