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Well, we are right now talking a couple of minutes before eleven pm on Sunday, and the eyes of the world are on Israel and Iran. As in the last twenty four hours, over three hundred drones and cruise missiles from Iran went into Israel. Now, to Israel's credit, the Iron Dome and its missile defense systems intercepted virtually all of them. But it was the first direct attack on Israel from Iran in history, and it is an extraordinary
escalation of what has been going on. This tragically is the result of the Biden foreign policy of appeasement and the entire Democrat Party backing away from Israel and sending billions of dollars to Iran. In a very real sense, the missiles that Iran fired at Israel were paid for
by the Biden administration. At this point, the safety and security of the men and women in Israel, the men and women in the Middle East, and potentially more broadly, are all in jeopardy as the world waits with bated breath to see what happens next.
It is shocking.
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moving quickly. If you're taking notes, get ready when it comes to the money. There are two things the Biden administration has done that has helped the Iranian economy and the Iranian ilatola commit these atrocites against Israel, and also work with any terrorist organizations they want to support, whether it's Amas or HESBLA, it doesn't really matter. Those two things one or We do technically have sanctions on Iranian oil,
but we're not enforcing those. And we've also allowed direct access to cash that Iran and can now grab that we had basically seized and locked up. How much money do they have now because of Biden's policies.
It is well one hundred billion dollars, but sadly been there are a lot more than two things that they have done. From the beginning, the Biden administration has simultaneously flooded our enemies with cash. Their approach to every enemy of America from day one has been appeasement and usually in the form of billions of dollars. And simultaneously they have undermined our friends and allies and especially Israel again from day one. Let's break them down, piece by piece.
To Iran itself, you have number one, sixteen billion dollars in direct fund, six billion dollars that everyone talked about. That was ransom for five Americans that was widely denounced by me and many others. On top of that, there was another ten billion dollars of money that was frozen in Iraq that the Biden administration unfroze to allow to flow back to Iran. That takes you up to sixteen
billion dollars. The biggest component is refusing to enforce oil sanctions that has caused Iran in oil exports to skyrocket. That is an excess of eighty billion dollars. We're going to come back back to that one in a minute, but not just that. You have to understand the Biden administration has lifted sanctions on Iran's proxies on the Huthis
in Yemen who were funded by Iran. If you look at Gaza and Hamas that carried out the October seventh terror attack, Hamas over ninety percent of its funding comes from Iran. And what did Biden do. He sent hundreds of millions of dollars into Gaza that went directly into the hands of Hamas that in all likelihood was used to finance Summer all of the October seventh terror attack. The same thing is true with flooding money into Lebanon, much of which ends up in the hands of Hesbela.
Hesbela again over ninety percent of its budget comes from Iran. On top of that, even more amazingly, the Biden administration allowed the UN sanctions, the international sanctions on missiles in Iran, to expire. They did this in the midst of Iran funding Hamas funding has Bela funding October seventh and launching over one hundred attacks on US service men and women. On October seventh, more than twelve hundred Israelis were murdered.
That included roughly thirty Americans who were murdered. We still have American hostages, We still have Israeli hostages. Not only that, we have three service men and women the Iranians have murdered in their more than one hundred attacks. And what does the Biden administration keep doing shoveling cash to this theocratic lunatic Ayatola.
Senatri the Zionoa also chanced death to America. There's also another problem, and that is that the weapons inspectors that deal with nuclear weapons, they've been kicked out of Iran, and yet we still have this Iranian nuclear deal. And I can't believe for a second that Iran wouldn't use a nuclear weapon if they have one or if they get one, based on what they just did with this indiscriminate, massive attack on Israel.
Well, we don't know if they have a nuclear weapon. If they don't have one, they are very very close. And they are very very close because Joe Biden has flooded so much cash into them to put them in a position to have this kind of money. Let's look at oil exports, and I said, I wanted to come back to this. So during the Trump administration, when President Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, which was
absolutely the right thing to do. At the time, Iran was exporting roughly a million barrels of oil a day. When Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, he kept in place an oil waiver. That waiver allowed Iran to continue selling a million barrels a day of oil. I thought that was an enormous mistake. So once we pulled out of the Obama Nuclear deal, I I pressed President Trump repeatedly to end the oil waiver. There was a fight between the State Department and the Energy Department.
