Ted Cruz

By the way, right now, civilian air traffic is shut down throughout the Middle East.

You can't get on an airline and fly into and out of most of the cities in the Middle East because you've got missiles flying everywhere.

And so all of the countries have understandably shut their airspace down.

And so...

I am confident that we will have mine sweepers go into the Straits of Hormuz.

That may be happening now.

I don't know.

And examine and determine if there are mines there.

But at least right now, you're not seeing ships go through there because these guys are just crazy enough to have put mines there.

And so no one wants to risk it until it's determined one way or another whether it's safe.

Well, the president announced this week that he was removing Kristi Noem from secretary of DHS and replacing her with Mark Wayne Mullen.

I have to say this was not much of a surprise to anyone watching closely.

Kristi Noem testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week.

I was part of that hearing.

I questioned her on it.

The questioning was bumpy, and she got, the Democrats, of course, went after her hard, but a number of Republicans went after her hard as well.

And I have to say, one of those that was the most effective was my friend and colleague from Louisiana, John Kennedy.

John has been

this podcast and he's someone who's a good friend of mine I want to play John Kennedy's cross-examination of Kristi Noem because because this was this proved very consequential cross-examination give a listen how do you square that concern for waste which I share with the fact that you have

Well, and that's something that John Kennedy pointed out.