Senator Tim Sheehy

That was fantastic.

I mean, listen, for those of us who come from the Special Operations community, we've long known that we have these capabilities.

And it's wonderful to be able to see them exhibited like this.

It's obviously a solemn duty to do anything that involves taking the lives of others or putting your life at risk.

But this is exactly what our Special Operations Task Forces were designed to do.

And what a lot of folks don't know is the history of where Special Ops came from.

And there was a mission not unlike this called Eagle Claw in 1980.

That was an abject failure where we attempted to rescue our hostages out of Iran being held in the embassy there.

That message was a failure.

That mission was a failure.

And as a result, we created the very capable task force that Americans saw execute this mission last weekend.

And as you said, it was a resounding success.

So I'm incredibly proud of our troops for doing so.

I'm proud of the president.

I'm grateful for the president for making this decision to finally take this criminal out, a criminal who wasn't just a drug dealer, a narco terrorist, but acted as a regional hub for the worst rogue regimes and terrorist groups in the world.

As you know, Venezuela was not just a narco terrorist state.

It also served as money laundering logistics hub for literally a laundry list of every single bad actor in the world from North Korea to Iran.

to China, to Russia, to worst of all, money laundering for groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthi rebels.

They allowed their ghost fleet and oil reserves to be used as a global financing hub for the worst of the worst.

And this was a great thing for the world.