Shannon Bream

You had President Trump when he left office.

And this is something I'm going to talk to Vice President Mike Pence about tomorrow.

A status quo in the Middle East that was rapidly going in a positive direction.

You had Middle East peace accords.

The first time in 25 years I was sitting there on the South Lawn when Bahrain and the UAE said we are going to normalize relations with Israel.

Two other countries came on board.

I was told by people in the administration they would have been given a little more time.

Saudi Arabia would have normalized relations.

Not only that, I was looking this up and confirming the last 11 months of the Trump presidency.

You had not a single U.S.

service member pass away in Iraq during active duty.

That's an extraordinarily accomplishment, and it didn't come just on its own.

It came because President Trump got on the phone with the leader of the Taliban and said, if you harm the hair on the head of an American service member, you will have hell to pay.

And it paid dividends.

And then you had Biden come in.

And you had Abbey Gate, and you had all of these U.S.

service members die at the Abbey Gate, the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

You had immediate resuming of talks with Iran.

The posture changed, and Iran grew, and October 7th happened.

This was the time to strike.