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Transcript: Sen. Tom Cotton on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," June 15, 2025

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Sen. Tom Cotton , Republican of Arkansas , is chairman of the Intelligence Committee .

Cotton : President Trump has been consistent for his 10 years in political life that we cannot allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

He says Iran was simply too stubborn to come to the table and negotiate with the U.S. Cotton : "All options remain on the table".

Iran is close to having enough pure weapons-grade uranium for several weapons.

Iran is rapidly producing ballistic missiles, both medium range to target Israel .

Iran has other delivery methods as well, through terrorist proxies.

President Trump has always said his goal is to end Iran 's nuclear program, which means surrender of its uranium enrichment capability.

Sen. Cotton : I think there's multiple ways to eliminate Iran 's enrichment capability.

He says former officials who have a direct threat against them from Iran should continue to receive security.

On immigration, the Trump administration has decided to pull back its policy a little bit.

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