00:00to strike Iranian energy infrastructure and energy stocks rose he brought stocks then in
00:06phillips 66 exxon and chevron secretary i have a few questions and again given the amount of time
00:14that i have i will ask you to give me yes and no answers did you warn president trump before
00:21the war in iran began that this conflict would drive up cost on gas
00:30food travel and yeah i don't do yes or no answers i only have five minutes i know when you
00:36were
00:36a senator you know and i know you're trying to go out so that you can run out by five
00:42minutes
00:43that's a simple question
00:51did you warn president trump before the iran war began that this conflict was
01:00drive up cost on gas food travel and shit the president no the president and the full
01:06administration was aware that there would be consequences to action but the consequences
01:10did you warn him did you warn him that launching a war on iran could result in the regime placing
01:19a
01:19chokehold on the spate of hamush all the risk factors were understood but the most important
01:24is that i just want to know if you did your job did you warn him and you didn't want
01:28him say yes
01:28it's simple everyone was aware of what iran did you want him i'm asking you a second everyone was
01:34aware don't want to ask you that let me ask you the next question but the worst did you want
01:37the
01:38president that launching u.s strikes against iran would result in retaliatory attacks on u.s allies
01:45partners and americans living or working in the middle leagues everyone yes did you want
01:52we were prepared for any response that you want came out okay we knew it just want to make sure
01:55you can't have a nuclear weapon did you warn the president that the personal stock purchases
02:01and companies profiting from the war that he launched could present a conflict of interest i'm
02:07not aware of the president's stock purchases i don't deal and i don't even know what you're saying
02:11is true well we know that what he's because it has made public what his stock purchases were you
02:17say so i don't read the president's financial disclosure but i don't believe that well i think
02:21the president should be more transparent secretary you know because these are basic questions that
02:26i'm asking you and to be transparent with the american people this is what this is all about
02:36the transparency so for example when you go and look at some of your statements that you made in
02:44regards to cuba i only have 58 seconds left and i'd love to give it but you talked about uh
02:52gaissa
02:53who's controlling the military and what's taking place there and they had the opportunity to benefit
02:59while the cuban people are suffering so what we're seeing here now the one person that's benefited from
03:05this war him and his friends they have made billions of dollars while the american people are suffering
03:16you've accused
03:19and i agree with reference to some folks what they're doing in cuba and how they're making money
03:26while people suffer that's what's taking place in the united states of america the trump administration
03:33and his friends are making billions of dollars while the american people suffer and they continue to
03:40suffer breaks my heart but ranking members time has expired representative mccall is recognized
03:45name is chairman louie thank you for your service secretary i know you're wearing a lot of hats a lot
03:50of responsibilities i think you're doing an outstanding job um let me just say since 1979
03:56a dark veil of terror descended upon the middle east and we've had it ever since and every president
04:03since that time has said that a nuclear ron is not acceptable and every congress has said that in
04:10fact last congress when i was chairman of this committee i passed a resolution that said
04:17that a nuclear ron was unacceptable and that the u.s must use any means necessary to prevent them from
04:24obtaining a nuclear weapon the vast majority of democrats voted for this almost all republicans
04:34it passed the house floor a resolution stating that that is not acceptable we've had a lot of talk
04:41in these congresses and prior administrations a lot of talk but we haven't had a whole lot of action
04:50you're administration you sir and the president have taken action on this very dire dangerous
04:58situation we find ourselves in with iran obtaining a nuclear weapon i also want to applaud you for your
05:04efforts in this western hemisphere a free venezuela a free people possibly one day a free cuba
05:14and people don't realize iran is in this hemisphere russia is in this hemisphere china is in this
05:20hemisphere this is all kind of tied together in a coherent foreign policy strategy that i see
05:27so i want to give you the time sir to respond to that because again all talk and no action
05:34but you
05:35sir have put this into action thank you well let me just before i address that i want the ranking
05:40member
05:40made accusations against the president which i've never heard before but number one are completely
05:44false not once just to be clear not a single time not even for a millisecond has the president ever
05:50discussed his personal economics in relations to war or any public policy that he's made for that matter
05:55and i've been in every one of his foreign policy meetings for the most part as to your point the
05:59the
06:00um what we need to understand is exactly what you just said it's not just that we say they can't
06:04have
06:04a nuclear weapon everyone says they can't have a nuclear weapon the chinese say they can't have a nuclear
06:08weapon the russians agree they couldn't have a nuclear weapon but at pump you have to do something
06:12about it what iran was trying to do was build a conventional shield of drones and missiles and
06:17a navy and capabilities at some point they would say to the world now we're going to get a nuclear
06:22weapon and you can't do anything about it because we have so many weapons and so many drones and so
06:26many naval vessels that the price we will inflict on you for trying to do something about it makes us
06:31untouchable makes us immune and the president was not going to allow them to build a conventional shield
06:36behind which they can develop their nuclear program today the iranian navy sits at the bottom of the
06:41sea they do not have a navy it no longer exists they have no air force either their missile launchers
06:46have been significantly degraded their defense industrial base has suffered upwards of 80 to 90
06:51of attrition it will take years for them to rebuild it those are facts that is the reality that was
06:57the
06:57purpose of epic fury it achieved its purpose in degrading that conventional shield and it has brought them to
07:02the negotiation table that hopefully will lead to the point where iran will give up its enrichment
07:07ambitions will turn over the highly enriched uranium will stop stop sponsoring terrorism around the
07:12world you know and i think i think the goal should be the fulfillment of the abraham accords we know
07:18why
07:18october 7th happened because israel and saudi were getting very very close and iran's perspective
07:25dangerously close to a normalization agreement and what did iran do they lit up their proxies
07:31they lit up their proxies to stop that from happening i do foresee a free iran i do foresee
07:39a free venezuela and a free cuba but you have to start somewhere and i think we've we're taking the
07:46steps so that future generations will thank us for these actions look and and on the point of we would
07:54love to see a change in iran and that they be governed by people but that was not the goal
07:58of our mission
07:58the goal of our mission was to take away their ability to threaten the region with an overwhelming
08:03number of missiles and drones that would basically make them immune to any sort of external pressure
08:07and then they could break out to a nuclear weapon that was the goal it achieved that from a military
08:12perspective the reality of it remains that it's not just us the entire world says they can't have a
08:17nuclear weapon but no one wanted to do anything about it and i can tell you this they are not
08:21going
08:21to have a nuclear weapons program at least as long as president trump is in the white house that's been
08:25made clear to everyone in the administration from the very top down it was the motivation behind
08:29these actions and it's the reason why we engaged the way we did i want to thank you again the
08:34last
08:3410 seconds for your service i would hope we could unify as a nation behind this i would hope our
08:40allies
08:40would unify behind us on this because they've all said it as we've said in the past and yet it
08:45was all
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