The State Department under Trump wanted to keep the oil waiver in place. They said that if we ended the oil waiver, the price of oil and the price of gasoline with skyrocket. The Department of Energy under Trump, which presumably our experts and energy said, that's ridiculous. There's plenty of global oil. This won't affect the price. As I said, I leaned in repeatedly with Trump on Air Force one in the Oval Office.
He agreed with me.
He overruled as Secretary of State Mike Mike Pompeo. He ended the oil waivers. And it turns out we now know that the Department of Energy was right in state was wrong. That the Iranian oil exports cratered. They felled roughly three hundred thousand barrels a day, but the price of oil had barely a blip. It had a negligible effect. Well,
fast forward to Joe Biden coming into office. Joe Biden came in office and almost immediately he stopped in forcing those oil sanctions, and again almost immediately, as a direct result, Iran's oil sanctions skyrocketed. Now at the time of October seventh, do you know what Iran's oil exports were, or production.
Rather was what was it?
Two million barrels a day? Yeah, more than double what it had been before the oil waivers were ended, nearly eight times seven times what they were when Biden came into office. Do do you know what their oil exports? Their production is right now in April of twenty twenty four, what is it? Three point four million barrels a day?
So let's talk cash. What type of cash are we now dealing with it? They have their hands on because we are not enforcing our embargo on their oil right now.
So we're looking at easily in excess of one hundred billion dollars. Depends on the prices they're getting. They're selling it primarily to the Chinese communists. You have to assume they're selling it it's something of a discount. But even so, this is easily one hundred billion dollars that Joe Biden just handed to the Iatola. And mind you didn't just hand before October seventh. After October seventh, he continues handing. Today. Iran just launched all these missiles. You know what, Joe
Biden hadn't done anything to enforce the oil sanctions. The number of three point four million barrels a day is from right now, that's April of twenty twenty four. The Iatola is rolling in cash, which is why he can afford to send three hundred roans and three hundred cruise missiles. And I will tell you it is not just Biden. This is one of the most important points. A lot of folks focus on the squad. They focus on AOC and Omar and to Leeb and the radicals in the House.
Those guys are a problem. Yes, they're rabidly anti Israel, they make anti Semitic tropes constantly. But the problem is not the fringe. The problem is the so called mainstream Democrats. Is Joe Biden, The problem is Chuck Schumer. The problem is Nancy Pelosi. After October seventh, just recently, just a couple of weeks ago, I forced a vote on the Senate floor to bar the Biden administration from sending billions of dollars to Iran. Now, this should be easy. Iran
funded October seventh. Iran is still actively trying to kill US servicemen and women. Iran is still trying to actively murder former US senior officials, including Mike Pompeo, the former Secretary of State, including John Bolton, the former National Security Advisor, including Brian Hook, the former Assistant Secretary of State. I forced to vote on the Senate floor every single Democrat,
all of them except Bob Benendez. Every Democrat but one voted no. They voted to continue sending Iran billions of dollars.
That was just a couple of weeks ago.
So you look at the cash and then let's move to the second part here, and that is is all right? So their UNS and the Security Council emergency meeting right now, they're demanding that Israel show restraint. We're also getting reporting now from Axios that Biden told apparently Netanyahu the US won't support an Israeli counterattack on his Iran, which is unfortunately not shocking.
I actually you talked about this.
It's very clear now actions speak louder than words in this present and the Biden administration and their foreign policy is Israel bad. Everybody else can do what they want to do. What is a response now going to be when you go back to Washington this week and you can't say, hey, we need to put sanctions on Ranio. Oh, We've already done that, So do you say we want to enforce it? And what about the White House?
