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  • GENERAL'S DEATH.

  • LET'S BRING IN DAN CRENSHAW NOW,

  • MEMBER OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON

  • HOMELAND SECURITY, FORMER NAVY

  • SEAL, SERVED IN IRAQ AND

  • AFGHANISTAN, NOW SERVING IN REAL

  • COMBAT IN WASHINGTON AS WELL

  • WHICH IS ALSO PHYSICAL AND ALSO

  • VERY, I GUESS YOU COULD CALL IT,

  • TRENCH WARFARE.

  • FIRST OFF, CONGRESSMAN, ARE WE

  • SAFER WITH THE GENERAL DEAD?

  • >> FIRST OF ALL, THANKS FOR

  • HAVING ME.

  • AND THE ANSWER IS, ABSOLUTELY

  • YES.

  • SULEMANI WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE

  • DEATH OF HUNDREDS OF AMERICANS.

  • HE PLANNED EXECUTED ATTACKS ON

  • AMERICANS, GAVE IEDs TO SHIA

  • MILITIAS IN IRAQ THAT ARE

  • RESPONSIBLE FOR OVER 600

  • AMERICAN DEATHS NOT TO MENTION

  • ALL THE DEATHS AROUND THE

  • REGION, SYRIA, LEBANON, IRAQ AND

  • ELSEWHERE, HOUTHI REBELS IN

  • YEMEN.

  • SO THIS GUY'S BEEN A FORCE OF

  • DESTRUCTION AND DEATH IN THE

  • REGION FOR A LONG TIME.

  • THE HE'S THE HEAD OF ONE OF THE

  • LARGEST TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS

  • IN THE WORLD, THE IRANIAN QUDS

  • FORCE, SO, YES, WE ARE SAFER.

  • ARE THERE GOING TO BE

  • CONSEQUENCES?

  • OF COURSE THERE WOULD BE.

  • I WOULD FULLY EXPECT THE

  • IRANIANS TO PLAN SOME KIND OF

  • RETRIBUTION.

  • BUT HERE'S THE THING, WE HAVE TO

  • DISABUSE OURSELVES OF THIS

  • NOTION THAT WE SHOULD SIMPLY

  • CONTINUE TO TAKE PUNCHES, OKAY?

  • IRAN ATTACKED OUR BASE RECENTLY,

  • THEN THEY ATTACKED OUR EMBASSY

  • WHERE THEY FULLY SUPPORTED THE

  • SHIA MILITIAS THAT DID IT.

  • ARE WE SUPPOSED TO JUST LET THAT

  • HAPPEN?

  • AND TO SAY YES WOULD BE ABSURD,

  • AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHEN

  • AMERICANS BECOME SO FEARFUL.

  • YOU KNOW, WE -- THE COUNTLESS

  • PEOPLE ON THE LEFT TWEETING OUT

  • APOLOGIES AND BLAMING OUR OWN

  • GOVERNMENT FOR TAKING ACTION TO

  • KILL A MAN WHO HAS KILLED

  • AMERICANS.

  • AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHERE

  • THIS AMERICAN SELF-LOATHING CAME

  • FROM AND, FRANKLY, THANK GOD

  • THEY'RE NOT IN CHARGE.

  • STEVE: ACROSS THE AISLE FROM YOU

  • THERE ARE A NUMBER OF DEMOCRATS,

  • WE'VE GOT A TWEET FROM ILHAN

  • OMAR, THEY WANT THE PRESIDENT TO

  • EXPLAIN WHAT LEGAL AUTHORITY HE

  • USED TO CARRY OUT THIS ATTACK.

  • WE HAD SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE

  • POMPEO ON WITH US A LITTLE WHILE

  • AGO, AND HE SAID IT WASN'T FOR

  • WHAT SULEMANI HAS ORCHESTRATED

  • SO FAR, IT WAS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN

  • IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE THEY WERE

  • PLOTTING MORE ATTACKS.

  • >> YEAH.

  • WELL, I CAN CERTAINLY --

  • [INAUDIBLE]

  • I MEAN, FIRST OF ALL, YEAH, THIS

  • WAS A, THIS WAS A STRIKE THAT

  • WAS IN RESPONSE TO ARE RECENT

  • STRIKES -- TO VERY RECENT

  • STRIKES AGAINST US.

  • SO THERE WAS A SELF-DEFENSE

  • MECHANISM TO THIS.

