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James Risch Asks Trump's Ambassador Nominee About Ireland's 'Horrible Mistake' On Israel-Palestine
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5/6/2025
During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing last week, Sen. James Risch (R-ID) accused Ireland of making a 'horrible mistake' regarding its diplomacy with Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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Thank you, Ms. Campos. We're now going to turn to a round of five-minute
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questions and for those of you who don't usually watch this committee, you see all
00:10
the comings and goings. It started with the people who introduced our witnesses
00:15
and then the panel has to come and go but we all have overlapping demands on
00:21
our time and it's it's awkward but we somehow get it done and we appreciate
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your indulgence in that regard. So starting with questioning, first of all, as far
00:35
as the Netherlands is concerned, Mr. Papa, I hope you will be able to convey to the
00:39
Dutch those of us who work in a national security lane so much appreciate their
00:46
understanding of their place in the supply chain on semiconductors. Semiconductors are
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a national security issue. It's a really unfortunate circumstance that the we've
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been through in in year in recent years where the United States invented this
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technology and then the manufacturers and inventors drawn by the siren of cheap
01:14
wages moved everything to to Asia and now because it is so critical to everything we
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make, particularly defense but in automobiles, refrigerators, anything you
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have has these in. The Dutch play an incredibly critical role because they're
01:30
the bottleneck. They make the machines that make the machines that make the
01:33
semiconductors and they have been very good with us as far as understanding that
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selling the highest technology to the Chinese is a real problem for national
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security. They've been tremendous in that regard and I hope you'll be able to
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I hope you'll be able to convey to them the appreciation that we have for that.
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Thank you, Senator. The State Department did a great job of briefing us in certain
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things and that is one of them, just how critically important a partner of the Dutch
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are in national security and technology and export controls with respect to China.
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So absolutely I will convey those thoughts. Thank you, I appreciate that.
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Concerning Ireland, my grandmother was a Murphy, no relation I'm sure to Senator Murphy,
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at least I don't think so. In any event, I gotta tell you, it's heartbreaking to see the mistake that the
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Irish are making regarding the Jewish state and Hamas. It's absolutely heartbreaking, is all I can say,
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as far as watching that, with zero recognition of what Hamas did on October the 7th. And I truly hope that,
02:58
Mr. Walsh, that this is going to be a tough needle to thread when you've got a close ally making a horrible mistake,
03:07
but you've got to thread that needle. And I hope you will convey the message that they are very much out of
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step with the United States as far as, as far as their relationship with those countries in the Middle East. Your thoughts?
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Yeah. Thank you for the question. It certainly is a topic that we're going to be discussing for a long time,
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and I am looking forward to getting really a detailed brief on all the issues relevant to this. But I do know
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that President Trump's been very clear, along with many of you, that Ireland is an ally. And there's
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no room for anti-Semitism throughout the world. So it definitely will be a big part of my conversation
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with them. And I do look forward to that. But I clearly, I hear you. Be glad to meet with you on it.
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I'll meet with you again on it, if you want to. And hopefully when you come over, we'll meet and
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even have other meetings, if you would like. And I do understand the issue. But I'm really looking
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forward to kind of diving into more of the detail. It's going to be a tough needle to thread,
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but they are an ally. Senator Shaheen.
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