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Faith. Freedom.
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Florida.
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This is the Brian Mudd Show.
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Tomorrow marks 16 years since Congressman Brian Mudd gave as
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much on the battlefield as anybody who has ever served
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this country that has been able to leave the battlefield alive.
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And each year we have the honor of connecting with
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Brian to reflect on on that time that the rest
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of us can't even begin to imagine, the remembrance of
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Brian's Alive Day. And Congressman Mass joining us now.
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Good morning. Good morning.
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I always appreciate you thinking about it.
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As the years go by, you know, I think about
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various moments in my life. And I can almost relate
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to your timetable just with my wife. We've been married
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for just over 17 years. And so for me, it's
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kind of like everything that happened before that was a
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different lifetime than everything that's happened since. What is this
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like for you going on 16 years? Does that feel
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like a lifetime ago or does it feel like yesterday?
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Yeah. It can be surreal the way that you think
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about it. It feels like a lifetime ago that I
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lost two legs. I really can't even remember putting my
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toes in the sand or having feet. I can't remember
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not having to put on legs before I put on
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my shorts or walk with the kids. You just can't
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really remember. You know that you had feet, you had calves,
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you had knees, you had legs. But you just don't
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really remember what it was like to have that. But
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even that being said, it's very different. It's very different
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from being the able-bodied way that you're born, right? I
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can't sit here and tell you that literally I have
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never had a bad day in life. I have never
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in my life had a bad day, some day that
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I couldn't overcome and keep going. Now, that day that
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I was injured, I guess, was probably the worst of
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all days that I've had. But it wasn't this thing that,
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you know, again, being an American, being under 50 stars
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and 13 red and white stripes that I didn't get
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to wake up and make the next day a better day.
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And the next day, the better day, it took a
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couple of weeks for me to wake up.
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But when I woke up, it.
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Was just the next day and the next fight and
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the next opportunity to go out there and say, take
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everything that I trained to do, which is overcome anything
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that I face and and just move forward. And that's
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the way that it was for me when I woke
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up in the hospital.
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I just want to pause for a moment and point
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out for all the rest of us, how often do
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we have something that in the grand scheme of life
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is so trivial? And we talk about what a bad
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day we've had and our troubles, our problems, whatever they
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happen to be. None of us have been through close
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to what Brian has been through That man's son had
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a bad day. Brian, I can tell this as well
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by you saying that, because there is a place that
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comes from, and that is a place of understanding of God,
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of faith, and of your Savior.
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Because the only people I've ever.
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Known that have had that kind of clarity on life
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are people that are right with God.
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I am a Christian in practice. I have a deep
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faith in my Lord Jesus Christ, try to raise my
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kids in the exact same way. My wife, Brianna, and
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I try to raise our kids in the exact same way.
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And it was absolutely a part of my recovery. And,
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you know, people, I say God, country, family. Those things
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were absolutely so pivotal in my recovery, right? God, I
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had every type of man and woman of the cloth
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coming to see me when I was injured, just trying
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to tell me about words about overcoming, you know, pastors, preachers, reverends, chaplains,
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you name it, coming through the hospital, just trying to
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take an interest in me. That is the truth. And
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they made a difference in me in a host of
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different ways. And my country, again, coming back to a
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country that no matter what happens to you the day before,
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in America, you always get to decide that tomorrow is
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a better day, no matter what. That is the opportunity
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that everybody has. And then, you know, like I said,
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my family, you know, I have an amazing wife that
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was there just wearing herself out. to the bone when
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I was injured from everything that I can remember of it, right?
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Some things I remember, some things I don't. From that
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window of time, I woke up on a laundry list
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of drugs that I'd never been on before in my life.
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That's a whole different story of it. But she was
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feeding our six-month-old at the time, staying in a hotel
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just outside the Walter Reed Hospital. And just trying to
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go back and forth from the hotel to the hospital room,
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trying to take care of me in the room and
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trying to take care of the baby in the hotel room,
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just going back and forth. And God, country, family, those
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things made the difference in my life 100%.
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It's amazing. And she is a wonderful person.
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In fact, the first time I ever met you was
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before you announced you were running, but an event.
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Over in Mar-a-Lago.
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And I remember meeting her and The two of you
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are no doubt an incredible team. And it is wonderful
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to hear not only that, but how Christ-centered your life is,
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which no surprise. And Brian, I hate to almost switch
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gears and ask you about news of the day stuff coming.
