Transcrição (en)

All right, let's turn our attention to the Middle East now. As a member of the House Armed Services Committee yourself, I want to get your take on what's happening there. The president recently downplaying the conflict, calling it small potatoes. Listen. I would say that it's intermittent. You know, we do intermittent strikes. So I heard what he said. And it was interesting because I think that there's a lot of truth. We're not fighting right now. There's no fighting. You know, I mean, whether this was an off-the-cuff comment or not, it does seem to be the messaging that's coming out of the Trump administration because we heard J.D. Vance, our vice president, a couple of days before saying he wouldn't call it a war. He stopped short of calling it a war. So how do you think the president expects military families to feel about this messaging? Should they feel offended by this or not? Well, military families who've lost a loved one may have their benefits affected because they're not calling it a war. I think the American people deserve two things. Number one, what's the mission? And two, how are we going to bring our troops home? And three, really, how do we measure success? I think those are the three things that we should be focused on right now. And just because we're bombing every other day or every two days doesn't mean it's not a war. This is a war that's been going on for nearly seven months. Munitions are down. We are still bombing. This is a war, and Congress has a right to have a say right now. War has to be declared. The president has to come to Congress. This is a real issue. Every other president has come to Congress after about 90 days. We're well past that window and the American people deserve an answer on what's going on, how we measure success and what is the exit strategy. That was our talking point when we got out of Afghanistan and that in that exit, which wasn't done very well. How are we going to bring this home, bring our troops home and have peace in the Middle East? We deserve that much.