Look, in the middle of this war in Iran right now, we know where all the military leaders are, principally because of Israel, because of their intelligence. It's so good. If we tried to recreate the benefits we get from intelligence and military from cooperating with Israel, if we tried to just do it on ourselves, it would cost tens of billions of dollars more and it wouldn't be nearly as good. And every single Hamas terrorist or Hezbollah terrorist or Iranian terrorist that Israel kills is a national security benefit to America, because those terrorists, yes, they want to murder Israelis, but they want to murder Americans as well. (25:42–25:57)
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Asserts that replicating the intelligence and military benefits from Israel would be costly and less effective.
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