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Paul Morrow

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
673 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

You know, Jessica, it's so interesting to me when you look at history and you look at the alliances that we've had with the United Kingdom, for example.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

They put out a brand new statement this afternoon and they underline that the UK is now working closely with international partners to develop a viable fan plan to safeguard international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

So it sounds like they're starting to come around.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

We've heard General Jack Keane say that he believes that eventually they'll be there.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

We've heard Mark Rutte say the same thing.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

But the president sounds like he's kind of completely fed up.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

with this dollar late, too short response from the United Kingdom in particular.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

Well, yeah, he's definitely frustrated because a lot hasn't gone the way that he thought that it would, not only with being able to start a war without giving a heads up to some of your longest held alliances, but in the reaction from Iran.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

He said in the Oval Office a few days ago, no one could have predicted that they were going to react this way when there was widespread evidence that they were going to, in fact, react exactly this way.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

The notion that all of the criticism is coming from the left is really unfounded.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

I was watching an interview with Senator John Kennedy from this afternoon with Dasha Burns, where they're talking about the supplemental funding, that they're going to come for another $200 billion when the Pentagon has already funded at $1.1 trillion.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

He said, I'm not signing off on a dollar more unless there are hearings on this.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

There should be enough money to do it.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

especially since it started out as this is a targeted mission.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

It could be just a few days.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

Then we moved to a week or two.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

Now we're at four to six weeks.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

But these ships that are coming over with more troops, it takes a couple of weeks for them to get there.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

So we're already at least at that point.

The Five
The Five 03-20-2026

And we know that we're going to have to have those boots on the ground to secure the Iranian coastline and hopefully get the Strait of Hormuz back open.