President Biden told Iran don't, and it did.
But is Biden giving power now to the Islamic Republic
and hanging Israel out to dry?
It's ironic that we find ourselves in
the all too familiar position of talking about a long
list of deterrence failures by the Biden administration.
Mr. President, don't
stop it. Support Israel with respect.
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We've gone from peace through strength to
war through weakness. It's no surprise that Biden is doing
more to constrain Israel than he is to constrain Iran.
President Biden told our closest Middle East ally that the
US would not take part in any Counter Strike or
as the New York Post puts it,
Iran. Your own
Peter Ducey at the White House.
Peter and Harris. The Biden Iran policy is kind of
hard to understand because on the one hand you've got
officials saying that President Biden's support for Israel is unwavering,
but then you've got officials telling us that President Biden
and the US will not support Israel if they launch
a counter strike against Iran.
It's hard to look at what President Biden has done
with respect,
respect to Iran and say that he hasn't been tough
on Iran,
that we haven't put pressure on them that we haven't
addition additional 500 sanctions,
additional resources.
President Biden also told Netanyahu after missile defenses knocked down
about
99% of Iran's incoming missiles to take the win.
That is according to a report in Axios.
But that is really lacking in terms of support for
Israel in the eyes of Republican critics on Capitol Hill
who want the president to do more than just consult
G7 allies about strong diplomatic options.
Parade of horrible. As you just mentioned,
Try. I want to stress it is happening because Joe
Biden has projected weakness all around the world.
Russia did not invade Ukraine on Donald Trump's watch.
He did on Barack Obama and Joe Biden's watch.
Iran would have never thought to shoot 300 missiles and
drones at Israel when Donald Trump was president.
This is a White House that over the last couple
years has unfrozen billions of dollars of money that is
now in the leaders of
Iran's hands. They insisted it couldn't be used to fund
attacks or buy weapons.
But these attacks have not stopped Harris well,
and they don't pay for themselves.
Peter Doocy, thank you very much.
Two headlines in the Wall Street Journal.
Biden wanted to avoid a regional war.
Now he's got one. US deterrence fails again as Tehran
shows it's willing to take risks while Biden tries to
restrain Israel
in focus. Florida Republican Congressman Brian Mast,
member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and also the
Subcommittee for the Middle East,
North Africa and International Terrorism,
and a decorated member of our Armed Forces.
He is retired. You saw him saluting earlier.
I want to lean on your acumen
in terms of that and talk to me about what
it means to,
as the president told Benjamin Netanyahu and the War Council
take the win
in for the administration to to say this.
You were able to knock some drones out of the
sky,
maybe 300 SAHID 136 carrying a payload of let's say
roughly 100 lbs of ordinance each one of them.
We helped you knock them out of the sky.
Let's just leave it at that and let's allow them
to regroup
and maybe do something more substantial.
Let's allow them to regroup and realize that as the
administration said,
they're not going to have your back in retaliating.
Let's allow them to regroup while you have 40 Democrats
in the House,
one of them being Nancy Pelosi,
a pretty mainstream Democrat, going out there and saying let's
essentially embargo and sanction Israel in this literal time of
war by not transferring any further arms to Israel,
which is what the letter they literally wrote last week
said.
And this is the message that Democrats,
the Biden administration and House Democrats,
it's what they're all sending to Iran and to any
foreign intelligence agencies out there that are paying attention to
this.
Look, with all the committees you sit on,
I, I feel like I can ask you this question.
We don't have a lot of details,
I would imagine, about what North Korea could put on
a plane,
but it is not outside the bounds that Iran could
put a warhead that has a nuclear tip on it
and send it wherever it wanted to with some help
and maybe 48 hours notice.
What? What would that look like in terms of a
game change?
And I don't want to Telegraph something that hasn't happened
yet,
but look, they didn't have to give a heads up
what happens when they don't,
slightly, outside of your question and say something that's maybe
more probable.
We know that Iran has fissile material.
We know that they have heavy water reactors that they've
been working towards building nuclear weapons.
So maybe they can't quite create the Oppenheimer scenario yet.
But that doesn't mean that they can't create a dirty
warhead,
a dirty payload, fissile material spread across Israel by the
the disbursement of 300 separate drones that are being fired
in their direction,
making areas essentially unusable. That's absolutely realistic.
It's been a realistic threat for a long time.
So, you know, I'm not going to speculate on whether
North Korea might hand them something or whether you know
Russia or somebody else.
Obviously there's a great alliance between Iran and Russia there
as well.
I won't speculate on that one.
But let's say certainly they have fissile material and that
would be in the realm of possibility and probably even
probability.
That's that's helpful information. And the reason I would go
to like a North Korea is because it's ready made.
But from what you're saying,
it doesn't have to be ready that he made and
it certainly doesn't have to be perfect.
It could be a dirty situation using the materials that
they have already on ground.
All right. Back in 2020,
then candidate Joe Biden called out then President Donald Trump
for getting,
quote, dangerously close to starting a war with Iran.
If you haven't seen it recently,
watch this. A president says he wants to end endless
wars in the Middle East
is bringing us dangerously close to starting a brand new
one.
A president says he wants out of the region
sends an additional 18,000 plus troops to do with a
crisis of his own making.
An administration that claims its actions have made America safer,
in the same breath urges our citizens to leave Iraq
puts Americans throughout the region on notice
because of the increased danger that now exists.
It was almost like he was telling his own future
about himself,
the Biden administration, that the accusations that they make are
the crimes that they themselves are actually committing.
And this goes with their foreign policy as well.
We see as as many have spoken about you don't
have a speed,
a peace through strength policy with the Biden administration.
It's been characterized many ways and and you don't have
to decode what they're saying as well.
They're crystal clear with our allies,
with America's allies. We will not have your back in
this situation.
That's what leads to the weakness.
And let's bring this back to one other place,
former CENTCOM General General McKenzie,
head of CENTCOM under Biden.
He has been very clear now that he's out of
uniform that the Biden administration
literally took a run off the table as a target.
He actually characterizes it as giving aid and comfort to
our enemy.
And if you take them off the target list,
then they are actually, there's no deterrence for them whatsoever.
And that's what he quantified as very problem because the
Biden administration has no sense of what peace through strength
actually means.
And that's where, again, Mackenzie said it very well himself.
That's giving aid and comfort to our enemy.
Congressman Mast, thank you for being in focus today.