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Brian Mast: Defending yourself is a choice. It is a choice that not everybody makes. Some people, instead of defending themselves…

On the recordMarch 4, 2026
Defending yourself is a choice. It is a choice that not everybody makes. Some people, instead of defending themselves, curl up into a corner and cry and turn their eyes. Some people stand up and step into the fight and make the tough choice of going through the battles that it takes to defend yourself. I will thank, again, President Trump for defending America from an imminent threat, an imminent threat that no other President has had the guts to stand up to. What is that imminent threat? What was that imminent threat that President Trump is doing his duty, his constitutional duty, his Article II authority to defend America against? I will tell you it is something that almost every single Member of Congress has literally agreed upon up until President Trump decided to defend America. Previously, almost every Member of Congress voted to call Iran the largest state sponsor of terror, and tomorrow we will cast a vote on what was just debated about reaffirming that they are the largest state sponsor of terror. Nearly all Members unanimously voted to condemn their continuous funding of terrorist proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah.
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Brian Mast
Republican · Florida

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Discussing President Trump's defense of America against threats from Iran.

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