1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: We're all watching right now as war unfolds in the 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:08,680 Speaker 1: Middle East, after witnessing the evil terrorist attacks against Israelis, 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 1: against Jews, simply forbidding Jews. We're going to cover the 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: different angles of this ongoing story for you as this continues. Today, 5 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: we're going to talk to a man who recently tweeted 6 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: that he is the only member of Congress who has 7 00:00:22,239 --> 00:00:24,959 Speaker 1: worn both the uniform of the United States Army in 8 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: the uniform of the Israel Defense Forces. We're going to 9 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: talk to him about his experiences serving in the IDF, 10 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 1: concerns that this could become a regional war. We're also 11 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: going to get his take on the Hamas Caucus, these 12 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: left wing Democrats who refuse to condemn Palestine, who refused 13 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:45,360 Speaker 1: to defend Hamas, but they'll blame Israel. And lastly, we're 14 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 1: going to talk to him about the Irani inspiring that 15 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: reportedly infiltrated the Biden administration. 16 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 2: What do you need to know about that? 17 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: So stay tuned for this conversation with Florida's Congressman Brian 18 00:00:55,280 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: mast Congress and Brian Mast, I appreciate you taking the 19 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:06,680 Speaker 1: time to come on the show with so much going 20 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: on in Congress and around the world right now. 21 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 2: So we appreciate you making. 22 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 3: The time, appreciate you asking the questions. 23 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: You know, I had you on the show when I 24 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: was on Fox News over the weekend, and so I 25 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:18,839 Speaker 1: just wanted to have you on the podcast as well. 26 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: You tweeted recently that you know, you were proud to 27 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 1: be the only member of Congress to have warned both 28 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: the United States Army uniform as well as the Israeli 29 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: Defense Forces. You know, talk about that experience serving the 30 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: in the IDF. You know, what did you learn? 31 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:34,479 Speaker 3: Man? 32 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:37,559 Speaker 4: And I've spoke about this in like to people because 33 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 4: it was such a memorable experience for me and probably 34 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 4: different for me than other people that volunteer with the IDEA. 35 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 3: When I went over. 36 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:50,560 Speaker 4: There, this was following similar situation, not nearly to the 37 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 4: extent of what's going on right now, but you know, 38 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 4: there was twenty fourteen, There was bombardment of rockets that. 39 00:01:57,080 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 3: Were going into into Israel. 40 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 4: There were Israeli soldiers, not civilians, but soldiers that were kidnapped. 41 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 4: At the time, I was a student at Harvard. I 42 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,919 Speaker 4: had retired from the military about three years prior, and 43 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 4: as I'm up in Harvard in twenty fourteen up in Boston, 44 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 4: and my wife is pregnant with our third child, and 45 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 4: we have two little boys at the time, and we're 46 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 4: out living in this place called Beacon Hill, right next 47 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:23,520 Speaker 4: to the Boston Commons where there's a park, and that's 48 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 4: where we take our kids to play. There was all 49 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 4: these anti Israel protests that were going on there constantly, 50 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 4: people draped in Palestinian flags like people have seen these days. 51 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 4: And one night that we're out there just basically minding 52 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 4: our own business, some of these protesters started aggressively questioning, 53 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 4: giving me the third degree, harassing me in front of 54 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 4: my wife and kids about me being a US service 55 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,799 Speaker 4: member and my stance on Israel and what we're doing 56 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 4: in the Middle East and that kind of thing. We 57 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 4: were binding our own business, mind you, and it's not 58 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 4: hard for people to figure out that I was a 59 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 4: service memory. 60 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 3: Hight say, well, why did they you know, why did 61 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 3: they pinpoint you. 62 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 4: I wear a hat that says Army Rangers, and I 63 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 4: don't have any legs, so it doesn't. 64 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 3: Take a genius to figure it out. 65 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 4: And these people were not geniuses, but they figured it 66 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:17,239 Speaker 4: out quickly, and so it was after that that I'm like, 67 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 4: all right, Brianna, my wife, Brianna said, this is so 68 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 4: beyond hypocritical. 