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Off of that.
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Switch gears.
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This is the worst.
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I'll just shoot straight with you because I know you
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do and you can handle it. This is the worst
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environment for Republicans, 46 days out from the midterm election
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cycle that I have covered since the 2006 wafer Democrats.
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You have now what happened yesterday with Congresswoman Marielle by herself.
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She's decided that she's going to run against the president
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on the immigration issue. I've known Maria since before she
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was in Congress. She's always had this kind of amnesty position.
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That's hers. That's not changed. But what has changed is
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obviously she feels vulnerable enough that she feels like she
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needs to run this type of campaign.
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What is your thought process?
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What is your outlook as we are, you know, only
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46 days away from the midterm election day?
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You brought up immigration. Let's touch that. Let's touch what,
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you know, somebody listening to you driving in a vehicle.
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Let's touch fuel price. Let's touch around with such a
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few things. On the immigration front, it's something for me personally,
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I look at it and say, this is a promise kept.
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The United States of America was literally being overrun on
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our southern border. Every illegal person coming across our border,
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overrunning our border, you taxpayers were paying for their lodging,
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their transportation, their health care, their food. You were paying
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the price when they committed crimes.
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We know that I live.
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In Fort Pierce. Right in Fort Pierce, we had an
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illegal immigrant truck driver that killed three of our fellow
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Americans on the turnpike because We were illegally given a license,
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and it resulted in deaths right here in our community.
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We lost in a different year. We lost a paramedic
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ambulance driver who was hit by an illegal drunk driver,
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hit their ambulance, killed another one of our local persons.
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It affects us. And so the closing off of the
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southern border and the removing of people that are here illegally,
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it's something that for me– This is a promise kept.
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This is something that we are a nation of laws,
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and I don't run away from that. I think it's
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one of the most important things that we've done. We
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want a clear and legal pathway to coming into this country,
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but if you violate that, that's not something that we
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should or will tolerate in any way whatsoever. To switch
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to some of these other big election issues, fuel prices
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are a big issue. We did great work, I think,
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entirely partisanly on the Republican side, cutting everybody's taxes. No
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tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on
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Social Security.
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All of these lower rates in.
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Every single tax bracket, that's a big deal. But people
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see the fuel pump each.
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And every week.
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I hate high gas prices as much as anybody. And
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the only thing I can tell people about that is
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that there is a reason of what is going on
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in Iran. And it's not something that is just over
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the last six months or just over the last 30-plus years.
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It's all points in between. I could take any window
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of time before this operation began in Iran. And I
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can show you where, you know, the source material, literally
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where Iran was hitting us week in, week out, ships
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going in and out of the Strait of Hormuz like
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they are right now. They were constantly either flying drones
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at them or firing ballistic missiles at them or driving
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boats into them or boarding them at gunpoint or doing
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everything that they could to harass that. This was ongoing.
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You know, what was going on with Iran is we've
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lost American service members over there in this conflict, 18
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of them. None of them were lost in Iran. And
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I reflect on this a little bit on, you know,
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thinking about my alive day. I was killed in Afghanistan
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in a ground war. Everybody that has been killed in
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this conflict was Iran targeting locations as they've been doing
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constantly well outside of Iran, hitting a base that we
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have in Jordan or hitting a base that we have
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in Iraq or a base that we have in Syria
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or a base that we have in Bahrain. That's what
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they've been doing in perpetuity for decades in the last
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30 years. months before this operation ever began, they attacked
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us over 350 times in 30 months. And the way
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that you tie that to a nuclear weapon, which they
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have been working diligently to get, is.
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They have used every weapon they have against us. If
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they have a nuclear weapon, at worst, they hold the
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entire Middle East hostage in the way they never have
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been able to before. Or rather, at best, they hold
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the entire Middle East hostage. And at worst, they actually
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use that nuclear weapon, which, again, they've been trying to
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use every weapon they have against us. constantly, not in
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their borders, but constantly outside of their borders. And that's
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the fight that's being had right now. President Trump is
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a no new war president. This is not a new war.
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This is a.
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War that has been waged against us endlessly. And this
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is the only way that it comes to an end.
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Not that I want to lose you in Congress, but
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I hear the White House press secretary position is available.
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The president could use some of your effectiveness on messaging
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at times these days, I think. Brian, may God continue
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to bless you and your family. Thank you so much
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for being there.