Well, the Biden Administration's message and the message of every Democrat in Congress is there is no military solution for our allies. But our enemies are allowed to win. Our enemies are allowed to attack, an attack, and attack, and our allies have to do nothing about it. Understand the money that they fled to Iran, you know who, They're not flooding money to Israel.
Yeah.
Remember, there's a fourteen billion dollar Israel aid package came out of the House of Representatives. And what did Chuck Schumer do. He refused to allow a vote on it.
He blocked it.
He said, we will not vote on this unless it's tied to Ukraine and the rest of the Democrat priorities. Now, if you'll recall, several months ago, I and several other Republicans forced a vote on emergency military aid Israel on the Senate floor. We released yesterday on Sunday that podcast that we did several months ago describing exactly what happened. We put that out as a bonus pod because it is incredibly relevant. Now, if you didn't listen to yesterday's podcast,
you got to go back and listen to it. The day of that vote was the day of the March for Israel. There were worth three hundred thousand people that came to the mall that were out there marching in support of Israel.
I was there.
I was on the mall, marching in support for Israel. A number of Democrat senators were there, including Democrat senators. Jackie Rosen, Democrat from Nevada, was on the stage speaking in support of Israel. Immediately after that march, I and several other Republican senators, we forced a vote on emergency military aid to Israel. Chuck Schumer was furious. We used a parliamentary technique that's called a rogue cloture petition, which is a method that the minority can seize control of the floor.
It's rare to use, and frankly.
Schumer was sloppy as majority leader to let us use it, but we succeeded in using it, and we forced that vote. Every single Democrat, all of them, with no exceptions, voted against emergency military aid to Israel. They literally left a march for Israel, came back and said no money for Israel.
None.
And by the way, their stated justification was because the House had paid for it by removing that money from the eighty billion dollars the Democrats had given to hire eighty seven thousand new IRS agents. So because instead the IRS was only getting sixty sixty six billion instead of eighty billion. The Democrats said, no, we care more about adding IRS agents than we do about supporting Israel against
our terrorist enemies. Now, I will say, in the last twenty four hours, Chuck Schumer sent out a tweet saying, we stand strongly with Israel. We will have your backs, to which I immediately responded, well, I'm glad you're saying that because you're the one who blocked emergency military aid to Israel, and every single Democrat senator voted with you. So you know what we ought to do today Monday. We ought to come back and we ought to take that bill up and we ought to pass emergency military
aid to Israel. I'm confident the House is going to do that again. The House is going to send it to us, and we'll see what the Democrats do. My suspicion is the Democrats will line up as they did before, to say no, no, no, no, no. We only give money to the enemies of America. We only give money to Iran, we only give money to Hamas, we only give money to people who want to kill us, our actual friends
we won't give money to. But you know what, every Democrat will have a chance to put action to their words. A bunch of Democrats have been tweeting out right now we stand with Israel, Well, talk's cheap. Are you willing to fund the response? And we know that Biden's answer is lee at least as is being widely reported, as he told Dan Yahoo, do not attack, do not strike back,
take the win. He said, what a bizarre can you imagine if America, if somebody fired three hundred missiles in America and some foreign leader called up the US president said, hey, take the win the missiles. You guys were able to intercept them, so people didn't die. Just say well, we're fine and do nothing. I mean, that's that's what Biden is saying, the Israel do nothing.
Believe you even saw this on TV today. There was many of the commentators on TV that we're saying exactly that, Well, if this's a big success and a big test for the Iron Dome, and it's clear that Israel can defend itself, and there's no reason to escalate this because now, and this was set on TV today, I think it was
on CBS. They literally said so because now you got to assume this is their words that Iran is probably out of them, out of missiles, and couldn't do the same type of attack today even if they wanted to, So therefore Israel should do nothing, just celebrate the win.
