Sen. Ted Cruz

That's how the administration has described their objectives.

And on the terms of those objectives, I think they've accomplished a lot.

The administration has not articulated its objective as regime change.

And look, there's an obvious reason for that, which is after the Iraq war, I think people are wary of the words regime change.

Understandably, for good reason.

The Iraq war, I think the Iraq war was a mistake, and I'm happy to talk about that and compare and contrast this to Iran.

I, however, think our objective should be unequivocally collapsing this regime.

And in my view, the decision to launch this attack was the most consequential decision President Trump has made in his second term.

Iran has been at war with the United States for 47 years since the Islamic Revolution, which began by seizing Americans and holding them hostage for 444 days.

So that's how they started this journey.

Iran, for the entirety of that time, has been the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism.

They provide over 90% of the funding to Hamas, Hezbollah, to the Houthis.

They've killed nearly 1,000 Americans over that time.

The Ayatollah hired not one but two squads of hitmen to try to murder President Trump.

And I think an Iran that had a government

that was not led by a radical Islamist who leads mobs chanting death to America, an Iran that had a government that was not actively trying to murder Americans, and by the way, succeeding, killing Americans year after year after year, that would be a much safer world for the United States and for our allies.

And so I think that should be the objective.

So let me I'm going to answer your question, but let me stop you when you said you don't think there's anyone in the world that would disagree.

Sure, there's some people in the world.

And by the way, there are some people who are not very far away from us.