Sen. Blunt are you ready . We had a good briefing that i think did address both the issues of immanence of threat, and the opportunity to take out a mastermind of terror that was the top terrorist operative for the numberone state sponsor of terror, iran. Every member of the senate i am on the Intel Committee but every member of the senate has had access since i think, late may, to a book of activities specifically related to this person, and the rising tempo and intensity of what soleimani was willing to do, was doing, and the number of attacks all over the world, his relationship with the houthi, his relationship with hezbollah, his relationship with syria, pretty unusual that we would have that kind to focus and encourage every member of the senate to take time to look at the focus on one individual. It was a good briefing. Reporter you mentioned activity from soleimani for months and years passed. Were you convinced there was an imminent threat that required action last week . We had a sense in todays briefing that they were confident that his activities were likely to come to a significant head within days of the day he was killed. One question earlier from someone else was this person has been running the quds force for some time, why was he a greater danger than he was five years ago . Let me go back to the encouragement of every senator to look at his activities starting in the late spring of this year. That was a different level of activity, and a different willingness to take risk and engage in ways that americans could lose life than we had seen from soleimani or from the iranians in a while. Thank you all. As i have long said , if iran wanted to start a fight, the United States would end it. That is what happened over the last 10 days. Qassem soleimani was a terror mastermind responsible for the deaths of thousands of americans. He deserved exactly what he got. America and the world are safer because of it. Reporter how would you characterize the attack from the iranians back at us . Sen. Cotton and anemic attack. Reporter what is your response to the president ial address today . Did he deescalate . Iran deescalate it. Iran didnt take an offramp, they took a uturn because they have no capability to fight against america, a superior adversary. They also know that we will no longer allow them deniability if they try to use terrorist proxies throughout the region. If a single american is harmed, they will face severe consequences. That is what happened december 27, and the consequences were severe. Thank you all. It is a far cry from meeting a standard of imminent threat. They had to leave pretty quickly, so about 10 of the attending