Marco Rubio

We're going to test that proposition very strongly because we always prefer to settle things through negotiation and diplomacy.

But we also have to be prepared for the fact that that effort might fail, that we are dealing with a 47-year-old regime that still has a lot of people involved in it who aren't necessarily big fans of diplomacy or peace.

What's that?

I'm sorry.

Well, the war is this operation.

OK, and that's what this is.

It's about very specific objectives.

The president laid them out on the first night of the operation.

I'll repeat them to you now because I hear a lot of talk about we don't know what the clear objectives are.

Here they are.

You should write them down.

Number one, the destruction of their air force.

Number two, the destruction of their Navy.

Number three, the severe diminishing of their missile launching capability.

And number four, the destruction of their factories so they can't make more missiles and more drones to threaten us in the future.

All of this so that they can never hide behind it to acquire a nuclear weapon.

That was our objective from the beginning.

That remains our objective now.

We are on pace and, in fact, ahead of schedule on some of those things.

And we are going to achieve those things in a number of weeks, not in a number of months.