Ted Cruz

He and I discussed this at length on Friday.

My counsel to him was that the Iranian regime has never been weaker, that it was teetering and now was the time.

My advice was do not miss this opportunity.

I think the president has acted boldly, he's acted decisively, and Iran no longer being led

by a theocratic, murderous dictator that makes America

Because the diplomacy was an abject failure.

The Iranians approached the diplomacy with arrogance, which with absolute hubris,

They said they would not stop enriching.

No matter what, they were going to continue to enrich uranium.

They would not discuss zero enrichment.

They claimed a right to enrich uranium in underground bunkers with no supervision.

As President Trump said on Friday when he was with me in Texas, his line was zero enrichments.

and the iranians refused to discuss it they also refused to discuss their proxies they refused to discuss hamas and hezbollah and the houthis and and president trump understood that the iranian quote negotiation was just a stall tactic and that the only response my my advice to him i said there's only one deal you should accept and it's the deal that you offered maduro which is if you want to leave and flee the country you can do so anything else

is unacceptable, and Khomeini made his choice.

So Margaret, what I just told you is almost word for word what Secretary of State Marco Rubio told me yesterday.

So there is no doubt that a year ago, Iran had an active and ongoing nuclear weapons program.

We took out the vast majority of that at the end of the 12-day war.

We took out, we launched targeted bombs at the end of the 12-day war, where we dropped the equivalent of about a third of a nuclear weapon.

on those underground facilities.

Facilities like Fordow, which is built into the base of a mountain.