Number one, he felt very empowered because the only successful things he's been doing are on kind of a foreign policy perspective when it comes to Venezuela and when it comes to what happened earlier in the year with two strikes that Iran. And He decided to listen to Israeli intelligence about the nuclear threshold that Iran was going to hit that nobody within our intelligence system said was remotely true. You know, your reflections back on the pressure you felt on the Iran nuclear deal, the jcpoa, that takes John and me back, that we were both involved in. (27:21–27:31)
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Asserts that U.S. leadership relied on Israeli intelligence about Iran's nuclear threshold, which was not supported by U.S. intelligence.
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