How big a force is that? Can you not take an elite group of troops in there and wipe them out on the ground? Or is it a much bigger group? Were they much spread out that you just can't, you know, clump them together?

Well, Houthis actually used to be a very small group.

They were known as the Al-Qaeda Arabian Peninsula, AQAP.

And it was actually Barack Obama.

who utilized drone strikes against this small area right next to the Gulf of Aden, and it killed a lot of civilians.

And that fed into the rhetoric of what they were trying to present with their extreme ideology, saying, oh, we're here to protect you.

It's the Americans who are trying to kill you.

Is this money that you read about, is it? Definite that this contract goes through or or could that contract never be fulfilled because if the Democrats were to come in and begin to block money, you know, that's what every time we see that we wonder, has these really been paid for or an if come?

Is there anything you think that you really still want to see happen in the next few months?

Well, there's definitely quite a few bills that I've put forward that I'd like to see hit the floor.

I would love to see us to be able to leverage and get more funding when it comes to protecting children in our district from any type of trafficking.

I want to make sure that we're able to continue to support our law enforcement officers.

We got a lot of money in for Seminole County.

and Volusia County when it comes to anything from juvenile mobile crisis centers to an entire communication mobilization program to increasing even the capabilities of each one of the officers when it comes to vehicular movement.

And so we're going to keep fighting for the key issues, constituent services.

What does that indicate to you?

How's that going to work? And will it get through the Senate on a simple majority? What are you hearing?

Well, again, I hope that it does.

I mean, I was the original sponsor of the SAVE Act and the 118th Congress for Chip Roy.

I was a co-sponsor of the SAVE America Act.

We've now passed it three different times in the House, pushing it over to the Senate, hoping that Senator Thune could do his job.

I still think and support the president's decision on eliminating the filibuster so we can have a simple majority.

Yes.

What do you hear on that one?

As you're seeing all of this, are you telling your constituents in Florida to prepare for this conflict to go on for months?

Well, I don't actually see that it's going to go on for months.

I'm hoping that Iran will understand that as we continue to progress, and again, this is the difficult part about trying to negotiate or trying to set up some type of a ceasefire and peace deal with a nation like Iran, where the regime has continued to try and play its malign practices.

But I also see where you have Russia and China who continue to try and influence outcomes as well.

behind the scenes, making an indirect kind of a force against the United States.

But it certainly impacts the economic travel.

It certainly impacts oil trade through the Strait of Hormuz.

Can you tell us about the depth of that relationship and whether you're concerned about a weakness in the United States as a consequence of that alliance?

What brought this deal together between the United States and Iran? And from what you know, are you comfortable with it?

Well, I mean, what came together today was just a very monumental thing that Trump has been continuing to work on.

The president and his negotiators have been looking at key critical elements.

One of those, as you know, Matt, was to get rid of Iran's nuclear weapon capability, as well as to look at the disposal of the enriched uranium, which they already had.

There's elements of this that I think are really brilliant when you look at the fact that IAEA will have the ability to go in and not only inspect but continue to make checks.

The fact that this is not an infinite timetable that Iran can just run the clock out.

There are metrics in which must be met in order for this to actually hold.

what's your reaction what can you tell us about the the lessons from from this and the ongoing work at the fbi well

Does the enemy not get a vote?

The enemy always is, have to be right 1% of the time.

We have to be right 100% of the time.

That's always been the case.

But the reality is this, what if we would've done nothing?We would've allowed 47 years of actual conflict against the Americans, if you go all the way back from the time that they, you know, took over 55 hostages, or the fact that they b- b- bombed the Beirut bombing, or the fact that Qasem Soleimani and the Quds Force was killing Americans across the globe with proxy militias everywhere, to include the EFPs that was maiming 600-plus people.

So, you know, the idea is, is that we're already at conflict with them.

This is an evil dictatorship and regime who was killing young women like Mahsa Amini for the fact that she didn't wanna wear a hijab.

Are they right to feel betrayed?

Corey?

Well, look, at the end of the day, this is exactly what Senator Thune's supposed to be doing as the majority leader of the Senate.

He needs to get the party online.

The polling shows with over 80% of Americans wanting to ensure this gets done.

And even if he can't get the votes, let people go on record, Dan.

Let's let people go ahead and show that they don't want free and fair elections.

Let's let the rhinos and let's let the Democrats actually show their true colors and then we'll bring it back again if we have to to the floor.

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Well, war is always complex, and especially when you talk about geopolitical analytics.

