Jeffrey Goldberg

These are national security walks.

Right.

our traditional press corps.

They know a lot.

And they tell what you would say, let's call it for short, in good stories of the military.

In other words, when somebody does something heroic or when they have a tactical achievement or when a new weapon system works, they will tell you

They're not – it just annoys me to no end that they are cast as enemies of the people, enemies of the state, enemies of the idea that America deserves security and that the military is the means through which we preserve our national security and therefore preserve our ability to be a constitutional democracy.

Thank you.

I'll be taking questions now.

On a strategic level or a tactical level?

On a tactical level, it's somewhere between an A and an A plus.

On a strategic level, you can't grade it because they didn't hand in the homework.

if you know what I mean.

CENTCOM has plans on plans on plans, right?

The White House said, Admiral Cooper, bring down the plan that destroys the missile ballistic capacity, Navy and Air Force and nuclear sites of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Yes, sir.

Here's the plan.

Okay, go do it.

He does it.

We're probably, I mean, I hear different things and nobody knows nothing.