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and encourage a negotiating process between Iran and the United States of America to spare the region comprehensive chaos.

The Pakistani government also added that while Iran did not directly participate, Pakistani officials had a phone call with the Iranian foreign minister to discuss Tehran's position.

Now, most of Iran's response to the current hostilities by the United States has been to targets its neighboring countries with missile and drone attacks, including Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

Other countries Iran has bombed include Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, Israel, Cyprus.

Iranian officials have claimed the strikes are intended to target American and Israeli sites.

But in reality, they are targeting a variety of civilian sites instead, including energy facilities in many of the Gulf states.

Next, story number two.

Which brings us to a one-on-one interview done on Good Morning America on Monday morning with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

I think it's incredibly important you hear what Marco had to say.

Take a listen to the interview.

It's really interesting to see how much the media is willing to change, alter and lie to you to try to make you think that somehow what we're doing in Iran is a failure.

When clearly in reality, it's a massive success already.

And the secretary of state making it very clear the Trump doctrine is working.

Welcome, it is Vertical Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

I hope you've had a fabulous weekend and we've got a lot to cover on this Monday, Senator, including a big update on the government shutdown.

Where are we now?

Yeah, it's a really interesting one, to say the least.

I want to also talk to you about your dollars and where you spend them.

And there is one bill that almost every one of you has.

It is a cell phone bill.