Chuck Todd Grills Pompeo on Iran: "Doesn't Sound Like We're Safer Today After This"

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Chuck Todd confronted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this morning about
his comments after the strike that took out Qasem Soleimani that
America is a safer place today.

Given what the administration has said about preventing an imminent
attack, and actions Iran has taken since Soleimani was killed, Todd
asked, “If there’s an imminent operational attack getting put together
against American interests, why are you convinced that taking out
Soleimani has done anything to stop it?”

Pompeo said they would’ve been “culpably negligent” if they didn’t act.

“Is it that imminent?” Todd asked. “Is what the attacks he was putting
together so imminent and so bg it would have been seen as that kind of
negligence?”

“We made the right decision. There’s lots of intelligence,” Pompeo
said. “This is all in the context of a larger American strategy to
create peace and stability in the Middle East. A key element is taking
down Qasem Soleimani who has been just a destabilizing force in the
region for so long.”

“So was the justification that he’s been this destabilizing force in
the region for so long or was the justification this imminent threat?”
Todd asked.

“Chuck, it’s never one thing,” Pompeo responded. “It’s a full
situational awareness of risk and analysis. I am confident and the
intelligence community presented us a set of facts that made clear that
the risk from doing nothing exceeded the risk of taking the action that
we took.”

Todd questioned him on whether America’s safer today:

“How do you square that statement with the fact that we’re
bringing — you’re advising American citizens essentially to
leave the region, particularly Iraq. We have the Homeland
Security Department bracing Americans for cyber attacks,
saying that we know the Iranians have been through our
infrastructure. It is likely to happen and there won’t be
a warning from it. It doesn’t sound like we’re safer today
after this.”

“We’re definitely safer today. 100% certainty that America is safer
today,” Pompeo said.

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“We’re definitely safer today. 100% certainty that America is safer
today,” Pompeo said.

Iran has already won unless iDJT can persuade Iraq to change its
mind.