I mean, look at the fact that China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, this axis of evil, have been geopolitically aligned for a while.

Their goal from the very beginning, whether you talk about the Belt and Road Initiative, whether you talk about the funding of Iranian proxy militias, was always to eliminate the US dollar as global currency.

Not to mention the fact that China had a lot at stake on this.

What they wanted to do with the Belt and Road Initiative was have Russia start the war in Ukraine to expand the Eurasian border, take over Oceania, take the 15 of 16 rare earth mineral mines of Africa, which now cuts off the Horn of Africa, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Black Sea.

This is now an actual isolation move.

Are you worried politically about this if it carries on much longer?

So when I see that big number with a four and a couple zeros and B after it, I'm going, what in the Sam heck is going on, Corey? So can you break that money down for us and explain to me how much more of that is new, how much more of that was existing cash, and why are we sending more in general?

Well, to be quite frank, a lot of this is actually still fluid.

So a lot of that's being discussed.

That's why the rules vote held up the way it was.

Certain things are still being looked at to be stripped away, certain potential amendments to be introduced onto the floor.

So it's a very fluid thing.

But I will point out a couple of really key wins in here that I've fought for for quite a while.

You fill me in on what's going

You know more than we do, what are you hearing on the Hill? Is this gonna take a week for the airline industry to work it out, two weeks, a month? I mean, we're talking about thousands and thousands of flights that got canceled and delayed, Corey.

Yeah, I mean, my understanding is that over 40 airports were affected just yesterday with over 2,000 cancellations and thousands of delays.

The one thing I will say first off is that thank you.

Thank you to all the TSA officers.

Thank you to every one of the air traffic controllers and all those who continue to be patriots and work through this shutdown, knowing they would be paid later but not being paid at that moment.

That in itself has truly helped things, and I can tell you, that those patriots are going to be rewarded massively by President Trump, as he talked about, as well as for Secretary Duffy.

But look, this is not something where we just flip the light switch on and everything comes on immediately.

What if some Republicans can't show up because of the travel issues? Are there some Democrats you've heard rumbling on the Hill that are back that will side with you guys to get this done so the government officially reopens?

... your take on this weekend.

Well, look, it was an amazing military operation with, uh, key and precision strike capabilities.

I've been talking about this for quite a few months now, about Qom, which is Fordham, uh, Esfahan, and Natanz, with their central fusion enrichment capabilities.

We know that the IAEA have come out, who's not a friend to Israel, America, or any others, and even talked about the escalation in enrichment to a nuclear weapons-grade capability.

The thing that the president has done consistently, and I like the way that you've kind of built this up, Benny, is that he has consistently reiterated time and time again, "I am open to diplomatic peace talks or a treaty, but the Iranian regime cannot at any point and time get their capabilities to a weapons-grade nuclear armament." This is something that he's talked about ad nauseum, and there's people who are trying to claim that this is an unconstitutional utilization of military force.

It is not.

Under Article 2, Section 2, the president and the executive branch has limited war power authorities, not to mention the fact that, while I disagree with it and wish that they'd be repealed, before I came to Congress, Congress had passed in 1957, 1991, 2001, and 2002 an authorized use of military force.

I'm saying their nuclear program is a bad thing, and that Iran, e- especially their leadership, are bad actors in the region, obviously, okay? But what I'm trying to say here is like, w- wha- why the immediate urgency to go do this?

Mills told me outside the capitol that he's encouraged by what he saw.

The Ministry of, uh, I think it's Special Tourism in Transition is a Christian female, with full authorization.

You have equal representation within from the Alawites, from the Druze, the Christians, the Muslims.

He has not said when he expects to unveil it, but he hopes that the legislation gives the United States the opportunity to bring more stability to the region.

And, again, President Trump will go down in history as the guy who not only created the Abram Accords and expanded it, but pushed Russia out of their stronghold for 50 plus years in-

Does that pattern apply to Matthew Thomas Crooks?

Crooks?Well, I think that it very well could.

Again, what we don't know is what we don't know, and I think that if we looked back into it, you also had a Pakistani, uh, native who traveled with Tehran, who then traveled and crossed through the borders, uh, and then also went into Houston, Texas where he was questioned by the FBI and released, who had a hit list of not just President Trump, but others.

And that was obviously an Iranian plot as well from the regime.

So, I think that we have to look at the fact that President Trump's the most loved and hated individual in the world.

You have the cartels who are seeing a rapid decrease in their revenue.

You have a 600% increase in apprehensions.

Wow.