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The CIA director said that the regime change was possible depending on how we would define the term.

If we mean just killing the Supreme Leader, yeah, we can probably do that.

Which is why, by the way, you've heard the president say over and over, the regime has changed because the old regime is dead.

All the people at the top are dead.

calling on mr warrington that's the white house counsel he just said it was all legally permissible to conduct the operation the way the president had laid it out he didn't offer a personal opinion but the president pressed him and he said as a marine veteran he knew an american service member killed by iran years earlier that issue was deeply personal to him so so the president asked him for his actual thoughts and he gave them stephen chung

warned the president about the risks of engaging in wars overseas.

He said people had not voted for conflict.

The plans, he warned, also flew in the face of what the administration had been saying about the bombing campaign against Iran last year.

In other words, I thought we destroyed their nuclear program.

Why are we going in in light of the fact that the nuclear threat still exists?

How can we say both things at the same time?

Stephen Chung is asking.

And I think the answer to that, by the way, is completely resolved.

Yes, we destroyed the totality of their nuclear program last year, set them back many years.

But their ambitions to rebuild it included building a conventional missile shield to try and stop anybody from upending their nuclear development again going into the future.

And so now we're trying to get all of the uranium out of the country.

We want all of that material out.

That's one of the details that the president's pursuing.

And we get this.

Caroline Leavitt told the president this was, of course, his decision and that the press team would handle it the best that they could, which, of course, should be always the way they operate.