Matt Gaetz

The problem is you lost us.

I know.

They show these old videos of you being very complimentary of Israel and critical of Israel's critics.

You could easily find a lot of my library speaking on the floor of the Congress supporting a strong and robust U.S.-Israel relationship.

So two people who in our 30s were incredibly supportive of this relationship have come untethered.

And it is because the relationship has become too burdensome.

And friends should be able to tell that to each other.

And when you do, that doesn't make you a bad friend.

I still consider myself pro-Israel.

I think that what the Netanyahu government is doing to Israel is bad for Israel, much in the way the United States created more terrorists than we killed during the wars in the Middle East that have consumed most of my life.

I think that is the chapter of the book they're in right now.

This expansionism and the adventurism.

And it ends badly.

It ended badly for us.

Remember, Syria is in the news now because tragically we've lost Americans in uniform in Syria and a translator there as well.

And reasonable people are asking, why are we still in Syria?

What are we doing?

That is so sick.

You believe that those people are there so that they can die and trigger a war.

That is correct.