Ted Cruz

I think it is very clear if law enforcement had not acted quickly, many more people would have been killed and injured.

But this...

Look, from his clothing, it certainly appears this is terrorism.

And tragically, this may not be the last incident of terrorism that occurs.

That's one of the real dangers of escalation, either from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, or from sympathizers in the United States.

Yeah, I will admit I was surprised by that.

There's been a lot of public reporting that suggested that other Middle Eastern nations were discouraging President Trump from going after Iran.

I'm a little bit skeptical of that.

I have not recently had those conversations with other Middle Eastern nations, but I've had many conversations with the Saudis, UAE, Bahrain.

And and they have always been very focused on, number one, doing everything necessary to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

The Saudis have said publicly, if Iran ever got a nuclear weapon, that they would do everything possible to get a nuke themselves to defend themselves from Iran.

And so I don't know if it's true or not that in the recent weeks, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries were urging Trump not to attack.

But I do know that Iran's behavior, so they fired missiles and sent drones and had attacks at almost every single Arab country all throughout the Middle East.

So they've attacked Saudi Arabia.

They've attacked UAE.

They've attacked Kuwait.

They've attacked Qatar.

They've attacked Bahrain.

They've attacked Jordan.

And we've seen statements from many of those other Middle Eastern countries, mostly Arab countries, expressing, condemning, condemning Iran's response.