Link they did and there was a lot of clarification of what they did and how they justified it. I cant go into details. It was classified but i felt better afterwards and this the whole thing is we dont want a war with iran. It was imminent that things were going to happen and it was better for america to act in President Trump did the right thing. Host is part of eminent threat can you share part of what you learn to make that case . Guest i know they have been collecting intelligence for quite a while. The better part part of the year and was getting to a point where was eminent within a month of january. Posted can you clarify further than that . Guest i do want to go any further than that, no with the things that were said. I cant go any further than that but i feel comfortable with the emphasis i was put on it from the different agencies that do come forward and the things they talked about. We knew something was getting ready to happen and it was a poor dated attack and if you follow what soleimani where he had gone, he had increased his travel rapidly to different areas and it was like things were coming to a head. Host as far as the killing itself you are saying it was proportional in nature and it was necessary . Guest it absolutely was necessary and if you go back to bill clinton in the 90s in the book dereliction of duty by Robert Patterson bill clinton had an opportunity to either capture or eliminate osama bin ladin over 10 times. He chose not to. Had he done that would there have been a 9 11 . Thats something we will never build the answer. President bush could have eliminated soleimani whether they captured him or not and president obama could have a neither one of them did. How many lives would have been saved had they done that so President Trump acted appropriately. Im proud of the actions that our forces did. Host the attack on the base housing u. S. Troops, how do you describe it as farsis of the retaliation . Guest just to let us know that they retaliated and it says more for them than the damage to us. Host did anything from the briefing convince you that similar attacks could take place . Guest what we understood was if you listen to the comments this was pretty much our response and it was going to back down from there. Lets hope that is as heated as it will get in it will slow down after that and hopefully we get to the negotiating table in President Trump says i will meet anywhere anytime with no preconditions. Host if that should happen what should happen in a renegotiated deal that doesnt exist in the current form . Guest if you look at jcpoa i was there when we negotiated that what with john kerry. That was a nonbinding agreement. Iran didnt sign it and the ayatollahs incited in some of the members of the parliament eventually did sign up it was never brought up for ratification our senate so was a nonbinding agreement. This is something in Foreign Policy we have to get away from to have our country bound by a president that the rest of the house or the senate doesnt way into because it creates this kind of backlash could one of the things that was in there is the iaea wasnt allowed anywhere anyplace anytime and as john kerry said it was what iran said they could do. To me that was one of the biggest failures of that deal and they were Still Producing heavy water beyond their capacity. Those were the things and we can go into more of that at the did prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon. Host this is representative ted yoho joining us. Republicans 202 7488001 and independents the war powers resolution voted on today. What you think is the intense . Guest the sentiment from the people on my side we wanted new war powers. We will get cleaned up because this is something in the 70s that was ms. Concocted and we have seen it abused at this resolution coming up today this h. Con house concurrent resolution which means its a privilege motion so it has to be voted on in the house and the majority will be voted on but also has to be voted on in the senate. There is several failures with it. One is its a nonbinding resolution. If you read through that it still allows for military to go after al qaeda and other things that are associated with al qaeda but doesnt protect our diplomats. Doesnt protect american citizens. It says it will protect property , territories military assets and military personnel but there are some failures in it and its a messaging built more than anything else. At this point in time what we have with the angst and the tension in the middle east with iran and the United States battle President Trump of the war powers resolution that says you have to come to us i think it would send up for the wrong signal to iran so for that reason we are going to support it. Host is there a changed a due to the aaa u. S. And the president in particular . Guest is not just this president. Its any future president. Congress wants the authority to declare to work back to congress where it needs to be. It was taken away back in the 70s. Host the war powers resolution youve probably heard senators mike lee and rand paul would support a similar version in the senate. When it comes to the briefing they say was the worst briefing is ever heard. Guest they might have had a different briefing than we did. They werent in our room. If you look at the amount of people that were there a lot of times what you hear or dont hear it starting the