ICYMI: Chairman McCaul on CBS’ “Face the Nation”
Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul joined “Face the Nation” with Robert Costa on CBS. Chairman McCaul discussed Hezbollah’s attacks that killed and injured innocent, young people playing soccer in the Golan Heights, the investigation into the attempted assassination of President Trump, and the national security threats pouring over our southern border.
– Highlights from the interview –
On rising tensions in the Middle East:
“I think it’s important to note that Hezbollah, Hamas, [and] Houthi rebels [are] all proxies of Iran. They’re sort of like the tentacles of the head of the [octopus]…They don’t operate without Iran’s consent.”
On the Biden administration’s decision to delay weapons to Israel:
“[Delaying weapons to Israel] creates daylight between the United States and Israel. And I think it’s dangerous, especially right now, for us to somehow put daylight between us and our most important U.S. ally – the democracy in the Middle East.”
On the attempted assassination of President Trump:
“I went out to the site [and] I went up to the rooftop. This individual should never have been that close to the President of the United States. It was very, very close. And, the fact he even got there in the first place was a failure. It should have been stopped.”
On national security threats at the U.S. southern border:
“What I worry most about, Robert, is look, you had the fall of Afghanistan. Thousands of ISIS-K came out of those prisons at Bagram [Air Base], [ended] up in a region called the Khorasan region, which is Pakistan, Afghanistan, [and] Tajikistan. [Terrorists from this region] make their way over. They come through Mexico, and they enter into the United States. ISIS – when I chaired the [House Homeland Security Committee] – we worried about this but never actually saw it. Now, we have ISIS in the homeland. Fortunately, the FBI has detained the eight individuals, but the question is: How many more are here?”
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