Name: In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks
Uploaded: 2023-01-12T00:00:00+00:00
Duration: 1 min 7 s
Description: In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks

“In the 1970s, the Democrats changed [the filibuster] from a full debate mechanism to something that prevents all debate.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 10:39-10:51

“They have the equivalent, not of 160 centrifuges, but the equivalent of the same kind of centrifuges at that time, the IR1s. Now that…”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 33:58-34:13

“They have absolutely the capability of making enough nuclear fissile material for several atomic bombs every year.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 34:13-34:21

“We said, if you'll do away with your nuclear weapons, that Russia and America and the UK will stand up and defend your territorial…”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 51:23-51:33

“I support [the Freedom Caucus]. I love them. I used to be one of them.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 03:51-06:05

“They [the Gold Institute] were trying to actually be on the front line to create real solutions, not just study the problem.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 04:20-1:04:25

“The Freedom Caucus [members] want to move the needle in a particular ideological direction.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 05:57-05:58

“I'm convinced that in their heart, [the Freedom Caucus members] were trying to do what they thought was good for America.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 06:27-06:34

“If we don't make appropriations, government comes to a halt because a government is what it spends.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 11:32-11:40

“The House will pass an appropriations bill that fairly accurately represents the ideals of the American people.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 11:41-11:51

“When it goes over to the Senate, if the Democrats are in control, they simply don't let something come to the floor that they don't fully…”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 12:23-12:34

“If the Democrats are in the minority, they do the same thing. They simply will not allow the bills to come to the floor with the 60 votes.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 12:47-12:56

“By the time the Senate revises the spending process, revises all the appropriations bill, it's no longer indicative of even a Republican…”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 13:24-13:39

“Republicans are trying to reduce spending and trying to make sure that government is more spending its, its money in ways that do not…”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 14:44-14:56

“We're not willing to take the bill hostage or the country hostage to get our way, whereas, unfortunately, my friends on the Democrat side…”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 16:01-16:10

“Our system, in this case, it creates a balance that doesn't work for Republicans and does work for Democrats.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 18:47-18:55

“When the Democrats finally get in power, they will change [the filibuster] and then they will do terrible damage to the country.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 19:06-19:11

“They were one vote short from being able to do obliterate this country.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 19:22-19:26

“If we don't do something different now, it should be, there is a way, if we're in control, to change it in a way that will still work for…”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 19:39-19:49

“All economy is about productivity. And if you reduce productivity, you reduce the economy.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 20:57-21:03

“Free enterprise may not be perfect, but it has dragged more poor people out of the gutter and the clutches of poverty than any other…”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 23:53-24:04

“Socialism is almost always the equal distribution of poverty.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 24:12-24:17

“I served with Mr. Biden for six years in the Congress while he was in the Senate and I was in the House.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 27:09-27:17

“I have never seen Mr. Biden ever take a stand based on a heart commitment that he believed was right and good.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 27:26-27:35

“The radical Islamist government in Iran has committed themselves to gain nuclear weapons by which to try to threaten the entire whole of…”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 32:28-32:41

“The Iran nuclear deal was something that some of us saw coming a long way before it came.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 32:41-32:48

“There were mechanisms in the Congress...that made it possible for Democrats to have the advantage to get this Iran deal put in place.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 32:57-33:09

“I was the first member of Congress to call for Iran to be referred to the Security Council back when they only had 160 centrifuges.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 33:18-33:28

“An Iranian nation with nuclear weapons will almost inevitably create some type of major war that will spread far beyond the Middle East.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 36:49-37:01

“Whatever the cost is in military terms or economic terms of preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons, it will pale in insignificance…”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 37:12-37:31

“I am deeply, deeply committed to continuing to support [the Kurds].”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 42:44-42:48

“I've even gone on record as supporting independence for Kurdistan.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 42:47-42:53

“I'm absolutely convinced that we should arm [the Kurds] directly.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 43:03-43:03

“If we try to do that through the Iraqi central government rather than the Kurdish regional government, it just doesn't work.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 43:15-43:22

“My first amendment was to make it directly to [the Kurds]. That amendment stayed on in the House.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 43:25-43:31

“The Obama administration worked behind the scenes to take it out [of the Senate].”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 43:32-43:39

“The Kurds were the one people that stood by the Yazidis and the Christians as they were being slaughtered.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 44:04-44:10

“They are one of the main reasons or one of the main backstops against Iranian hegemony in the Middle East.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 45:57-46:06

“I admire the Kurds and want to see them be able to have as much control over their own resources as possible.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 47:48-47:57

“To lose the war in Ukraine is bad for the whole world. It strengthens Russia in a huge way.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 49:49-49:56

“Russia later invaded and we did nothing under Obama.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 51:36-51:41

“The arsenal of freedom must be the strongest on earth if people are to remain in the sunlight of freedom.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 52:19-52:25

“The security construct of the world is intrinsically connected.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 53:31-53:38

“It's unfortunate that sometime long ago that we didn't just overnight declare that Ukraine was a member of NATO.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 54:01-54:11

“If this should ever degrade into some sort of nuclear conflict, that would change the equation in a profound way.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 55:03-55:10

“We will not stand by and let Russia threaten the free world.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 55:41-55:47

“And that endangers our own national security.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 56:11-56:15

“The left has a way of conflating everything in the media these days.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 56:24-56:28

“This country has really taken some bad turns in the last couple of elections and it scares me to death.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 1:00:16-1:00:23

“Even when we go through dark times with Barack Obama or Joe Biden as president, even when we see the BLM moving us towards just an outright…”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 1:01:40-1:01:53

“Since I left Congress, I've been invited on 36 boards or groups.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 1:03:59-1:04:05

“One of the reasons I joined the Gold Institute is because I so deeply believed in their acumen, in their philosophy, in their commitment.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 1:04:08-1:04:15

“I encourage everybody to support the Gold Institute, because they are truly worth supporting.”

In-Depth Discussion on U.S. Politics, Iran, and Global Security with Congressman Trent Franks | Uploaded January 12, 2023 | 1:04:26-1:04:32

Trent Franks: “If Iran gains the nuclear weapons capability, a true…”