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That is the same distance from Iran that Paris and London are, which means they had missiles far enough to get to the capital cities in Europe.

They were building over 100 missiles a month.

They were also building vast numbers of drones.

And their plan was to have so many missiles and so many drones that it would become prohibitively costly to go in and take out their next nuclear weapons research facility.

They wanted enough missiles and drones that if we came in and took out

Phase two of the nuclear weapons research facility, they could inflict massive casualties on their neighbors.

And look what they did when when this conflict started.

They fired missiles at everybody, not just at Israel, at every one of their neighbors.

And and so the Trump administration made the determination they needed to act now before they had so many missiles and so many drones that there would be a massive loss of life if we acted subsequently to take out nuclear weapons research facilities.

That's number one.

Number two, the Iranian regime is weaker right now than it has been at any time during our lifetime.

As you know, I spent the entire day the day before this conflict began with President Trump.

He and I were together in Air Force One.

We flew from D.C.

to Texas together.

And then he asked me to join him in the beast in the presidential limo.

It was just the two of us one on one.

the entire time we were talking about what should he do in Iran, and what I was arguing to him, I support this attack and I urge this attack vigorously, and I said, listen, the regime has never been more vulnerable.

It is teetering and there is very little, if anything, that you could do that would more greatly enhance American national security than to see this radical Islamist regime collapse, to remove from power

An Ayatollah who chants death to America, who has been murdering Americans for years and who wants to kill as many Americans as he can.