Ted Cruz

They've been actively funding terrorism, attacking Americans.

And this is an opportunity to put that to an end.

Well, Diego Garcia is a military base that is in the Indian Ocean, and it has a prime location to project power throughout the Middle East and throughout much of Asia.

It is a base of the United Kingdom, a British base, but they share it with the United States, so we both have access and use it.

I will tell you, by the way, I've been very active concerning Diego Garcia because, unfortunately—

Kier Starmer, the very left wing prime minister of the United Kingdom, is talking about entering into an agreement to give Diego Garcia, to give the Chagos Islands, Chagos Islands are a series of islands in the Indian Ocean, give them to Mauritius, a country that is very close to China.

and give them the ability to significantly limit our ability to use Diego Garcia, I've laid out that that is a direct violation of the treaty the United Kingdom has with the United States, where under that treaty, the UK committed...

that Diego Garcia would remain under British control, that it would not be given to the control of anyone else.

And so what happened, I've been pressing back very hard, by the way, President Trump has been pressing back very hard, saying for the UK to give this away is lunacy, is madness.

What happened now is Iran has fired missiles at Diego Garcia.

and put that base in jeopardy.

And the Brits, remember at the outset of this military conflict, Starmer said they would not participate in any way.

As a consequence of Iran attacking Diego Garcia, Starmer has now said that British forces will assist in defensive efforts to fight back against missiles coming out of Iran.

So they're still not assisting in the offensive activity, but at least the Brits are coming somewhat to the table.

And I got to say, that's an improvement, but it's also very disappointing to see the United Kingdom not there at the outset in this military action.

We're going to keep covering it all.

Starmer's tenure in office is every bit as imperiled as Chuck Schumer's.

The British people are very, very unhappy with Starmer.

He will almost certainly lose the next election in the UK.

Chuck Schumer, everyone is very, very unhappy with Chuck Schumer.