'It Might Be A Fair Fight': Cory Mills Jokes About Being The Only Republican Lawmaker In Hearing

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During a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing prior to the congressional recess, Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) joked about being the only Republican lawmaker present.

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00:00And I do appreciate a lot of your sentiments and a lot of the comments.

00:03I agree with you.

00:04The president is responsible for foreign policy, and there is no debate on that whatsoever.

00:10President Biden is responsible for the increase in Iranian aggression,

00:13for the defunding of many of the programs that were working,

00:17for Russia's continual focus whenever he wouldn't actually authorize lethal aid.

00:21It was President Trump who actually authorized lethal aid for the Ukrainians.

00:24It was President Biden who actually delisted the Houthi rebels as disrupted 12% of global trade.

00:28Are we extending time for debate?

00:30I'm happy to.

00:31Okay.

00:32Because at the end of the day, October 7th in Israel would not have occurred under President Trump

00:36because there wouldn't have been $10 billion in unfrozen fungible assets,

00:39or up, what is it now, 1.7 billion barrels per day.

00:44Under President Trump, it was a half million barrels per day.

00:47When you talk about the illicit oil and ghost ships that are going.

00:50And look, I'm happy to have foreign policy discussions.

00:53We can go as far back into the Ottoman Empire expansion from Suleiman

00:57all the way up to 2011 when we talk about the Arab Spring and uprisings.

01:02I spent 10 plus years.

01:03That's going to be a long hearing.

01:03It'd be a little bit long hearing.

01:06But I've spent over 10 years in the Middle East, deployed in multiple locations.

01:10Foreign policy I do care about.

01:11What I also care about is the strength of the State Department,

01:14the same way I care about the strength of the armed services, which I know you do as well.

01:17And when I talk about, and Mr. Hankinson said it correctly,

01:19I don't care what my heart surgeon looks like.

01:23I care about whether or not he or she is the best at what she does.

01:28So when you say that if we only base it on merit, that's a mistake.

01:34I disagree.

01:35I think having the best and the brightest, regardless of what they look like,

01:40is the only thing that should matter.

01:41So I appreciate that.

01:44There was a time when merit was defined as did you have an Ivy League education?

01:49To get that Ivy League education, you had to come from the prep schools of the East Coast.

01:54Having the experiences, if I had more time to talk to the witnesses,

01:58I would ask the ambassador why it's important that we have people

02:01who can relate to the experiences and perspectives of the nations

02:04we are sending them to represent our nation.

02:07And by the way, happy to give a second round of questioning,

02:08should you want to ask that.

02:09I'll wait. I'm here.

02:11At this time, I'd like to acknowledge my good friend,

02:14our ranking member, Representative Moskowitz.

02:17Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

02:18And in fairness to the chairman, he is by himself here.

02:21So he is pulling...

02:23Yeah, but the good thing is that there was nine of you,

02:25it might be a fair fight.

02:25Okay.

02:26He's pulling the duty of his whole committee.

02:30So...

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