Netanyahu wants Israel "to draw down to zero the American financial support"

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Major Garrett: Is the war with Iran over? And if it isn't, who will decide when it is?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I think it accomplished a great deal, but it's not over, because there's still nuclear material, enriched-- uranium that has to be taken out of-- Iran. There are still-- enrichment sites that have to be dismantled. There are still proxies that-- Iran supports. There are ballistic missiles that they still-- want to produce. Now, we've degraded a lot of it. But all that is still there, and there's work to be done.

Major Garrett: How do you envision the highly enriched uranium will be removed from Iran?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: You go in, and you take it out.

Major Garrett: With what? Special Forces from Israel, Special Forces from the United States?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Well, I'm not gonna talk about military means, but the pres-- what President Trump has said to me, "I want to go in there." and I think it can be done physically. That's not the problem. If you have an agreement, and you go in, and you take it out, why not? That's the best way.

Major Garrett: What if there isn't an agreement? Can it be taken out by force?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Well, you're gonna ask me these questions. I'm gonna dodge them. Because I'm not gonna talk about our military-- possibilities, plans, or anything of the kind.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I hope-- I-- no. If Iran-- if this regime is indeed weakened or possibly toppled, I think it's the end of Hezbollah, it's the end of Hamas, it's probably the end of the Houthis, because the whole scaffolding of the terrorist proxy network that Iran built collapses if the regime in Iran collapses.

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Major Garrett: Do you believe it's time for the state of Israel to reexamine and possibly reset its financial relationship to the United States? Meaning, what the United States provides to Israel on an annual basis.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Absolutely. And I've said this to President Trump. I've said it in-- to our own people. Their jaws drop, but I said, "Look."

Major Garrett: What do you mean? What are you saying?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have. Because we receive-- we receive $3.8 billion a year. And I-- I think that it's time that we weaned ourselves from the remaining-- military support.

Major Garrett: Can you give me a time table?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I said, let's start now and do it over the next decade, over the next ten years, but I want to start now. I don't want to wait for the next Congress. I want to start now.

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