John Kerry

It was about two weeks ago, the New York Times reported that Netanyahu personally went into the Situation Room and presented the case why this was the right thing to do.

It was reported that he had attempted this with previous administrations.

During the Obama administration, where you're Secretary of State, did he make the same case?

Yes.

And what was the response at the time?

No.

And why was that the response?

I'm just curious.

I assume he's a persuasive individual.

And that was not what President Obama said.

Thank you, Jen.

It's great to be with you.

Thank you.

Well, I meant that there are unforeseen options available to Iran, which they've been able to play enormously effectively.

But the most, you know, genuinely what's missing from this discussion is the reality that this is a war

that absolutely, positively did not have to take place.

And so, we're here where we are today, with the global economy threatened, with massive amount of dislocation, with people dying, innocence submitted and so forth.

I mean, we're witnessing the results of moving too rapidly without making the diplomatic measures necessary.

A number of years ago when President Obama decided that we were gonna try to resolve this problem in a peaceful way, we took four years and we secured an agreement that is the strongest nuclear agreement on the planet, strongest since the 1950s and 60s.

We have enormous ability not to trust