At every stage, Biden and Schumer and the Democrats have had the same message. Number one, no matter what Iran does, no matter what our enemies do, they want to keep sending the money. I generally, I genuinely do not understand it. It's pathological when someone chance death to America and death to Israel. My reaction is not I'm going to send you money. That apparently is Joe Biden, Dan's reaction, Chuck Schuber's reaction, that apparently is Nancy Pelosi's reaction, and that's
every other Democrat's reaction. I don't get that. But secondly, at every stage, their position has been to Israel, don't defend yourself, don't do anything. Remember when October seventh was happening, Literally at three in the morning on the day of October seventh, when the bodies of the twelve hundred Israelis who had been murdered were still warm, the Biden State
Department tweeted out urging Israel not to retaliate. This is after the murder of twelve hundred civilians, This is after the rape of women and children, this is after infants were slaughtered. The position of the Biden State Department was do not retaliate. I blasted that at three in the morning, and thankfully they deleted it. They realized, oh, we can't
say this quite yet, but to be clear. The next day, that would be October eighth, Tony Blinken, with his own Twitter account, sent out another tweet saying he had just talked with a Turkish foreign minister and Israel should not retaliate. That was their message. The day after, again I blasted the Biden State Department. Again they deleted that tweet. There were two tweets within twenty four hours of the October seventh massacre, and the immediate knee jerk reaction of Biden
was do not retaliate. Do not retaliate now. What have they said every day since then? Their position has been stop, we need a ceasefire, We need a pause. Stop killing hamas, stop killing terrorist, stop going after the bad guy. Now, their position after Iran launches three hundred missiles and drones into Israel, do not retaliate we will not support you. It is asinine. And you asked what Congress is doing, Well,
I'll tell you one thing. This coming week, We've got a mark up in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and I've got a number of Iran related amendments that I've already filed. I have one that I'm looking to get a vote on to sanction all Hamas members. I have another to sanction the Huthis for using Iranian missiles. I have another amendment to sanction the IRGC in Iran for using Iranian missiles against the United States. I have another one to tag Iran's vessels to shut down their oil money.
And I have another one that says no suspending sanctions to send money to Gaza. I got to tell you, I think I know what's going to happen. We're going to see the Democrats vote against those amendments because their position is, no matter how much you hate America, no matter how many Jews you kill, no matter how many Americans you kill, we the Democrats will keep sending him money.
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quick about the United Nations. It seems very clear that the United Nations is hanging Israel out to drive Israel calls for new sanctions on Iran, and the UN Security Council apparently said, you guys better be careful what your response is. Not really worried about Israel, but worried about what they may do in response protecting Iran.
Well, that's exactly right.
As we're sitting here today, it is a few minutes before midnight, Sunday night, and there's an Emergency Security Council meeting going on as we speak, and Israel called it. Israel called it seeking to discuss to force a vote to urge the United Nations to impose sanctions on Iran
in response to the attack. And the response to that is the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, told the Council that it was quote time to step back from the brink, and that its members had the collective responsibility quote to actively engage all parties concerned to prevent further escalation. You notice they never say this about Hamas, They never say this about Iran. It's always Israel. Just
don't retaliate. Just take people mass murdering your citizens, Just take missiles being fired into your cities if you look at it. So on Sunday, both Israel's and Iran's ambassadors gave fiery comments that Israel's ambassador said that Iran's attack had quote crossed every red line and that Israel reserved the right to retaliate, and he urged the UN to
take severe actions, including crippling sanctions. And here's one thing he said, quote the fact that Israel's air defense proved to be superior does not change the brutality of Iran's attack. Iran's ambassador, on the other hand, argued that Iran had a quote inherent right to self defense after Israel's attack on its diplomatic compound, and understand Iran is very upset that Israel, in fighting back, took out a senior general
in several Iran military officials. But understand, Iran is who funded October seventh, Iran is who funds Hamas, Iran is who trained the Hamas terrorists, and so Iran has this very strange view that it can pay people to attack and murder other countries and not have them strike back. The Iranian ambassador said, Iran quote does not seek escalation or war in the region, but that if his interest came under attack, it would quote respond to any such
aggressions vigorously and an accordance with international law. Nothing Iran does is in accordance with international law. Now, Robert Wood, who is a US representative of the United Nations, told the Security Council that the Biden administration said quot vote, the US is not seeking escalation. Our actions have been defensive in nature. The US goal is to de escalate and then get back to securing an end to the to the war and the Gaza strip. This is now.
