All posts tagged "Brian Mast"

A Republican lawmaker's comments about the Iran agreement during an interview with Fox News on Monday drew laughs online.

Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), an Army veteran and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, defended the Trump administration's reported move to give Iran billions of dollars, saying it was good and that the taxpayer-funded expense made sense because "we destroyed so much."

"OK, maybe they do end up getting $20 billion, let's say—we're still $300 to $500 billion ahead considering we destroyed their Navy, destroyed their Air Force, destroyed all those nuclear facilities I already spoke about, their steel manufacturing, their drone manufacturing," Mast said....

CNN's Brianna Keilar tried to pin down the chair of the House Armed Services Committee Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) over whether he supported an investigation into the leaked war plans chat that inadvertently included a journalist who decided not to divulge the sensitive operational details.

The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg wrote Monday of his alarm at being included on the chat that laid out plans for a U.S. military strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen. Others on the chat included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.

On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe were grilled by Democrats on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee about the incident. They kept to the GOP talking points that the information mistakenly shared with Goldberg wasn't "classified." ...

A CNN anchor forcefully pushed back Friday as she unsuccessfully tried to get a Florida Republican congressman and military veteran to retract his statement that President Joe Biden sees the troops as "disposable."

Brian Mast, who served in Afghanistan as an explosive ordinance disposal technician and lost his legs in 2010 when an IED detonated, joined Kaitlan Collins on "The Source."

Mast began the discussion defending former President Donald Trump's comment that the Presidential Medal of Freedom is better than the Medal of Honor because the latter is often given to people who were wounded or killed....