Ben Rhodes

And I think the cost of this were much higher than we know.

Even though they asked for $200 to pay for it.

You always got to have a cushion, a little rainy day cushion.

Pete Hexeth always likes to go out with a little extra money in his pocket.

Yeah, exactly.

But I mean, we're right back to a place where the best thing Trump could get, literally the best thing that he could get out of this war, which still I don't think would have been worth anywhere near the cost that we paid, is something approximating

The Iran nuclear deal, the JCPOA, in which they, guess what they did under the deal, John?

They shipped their stockpile out of the country.

What?

The dust, the nuclear dust that Trump keeps talking about.

That was routinely shipped out of the country.

There was an inspection regime.

Or they never got in?

They always got in.

Because some of it was inspectors, like people.

Some of it was cameras.

We had inspections of their uranium mines and mills so we could make sure they weren't diverting their uranium to some covert program.

The enrichment facilities, the storage facilities where the centrifuges were.

All these places were inspected.

They had limitations on...