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Thank you for being here in the Oval Office as we make a historic announcement about the Golden Dome Missile Defense Shield. We will truly be completing the job that President Reagan started 40 years ago for ever ending the missile threat to the American homeland. The one big, beautiful bill will include $25 billion for the Golden Dome. It's a generational investment in the security of America and America. Golden Dome is a bold and aggressive approach to hurry up and protect the homeland from our abstinence. The Golden Dome is going to be an even bigger legacy for our country. The Congress is stepping up, as you mentioned right now, on the budget reconciliation bill. You know, some funding is tough and some is easy. When we say we're going to save everyone's lives in a crazy world, it seems to be very easy to get. Our enemies, our adversaries, are going to pay a lot of attention to this, just like they have to President Trump from day one. So you're defending the homeland, defending the American people. So thank you for your leadership.

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Welcome back America. Senator Tom Cotton, combat veteran, you sit on the Senate Armed Services Committee. A couple of questions here. China is on the move. China's Navy is bigger than our Navy. The terrorists in the Middle East are on the move, partly because Joe Biden is funding them with our tax dollars or he has set in place policies undoing President Trump's restrictions on Iran where billions are flowing into that regime. That is Iran, which is funding all these terrorists while he has a foot on Israel's throat. When it comes to Ukraine and Russia, he keeps blaming the Republicans for not funding enough and fast enough, but the fact is Joe Biden has not allowed Ukraine to actually win the war and hasn't allowed them to purchase the kind of weapons that they need. But more fundamentally, you're on the Armed Services Committee. When are we going to fully fund the United States military so we're not falling behind all these other regimes that are coalescing, coming together like an access and focused on threatening the United States of America. Russia has ships and a nuclear sub right off the Florida coast. China is in our hemisphere. We no longer even believe in the Monroe Doctrine. They claim to control the South China Sea, the East China Sea, the Philippines, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan are very very nervous about what's taking place and I don't I don't get the impression that our commander in chief so-called is really focused very much or doing a hell of a lot about it. Mark, I can tell you exactly when we're going to fully fund our military when we elect Donald Trump and a Republican majority to the Congress. We rebuilt our military with President Trump and Republicans during the Trump presidency, but Joe Biden has already cut it to the bone. Every single year he submitted budgets that have real cuts after his huge inflation to our military. It's what Democrats always do. It's like ducks or geese migrating for winter. Carter, Clinton, Obama and now Biden. They always cut the military. It comes up to Republicans to fund our military. It's particularly bad for Joe Biden because he is so weak he's helped unleash this chaos around the world. Mark, like President Reagan, President Trump and you and I believe in peace through strength. What we've got with Joe Biden is war through weakness. You notice that Vladimir Putin didn't invade Ukraine when Donald Trump was president. He only does that when Democrats are president. Iran didn't unleash terrorist proxies like Hamas to commit the worst atrocity against Jews since World War II when President Trump was president. He only does that when Joe Biden's in office. So not only do we have to fully fund our military, we also need a president who is strong and confident in the defense of America in the world. Only then will our adversaries be put on the back foot and our friends and partners around the world be willing to cooperate fully with us to protect America's interests. Senator Tom Cotton, personal question. I ask you this on radio. You're not Jewish obviously. Come from a state that has about seven Jews and I'm just kidding. And yet you have an affinity towards the state of Israel. You believe in supporting the state of Israel in ways that Schumer and Bernie Sanders and Antony Blinken do not who happen to be Jewish. Where does this come from? I'm just curious. Well, Mark, we take our allies where we find them in the world. Not every country who is an ally or partner shares our way of life, our political system, our cultural or religious history. And that's okay. We have to use and work with allies as we find them in a dangerous world. But Israel is our closest ally in the world because of those shared bonds of affection and not just shared interests. Like us, Israel is a constitutional democracy that respects the dignity and freedom of its own people. We have a shared cultural and religious history. And we have overlapping strategic interests as well. Whenever we back Israel to the hilt, as we did when President Trump was in office, it's not just good for Israel, it's good for America. We see peace and stability throughout a vital region for our own economic and security interests. Whenever, as with President Biden now and President Obama, we show quote-unquote daylight or we try to put more pressure on Israel than we put on Iran or even terrorists like Hamas and Hezbollah, we get war, we get chaos, and it threatens the interest of the American people. So not only do we share interests with Israel and supporting Israel and backing them to the hilt, we have deep bonds of affinity and affection between our two peoples. Very quickly, Senator, the House, the equivalent committee to yours under Chairman McCall, the House committee, has said that they want to give an increase, a real increase, to our men and women in uniform, which they haven't had of late. Biden has sent word that he will veto it. Now Biden's giving benefits to illegal aliens. They're getting all kinds of credit cards and phones and hotel rooms. He's flying illegal aliens into the country. He's talking about bringing people in from the Gaza Strip, from every corner of the earth, and they get all kinds of health care benefits and public education. What the hell kind of administration is this that takes our tax dollars to subsidize people who are here illegally, foreigners, but when it comes to the United States military, the men and women who volunteer to put their lives on the line, it's too expensive that they can't give them a real salary increase. What do you make of that? Yeah, Mark, it's an administration led by a man, Joe Biden, who consistently puts America last. President Trump puts America first. We shouldn't be inviting illegal aliens into our country in the first place, much less giving them all these benefits. We should be increasing pay for our troops who are defending us and making sure that we're spending the money necessary to give them the weapons and the tools they need to fight, win, and survive if they're pressed into battle to defend our nation. I'll tell you, sometimes I feel like this is Alice in Wonderland, but I don't want to put down Alice. All right, my friend, Senator, thank you very, very much. God bless you, and I'm glad you're on the short list, by the way. Senator Tom Cotton, take care of yourself. - Thank you, Mark.

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