69 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 3: I don't know what I'm gonna do, but I'm gonna 70 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 3: get my hands. 71 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 4: Starting and to find a way, and I'm going to 72 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 4: show my support for Israel, the freedom that they represent 73 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:31,919 Speaker 4: against this hypocrisy, this. 74 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 3: This maddening situation that's going on. And that's what I didn't. 75 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 4: So I go over there and and I serve on 76 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 4: these medical bases, and I work in supply chain there, 77 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 4: you know, literally like moving boxes, moving palettes, getting you know, 78 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 4: turner quits and supplies and and and blood bags and things. 79 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 3: Like that to places that they need to get. 80 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 4: Nobody should think that the fate of Israel relied on 81 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 4: the presence of Brian mast It certainly did not. But 82 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:03,839 Speaker 4: but I was getting my hands dirty doing what I could, 83 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 4: which is what I always tell young people to do. 84 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 4: Don't just live on social media and Facebook and Twitter 85 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 4: and Instagram and things like that, like go get your your. 86 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 3: Hands dirty and the most worthy causes that you believe in. 87 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 4: And so I'm there doing that, and the situation really 88 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 4: became very different for me because all of a sudden 89 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 4: it became this national thing. There there's a legless American. 90 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 3: Soldier here serving in our military. What the heck is 91 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:32,240 Speaker 3: going on? Why why is this happening? 92 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 4: And all of a sudden, I started having very little 93 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 4: work done in part, you could say, because I was 94 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 4: meeting with the family of its akra being, or I 95 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 4: was meeting with the generals or the admirals, or I 96 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 4: was meeting with my counterparts. You know, I was a 97 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 4: bomb tech in the US Army and Joint Special Operations Command, 98 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 4: and I'm meeting with their yah alone, their you know, 99 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 4: their tunnel rats there. They're special operations that go out 100 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 4: there and literally get the tunnels and blow up the tunnels, 101 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 4: you know, going between the Gaza stript and other places. 102 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 3: And the situation took that change. 103 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 4: From where I was, you know, doing this supply chain 104 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 4: work to where I. 105 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 3: Was having this experience that I could have never predicted 106 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 3: because I don't know, because because we'll just say, because as. 107 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 1: We enter into this, you know, obviously there are some 108 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: real concerns that this becomes a regional war, that it 109 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:28,479 Speaker 1: potentially becomes a world war. 110 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 2: How do we prevent that from happening? Is it preventable? 111 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: You know, how does Israel extract the cost that they 112 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: deserve a need to extract without. 113 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:39,719 Speaker 2: This, you know, how do they prevent it from becoming 114 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 2: original war. 115 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 4: Maybe this might sound backward to people initially, but you 116 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 4: have to have a commitment that is a threat as 117 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 4: it deterrence. 118 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 3: And so when I. 119 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 4: Say that, I think your analysis is correct about all 120 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 4: of the players in this. We all know Iran is 121 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 4: a puppeteer, and Iran will call on Uslim fighters across 122 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 4: the entire region and globe to go out there and 123 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 4: come to the area for fighting or conduct isis like 124 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:11,359 Speaker 4: attacks in other. 125 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 3: Places like Europe or America or other places. 126 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 4: You name it in the same way that you see 127 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:20,839 Speaker 4: this radical baiting on campuses like at Harvard, like what 128 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 4: I witnessed back in fourteen, but even worse, you see 129 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 4: this and that can create conflict across the globe. But 130 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:31,679 Speaker 4: you see those talents of Iran, whether in Yemen, whether 131 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 4: in Syria, whether in Jordan, whether in Syria, whether in Lebanon, 132 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 4: whether in Egypt. You take your place, and they are 133 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 4: also a part of that supply chain and infrastructure for 134 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 4: getting weapons, materials intelligence. You name it into the Gaza 135 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 4: strip or into the West Bank, and when that involves 136 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:59,479 Speaker 4: all of them and they were all involved in killing Americans, 137 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:04,240 Speaker 4: taking Americans hostage, and God forbid for them if they 138 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 4: are taking Americans back onto the soil of these other 139 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 4: places outside of the Gaza Strip, Yes, because there again, 140 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,800 Speaker 4: and I've said this before, there should be every expectation 141 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 4: that there are American operators headed to rescue Americans and 142 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:22,720 Speaker 4: have retribution for Americans. 