https://xcancel.com/FaceTheNation/status/2045909658892702104
On Face The Nation, former Biden administration senior advisor Amos Hochstein says he supported last summer’s Operation Midnight Hammer, in which the Trump administration struck Iran’s nuclear facilities, because “we had thought internally in the Biden administration we may have to take [strikes] if there was a second term.”
“We did war games. We did some practice runs on what it would look like to look into it, because that may have had to happen under our watch as well," he says.
Later on in the full interview, he blames all of this on Bibi's "extremist right wing government and not to do with Israel". His reasoning is that "half of the population is voting against Bibi." Side note, Hochstein was born in Jerusalem and served in the IDF.
In addition, Harris said "all options on the table" to stop Iran from going nuclear.
Nothing new for this audience, but a reminder that it's two wings of the same bird. You could argue that Trump is the only one stupid enough to actually go through with it, but after watching this, I'm sure Brandon was in enough cognitive decline that Blinken or the like would have made it happen.
He said that Biden might have bombed the nuclear facility. He said that Biden wouldn't have done the things after, including the war.
Video: https://youtu.be/NuhJS1d-F6Y
Transcript: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-full-transcript-04-19-2026/
"But we – he said, we obliterated their nuclear program. The question then is not about what he did in June. This war we were in now did not attack the nuclear facilities again. This was not about the nuclear."