David E. Sanger

And for the first time, he basically urged the Iranian people to use this opportunity to rise up against their government.

Now is the time to seize control of your destiny and to unleash the prosperous and glorious future that is close within your reach.

This is the moment for action.

Do not let it pass.

And that was pretty remarkable because we had been wondering, what was the plan to get from attacking the leadership compounds to actually changing the regime?

That's exactly right.

And we've really never seen anything like that before.

May God bless the United States of America.

May God bless you all.

Thank you.

And, you know, politically and tactically for President Trump, this is also huge.

It was only two months ago, not even two months ago, that he sent a Delta force in to pull Nicolas Maduro from his bed in Caracas and send him off to a prison in New York.

And now he ends up killing the supreme leader of Iran.

We don't know where this is going to go.

But it is certainly one of the most significant turning points in the American encounters in the Middle East in decades.

Well, the truth, Rachel, is we don't know because there has not been a regime change in Iran since the Shah was thrown out in the late 1970s.

And the world's a very different place.

The population's very young.

But there's also this huge, well-armed military establishment that is wildly invested in the status quo and that is invested in the nuclear program as well.

Mm-hmm.