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Thank you. Thank you for saying that. God bless.
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Faith. Freedom.
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Florida.
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This is the Brian Mudd Show.
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Tomorrow marks 16 years since Congressman Brian Mudd gave as
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much on the battlefield as anybody who has ever served
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this country that has been able to leave the battlefield alive.
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And each year we have the honor of connecting with
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Brian to reflect on on that time that the rest
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of us can't even begin to imagine, the remembrance of
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Brian's Alive Day. And Congressman Mass joining us now.
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Good morning. Good morning.
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I always appreciate you thinking about it.
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As the years go by, you know, I think about
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various moments in my life. And I can almost relate
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to your timetable just with my wife. We've been married
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for just over 17 years. And so for me, it's
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kind of like everything that happened before that was a
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different lifetime than everything that's happened since. What is this
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like for you going on 16 years? Does that feel
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like a lifetime ago or does it feel like yesterday?
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Yeah. It can be surreal the way that you think
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about it. It feels like a lifetime ago that I
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lost two legs. I really can't even remember putting my
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toes in the sand or having feet. I can't remember
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not having to put on legs before I put on
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my shorts or walk with the kids. You just can't
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really remember. You know that you had feet, you had calves,
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you had knees, you had legs. But you just don't
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really remember what it was like to have that. But
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even that being said, it's very different. It's very different
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from being the able-bodied way that you're born, right? I
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can't sit here and tell you that literally I have
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never had a bad day in life. I have never
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in my life had a bad day, some day that
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I couldn't overcome and keep going. Now, that day that
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I was injured, I guess, was probably the worst of
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all days that I've had. But it wasn't this thing that,
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you know, again, being an American, being under 50 stars
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and 13 red and white stripes that I didn't get
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to wake up and make the next day a better day.
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couple of weeks for me to wake up.
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But when I woke up, it.
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Was just the next day and the next fight and
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the next opportunity to go out there and say, take
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everything that I trained to do, which is overcome anything
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that I face and and just move forward. And that's
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the way that it was for me when I woke
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up in the hospital.
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I just want to pause for a moment and point
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out for all the rest of us, how often do
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we have something that in the grand scheme of life
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is so trivial? And we talk about what a bad
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day we've had and our troubles, our problems, whatever they
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happen to be. None of us have been through close
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to what Brian has been through That man's son had
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a bad day. Brian, I can tell this as well
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by you saying that, because there is a place that
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comes from, and that is a place of understanding of God,
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of faith, and of your Savior.
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Because the only people I've ever.
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Known that have had that kind of clarity on life
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are people that are right with God.
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I am a Christian in practice. I have a deep
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faith in my Lord Jesus Christ, try to raise my
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kids in the exact same way. My wife, Brianna, and
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I try to raise our kids in the exact same way.
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And it was absolutely a part of my recovery. And,
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you know, people, I say God, country, family. Those things
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were absolutely so pivotal in my recovery, right? God, I
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had every type of man and woman of the cloth
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coming to see me when I was injured, just trying
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to tell me about words about overcoming, you know, pastors, preachers, reverends, chaplains,
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you name it, coming through the hospital, just trying to
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take an interest in me. That is the truth. And
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they made a difference in me in a host of
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different ways. And my country, again, coming back to a
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country that no matter what happens to you the day before,
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in America, you always get to decide that tomorrow is
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a better day, no matter what. That is the opportunity
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that everybody has. And then, you know, like I said,
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my family, you know, I have an amazing wife that
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was there just wearing herself out. to the bone when
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I was injured from everything that I can remember of it, right?
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Some things I remember, some things I don't. From that
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window of time, I woke up on a laundry list
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of drugs that I'd never been on before in my life.
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That's a whole different story of it. But she was
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feeding our six-month-old at the time, staying in a hotel
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just outside the Walter Reed Hospital. And just trying to
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go back and forth from the hotel to the hospital room,
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trying to take care of me in the room and
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trying to take care of the baby in the hotel room,
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just going back and forth. And God, country, family, those
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things made the difference in my life 100%.
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It's amazing. And she is a wonderful person.
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In fact, the first time I ever met you was
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before you announced you were running, but an event.
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Over in Mar-a-Lago.
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And I remember meeting her and The two of you
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are no doubt an incredible team. And it is wonderful
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to hear not only that, but how Christ-centered your life is,
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which no surprise. And Brian, I hate to almost switch
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gears and ask you about news of the day stuff coming.