On the other hand, you know who argued in favor of Iran.
Who is that?
Russia and China. And let's be clear when I said that Joe Biden. The Democrats have a policy of giving billions of dollars to our enemies. That's not just Iran, it's not just Hamas, it's not just Hesbela. They also give billions of dollars to Venezuela. They also give billions of dollars to China, and they've also given billions of
dollars to Russia. You know, the Democrats love to talk about Russia, but we've talked a lot on this podcast about the nord Stream two pipeline, which I authored, the bipartisan sanctions that shut the nord Stream two pipeline down. Donald Trump signed those sanctions into law, and Joe Biden, when he came into office, waived those sanctions, gave Vladimir Putin billions and billions of dollars that effectively caused the
war in Ukraine. And when I forced to vote in January of twenty twenty two to reimpose those sanctions on Russia, forty four Democrats flipped their votes. They had voted with me previously and voted in favor of Russia and Putin In, giving them billions of dollars, and within a month Russia invaded Ukraine. So this is a pattern over and over again. And by the way, Russia is actively in Iran helping them with nuclear technology.
One of another area that I battled.
Oh, say that again, that's big news.
It is big news. So Russia and Iran have a very close relationship. I mentioned when Trump pulled out of the Obama nuclear deal, there was an oil waiver. There were also what were called civilian nuclear waivers, and there were seven civilian nuclear waivers that remained in place. I argued vociferously, we should end the civilian nuclear waivers.
Now.
Once again, the State Department, and I will say the State Department has a long history of being wrong, especially under Biden, but sadly with some frequency under Trump. The State Department argued, no, no, no, no, don't end the civilian nuclear waivers. Well, Trump agreed with me. He overruled his own State Department.
He ended them.
Among those civilian nuclear waivers, they were allowing Russia to work with Iranian nuclear scientists to develop nuclear technology in an underground bunker called Fordoh which is underneath a mountain, and it's built under a mountain precisely to be able to develop nuclear weapons, so that it would be harder to take out in a military conflict. Now, what happened when Joe Biden came into office. He immediately reimposed the civilian nuclear waivers. So we've literally got Russia that is
providing nuclear technology to Iran. By the way, this is a quid pro quo. Iran may drones is a critical weapons supplier to Russia. So understand when Biden is flowing one hundred billion dollars now more than one hundred billion dollars to Iran. They're using them to make drones and to make cruise missiles to attack Israel. They're using them to make weapons to attack US servicemen and women. They're using them to fund Hamas and Hesbela to murder Israelis
and murder Americans. But on top of that, they're manufacturing enormous numbers of drones that are going to the Russians, and the Russians are using to fight the Ukrainians. This is a pattern. If you are an enemy of America, lucky you because Joe Biden the Democrats will give you billions of dollars.
There's some new reporting that's just come out as well from Politico, and it says the US to Israel don't do something you'll regret it, says quote. The Biden administration's main message for Israel following an attack that is massive their quote aerial assault, comes down to this stop and think.
Officials expect Israel to respond in some fashion to Saturday's massive strike, but in both public and private ways, they are taking steps they hope will convince Israel to choose a limited response as opposed to an all out armed counter attack, the latter they feel will plunge the region
into a major war. In President Joe Biden, in particular, quote wants to avoid any battle that could drag in US troops, and he made that clear to Israeli's Prime Minster net Netnyahu's saying quote, this is again we're advising him to take a breath before responding. A US official familiar with the Middle East one of ten people granted
aminity to freely discuss closed door diplomacy. If Israel does respond, quote, it needs to be proportional and bring this cycle to an In Senator, this may be the biggest pipe dream I've ever heard of. Bring this cycle to an end. What makes you think that Iran would just stop now? Knowing that they can basically get away with literally murder.
