CNN host Kaitlan Collins brought receipts to remind Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) that he recently said Iran wouldn’t pose a nuclear threat for years, prompting the lawmaker to admit he was wrong on Tuesday. (Watch the video below.)
Collins summarized the U.S. casualty toll of the war against Iran and asked Marshall why the U.S. was at war, especially in light of comments he made after the American military strikes last year at Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“I think it will take them years to restart their nuclear program,” he said back then in video that Collins cued up. “From what I’ve seen, I’m in shock and awe. You know, it’s shocking how much damage we did to their facilities.” (President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the country’s nuke capabilities were “obliterated.”)
“You said there that you thought it could be years before they could restart their nuclear program. Did you see intelligence that changed your mind now on that?” Collins asked.
“Look, I was wrong,” Marshall replied. “They were restarting their nuclear program. That’s the reports out of the White House, that they were actually starting their nuclear program. But I think it goes way beyond this, and you’re absolutely right, there is a cost to war.”
