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Mike Waltz

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231 total appearances

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Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

the President Trump's peace plan in Gaza.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

We're now going to get an international force in there to keep the peace in Gaza.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

We got our hostages out.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

The UN blessed President Trump's peace plan.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

So sharing the burden and having a mechanism where everyone can come in and do that is also important.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

We've just got to get it back focused on those peacekeeping and peace enforcement

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

missions, uh, that they did so well in the past and that they strayed from in recent decades.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

Yeah.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

I mean, are you one of these people that has your position changed?

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

Cause when you were in Congress, I mean, you openly advocated for defunding the UN and you'd spotlight a lot of the problems they had.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

I mean, I remember the things you said about how they let China influence their handling of the COVID pandemic.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

Um,

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

Do you no longer think that defunding is an option?

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

Should that be a threat?

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

No.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

Well, it's composed of 82 agencies, and we need to get out of the ones that aren't going to work for us or work against us.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

So you mentioned COVID.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

We've walked away from WHO, the World Health Organization.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

UNRWA, the UN agency in Gaza that's been completely infiltrated by Hamas.

Morning Wire
Making the U.N. Relevant Again: How Trump is Shaking Up the Organization’s Operation

We walked out of it and defunded that too.