Dan Osborn, the Nebraska independent, says in an MS NOW interview that he has been through the Strait of Hormuz four times aboard an aircraft carrier and to the base in Bahrain twice. He calls the situation "completely unacceptable," says military families are paying the price, and says Congress needs to step up "yesterday" instead of letting it keep escalating.
The receipt
- Who
- Dan Osborn
- Where
- interview, MS NOW
- Original footage
- MS NOW · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 57 seconds, unedited within the cut
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Read the transcript
Yeah, I've been through the Strait of Hormuz myself four times aboard an aircraft carrier. I spent six months in the Persian Gulf. I've been to that base in Bahrain twice. And this is completely unacceptable. It seems like they don't have a plan. And we're paying the price. Our military families are paying the price. We're paying the price here at home and these guys, they just keep fumbling the ball. And again, this really goes back. Congress needs to step up and do something about this yesterday because we can't continue down this road and not having a plan in Iran. Instead, they just keep escalating it there. And as as somebody who's again been there myself and understands I've had family just come back from there. It's a lot worse than they're letting us on to believe there too. So yeah,
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.