John Kiriakou

But Israeli national interests don't necessarily coincide with American national interests.

And I want my government to represent American national interests.

If the Israelis have a problem with Iran, that's for the Israelis to deal with.

But the intelligence was very clear that Iran did not have a nuclear weapons program.

Okay, just for the benefit of the doubt,

Let's pretend that they did have a nuclear weapons program.

President Trump said in October that the U.S.

Air Force had obliterated it with a 30,000-pound bunker buster bomb, a MOAB, the mother of all bombs.

We had obliterated it.

And then, like magic...

Four weeks ago, they're six weeks away from building a bomb again.

Well, they were six weeks away from building a bomb in 1986, and still there was no bomb.

So I think it's high time that we start acting in the best interests of the United States rather than in the best interests of Israel.

And frankly, I don't think attacking Iran was in the best interests of Israel either.

Oh, yeah.

I believe that very strongly.

Not because Trump is weak.

I don't think Trump is weak.

I think he's actually very strong.

But because of the construct of the American political system, you know, politics run on money.