Marco Rubio: “These planes came from halfway across the world, and no one…”

“And they were well outside of Iranian airspace before the regime even realized what had happened. And that was the goal here, and that was achieved. You know, These planes came from halfway across the world, and no one, even Iran, no one saw them coming. And that's a huge credit to Pete Hegseth and General Kaine and General Kurilla and obviously our commander in chief for pulling that off.” (04:27–04:32)

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