Mike Waltz

So we're cutting, we're doging, we're going to get them back to basics in line with the president's vision.

Yeah, I mean, you know the Trump foreign policy doctrine better than anyone you've been there from day one, and it sounds like you think that the United Nations can actually be a place where you help

carry out that doctrine and create an America first, you know, peace presidency across the country or across the world?

Yeah, look, again, we've got to clean it up and we've got a clean house.

But it is a place where other countries can and should contribute.

It's a place where everybody can and should try to work things out diplomatically first.

before you have any kind of conflict.

And importantly, you have all these global standard setting bodies from AI to space to shipping.

We don't want them working against us.

We want them working for American industries and American businesses.

Yeah.

And it sounds like you're, you know, putting your best effort to give a good faith effort there.

But at the same time, you've had your own drama.

I mean, I remember the Cuban ambassador making a show out of disrupting one of your speeches.

Does it feel like you're operating in hostile territory every day at the United Nations?

You know, there are days where I think that the tribes of the Middle East, Afghanistan are easier than here.

I'm a Green Beret by background.

I've served all over the world.

It isn't easy.

My wife sometimes says I'm a masochist.