Marco Rubio

We don't know if the Russians are serious about ending the war.

They say they are, and under what terms they were willing to do it, and whether we can find terms that are acceptable to Ukraine upon that Russia will always agree to.

But we're going to continue to test it.

The goals of this mission are clear, and it's important to continue to remind the American people of why it is that the greatest military in the history of the world is engaged in this operation.

It is to destroy the ability of this regime to launch missiles, both by destroying their missiles and their launchers, destroy the factories that make these missiles, and destroy their Navy.

The assessment that was made that if we stood and waited for that attack to come first before we hit them, we would suffer much higher casualties.

And so the president made the very wise decision.

We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.

We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.

And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed.

And then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn't act.

The goals of this mission are clear, and it's important to continue to remind the American people of why it is that the greatest military in the history of the world is engaged in this operation.

It is to destroy the ability of this regime to launch missiles, both by destroying their missiles and their launchers, destroy the factories that make these missiles, and destroy their Navy.

recorded for history's purposes before I know what was going to happen in regards to this if it goes through.

Iran will immediately use the money that it's receiving in sanctions relief to begin to build up its conventional capabilities.

It will establish the most dominant military power in the region outside of the United States and it will raise the price of us operating in the region.

They're gonna build anti-access capabilities, rockets capable of destroying our aircraft carriers and ships.

continue to build these swift boats that are able to come on us, these fast boats that are able to swarm our naval assets.

And they'll make it harder and harder for U.S.

troops to be in the region.