Bessent moved to military base after Iranian threats
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[0:00] We're following some breaking news. CBS
[0:01] News can confirm Treasury Secretary
[0:03] Scott Bessett has been relocated to a
[0:06] military base following threats from
[0:07] Iran. The move was first reported by the
[0:10] New York Times. Let's get right to CBS
[0:12] News senior national security
[0:13] correspondent Charlie Dagetta who is
[0:15] working overtime tracking developments
[0:17] from Washington on this and many other
[0:19] stories. So Charlie, what are we
[0:20] learning about this Iranian threat that
[0:22] prompted the Treasury Secretary to be
[0:24] moved to a military base? And don't a
[0:28] lot of people know where these people
[0:29] where these cabinet members live?
[0:31] >> It's a very good point. You stole my
[0:33] thunder. Yeah. Sources can now confirm
[0:35] that Treasury Secretary Scott Essen has
[0:37] been forced to move from his home in
[0:39] Georgetown, just a few blocks away from
[0:41] here in the bureau to an undisclosed
[0:43] military base because of Iranian threats
[0:46] to his life. And from what we
[0:47] understand, they had reached a more
[0:49] advanced urgent stage. the severity of
[0:52] those threats, the details of the plot.
[0:53] We're still trying to figure that out
[0:55] and try to hunt it down. But as you
[0:57] said, it's it's not uncommon for
[0:58] national security figures like, you
[1:00] know, Defense Secretary Pete Hegath,
[1:02] obviously, Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan
[1:03] Kaine, to live on military bases here in
[1:06] DC, which by the way, although these are
[1:09] fortified, well protected, um they they
[1:11] just I've