Iran has demonstrated year after year after year that they will spend money paying terrorists to murder Americans. And indeed, The Iranian Ayatollah hired two teams of hitmen to try to murder President Trump. The reason President Trump's military action against Iran was so consequential is that I believe if the Ayatollah acquired a nuclear weapon, the odds are unacceptably high the Ayatollah would use that nuclear weapon. (08:39–08:45)
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Asserts that the Iranian Ayatollah hired hitmen to try to murder President Trump.
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