With me now retired Brigadier General Anthony Tata.
The general served on in the US Army for 28
years.
He's a former Under Secretary of Defense.
Happy New Year to you,
general. OK, this question. Happy New Year and happy birthday,
Liz. Thank you so much.
You know, thank you for that.
Isn't it time? Isn't it time to arrest and shut
down these pro Palestinian demonstrators?
Because they're acting. They're they're domestic terrorists.
Watch what they did over the weekend.
They tried to shut down JFK airport.
They launched a large balloon in the path of planes
landing and taking off.
Why not arrest them and shut them down before someone
gets killed?
They're domestic terrorists. Yeah, I consider this a terrorist attack.
If you're trying to disrupt the
flight path, that takeoff and landing
that's you know 2-3 hundred souls on board every one
of those airplanes,
those are attacks on on civilian targets and and absolutely
they should be arrested and they should be
you know tried and and hopefully convicted.
But right now, you know we've got all these Soros
funded DA's that are soft on crime and and you
know this Islamic extremism that has taken root in this
country is a real threat to our national security.
OK, we got let's move on to this because we're
going to take take the viewer now to what's happening
in the Mideast.
Oil prices were ricocheting around today.
They were moving bungee cording up and then down.
Iran dispatches A warship to the Red Sea after the
US sank 3 Iranian backed Houthi rebel boats in the
Red Sea.
At least 10 Houthi fighters are killed.
Iran is announcing that it sent the AL boar's destroyer
through the strategic Baba al Mendeb Strait.
So what do you make of this action?
I mean, is the Biden White House handling Iran in
the best way possible?
No, absolutely not. It's just the opposite,
Liz. They're coddling Iran. They've got a strategy of appeasement.
Meanwhile, they're pretending to fight all these
Shia militia groups, whether it's Hamas,
ESP, law, the Shia militia groups in Syria,
Iraq and the Houthi rebels.
They are engaging them with this joint task force in
the sea.
But they aren't deterring, they aren't
engaging Iran in any way diplomatically,
financially, economically or or or militarily.
And so Iran's pushing the ship out there kind of
called the bluff of the United States because then it's
sort of mono E mono right
U.S. Navy with this joint task force against a single
Iranian ship.
What do you do? What?
What it's a pro probing attack there.
It's provocative of what Iran is trying to do,
called the bluff of the administration.
So you know the you've said that the administration continues
to coddle Iran while our troops battle what Iran is
doing.
I mean, our Navy ship captains are being fired upon
by the Hootie's with Iranian made and trained anti ship
missiles.
But they don't have the authority to shoot back at
the shooters themselves only to shoot down the missiles.
Michael Waltz, the Congress that says this is like telling
a cop who's being shot at you can only dodge
the bullets.
You can't. You can't. You can dodge the bullets.
You can swat down the bullets,
but you can't stop this problem.
Final word. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So there's a son who's saying if you defend everywhere,
you defend nowhere and we're defending everywhere.
They were not attacking anybody and and we've got a
deter Iran.
That's our job number one right now.
OK. General Tata, thank you so much.
We appreciate you come back soon.
Thank you, Liz.