143 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 3: That should be the expectation. 144 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 4: And when you make it clear that that is the 145 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 4: commitment of America and the commitment of the Israelis and 146 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 4: the Israeli allies like America, is that we will be 147 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 4: there until the job is done, not stop because there 148 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 4: were five thousand bodies that stacked up and that was 149 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 4: just enough, or there were ten thousand bodies and somebody says, 150 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 4: well that's too many or something like that. No, the 151 00:07:52,800 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 4: job stops when the mission of destroying this, that every 152 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 4: bit of this that allowed this to take place is gone. 153 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:07,360 Speaker 4: With the same commitment that we would wipe out Nazis 154 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 4: in Europe. When you let it be known that that 155 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,480 Speaker 4: is the commitment, then I think you have people saying, 156 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 4: whoa pump the brakes. 157 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 3: We noticed that. 158 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 4: It was this person over here or this entity over here, 159 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 4: or they've been meeting in this building over here, or hey, 160 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 4: let us help you by figuring out this is where 161 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 4: it is over here. 162 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,400 Speaker 3: All of a sudden, you get people that they say, no, 163 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 3: don't slap me like that. You know, we're willing to 164 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 3: play well. 165 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 2: And that's the thing we're talking about. 166 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 1: You know, dead Americans as well, you know, the most 167 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: Jews killed in a single day since the Holocaust. A 168 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: different face, but the same evil, the same goal with 169 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 1: the genocide of the Jews. You know, you talked about 170 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: that anti semitism that you saw in twenty fourteen. But 171 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 1: it's also in the halls of Congress, you know what 172 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 1: is called the Hamas Caucus right now, where you know, 173 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 1: these left wing Democrats who are standing in support with 174 00:08:58,040 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 1: the Palestinians. 175 00:08:58,760 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 2: Where she did leave. 176 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: Pressed by a Fox report the other day, still refused 177 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:07,319 Speaker 1: to denounce the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists. AOC waited 178 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 1: to respond until condemning you know, taking the time to 179 00:09:11,240 --> 00:09:14,200 Speaker 1: you know, defend the Palestinians and to you know, go 180 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:15,839 Speaker 1: after Israel instead. 181 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 2: I mean, so it's also in the halls of Congress. 182 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:21,800 Speaker 3: They didn't just refuse. Let's take a where. 183 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 4: She did to leave and if you didn't see the video, 184 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 4: Number one, she ran away from condemning the atrocities from 185 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 4: she She didn't take the time to stop, pause, reflect 186 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 4: as any representative of the United States of America should do, 187 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 4: and say this is what took place, and that is unacceptable. 188 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 4: It should be condemned with the harshest possible term. She 189 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 4: ran away from it, she hid from it. She remained silent, 190 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 4: and that was where her conviction lied. But you know, 191 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 4: you go beyond that, and I think I have been 192 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 4: a longtime critic, forever, a forever critic of the two 193 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 4: states solution, because what you're essentially talking about. 194 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 3: In this bipartisanly in the halls of Congress. 