Marco Rubio

And under no circumstances can they be allowed to hide and protect that program and their ambitions behind a shield of missiles and drones that no one can do anything about.

This was our last best chance to eliminate that conventional threat, that conventional shield that they were trying to build.

And the president made the right decision to wipe it out now.

That is the goal of this operation.

to destroy their conventional missiles and their drone program so they can't hide behind it and finally have to deal with the world seriously about never, ever having nuclear weapons.

It's awesome!

The happiest man in the world, right here.

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Let me ask you about NATO.

You said that our NATO allies have been disappointing, specifically, I know you're talking about Spain, Great Britain, France, even Italy now, and that after all of this is done, we will re-examine this relationship

And especially when it comes to we pay two thirds of the freight when it comes to NATO defense.

And if it's just, quote, about us defending Europe, you said, you know, at this point, how do we call that?

And we can't have our landing rights in European nations, our allies at a time when we need them.

What good is that alliance?

And is the NATO alliance at risk?

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Do you believe the North Koreans, there have been numerous reports that they have been assisting Iran with both their ballistic missile program and their nuclear program?

We are on or ahead of schedule on each of those four objectives, and we can see the finish line.

It's not today, it's not tomorrow, but it is coming.

We are going to get to the point where our military will have achieved all of its objectives in this mission, and they're doing so with extraordinary efficiency.