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Scott Bessent: “Imagine this regime, if they had had another year or two…”

Featuring: Scott Bessent, Republican | Secretary of the Treasury | National

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Scott Bessent defends U.S. military actions in Iran: 'Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate'

Published | Video Starts at 13:18

But to have 50 years of peace in the Middle east and know that the Iranian regime is defanged because, Kristen, what we had before was the illusion of security. Imagine this regime, if they had had another year or two years to build out their missile capabilities, they would have built a shield around themselves and it would have been impossible to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon. All right, I want to ask you on a different topic about a post by President Trump from yesterday responding to the death of former special counsel Robert Mueller. (13:18–13:33)

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Asserts that Iran could have developed missile capabilities making it impossible to prevent them from acquiring nuclear weapons.

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