Vivek Ramaswamy

American forces won't need to enter Iranian waters or airspace.

It's not necessary.

We're not looking for a fight.

But Iran also cannot be allowed to block innocent countries and their goods from an international waterway.

Iran is the clear aggressor, harassing civilian vessels, threatening mariners from every nation indiscriminately, and weaponizing a critical choke point for its own financial benefit, at least trying to.

Two U.S.

commercial ships, along with American destroyers, have already safely transited the strait, showing the lane is clear.

We know the Iranians are embarrassed by this fact.

They said they control the strait.

They do not.

So I want to separate I want to separate two important in different themes here, okay This is really important to hear it from from me.

It's very personal to me for a reason when I ran for president With that we'll stick to Nora's question for now so when I ran for president I was the only Republican on that stage

who actually said that in the long run, I think it was in the best interest of the United States, and for what it's worth, in the best interest of Israel, but I'm looking after the interest of the United States, to say that $3.8 billion a year, it should be sunset.

That's what I said.

And I took a lot of heat for that when I ran for president.

So that's one thing.

That's one thing.

Complete.

If I did not also answer a second dimension to this question, which is that I do think it is strange as the person who stood alone on the Republican debate stage and took criticism from people on both sides of me.

And this hurt me in my presidential run.