00:00People view Republican foreign policy just as a binary choice. You're either an isolationist or
00:06you're a neocon interventionist. I think both are wrong. I disagree with both. I've long considered
00:13myself a third point on the triangle, which is I call myself a non-interventionist hawk.
00:20All right. What does that mean? It means I think the touchstone of all military action and foreign
00:27policy should be the vital national security interest of the United States. And what does
00:33that mean in particular? Number one, on the non-interventionist side, let's go back to
00:362016. There were 17 candidates on the Republican side who ran for president. Set Rand Paul aside
00:42as his views kind of on a fringe. Of the 16 remaining, there were two and only two that
00:48thought the Iraq war was a mistake. Me and Donald Trump. We were the two that said Iraq, it was
00:54not
00:54defending U.S. national security interests. We were engaged in nation building. We were trying
00:58to turn. So what do you think of Iran? I think President Trump has been heroic standing up to
01:04Iran. Look, my views on foreign policy and President Trump's views on foreign policy are virtually
01:10identical. Do you talk about it together? All the time. I talk to him every week. Right. And by the
01:14way, do you know who was also there? Who? Ronald Reagan. He called it peace through strength,
01:19strength, but it's the same thing.
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