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We're also going to tomorrow allow the Hask and SAS To see the unedited video of the September 2nd alongside with Admiral Bradley. Who has done a fantastic job, has made all the right calls, and we're glad he'll be there to do it. But in keeping with longstanding Department of War policy, Department of Defense policy, of course, we're not going to release a top-secret, full, unedited video of that to the general public. Haskin Sask and appropriate committees will see it, but not the general public. Senator Lindsey Graham weighs in now.
That's Pete Hegset yesterday. Lindsey Graham also talked to the press right after that. He's chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, member of the Appropriations Judiciary Committee, and tremendous knowledge of military. Senator, do you think that Pete Hegset, the Secretary of War, made the right decision there? I like Pete a lot.
I think he's done a really good job. Here's what I would do. I'd release it to every member of Congress. Listen, we got videos all over T V showing us blowing up votes. I am all for blowing these f boats up.
This is very legal. We invaded Panama in nineteen eighty nine as a country under Bush forty one. We dropped eighty second Airborne in. We took Norrego, the President of Panama, out of office and put him in an American jail.
So don't tell me that Trump can't do what he's doing. What I would tell Pete and others is share it with everybody in the Senate and the House and let you make your own judgment. I'm okay with what happened. What did you think of the video that you saw yesterday? I'm okay with what happened.
Right, so because Democrats have a totally different idea about it, that's fine. They got a totally different idea about everything. And that's why we have an election, right? Their idea is to withdraw from Afghanistan and obliterate our border and raise your taxes and impose Obamacare on you. If we don't win this election, we got nobody to blame but ourselves.
Our ideas are better than theirs. Trump has secured the border in a way that nobody could have believed a year ago, right? Trump is Going after ISIS wherever ISIS lives. He destroyed the caliphate in his first term. Biden let it come back by withdrawing from Afghanistan.
He started giving money back to Iran and obliterated the border. Listen, we've got a good story to tell. We need to tell it. The economy is. getting better, but it's going to take a while because they were just as bad with the economy as they were with national security, and we need to talk about that more.
But I've got no problem blowing out the boats. Admiral Bradley is not a war criminal. He's a patriot. I want to take Maduro out. I'm tired of playing games here.
He's a narcoterrorist. Illegitimate leader? of Venezuela. He didn't win the election. He stole the election.
He's aligned with Hezbollah. He dumped tens of thousands of people into our country to wreak havoc on us. He needs to go. All right, so I want you to hear Tammy Duckworth, also a veteran. You're in the military, too, cut six.
I worry about our uniformed services, our men and women in uniform. They deserve to know if they're going to go to war, that it is truly a war, that they have the American people behind them, that Congress has voted on it. He's comparing it to the Obama drone strikes, do you see that as a fair comparison? I don't see that as a fair comparison because, again, we had an AUMF in Iraq and Afghanistan. These are two completely different situations.
And in fact, what I think we need to do again is go back to the beginning of this. What is it that the Trump administration is trying to do here? Is it regime change? If it's regime change, then come to us and say, hey, we need regime change in Venezuela. And here's the evidence.
Here's what we think. And then Congress will deliberate, and then we will vote on it.
So she doesn't like the comparison, but she says if you ask, she'll say okay.
Well, no, she won't say, okay, I like her a lot. She sacrificed for her nation, but she's wrong. What? For thirty three years, I used to be a military lawyer as a judge, defense attorney and a prosecutor. This is familiar ground for me.
In nineteen eighty nine, President Bush forty one, without congressional approval, took Norrego out as the Panama leader. literally using military force, we lost troops in the endeavor. He went to jail, Norrega did. Clinton changed the regime in Haiti as a military dictatorship. He restored civilian control.
Trump went into Grenada to deal with the expansion of Cuban influence in our backyard. They did all this without a declaration of war and without approval by the Congress. I used to do this for a living. We've declared war five times in the history of the nation. Does that mean if Congress doesn't declare war, the Commander in Chief cannot use military force?
No, it doesn't. We've had use of military force without a declaration of war as the norm. In this country, the exception is declaring war. You cannot have 535 commander-in-chiefs, that will lead to chaos. If you don't like the decision of a Commander in Chief as a member of Congress, you can restrict funding for the operation.
You can impeach them if you think they're doing something illegal.
So President Trump is doing what Bush and Clinton and others did to regulate narcoterrorism in our backyard. He has all the legal authority he needs. I hope Maduro is taken out. We'll be safer if he is. He should have been taken out a long time ago.
Then I want to deal with a communist dictatorship in Cuba. While President Trump is in office for the next three years, I hope we will clear out the narco-terrorist states in our backyard, that it will be harder to get drugs into America because those making money off of it in these nations no longer exist. I hope that we can deal with Hamas and Hezbollah while President Trump is in office so Iran doesn't have the influence it's had in the past.
So Senator Lindsey Graham, our guests, obviously, Senator Maduro, now no tankers in, no tankers out. I mean, the clock is ticking. How long can this guy last? And what do you think? Go ahead.
What do you think?
So what should we do when Putin says no to the The next peace deal, which I think he will. I applaud the administration for trying to get a solution to Russia-Ukraine that Europe can live with. Ukraine can live with, and we can live with. Putin's not going to quit till somebody makes him back to Venezuela. How do you stay in power?
if your power is based on illicit oil sales and we've cut that off.