195 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 4: As people saying we should make a state out of 196 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 4: the entity that just did this, or the entity that 197 00:10:08,679 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 4: you know, every year, it doesn't get national press coverage, 198 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 4: but drop five rockets on this day, and two rockets 199 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 4: on this day, and a bombing on this day, and 200 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 4: a stabbing or a shooting on this day, you know, 201 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 4: and it goes uncovered. But it's happening on a daily, weekly, 202 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 4: monthly basis, every single year. But we should ignore all 203 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 4: of that and make a nation out of the entities 204 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 4: that are this. And this also goes you know, I 205 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:36,840 Speaker 4: would ask Rashida to leave, or AOC or ilhan Omar 206 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 4: or Corey Bush. You take any of those people that 207 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 4: were probably out there saying, you know, the you know, 208 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 4: the old question of hey, were there any good people 209 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 4: in Charlottesville? Well, well, what are you saying there were 210 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:50,680 Speaker 4: good people over here? If you said there were no 211 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 4: good people in Charlottesville, you should be saying there were 212 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 4: no good people here. 213 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 3: You would think that that would be, you know, an. 214 00:10:57,240 --> 00:11:00,440 Speaker 4: Intellectual thing to be able to say in that if 215 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 4: you know what I'm talking about charlotte Sville. 216 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 3: And they won't do that. 217 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 4: They pretend as though Hamas and Hezbollah are these totally 218 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 4: separate entities, which they are not. I didn't see one, 219 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 4: I'm sorry, not Hamas and has both Palestinians and Hamas. 220 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 4: I didn't see any Palestinians that were saying. 221 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:27,160 Speaker 3: Turn around, put the rifle down. Return that is rarely 222 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 3: return that American, Hey, let me help you out, let 223 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 3: me get you out of there. 224 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 4: I didn't see one of them stepping forward saying, hey, 225 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:35,439 Speaker 4: we saw the planning of this taking place, and we're 226 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 4: giving you this warning that this was happening. Here's where 227 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 4: they were practicing, this is what they were planning on doing. 228 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 4: You didn't see any of that. And the loudest thing 229 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:46,360 Speaker 4: that you heard, said heard taking place wasn't the gunfire, 230 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 4: wasn't the bombings. It was the cry of Allah Akbar. 231 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:56,719 Speaker 4: As they're beheading Jews, as they're taking children hostage, as 232 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 4: they're killing the elderly. 233 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 3: It was them crying out that God was willing them 234 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 3: to do this. 235 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:05,439 Speaker 1: Let's take a quick commercial break more with Congressman Brian mast. 236 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 3: Well. 237 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 2: And also, you know the Palestinians chose. 238 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: This path when they elected hamas the power in two 239 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: thousand and six and Gaza, so you know this was 240 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: a path that was chosen. This is a destiny that 241 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: they chose, and so they will now be on the 242 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 1: receiving end of you know, where those actions led. 243 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 4: I want to say seventy six out of like one 244 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:31,959 Speaker 4: hundred and thirty something to that effect. 245 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:33,440 Speaker 3: Seventy plus out. 246 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 4: Of one hundred and thirty of their government representatives, you know, 247 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 4: in one of those years were made up of members 248 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 4: of literal declared members of Hamas. This is not just 249 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:46,199 Speaker 4: a group that's peripheral to Palestinians. 250 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 3: It has embedded them. 251 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 4: It is who they elected them, and it is the 252 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:54,559 Speaker 4: reason that a boss does not have elections for the 253 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 4: last however many years, because they know that Hamas will 254 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,720 Speaker 4: win a popular election there. It is who the people 255 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 4: choose to be their government, and to create a state 256 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 4: out of them would to be to create a terrorist 257 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 4: government that perpetuates everything that the world just saw. 258 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: One thing that I think concerns all of us is 259 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:18,240 Speaker 1: there was some reporting recently about an Irani inspiring that 260 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 1: had infiltrated the Biden administration, the Iran Experts Initiative. We 261 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: know that Robert Malley is under investigation by the FBI 262 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 1: he was serving as the Iran envoy. But you also 263 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 1: have another senior policy advisor at the DoD who was 264 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: allegedly repeatedly in contact with Iran's foreign ministry, who was 265 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 1: still there at the Department of Defense. 266 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 2: What can you tell us about this spiring. 267 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 1: And what are Republicans doing on Capitol Hill to try 268 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: to get to the bottom of it. 269 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 4: So I chair the Foreign Affairs Oversight Subcommittee. I've asked 270 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 4: about this numerous times behind closed doors and literally in hearings. 