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Sebastian Gorka: “The first Trump administration crushed the physical…”

Featuring: Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to the President, Senior Director for Counterterrorism | National

A Conversation With Sebastian Gorka

Published March 20, 2026 | Video Starts at 27:21

Why am I, for example, looking at the Lake Chad Basin, why am I concerned with the Sahel? Because The first Trump administration crushed the physical caliphate of ISIS. We'd been told by Obama for years, direct, quote, isis is, quote, a problem, a generational problem we have to live with. (27:21–27:27)

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“We have liberated under [the President's] leadership, 101 Americans.”
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“The Chinese dominance [in drones] has ended because of the President's decision through the FCC in December.”
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“70% of combat casualties in Ukraine are not from artillery pieces. They're not from small arms fire. They are from drones.”
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“Iran has to be dealt with. The president is correct.”
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“The rector of the NCTC is never a member of the Cabinet.”
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“One of the reasons that we have had this absolutely historic level of success in everything the President's done, not just economically, but…”
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“The operational security of this administration is because how tightly we've held these incredibly strategic decisions.”
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“The NCTC is a clearinghouse and coordinating body for intelligence on terrorist threats and it works for a Cabinet member who happens to be…”
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“Every significant terrorist threat we face, especially in the Middle East, once you scratch the surface within a nanometer, there's Iran.”
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“Operation Epic Fury is going to solve perhaps the most trenchant and strategic terrorist threat the world faces today.”
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“The sovereignty of nation states, especially America, is paramount.”
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“If you don't control who comes into a country, you are not a sovereign nation.”
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“We have an Iran that is so degraded.”
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“They don't have [training camps] anymore because of the first Trump administration.”
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“The actors who are plotting to kill, even the recent individual who was put in prison for trying to plot against the president. Who were…”
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“Their capacity to do us ill is being degraded every single day.”
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“If you don't have the decision makers, you will eventually be combat ineffective.”
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“On the contrary, absolutely. That's utterly fallacious.”
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“I run the United States Government Counterterrorism Strategic Group every Thursday morning with every element of the counterterrorism…”
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“Iran being the biggest state sponsor of terrorism.”
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“Russia is doing many things to affect its national interests in ways which are antithetical to the transatlantic alliance and US Interest…”
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“The idea that we are not taking seriously any other irregular threat tied to a nation state would be incorrect.”
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“Iran lost this massive resupply route to its proxies to smuggle weapons, monies, individuals.”
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“We would like [Iraq] to be sovereign as well and not to be an appendage of Iran.”
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“What the SDF has done, what the new regime in Damascus has done, and what the government in Baghdad has done has made all of us safer.”
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“Arab jihadists are having to hide out in the Lake Chad Basin of Africa.”
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“In the draft counterterrorism strategy we've prepared for the president...revitalize the counter jihadi propaganda capabilities of the US…”
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