Senator Schmitt Discusses President Trump’s Successful Strikes on Iran, Hearing on Discriminatory DEI Policies on Fox Business
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) joined Fox Business’ Varney & Company to discuss President Trump’s devastating strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities and the Judiciary Committee hearing he will be leading against discriminatory DEI practices.
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Senator Schmitt on Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions and President Trump’s Successful Strikes:
“Well, they’re going to have to give up on their dreams of enrichment. They have no ability to do it. Their program was obliterated by those bunker busters on B-2s coming from Missouri and President Trump’s decision to do it. Secretary Rubio has been very clear – if they want to have a civilian program, it will have to be imported. The highly enriched uranium that they were producing in Iran was, obviously, meant for nuclear weapons. We can’t let that happen again. I think what you’re going to see is probably an inspection regime that verifies anything that’s happening in whatever nuclear program they might have, but they’re not going to be able to enrich it themselves. It’ll need to be imported, and they’re not in a strong leverage position after what happened about a month ago.”
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“I think so. Those scientists he’s talking about are all dead. The generals are all dead. They have no program to speak of thanks to President Trump. That [strike] was, of course, in the core national interests of the United States. By the way, many people in Washington wanted President Trump to get mired in another forever conflict there, but President Trump’s instincts were to immediately pivot to peace. That’s where they’re at right now, discussing what [peace] looks like. They’re not a position to have their own nuclear program as it was before.”
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“I think that President Trump understood the risk, how close they were [to a nuclear weapon], and took action. No doubt that President Trump would use the same sort of American realist calculus. But, at this point, those facilities were completely obliterated. You can tell even in his tone, he’s recognizing that, and it’s time for everybody to come to the table the to have some sort of peace deal. I do think you could see now, with that action from President Trump, the conditions are now ripe for a marching on of the Abraham Accords and more normalization in the region. That’d be good for everybody.”
Senator Schmitt on Leading a Judiciary Committee Hearing on Discriminatory DEI Practices:
“Look, the Civil Rights Act of the 1960s were meant to protect people from racial discrimination, and that’s exactly what DEI is. It’s just flowery language to cover up an effort to discriminate against additional groups based on immutable characteristics. I think the public has been educated on this to a large degree. The hearing I’m leading in the Senate Judiciary Committee tomorrow will be to further play this out and expose what this means. DEI has played out in our universities and in corporate America. I think the new civil rights head of the Justice Department, she’s very focused on this and rooting it out — in corporate America and our universities – this racially discriminatory activity called DEI. She’ll be at the hearing tomorrow as well.”
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