So I like the strategy of strangling the economy of the bad guy. I'm not suggesting we invade Venezuela. I don't mind land strikes against narco terrorist targets, but the seizing of ships and the embargo of illicit oil transfers Will be the end of Maduro. When Putin says no, and he will, we need to pass my bill. in the Senate with eighty five cosponsors that would allow President Trump to impose tariffs, not sanctions, on countries that buy cheap Russian oil to prop up his war machine.
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So, a couple of things. It looks like this. Underwater. uh attack submarine got its first target of a a Russian sub in port It looks like it blew it up. It also looks like Ukraine is making some gains on a counterattack in a town I think is called Kopniansk.
And we also see that Petskov weighed in yesterday on what they're working out with Ukraine, which is a 20-point peace plan. He says they reiterate that Russia wants to end the war but seeks to achieve its goals, which, according to the Institute of Study of War, includes decapitating and replacing the Ukrainian government, destroying the Ukrainian military, and undermining Western unity. None of those three are happening, have happened, and will happen.
So, do you think this is all wasted exercise? Here's what I think. I think Putin will come to the peace table when the price gets too great. We know he doesn't mind losing soldiers. That's not a price he really cares about.
But when his revenue drops and he can't prop up his war machine and his way of life and the oligarchs begin to change, he'll come to the table. China is the largest purchaser of cheap Russian oil. China is the largest purchaser of Iranian oil. China is one of the largest purchasers of oil from Venezuela. What does that have in common?
China is buying cheap oil from bad guys to benefit their economy, and they need to pay a price. I'd like to have a good relationship with China. But China needs to be good for that to happen.
So I am urging President Trump to go after China and other people, other countries. that prop up Putin's war machine. What he's doing in Venezuela is the right model. I will be introducing tomorrow some major legislation. About the ability to seize ships.
What we're doing in Venezuela is seizing ships carrying sanctioned oil illegally. We need to transfer that model to the Russian shuttle fleet. About a thousand they have about a thousand tankers. The so-called ghost tankers that are out there.
Now, a couple of have been targeted by Ukraine and they've captured them. Are you saying that we should be doing the same thing? Absolutely. The free world. should be seizing these ships that operate illegally, we've sanctioned the pipelines coming out of Russia.
the ability to distribute oil and gas Pipelines coming from Russia has really been reduced. When President Trump sanctioned the two largest oil companies, In Russia it really mattered. Without the shadow fleet, Russia cannot survive. to prosecute this war. economically.
go after the ships.
Okay. Senator, I don't know if you saw 60 Minutes on Sunday. We know what Japan is doing.
So Germany is just building up. They are increasing their military by, I think, recruiting is up 70 percent. And Japan is doing the same thing. And the message throughout Europe is the same thing.
Now, people might not like it, but what Trump is saying is NATO. You got to step up, not only 5%. You just got to think to yourself, how do I stop the next invasion? And they've gotten the message right now to defend themselves. Russia's got to be saying to themselves, well, that didn't work out.
They added two formidable countries into NATO.
Now Germany is rearming. We know they can fight eventually, we hope. We know Poland's building a wall and they've been, they got the message a long time ago. Finland and Sweden get it.
So now we have France who's getting the message. I'm not sure they're capable of doing anything. And we'll see.
So now all of a sudden, our allies for years, and you were frustrated with John McCain and with George Bush and with others, they get the message now. Do you think the message is going to be sustainable? Oh yeah, absolutely. I think Putin should get the NATO Man of the Year award. Putin has done more to wake up Europe than anybody.
Trump has kicked them in the ass, and it's worked.
So what's happened? We're cheering on. Germany and Japan having bigger and stronger militaries. Eighty years ago, this year, was the end of World War two. If you had told somebody, a soldier, in nineteen forty five.
In twenty twenty five, Americans would be cheering on Germany rearming and Japan rearming. They thought you were crazy. It shows you how the world changes. Out of the ashes of the Third Reich and the Imperial Japan. Over time, we created two democracies.
that have aligned themselves with us.
Now, that can happen over time in Gaza and the West Bank, but you've got to get the Arabs to go in on the ground, stop. Preaching, killing the Jews, change the school system, on and on and on.
So, what has Putin achieved here? NATO is bigger. Nato is stronger. His economy is sanctioned to the hilt. More is coming.
He's lost a million people. This is a big flop. unless we give him a victory at the very end. China is watching. If this ends where Ukraine is still around, strong, independent, surviving, and Putin spent a lot and got very little.
It will help ch it will help. China. Make a decision about Taiwan, it will deter China from invading Taiwan. If, at the end, we give Putin a big gift. then there goes Taiwan.
And where do you think we're at right now? My last question. I think you see the 2019 to 20 points. I think we're in a good spot. I think we should not overly reward Putin.
We can't kick all the Russians out of Ukraine, so there's not going to be a military victory by Ukraine, nor is Russia going to Kiev. A diplomatic solution that prevents a third invasion European troops on the ground, America committed to fighting with them. If there's a third invasion, we'll deter a third invasion. Deal with the Donbass in a way that doesn't entice China to take Taiwan would be a great outcome. President Trump is cleaning up Biden and Obama's mess, and I think he's done a hell of a good job.
With the economy, it will get better over time. I hear you. Senator Lindsey Graham, always impactful. Every word matters. I really appreciate it.
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