David Sanger

Well, Terry, wonderful to be back on with you.

I was a little surprised.

I had thought that he was going to set some kind of deadline for the Iranians because the backdrop to the speech, of course, was that he has engaged in one of the largest examples of gunboat diplomacy that we've

seen in some time.

He's put a huge force of two carrier groups, other ships, fighter aircraft, bombers, refuelers, all within reach of Iran.

It's the largest buildup of American military forces that we have seen since the run-up to the Iraq War in 2003.

So it's a huge military pressure campaign.

And I thought he would refer more explicitly to that.

He didn't.

Instead, what he did was kind of run together a couple of different facts and a few fantasies about the Iranian program.

First of all, the problem with the Iranian nuclear program is not that the Iranians haven't said they'll never build a nuclear weapon.

They say that every week.

They've been saying that for years.

The foreign minister of Iran tweeted it out again just before the president spoke.

No, you can't, Terry.

And of course, the problem is not what they say.

It is the evidence that has been gathered patiently over 20 years about work they did on weaponization, the conversion of nuclear material into actual weapons that could only be explained by either an active or a once active nuclear weapons program.

Now, for the president, he had a particular hurdle to cross here because, of course, the

He has said and said again in that clip that you played that their nuclear program was destroyed.

It wasn't, but the nuclear fuel was buried.