1 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:10,480 Speaker 1: Live from the Heartbyer and the Crossroads of America. 2 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 2: It's Tony Katz today. It was nice to see Politico 3 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 2: come to the. 4 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: Party with an understanding that if you've taken out Maduro, 5 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 1: and you've taken out the Ayatola, you have choked oil 6 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: resources from a very thirsty China, which does not care 7 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 1: about sanctions at all, doesn't care about thwarting United States sanctions. 8 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: What they care about is feeding their machine, their machine 9 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,520 Speaker 1: that has been less and less active over the years 10 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: post COVID because they handled COVID wrong. Because we have 11 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 1: a manufacturing slowdown around the world, except for the US, 12 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 1: which is now up two months in a row in 13 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:47,639 Speaker 1: their manufacturing output. Tony Katz, Tony Kats today, Good. 14 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:47,879 Speaker 2: To be with you. 15 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:50,519 Speaker 1: Senator Jim Banks joins me right now. He is the 16 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: Senator from Indiana Republican and Sir, you sit on Armed Services. 17 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 2: So let's start where we start with. 18 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: This attack on Iran, which took place on set Saturday one, 19 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: twenty seven am Eastern time, is when we first got 20 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: notification on Senate Armed Services. Though not a member of 21 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: the Gang of Eight. What did you know when did 22 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:10,559 Speaker 1: you find out? 23 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 3: Well, I wasn't briefed in a classified setting, Tony, but 24 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 3: all of it was predictable. When the President is sent 25 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 3: to aircraft carrier strike groups to the Middle East. The 26 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 3: second one a couple of weeks ago. We knew that 27 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:29,559 Speaker 3: something was imminent, and President Trump warned the Iranians something 28 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 3: like sixty different times. Come to the table and make 29 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 3: a deal to stop your nuclear program, stop making your 30 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 3: nuclear strides, to build your nuclear program, stop building your missiles. 31 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,319 Speaker 3: Make a deal with us, or there will be hell 32 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 3: to pay. Well, they chose the hell to pay, and 33 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 3: that's what happened over the weekend. President Trump has made 34 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 3: it very clear in the last twenty four hours that 35 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 3: they haven't seen anything yet. The big strikes are still 36 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 3: yet to come. Soully hopefully we have their attention. Obviously, 37 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 3: the supreme leader, the top Byatola has been taken out. 38 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 3: There are others who still still are alive who have 39 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:14,239 Speaker 3: taken over. But the strikes so far have been very effective. 40 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 3: Over thirty percent by some Israeli intelligence of their military 41 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 3: has been wiped out. Certain figures have been wiped out, 42 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 3: so we know we have their attention, but there's still 43 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 3: more work here to do. If the Iranians don't come 44 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 3: to the table immediately and make guarantees that they're going 45 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 3: to stop building their nuclear program. 46 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: Well, it would make me question what member of the 47 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: leadership is left to do such a thing. But I 48 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: heard the Secretary of War Pete Hegsas say that this 49 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: is not a regime change war. 50 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:45,919 Speaker 2: And I will say to you that I did not 51 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 2: buy into that. 52 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:48,920 Speaker 1: While I support the removal of the Aetola and the 53 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 1: regime wholeheartedly as a value not only to the people 54 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: of Iran, but to the United States, but to the 55 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: Middle East as a whole, nevermind in the world, it 56 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: is clearly, in my view a regime change war. When 57 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: when I hear you say, people coming to the table, 58 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: what what table is there? 59 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 2: What what deal is? 60 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: Is is possible in your belief that could be made 61 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: that that satisfies a not only a non nuclear ran, 62 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 1: but a free people of Iran. 63 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:22,839 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're obviously we're past the point of making a deal. 64 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 3: But I suppose if whoever is in charge in Iran today, 65 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 3: the whoever the next Ayatola is, that is the next 66 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 3: man up. I wouldn't want that job. But whoever that 67 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 3: Iatola is at the moment, could call President Trump and say, okay, 68 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 3: let's make a deal. We we you have our full attention. 69 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 3: We are going to end our nuclear program. I suppose 70 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,760 Speaker 3: that that that might be the only thing left that 71 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 3: they can do. But at this point, these are very 72 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 3: evil people, the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the 73 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 3: world ever, and they we we've we we are wiping 74 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 3: out their capability to do more harm to America, to 75 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 3: America's allies, to Israel in this In this case, they've 76 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 3: they've made very big tactical mistakes and firing rockets at 77 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 3: all of their neighbors, maybe some of them who were 78 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 3: previously sympathetic to them, but not anymore. I mean firing 79 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 3: rockets at at Guitar, at Jordan, at Saudi Arabia. I mean, 80 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 3: these these are bag tactical mistakes that they've made that 81 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 3: will that will will will ensure greater punishment to them 82 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 3: in the future. 