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Jay Collins: “We went from Florida to Cyprus, Cyprus to Jordan, Jordan. We…”

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Governor DeSantis Podcast Ep 5

Published | Video Starts at 30:15

It catches your attention. I can see why people were really freaked out. The Iranian ballistics, they're real, you know, watching them come across the sky. But flying in there, We went from Florida to Cyprus, Cyprus to Jordan, Jordan. We got out, checked out the airport, went to the Sheikh Hussein border crossing and went and made some friends with Jordanian intel and then on the other side of the Israeli intel and did what we do. And then we went in there and we started rounding up American citizens, not just Floridians, Americans. (30:15–30:32)

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