Trump on canceled Iran strikes
Trump says the strikes on Iran that were called off last night would've been "the biggest attack since World War II." He mentioned there's a group pushing him to go ahead and another that doesn't want him to.
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What happens now? Well, now what we're doing is we're talking to them in the book of the negotiation. It begins tomorrow afternoon, and we'll see them, too. I'd love to do that. Save a lot of lives. Save a lot of unnecessary power, to be honest with you. It'll take many, many years to ever build it back. I don't think it would be even buildable back. So we had an attack that would be the biggest attack since World War II, and it would have been disastrous for them. And they didn't want us to do it. And frankly, Saudi Arabia didn't want it either. They thought that the deal is imminent. And the deal is imminent having to do with the Hormuz Strait and also ultimately the denuclearization of that. So when I hear that, I say, well, do we want to go and be distributed? Now there's a group of people that would like me to just do it. And there's another group of people that does not want me to do it. Mr. President, does it go on for the deadline?