The only way to bring the cycle to an end is number one, to take away the resources from the Iranian regime that are funding these terror attacks. It's why look, during the whole Trump administration, I was deeply involved in pressing the administration to enforce what was called the maximum Pressure strategy, to put the maximum pressure to defund the Iranian regime, and it succeeded. Understand, when Joe Biden came
into office, the Iranian economy was in shambles. They were facing rampant inflation, rampant unemployment, they were facing unrest in the streets. The regime was in danger of being toppled, and very few things would be better for the safety of America and the safety of the world than for these theocratic lunatics to be out of power. Part of the problem is if God forbid, the Iyatola had a nuclear weapon. It's one thing when you have tyrants who
are secular who have weapons of mass destructions. It's another thing when you have people who are motivated by religion that glorifies death and suicide. That means the ordinary cost benefit analysis doesn't necessarily work. And I want to share something that was put out recently by the Institute for the Study of War, and it's an analysis of the attack, and I want to read. It's a nine part tweet thread that I think is actually worth worth reading in full.
The Iranian April thirteenth missile drone attack on Israel was very likely intended to cause significant damage below the threshold that would trigger a massive Israeli response. The attack was designed to succeed, not to fail.
And that's in bold. Here's the second tweet.
The strike package was modeled on those the Russians have used repeatedly against Ukraine to great effect. The strike consisted of approximately one hundred and seventy drones, thirty cruise missiles, and one hundred and twenty ballistic missiles. The drones were launched well before the ballistic missiles were fired, very likely in the expectation that they would arrive in Israel's air defense window at about the same time as the cruise
missiles and drones. The Russians have used such an approach against Ukraine repeatedly. Only a few ballistic missiles penetrated Israeli air defenses and struck near Israeli military bases. Out of the one hundred and twenty or so the Iranians fired. Ukrainian air defenses have averaged interception rates of only about forty six percent of Russian ballistic missiles during recent large strikes.
The Iranians likely expected that Israeli rates would be higher than the Ukrainian rates, but not above ninety percent against such a large but ballistic missile salvo. The Russians, after all, have never fired close to that many large ballistic missiles in a single strike against Ukraine. Israel's air defense system has several obvious advantages over Ukrainian air defense, but the full implications of some of those advantages might well have
been unclear to Iranian strike planners. Ukraine has in particular, been unable to use combat aircraft to shoot down Russian drones and cruise missiles at scale, and Ukrainian President Zelenski recently observed that Kiev will likely use the F sixteens Ukraine will receive this summer. In those roles. Iran will learn additional lessons from the failed attack that it can leverage to launch more successful attacks in the future.
So you look at all of that and then you see this that just came out from the National Security Council statement on Iranian attacks on Israel, and I'm quoting it says President Biden has been clear. Our support for is iss security is ironclad. The US will stand with the people of Israel and support their defense against these threats from Iran.
Okay, senter.
If that's true, then they have to give them what they need this week.
Am I wrong?
Well, if there was anything like coherence and logic, then yes. And Number one, I'm going to predict right now, Chuck Schumer is going to do everything he can to block a vote on emergency military aid to Israel. I've called on it, I forced her already once. My guess is that he will put in place parliamentary tools to prevent us from using the same technique again.
And I think the.
House, we've seen the Speaker of the House and the Majority leader both say that they're going to vote out an emergency military aid bill this week, So we'll get another one that comes over to us, and my prediction is the Democrats won't back it. They don't want to send military aid to Israel. And part of the problem is they've got a crisis in their caucus, and their crisis is that the radicals, the teleibs and omars, they more and more represent the mainstream of the Democrat Party,
and so Schumer is terrified of Michigan. Biden is terrified of Michigan. They're terrified of the radicals, and so they may put out statements. But remember this is the same Chuck Schumer that not long ago stood on the Senate floor and demanded that Israel's elected prime minister be thrown out of office. He decided that Israel, alone, among all our allies, was not allowed to elect their leaders. Every other country. You know, Schumer hasn't called for the leader
of Iran to step down. He hasn't called for the leader of Hamas or China, or Rushier of Venezuela or North Korea. If you're an enemy of America, nope, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats they're giving you money. But if you're our ally, what will Schumer say? How dare you be in office? We need an appeaser just like us.
