Wes Moore

We don't have a measurement of explanation as to what is going on.

We are just simply asking a very small portion of our population,

to go on and take on this weight, while by the way, we're asking the rest of the population to pay more in gas prices, to pay more in food prices,

to be able to watch healthcare being pulled away and food security being pulled away without any understanding of how these two things actually, how these things actually translate and are connected to one another.

So no, the president of the United States owes it to the people of this country.

If you were going to do this, if you were going to take on the most solemn choice, choice as a president of the United States and as commander in chief, you owe it to the American people and you owe it to these soldiers, these sailors, these airmen, these Marines and their family members.

to explain what it is that we're doing and what it is that we're all being sacrificed.

But what does a victory by the United States mean?

What does a victory by the United States look like?

No one has articulated that.

Because right now, here's what we're on pace for.

We're on pace for a conflict that has cost about a billion dollars a day.

that has driven up gas prices over a dollar since this conflict began all across the United States of America.

And we're not on pace for a regime change.

We're not on pace for a complete seizing of all the enriched uranium or that Iran would now be on any detoured path for a nuclear weapon.

What does victory actually look like?

And frankly, what I'm hearing from the administration, even what they're claiming as, you know, we've won the war, this is not victory.

What they're claiming for, what it seems like they're seeking is some kind of quiet exit strategy from something that I think that the reason we're here is because of the lack of planning.

that has gotten us here in the first place.

I think we all have concerns about Iran's nuclear program because I do think we are dealing with a nation that had they gained access to a nuclear weapon would have no problem in using it.