  • FURTHERMORE, THE PREVENTIVE

  • MEASURES.

  • BUT BEYOND THAT, THIS HAPPENED

  • IN IRAQ AGAINST AN ENEMY THAT

  • ATTACKS US IN IRAQ IN WHICH WE

  • HAVE PLENTY OF AUTHORIZATION TO

  • BE OPERATING IN.

  • THIS IS NOT AN ATTACK ON THE

  • IRANIANS.

  • IT'S LIKE SAYING WHEN THERE WAS

  • FOREIGN FIGHTERS IN IRAQ

  • THROUGHOUT THE IRAQ WAR, THAT WE

  • SHOULD NOT HAVE LET OUR SOLDIERS

  • ENGAGE WITH THEM BECAUSE WE

  • HADN'T DECLARED WAR UPON THAT

  • PARTICULAR COUNTRY.

  • THAT'S AN ABSURD THING TO SAY.

  • AND THESE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

  • KNOW THAT, OR MAYBE THEY DON'T

  • KNOW THAT.

  • I'M HERE TO TELL THEM THAT.

  • AND ALL THIS HAND-WRINGING THAT

  • THEY'RE DOING CERTAINLY DIDN'T

  • OCCUR DURING THE OBAMA

  • ADMINISTRATION, AND I WISH THEY

  • WOULD JUST LEE THE HYPOCRISY

  • ASIDE, THE PARTISANSHIP ASIDE.

  • WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER.

  • WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT AS A

  • CONGRESS WHAT AUTHORIZATIONS WE

  • SHOULD GIVE TO THE PRESIDENT

  • JUST IN CASE THESE DISTURBANCES

  • AROUND THE REGION CONTINUE TO

  • ESCALATE.

  • THE LAST THING WE SHOULD BE

  • DOING IS LOOKING TO OUR PAST,

  • AND I'M FRIENDS WITH TULSI

  • GABBARD, BUT TO SAY THAT WHAT WE

  • SHOULD BE DOING IS LOOKING TO

  • OUR PAST AND TRYING TO ANALYZE

  • WHY THIS HAPPENS, THAT'S ABSURD.

  • THAT'S A GREAT ACADEMIC

  • ARGUMENT, BUT IT DOESN'T HELP US

  • IN OUR CURRENT REALITY.

  • WE HAVE AN ENEMY THAT DOES WANT

  • TO DESTROY US.

  • AND WE DO HAVE TO DEAL WITH

  • THAT.

  • WE DIDN'T LOOK AT HISTORICAL

  • TEXTBOOKS TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM.

  • WE HAVE A CHOICE BETWEEN PEACE

  • AND WAR, AND IF WE WANT PEACE,

  • WE CAN SURRENDER TO THEM RIGHT

  • NOW.

  • OF COURSE, STEALING THAT QUOTE

  • FROM REAGAN.

  • BUT THAT'S NOT A GOOD STRATEGY.

  • ALL RIGHT?

  • IT'S A FEARFUL STRATEGY.

  • IT'S CERTAINLY NOT A STRATEGY

  • FOR A COUNTRY LIKE THE UNITED

  • STATES OF AMERICA.

  • AINSLEY: DAN --

  • BRIAN: THE ONE THING WE'VE GOT

  • TO WORRY ABOUT IS THE NEXT TEN.

  • BE PREPARED FOR THE NEXT STEP.

  • IF YOU WERE IN COMMAND CONTROL

  • NOW KNOW WE JUST TOOK OUT THE

  • NUMBER TWO MOST IMPORTANT PERSON

  • IN IRAQ, WHAT WOULD YOU BE MOST

  • FOCUSED ON AT THIS HOUR?

  • >> WHAT WE KNOW THE IRANIANS ARE

  • VERY GOOD AT IS SURROGATE

  • WARFARE.

  • THIS WAS WHAT SULEMANI DID,

  • OKAY?

  • HE BUILT SURROGATES TROUT THE

  • REGION -- THROUGHOUT THE REGION

  • THAT COULD ATTACK US ON OWL

  • FRONTS.

  • WE SHOULD BE BOLSTERING DEFENSES

  • IN OUR BASES IN IRAQ, IN BAHRAIN

  • AND ELSEWHERE.

  • AND HELPING OUR ALLIES IN

  • ISRAEL.

  • THAT'S WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING

  • IN THE SHORT MATERIAL.

GENERAL'S DEATH.

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