Ron Kampeas has a story coming on Hillary Clinton’s insistence during the debate last week that an Iranian attack on Israel or any other of our Middle East allies would be met with “massive retaliation.” Since then, her aides have suggested she didn’t necessarily mean a nuclear response, but that seemed to be her clear meaning in these follow-up interviews.
Here’s the clip from the debate (jump ahead to 3:05):
She was asked about the comments Monday on Good Morning America, the day before the Pennsylvania primary:
Later that day, she discussed the issue with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC:
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