83 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 1: Talking to Senator Jim Banks of Indiana, you're a man 84 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:33,080 Speaker 1: who has served in the military, and I'm glad you 85 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,560 Speaker 1: brought that up, because one could almost argue you could 86 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:37,679 Speaker 1: see a missile going in Saudi Arabia. They've been engaged 87 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: in a proxy war in Yemen, where the Iranian regime 88 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 1: has been backing the Houti rebels. 89 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 2: For years now. 90 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 1: But you're right Kuwait Qatar, which clearly would have been 91 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 1: on their side. 92 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:52,039 Speaker 2: The Jordanians claiming they had to shoot missiles down. This 93 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 2: is a very weird move from Iran. 94 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 1: I have made this a conversation regarding the Board of 95 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: Peace when you have all these nations together to rebuild 96 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 1: Gozen skin in the game. This is the Iranians realizing 97 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: they've lost a leverage and they're very upset about it. 98 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 2: But you're a military guy by trade. 99 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,720 Speaker 1: When you saw them shooting missiles at these other countries, 100 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 1: did you say out loud what am I looking at? 101 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: Or did you say, Okay, I know X, Y and Z, 102 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: and here's why they're doing it. 103 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's it's deep. It's very puzzling, Tony. But 104 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 3: it fits with what Secretary of State Rubio told us 105 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:31,159 Speaker 3: yesterday that the intelligence that Israel is going to strike 106 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 3: Iran and Iran is going to retaliate by striking us. 107 00:05:34,839 --> 00:05:36,839 Speaker 3: It doesn't make sense, but that if that, if that 108 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 3: intelligence that Secretary of Rubio reported to us yesterday, which 109 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 3: I trust Secretary of Rubio very much so. If that, 110 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 3: if that's the intelligence that precipitated us from getting this 111 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 3: actively involved in what's going on there, it sort of 112 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 3: fits with this puzzling strategy that the Iranians have, I mean, 113 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,359 Speaker 3: going after the imiadis, I mean, what a what a 114 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 3: foolish steak on their part. But Guitar, I mean, remember 115 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:05,280 Speaker 3: it was just two weeks ago that Guitar was telling 116 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:09,160 Speaker 3: us we can't use aludd and and military bases, our 117 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 3: military basis to strike Iran. They've Quitar has completely changed 118 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 3: their tune on that. Even even the British now have 119 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 3: come to the table and given up. They told us 120 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:22,479 Speaker 3: we couldn't use Diego Garcia base that they controlled to 121 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 3: strike Iran. Now they've now they've backtracked on that. So 122 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 3: Iran's activities so far, I've only guaranteed America and Israel 123 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 3: greater global support for what's going on there right now. 124 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:35,720 Speaker 3: The French and the Chinese are the only ones who 125 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:39,039 Speaker 3: are complaining about it. So I like the I like 126 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,359 Speaker 3: President Trump, has gained a lot of allies in this 127 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 3: regard who are on our side, who understand how evil 128 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 3: Iran is. We have a moment and time right here 129 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 3: to take out their capabilities and prevent them from causing 130 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 3: more harm to America and to their neighbors. 131 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 1: Talking to Senator Jim Banks of Indiana, sits on the 132 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: Armed Services Committee, we also heard Terry Rubio discussed that 133 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: the Israelis were going to make moves and that would 134 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: have left us positions vulnerable. 135 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:08,120 Speaker 2: We didn't want them vulnerable, so we got. 136 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 1: Engaged, which leads some to say that America was dragged 137 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 1: into this war? 138 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 2: Is that how you see it? Not at all. 139 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 3: I mean, President Trump isn't dragged into anything. President Trump 140 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 3: understands the stakes. He's been talking about it again. He 141 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:26,880 Speaker 3: warned them sixty something times into your nuclear program or 142 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 3: we're going to bomb the hell out of you. They 143 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 3: chose the bombing the hell out of them. So that 144 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 3: the President Trump has been predictable through all of this. 145 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 3: He wanted to make a deal. They didn't come to 146 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:39,679 Speaker 3: the table to make a deal. We weren't dragged into anything. 147 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 3: But President Trump understands that these are the Ayatolas. The 148 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 3: regime there is very evil. What they did to kill 149 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 3: American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan where I served, what 150 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 3: they've done to go after Americans all over the globe. 151 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 3: I mean, they had death threats on President Trump himself. 152 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 3: I mean the Iranians are are the regime there is 153 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 3: is very evil what they did to their own people. 154 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 3: I mean, the human rights abuse is there. So President 155 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 3: Trump told them to knock it off and uh and 156 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 3: and President Trump backed it up. He drew he unlike 157 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 3: unlike Obama, President Trump drew a red line and he 158 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 3: kept it. And that that's the type of that's the 159 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,000 Speaker 3: type of global leadership that we get out of President Trump. 160 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 3: The rest of the world has been put on notice. 