271 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 4: So we're talking about Robert Malley and we're talking about 272 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 4: doctor tabata Bay and so for Maally literally had a 273 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 4: security clearance revoked. Was the top official for the Biden 274 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,080 Speaker 4: administration in dealing with Iran in you know, previously working 275 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,920 Speaker 4: with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, then trying to 276 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 4: revive a new JCPOWAY for the Biden administration. So security 277 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 4: clearance revoked because of allegations of security violations relating to Iran, 278 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 4: and that is incredibly serious in the face of everything 279 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 4: that's going on. Beyond that, the administration refuses to answer 280 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 4: question on it. They didn't even alert people to the 281 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 4: fact that this had taken place. When it did take place, 282 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 4: they had tried to brush on the under the rug 283 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 4: and make sure nobody knew instead of saying, hey, Congress, 284 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 4: House of Representative, Senate, we may have a problem here. 285 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 3: They didn't do that. It had to be discovered. 286 00:14:56,520 --> 00:15:02,200 Speaker 4: Miss Tabadabaye, doctor Tabatabai, chief of staff for a Defense 287 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 4: Secretary and or under secretary. And in this I asked 288 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 4: very specific questions in a hearing going to what's known 289 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 4: as the s F eighty six. The National Security Questionnaire. 290 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 4: It's one hundred pages of what you have to fill 291 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 4: out relating to everywhere you worked, went to school people. 292 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:20,920 Speaker 3: You know, if you want to get. 293 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 4: A security clearance in the United States government, sometimes they 294 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 4: do a holograph, sometimes they don't. And I asked the 295 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 4: questions of her boss, who she is the chief of 296 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 4: staff for publicly, so everybody can go back and watch 297 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 4: the video and see his answered. Hey, you all issued 298 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 4: a defensive. Doctor Tabadabay said that you stand by her. 299 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 4: Let me ask you these questions. Did she put down 300 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 4: the Iranian foreign minister as a foreign contact on her 301 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 4: National security questionnaire or not? I don't have the answer 302 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 4: to that was the answer to the question. 303 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 3: Well, let me get this straight. 304 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 4: You put out a defense of her, but you didn't 305 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 4: take the time to determine whether she did or did 306 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 4: not have contact with the Iranian Foreign demse Defense minister. 307 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 3: That's absurd to think that. 308 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 4: And I'll give you one other thing on this and 309 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 4: then you know, go to whatever you want. But I 310 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 4: think there's where this is an issue of where there's 311 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 4: smoke there's fire with that National Security questionnaire. To stay 312 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 4: on that thread, there is a seven year statute of 313 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 4: limitations for talking about your work, your foreign contacts, your 314 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 4: things like that. It may be a case that, depending 315 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 4: on the math of this, that it was exactly at 316 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 4: seven years where she was, you know, on paper, working 317 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 4: with this this group that was trying to support Iranian 318 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 4: influence with policymakers in America, and when she put in 319 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 4: her application for a national security questionnaire to work with 320 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,359 Speaker 4: the Department of Defense, it is right on the threshold 321 00:16:56,760 --> 00:16:59,640 Speaker 4: of this seven year mark. Where makes it where she 322 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 4: doesn't have to talk about it. 323 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,520 Speaker 3: It could be that she did that on purpose. It 324 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 3: could be that she did. 325 00:17:04,520 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 4: List it but they're not telling us, or it could 326 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 4: be that, you know, this was never checked out at all. 327 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 1: Maybe gives you a glimpse in to seeing how why 328 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:17,120 Speaker 1: are this administration's response to Iran has been the way 329 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,639 Speaker 1: it is. The country's falling apart, the world's falling apart. 330 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:25,160 Speaker 1: We need leaders in the Republican Party who act like adults, 331 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 1: not children. Obviously, the House is without a speaker right 332 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: now because of people acting like children not adults. 