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Brian Mast wore his military uniform from his service in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Capitol Hill on Friday (13 October) following a surprise attack by Hamas terrorists on 7 October.

Asked by reporters why he’d chosen to do so, he responded “[Rep. Rashida] Tlaib has her flag, I got my uniform.”

Later, the Florida congressman wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter: “As the only member to serve with both the United States Army and the Israel Defense Forces, I will always stand with Israel.”

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00:00 Whether you're Kevin, Steve, Jim, or anybody else, you have to answer for the decisions
00:06 that you made during your time here, things that you did right and things that you did
00:09 wrong.
00:10 And the more that anybody humbles themselves to say, "This is where I did something right,
00:16 this is where I did something wrong, this is what I learned from what I did wrong in
00:19 the past," the better opportunity they have to become the Speaker of the House.
00:22 Do you anticipate other people to put their names in the ring today?
00:25 Yeah, the process is that you can't just say, "Well, this person was the second in line,
00:33 so we're just going to vote on them."
00:35 Our processes don't allow that.
00:36 If you open it up, then you open it up.
00:38 So there has to be two nominees to have an election?
00:39 No, it doesn't have to be two, but it has to be opened up that if somebody else wants
00:43 to throw their name in, then they can.
00:45 So do you have to vote for Jim, for Jordan again, or because he was nominated once, you
00:49 can go straight to a fly?
00:50 No, it would have to be another, and that's what we're going to do right now is discuss
00:55 conference rules in part, but it would have to be a vote to say, "These are all the candidates.
01:00 Who got the most?
01:01 Let's go to the floor with that person."
01:02 Speaker designated, right?
01:03 Exactly.
01:04 Another speaker designated.
01:05 What's with your threads today?
01:06 Can you tell us anything about those?
01:07 Charlene got her fly, I've got my uniform.
01:07 I'm going to go to the floor with that person.
01:08 Can you tell us anything about those?
01:09 Charlene got her fly, I've got my uniform.
01:09 I'm going to go to the floor with that person.
01:10 Charlene got her fly, I've got my uniform.
01:11 I'm going to go to the floor with that person.
01:12 Charlene got her fly, I've got my uniform.
01:12 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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