James Lankford: “The constant issues that we have in destabilizing the Middle…”

“Our problem is with an Iranian regime that continues to be able to attack their neighbors. Every military base we have in the region is because of the threat of Iran. The constant issues that we have in destabilizing the Middle East is because of Iran. This has been a decades long issue that we can't just ignore. And to say it's going to one day get better and Neville Chamberlain can say we'll have peace in our time if we just ignore it and one day it'll get better.” (02:43–02:48)

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