newspaper i thought the answers are pretty straightforward for what they could tell you. Theres information that certain members can go to the gang of eight and find out if members can go in there to see that. Host this is from tom. He starts off with questions for you. He is in chicago, lanai. You are on with representative ted yoho republic from republican from florida. Guest thanks for your opinion after hearing this stuff my grandsons ranger was responsible this terrorist guy and i keep hearing about they didnt say anything when they alawlaki and is 15yearold senden to me i dont care what he was going to do. I dont care if he was going to throw candy to the troops at what he has done. Hes an iranian general in iraq. Anywhere this guy goes stuff blows up. It was going to be another benghazi possibly with hostages and he led it. Mike lee didnt say a thing when obama drops 26,000 bombs when he overthrew libya and the mess that was made there. I wouldnt trust democrats in the grimmest fours you could throw them. Host they will let them respond to that. Guess who i agree with that. Only when after Osama Bin Laden we applauded president obama for that and it should have been done when we had chances earlier had we waited like you said it could have been another benghazi. Could have been another 9 11 and god forbid that happens again. President trump acted decisively in the acted like a leader and i think we are all better off for that. Host joe is in maine on the independent line. Caller yes, ted i just like to ask you tell all the americans how much you are getting paid to comment on tv to lie to us. Tell them what your salary is. Guess the 174,000 here and i get nothing for being on tv. Caller i understand up at 174,000 correct . Host what is your question about iran sir . Guest President Trump said yesterday were talking about taking care of people who kill americans. What about the north koreans . Guest thank you for the question. North korea has to be dealt with very there are a lot of conflicts around the world and a lot of those is foreignpolicy frontend, 15, 20 or 30 years ago. This is why its so important we get our foreignpolicy correct so we are not indebted from one administration to the next because of the policies for the jcpoa was a terrible deal. The Paris Climate Accord was a bad deal and that is strapped this nation. Future generations on something that a president or Administration Says this is what we think is good but its not voted on in the house or the senate. We have to make sure our foreignpolicy is correct and if not we are going to have this nonsense going on. Think its time for america to lead and if you lead in foreignpolicy and you have good economic policies and good trade policy is the more importantly of Strong National security and as far as lying i feel bad that you think everybody that is a politician on tv as lying. I feel bad for you. Host the president announce more sanctions for iran could they do more damage than was being done with current sanctions . Guest yes we can. To answer your question yes we can do that. We are Energy Independent in this nation could i remember the oil embargo of the 70s their member the hostage crisis. We have been dealing with a radical group in iran since 1979 when is enough enough . We have got to bring this to a conclusion so we can spend our resources that we have as a nation. We could maybe pay down our debt and give them the things we have to get under control here. This is a distraction in the middle east and when President Trump calls for nato to get involved i thought that was a different strategy. I know the details have to be worked out. Host what about what he said about nato in the past . Guest what he said about nato and the passes would need to be said and again this is bad foreignpolicy that just builds up year after year and when you get to a point where they are not paying their fair share President Trumps come and. Nato has over 30 billion the most money they have ever had because people realize that they are right in this present was going to allow them to have a critically continued betting get other nations involved putting sanctions on iran or north korea as joe brought up it comes to a point where those countries have to respond and they can choose conflict where they can say you know what lets come to the table, lets negotiate and lets build prosperous cut economies for the people or nation. Host julian is up next. Woman with representative ted yoho. Go ahead julienned. Caller thank you. Like to know what your response is going to be one of the hague files war crime charges against trump for assassinating their leader. Guest like is that they do that all the other president s that have done that in the past, i dont think they will do that. Go back soleimanis track record. We know what he has done. He was building up and infects you ordered the attack on the embassy. How many people have died because of him . The ieds that have named to the majority of our servicemembers and a guinness dan and iraq come from iran and they are under the direction of soleimani. If you want to send somebody like President Trump to the hague for war crimes when he eliminated a person that was going doing terror around the world im not worried about it. Host as far as retaliatory acts cyber threat do think thats a big concern and are we prepared to meet that . Guest at surreal concert and i appreciate you bringing