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Tim Kaine Shreds Trump Over 'Bomb Bomb Iran' Beach Boys Parody Post: 'Is It Just A Big Joke?'
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During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) spoke about one of President Trumps' Truth Social posts.
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Senator, Senator Kane. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and to my colleagues and those who
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are here, I've been in the Senate now coming up on 13 years and the best part
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of the job is being on this committee, by far. When everything else is not going
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well, being on this committee is the best part of the job. It's the best part of
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the job because my colleagues are rock solid. We have plenty of disagreements,
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but we work very, very closely together. The week after the 4th of July, we'll
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mark up the defense bill. We sit around the table. We're the only committee that
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does this. We sit around the table until every last member has offered every last
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amendment and there's nothing left to offer, and then we end up with the bill
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that even if you lose an amendment or two, everybody has their fingerprints on it.
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We usually voted out 25 to 2 or 26 to 2. My colleagues are good. The staff is
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fantastic, but the important part of it is the mission. It's our troops.
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Virginia, I'm going to make a claim and other senators will challenge me in a
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virtuous competition, but I'm going to claim we are the most pro-military state
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in this country. About one out of ten Virginians as a veteran, then there's
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active, then there's guard, then there's reserve, then there's DOD civilians, then
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there's DOD contractors and military families like mine. It's such serious stuff.
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It's such serious stuff. I was very, very disturbed yesterday, and this is this is
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not going to be a question for any of you. This is really just for this gathering. I
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was so disturbed yesterday when the commander-in-chief of the greatest nation
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on this planet posted a music video. Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, bomb, bomb, bomb,
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bomb Iran, went to a mosque, gonna throw some rocks, time to turn Iran into a parking lot.
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Music video with bombers flying behind residential buildings. It had another line in it about sending
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the Ayatollah home in a box. I mean, is this the way, is this the way we ought to treat war in,
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in this country? I mean, is it just a big joke? 40,000 troops are deployed in the Middle East
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right now. They're all on high alert because of what's going on in the Middle East. I've got people
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all over Virginia who are worried about, are they going to get deployed? Are their kids going to
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get deployed? Are we going to be in a third war in the Middle East in the last 20 years? And we've
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got a commander-in-chief putting up stuff like this. When I came to the Senate, I served first under a
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Democratic president, then under President Trump, then under a Democratic president, then again under
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President Trump. And I came with the view that war was too serious an issue to be left to one person.
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I, I deeply believe what the framers of our Constitution believe, that the matter is so serious and so
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consequential that it shouldn't be left to one person. That, that we should only be at war if, if Congress has a
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serious and deliberative process about that. And I have a resolution that will likely be voted on to
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that effect in the next couple of days. But I just, I just wanted to begin with this. Let's take this
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seriously. I think the committee takes it seriously. I think the American public takes it seriously. I know
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Virginians who are in the military or whose family are in the military take it seriously. It's not a joke. It's not a joke.
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Secretary Gillis, let me ask you this. We had the person that is currently serving as acting in the
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position for which you've been nominated before us in the readiness subcommittee yesterday, Senator
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Sullivan and Hirono held a hearing. And I asked them about UAS issues. We've got major challenges with
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U.S. incursions on our bases, Army bases and others. We had an incursion at the base in the
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base, the Langley base, 19 months ago. We still haven't gotten good answers for it. The Army is playing
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kind of a lead role in this. They are the executive agent and NorthCom is the lead synchronizer in the
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kind of all-stakeholder group as we're trying to figure out how to stop UAS incursions on our bases.
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Talk to me about how you would prioritize this should you be confirmed.
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Senator, I watched that hearing with great interest and I thought that Dr. Waxman did a great job and I'll reiterate a few points.
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I mean, first, there's the technological piece. We have to figure out whether it's kinetic or non-kinetic and how we balance the
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security and installation with the safety of the adjacent public. And then there's the authorities piece.
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So having looked into this a little bit before when I was in the seat, we've got to coordinate
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and be sure that we have the right authorities with respect to the FAA and the FCC so that we can take the actions that we need to take.
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But I agree with you that it is a very important and alarming issue and commit to looking into that and continuing to drive the Army's efforts.
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Thank you. Yelpak.
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Yelpak.
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It is an issue that needs some.
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And.
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