161 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 3: Our adversaries like China and Russia are noticing that President 162 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 3: Trump doesn't play games, he doesn't play around. When he 163 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 3: tells you what he's going to do, he actually does it. 164 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 3: And this is a good case of it. 165 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:37,439 Speaker 1: So what you get as pushback from from Magaville, as 166 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: I refer to it, is we were told no more 167 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: forever wars. 168 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 2: We were told no war with Iran, and and. 169 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 1: Here it is that you know, you can talk about redlines, 170 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: but the truth is Iran was just full of bluster 171 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: and they weren't necessarily a threat to us. You did 172 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 1: get the briefing, at least the House got the briefing. 173 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: I'm assuming by the stage you've had briefings as well 174 00:08:56,280 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 1: as the executive branch. The Trump administration has brief Congress 175 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: required to do by the War Powers Act. Did that 176 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: briefing convince you, if you needed any convincing, that this 177 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: was a threat that needed to be handled well? 178 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 3: First and foremost, Tony, I trust President Trump. I mean 179 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 3: what he's done and what he did in his first term, 180 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 3: what he's done so far in the first year of 181 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 3: this second term. Venezuela midnight Hammer. Previously, President Trump doesn't 182 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 3: get us involved in forever wars. And I served in 183 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 3: a forever war. I served in Afghanistans. So this isn't. 184 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 3: This isn't that doesn't look anything like that. I mean, 185 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 3: these are precision strikes, taking out capabilities and preventing Iran 186 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 3: from building nuclear weapons that they will use against the 187 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 3: United States of America. I mean, they they've they've been 188 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 3: chanting death to America for most of my entire life. 189 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 3: I mean, they want to wipe out America. They certainly 190 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:51,080 Speaker 3: want to wipe out Israel too, And now we know 191 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 3: they want to wipe out even in their Muslim neighbors 192 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 3: in there. And you know, the countries that border them, 193 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 3: like Saudi Arabia and the uae S. So these they 194 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 3: are dangerous, evil people. I trust President Trump not to 195 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,080 Speaker 3: get us embroiled in a forever war. And that's not 196 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 3: what this is. It doesn't look anything like Iraq in Afghanistans. 197 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 3: So at the forefront of all of this, we recognizing 198 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 3: President Trump's track record, I trust him before I. 199 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:17,679 Speaker 2: Let you go. 200 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: Sir I stated that Politico finally caught wind of something 201 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: very unique. 202 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 2: That when you have the taking. 203 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: Out of Maduro in Venezuela and the control of the 204 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: oil there, you stop the ghost ships, the oil tankers 205 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:36,480 Speaker 1: that were Russian controlled that were being then traded to 206 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 1: the Chinese to help them fulfill their oil needs. You 207 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:43,920 Speaker 1: take out the Ayatola, you end oil flowing to the Chinese, 208 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: and now you have Politico five charts show China's oil 209 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 1: dilemma after the US strikes. There is a solid amount 210 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:57,560 Speaker 1: of triangulation going on here. And more to the point, 211 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 1: when you hear the President talk about the friendly takeover 212 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 1: of Cuba, which I put forth to you is the 213 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 1: best line I've ever heard from the man in his 214 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: two terms. Friendly takeover of Cuba is on the very 215 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: top of his mount rushmore of statements. That ends the 216 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: ability for China to have opportunities to dip into the 217 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 1: Western hemisphere. It thwarts them and their desires or hegemonic 218 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: power in multiple places. Was this the goal, the takeout 219 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: of Venezuela and Iran not only because of certainly some 220 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: strategic necessary needs for US, but the largest strategic need regarding. 221 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:36,439 Speaker 2: China, I think so. 222 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 3: I mean, remember Iran as a main pillar of the 223 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 3: axis of Evil allied with China. They've been allied with 224 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 3: China all along, So I don't think it was lost 225 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 3: on President Trump that this would be a byproduct and 226 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 3: by Iran's own design. I mean, China chows Iran as 227 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 3: an ally, and now they're feeling the pain of the 228 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:00,200 Speaker 3: consequences of Iran's actions. So I don't think this was 229 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:02,320 Speaker 3: I don't think it was an accident. I think it 230 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 3: was probably by design, and President Trump knew that a 231 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 3: byproduct of everything else going on there as far as 232 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 3: Cuba goes, I mean, more more Cuban cigars for you, Tony, 233 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 3: and and certainly taking out another street strategic position a 234 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 3: friendly ally to China is a good thing for peace 235 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:23,080 Speaker 3: and prosperity around the globe. 236 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 1: I will wait until any remnants of the Castro regime 237 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:28,079 Speaker 1: are gone, and then I will enjoy all the Cubans 238 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 1: I can. But the stuff from out of Nicaragua and 239 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:33,440 Speaker 1: the Dominican are doing me just fine. Senator Jim Banks, 240 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking the time to be with us, 241 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: to be here. Senator from Indiana, thank you. Moore's coming up. 242 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 1: This is Tony Katz today.