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Want to ask you about bb You just mentioned I was going to go there that the Senate majority leader said he should step down. There's been a lot of people in the media that have been really attacking him, saying that he is a warmonger, that he's that he's a killer, that he should not be the president, he should not be in charge. I don't believe we're going to see any of that stop, but at least in the Middle East right now and specifically in Israel. How important is his leadership.
It's extraordinarily important. I will say I'm blessed to know Prime Minister Netanyah, who very well. I think he is a remarkable man. When he came and addressed a joint session of Congress, and that this was during the Obama administration, it was on the verge of Obama pushing through the Iran nuclear deal at the time, and this was a decade ago. Multiple Democrats boycotted the speech. They refused to
listen to him speak. The Democrats hatred for Benjamin Netanyah, who is nothing new, and understand that when he was re elected Prime Minister Joe Biden made clear he was not welcome in the White House, that he would not be invited in the White House. He could not come to the White House. This is long before October seventh, This is long before the war in Gaza. They hate
Natan Yahoo, but understand they undermine every Israeli government. They have done so from the very first days of this administration. But net Yahoo, they have a particular loathing too, because he actually understands the gravity of the threat he is facing. He understands that when the Ayahtola says death to Israel, he's not playing around. He actually means it. When he says death to America, he's not playing around. He actually means it. And listen, I've been blessed. In twelve years
in the Senate, I've met many world leaders. That's one of the most incredible parts of the jobs. You get to sit down with people that are leading our friends, leading other countries, leading our competitors. There is no world leader who has impressed me more. There's no world leader who frankly has taken my breath away more than Benjamin Netanyaho because he has a seriousness of purpose. He is the only world leader reader for whom I have used
the adjective Churchillian. In my office in DC, I have three busts. I have a bust of Ronald Reagan, I have a bust of Churchill, and I have a bust of doctor Martin Luther King Jr. And I have those three busts because they are all men who had extraordinary vision. They faced remarkable challenges. They saw a world that was better than the world they were living in, and their vision helped bring the world to a better place. With extraordinary courage, and clarity, And I have to tell you,
I think net Nyah who has that same courage and clarity. Now, it is not my role to tell the people of Israel who their prime minister should be. So when Netanyahu was prime minister, when I started in the Senate, I dealt with him because he was the leader, the elected leader of Israel. When the people of Israel elected, enough tolly about it, I dealt with him. Whomever the people of Israel elect, I will deal with the elected leader. But the people of Israel re elected Benjamin Netnaho, and
I respect the choice of the people of Israel. There is an arrogance in Democrat foreign policy but also in some Republican foreign policy that they think they can meddle in the internal politics of foreign nations and especially our friends and allies, that they can do what Chuck Schumer did, which is tell the people of Israel, tis tisk, you have no business electing net Yah who throw them out now? And they treat them like the voters, the people of
Israel like the red haired step children. It is ridiculous. It's much like. Look, there have been long debates in Washington about a two state solution, and that they're Every Democrat says we must have a two state solution. Many Republicans say we must have a two state solution.
My view on that.
Is that's a decision for the people of Israel to make. They care acutely about their security. If the people of Israel decide that a two state solution is workable, I respect that decision. If they decide it's not because the terrorists with whom they are dealing, the Hamas and Hesbela, will not accept Israel's right to exist and will wage war on them, I respect that decision as well, And so I will say when it comes to Prime Minister net and Yahoo, it's the choice of the people of
Israel that he should be their leader. I respect their choice. But at the same time, I think he is a leader who understands the seriousness of these threats and is not cowed by the aggression of Hamas or Hesbela, or Iran or anyone else. He is bound and determined to protect the people of Israel.
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