333 00:17:32,520 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 2: Your take on that, before we go. 334 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:37,439 Speaker 4: I'm going to give you news right now, in this moment, 335 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:41,239 Speaker 4: right now that we're speaking, I can tell you I 336 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:45,159 Speaker 4: will not support any current member of our leadership in 337 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 4: the Republican Party right now. 338 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 3: Now. 339 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 4: I've made commitments that will be news to some people. 340 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:54,679 Speaker 4: I have made commitments to support people, but right now 341 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 4: I will not because of exactly what. 342 00:17:57,840 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 3: You are said. 343 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:01,639 Speaker 4: I am not seeing leadership out of those that have 344 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 4: already asked to lead and others. You do not send 345 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:13,879 Speaker 4: half of the legislative branch of the United States of 346 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:18,879 Speaker 4: America out after the speaker is ousted in that branch 347 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 4: of government in utter confusion for a straight week. 348 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 3: That is not leadership. 349 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 4: You do not have an election behind closed doors for 350 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:32,400 Speaker 4: a Speaker of the House and determine this and then 351 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:36,439 Speaker 4: have everybody behind closed doors say, wait a minute, let's 352 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:38,919 Speaker 4: make sure that there are two hundred and eighteen people 353 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,640 Speaker 4: that are in fact going to vote for the person 354 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 4: that got the most votes one hundred and thirteen votes 355 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 4: behind closed doors. Let's make sure that there are two 356 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:50,199 Speaker 4: hundred and eighteen people that will commit to voting for 357 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 4: this person. 358 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 3: And let's make sure that we say, have. 359 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,399 Speaker 4: A plan of what we're going to do for the 360 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,959 Speaker 4: next fifty one hundred days. Take your pick, so that 361 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:01,399 Speaker 4: we can let people know what's going to happen going forward. 362 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 4: There was a warning about that, but no again sent 363 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:09,159 Speaker 4: out of the doors in confusion. I learned about the 364 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 4: fact that we were going to recess for a whole 365 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 4: nother day by seeing it take place with Patrick McHenry 366 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 4: gabbling in on c SPAN and saying we're recessing until 367 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 4: tomorrow at whatever time. That is not leadership and I 368 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 4: will not support anybody that is not showing the level 369 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:33,159 Speaker 4: of leadership that this country deserves on a host of 370 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 4: different fronts. Leading America is important, but it should not 371 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 4: be difficult as a republican right as a Republican, what 372 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 4: do we want? We want adherence to the Constitution, We 373 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 4: want lower taxes, we want less regulation, and we want 374 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:53,680 Speaker 4: to find a place that you can put more quality 375 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,639 Speaker 4: of life and more money into the pocket of every American. 376 00:19:58,600 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 3: What is the plan that you have to do. 377 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 4: It's not about funding the government, as everybody has a 378 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:07,679 Speaker 4: conversation of It's about what part of the government do 379 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,200 Speaker 4: you need to fund so that you keep America safe 380 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 4: and so that you create a situation that America can 381 00:20:14,960 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 4: continue moving, not just saying we need to fund the 382 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 4: government and I am not seeing the right conversations and 383 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 4: I am not seeing leadership, and as you can hear, 384 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:25,679 Speaker 4: I am incredibly frustrated about it. 385 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:27,119 Speaker 2: I hear your frustration. 386 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:28,959 Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are, you know, they 387 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 1: just want to see some leadership from Republicans at such 388 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 1: a dire time, both here and abroad. Congress and Brian 389 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:40,359 Speaker 1: mast we appreciate your service to this country, and we 390 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 1: appreciate you taking the time to come on the show. 391 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:44,640 Speaker 3: Sir, and I thank you for asking the question, let's 392 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 3: take care? 393 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,359 Speaker 1: That was converseman Brian Masked of Florida. I want to 394 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 1: thank him for taking the time to come on the show. 395 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: We're going to continue to follow this story every Monday 396 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: and Thursday, but you can listen throughout the week. Thank 397 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: you for listening. I want to thanks Don Cassio, my producer, 398 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 1: for putting the show together. 399 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 2: Until next time.