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Off of that.
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Switch gears.
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This is the worst.
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I'll just shoot straight with you because I know you
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do and you can handle it. This is the worst
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environment for Republicans, 46 days out from the midterm election
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cycle that I have covered since the 2006 wafer Democrats.
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You have now what happened yesterday with Congresswoman Marielle by herself.
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She's decided that she's going to run against the president
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on the immigration issue. I've known Maria since before she
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was in Congress. She's always had this kind of amnesty position.
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That's hers. That's not changed. But what has changed is
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obviously she feels vulnerable enough that she feels like she
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needs to run this type of campaign.
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What is your thought process?
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What is your outlook as we are, you know, only
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46 days away from the midterm election day?
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You brought up immigration. Let's touch that. Let's touch what,
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you know, somebody listening to you driving in a vehicle.
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Let's touch fuel price. Let's touch around with such a
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few things. On the immigration front, it's something for me personally,
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I look at it and say, this is a promise kept.
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The United States of America was literally being overrun on
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our southern border. Every illegal person coming across our border,
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overrunning our border, you taxpayers were paying for their lodging,
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their transportation, their health care, their food. You were paying
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the price when they committed crimes.
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We know that I live.
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In Fort Pierce. Right in Fort Pierce, we had an
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illegal immigrant truck driver that killed three of our fellow
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Americans on the turnpike because We were illegally given a license,
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and it resulted in deaths right here in our community.
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We lost in a different year. We lost a paramedic
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ambulance driver who was hit by an illegal drunk driver,
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hit their ambulance, killed another one of our local persons.
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It affects us. And so the closing off of the
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southern border and the removing of people that are here illegally,
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it's something that for me– This is a promise kept.
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This is something that we are a nation of laws,
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and I don't run away from that. I think it's
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one of the most important things that we've done. We
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want a clear and legal pathway to coming into this country,
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but if you violate that, that's not something that we
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should or will tolerate in any way whatsoever. To switch
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to some of these other big election issues, fuel prices
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are a big issue. We did great work, I think,
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entirely partisanly on the Republican side, cutting everybody's taxes. No
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tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on
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Social Security.
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All of these lower rates in.
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Every single tax bracket, that's a big deal. But people
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see the fuel pump each.
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I hate high gas prices as much as anybody. And
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the only thing I can tell people about that is
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that there is a reason of what is going on
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in Iran. And it's not something that is just over
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the last six months or just over the last 30-plus years.
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It's all points in between. I could take any window
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of time before this operation began in Iran. And I
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can show you where, you know, the source material, literally
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where Iran was hitting us week in, week out, ships
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going in and out of the Strait of Hormuz like
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they are right now. They were constantly either flying drones
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at them or firing ballistic missiles at them or driving
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boats into them or boarding them at gunpoint or doing
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everything that they could to harass that. This was ongoing.
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You know, what was going on with Iran is we've
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lost American service members over there in this conflict, 18
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of them. None of them were lost in Iran. And
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I reflect on this a little bit on, you know,
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thinking about my alive day. I was killed in Afghanistan
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in a ground war. Everybody that has been killed in
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this conflict was Iran targeting locations as they've been doing
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constantly well outside of Iran, hitting a base that we
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have in Jordan or hitting a base that we have
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in Iraq or a base that we have in Syria
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or a base that we have in Bahrain. That's what
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they've been doing in perpetuity for decades in the last
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30 years. months before this operation ever began, they attacked
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us over 350 times in 30 months. And the way
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that you tie that to a nuclear weapon, which they
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have been working diligently to get, is.
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They have used every weapon they have against us. If
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they have a nuclear weapon, at worst, they hold the
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entire Middle East hostage in the way they never have
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been able to before. Or rather, at best, they hold
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the entire Middle East hostage. And at worst, they actually
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use that nuclear weapon, which, again, they've been trying to
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use every weapon they have against us. constantly, not in
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their borders, but constantly outside of their borders. And that's
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the fight that's being had right now. President Trump is
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a no new war president. This is not a new war.
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This is a.
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War that has been waged against us endlessly. And this
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is the only way that it comes to an end.
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Not that I want to lose you in Congress, but
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I hear the White House press secretary position is available.
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The president could use some of your effectiveness on messaging
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at times these days, I think. Brian, may God continue
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to bless you and your family. Thank you so much
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for being there.
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Thank you. Thank you for saying that. God bless.
