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.”

Marshall, a physician who served in the U.S. Army Reserve, expressed regret for the Pentagon-reported seven deaths and 140 who were injured, then recounted Iran’s attacks against U.S. forces and other Americans over the years.

Collins pivoted back to her original point.

“So your view did change from last summer?” she said. “I mean, we were told that it had been obliterated and that it couldn’t be restarted for years, as you noted, and you believe that was wrong.”

He replied, “I believe that we obliterated those particular nuclear facilities, but now they were starting nuclear programs in other places. And just their willingness to do that was just thumbing their nose at us.”

The commander-in-chief’s “fog of disinformation,” reported by HuffPost, isn’t helping clarify why the U.S. has locked into the conflict without congressional approval.

He’s flip-flopped on when the war will end and said one of the ever-changing justifications for the U.S. attack was the “destruction of the Iran nuclear threat” after he claimed it was eviscerated in June.

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