that up because this nation does not have a response. We have a bill called the cyber deterrent at that will outline what an attack is and what a response would be. Thats something this country really needs to do especially as we get into the 5 g. Networks that are coming out and lets hope and pray United States or a at Technology Companies are the ones that are leading that. Host iran in alaska but they saying iran concluded proportionate targeting base for which cowardly armed attacks of our citizens and senior officials were launched. We will not seek escalation but will defend ourselves against any aggression. Guest that is what we deemed it has come to conclusion for this time. Lets renegotiate these things and you see the people in iran are rising up again as they did in 2009 because things are so toxic in iran. They dont have the liberties and freedoms that we have here and we are seeing that all around the world, hong kong and other areas where this were pressure regime is suppressing the freedoms and liberties of people to the iranian people are great people. We have some in the state of florida and very productive members of society. Thats what they want in iran so why do we have that . Is because of the ayatollah thats been there for 40 plus years. Host arkansass necks. We will hear from charles on our independent line. Go ahead. Guest yes sir, good morning to want to thank the congressman and i thank you for your hard work in congress and everything. Im in the gainesville area and ive heard nothing but good things about you. You went ahead and answer my question concerning cyber threat and things of that nature from the iranian government and basically thats what i was going to ask but i would be concerned about the Cyber Attacks with the way the internet is being used. I just appreciate what you said and theres so much going on here but we need to Pay Attention to those things that are really affect the destination. The timeliness of now but for future generations. Say hi and family gainesville. Why would iran ever negotiate with the president he pulled out the in alaska go shooting agreement. We have no one left supporting us. Guest iran we pulled out of a deal that should never have been agreed to and it wasnt agreed to in the house. It was agreed to in the senate that there were over 40 people that voted against this deal republicans and democrats. Debt deal should never have been implemented and again i dont want to rehash this being a bad deal. If you do the policy right its something that will live beyond the president as it should therefore when a new administration comes in our Foreign Policy doesnt change with the wind or the tide. Its the stability that are allies know and we know where americas and they can change that policy unless it goes to both chambers of the house and we know how difficult that is. Thats why its so important we get the correct policy and if we do that this nation and i think the world will be safer. Host the point about allies and having no allies left in this process. Guest you would think that but our Foreign Policy has been so weak in the past for the 15 or 20 or so im going to go back to the last administration. He was very weak there and that has created so much with our allies are President Trumps been very hard to nato and hes been china and these other areas the aftermath of that as he gets trade deals that are good. That sets a precedent for the future and if we follow those that will strengthen our relationship. We need foreign ambassadors. We talk about these things and they say we understand its a new day in america and we are taking a strong stance in its giving them assurance. Host on another topic you are republican but if you heard anything from the democratic side about the articles of impeachment being released . Guest im not sure the laws he wants them to go over there. Im definitely against impeachment but i thought it was weak and youve heard all the things out there. I think its a disgrace and a disservice to the American People into our constitution and republicans. I hope you and we never go down this road. This argument being made about house members to help make the president do you think thats a necessary action . Guest if nancy pelosi doesnt send the articles over there its not necessary. If they do go over there that they have jim jordan over there and maybe matt gates and some of the others but i think nancy pelosi overplayed her hand and realizes what they have done is not working and they cant impeach him. Shes obstructing congress right now. Should we impeach her . Guest i think we heard from maggie in orlando on the republican line. Hi. Caller hello. Host you are on, go ahead. Caller mr. Yoho you are doing a fabulous job. I also think that our president is doing a fabulous job. And i wonder is it possible to legislate Something Like no one over the age of 75 and less already in office can run for office. I think these old people and their 77 years of living have lost their minds. Guest im glad you didnt ask me how old i was maggie. Ive only got 10 years ago. Maggie i think that would be a restriction on free will and they think its up to the voters to decide that. If you go back to the federalist papers by the Founding Fathers we have term limits. We can eliminate people in congress or the senate and its called the elections. The house is supposed to be the most powerful branch of government and tha