ICYMI—Hagerty Joins America’s Newsroom on Fox News to Discuss Biden UNGA Speech, Kamala Harris’s Debate Lie on U.S. Troops in Combat Zones, Iran Funding Terror in Middle East

WASHINGTON -United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, today joined America's Newsroom on Fox News to discuss President Joe Biden's speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the U.S. sending more troops to the Middle East despite Kamala Harris's false, unchecked claim at the presidential debate, and Iran's continual funding and support of terrorist organizations throughout the Middle East.

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Hagerty onPresident Biden's United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) speech: "The Biden-Harris Administration has been a complete disaster from a national security standpoint, and there is no part of the world that is safer than when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris came into office. President Trump delivered relative peace around the world. What happens? This Administration comes in and creates an enormous national security disaster at our southern border. Now, 10 million people - we have no idea who they are - more than 10 million have come into our country. If you think about what happened in the Middle East, the immediate appeasement approach that they took to Iran, they basically stopped enforcing all of the sanctions that President Trump had imposed with the 'Maximum [Pressure] Campaign.' Iran was immediately enriched, and we saw by May of 2021, after Biden and Harris had come into office, the 11-day war from Gaza into Israel. There's been nothing but unrest from the Middle East. If you think about what happened with Ukraine and Russia, that would've only been precipitated after the massive failure of Joe Biden handing over Afghanistan to the Taliban, causing 13 American service members to lose their lives, leaving thousands of Americans behind, leaving billions of dollars of equipment behind to arm the Taliban and whomever else. The Far East: Everything has become far less safe. If you think about the incursions of the PLA [People's Liberation Army] in the Taiwan Strait, [and] North Korea back at it again. The entire world is on fire, and you can thank the man that's going to be speaking at the U.N. General Assembly today for that."

Hagerty on Kamala Harris's 'no U.S. troops in combat' lie at the presidential debate:"It's not true. It wasn't true then, it's certainly not true now. That debate was a complete disgrace - three on one - and something that they [should] just step back and say the very basic question: …Is the United States better off today than it was when President Trump was in office? The answer both from a world stage perspective as well as here in the United States is no. President Trump had us in a far better place both globally and certainly here in the United States of America."

Hagerty on Iran's funding of terror despite the Iranian President's comments on 'wanting peace':"It's the two-faced approach of Iran, and the Biden-Harris Administration is either too naive or they just bought into this situation. Iran is the greatest state sponsor of terror. President Trump had brought Iran to its knees. Iran was broke under the Trump Administration. I worked hard myself when I served in the Trump Administration to impose sanctions on Iran, [and] to get our partners and allies to stop buying Iranian crude [oil]. We brought them to their knees financially. They were unable to fund Hamas, Hezbollah, [and] the Houthis. If you think about what we're able to achieve: We were able to move our embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. We were able to acknowledge Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights. People said that could never be done without war. We took out [Qassem] Soleimani and [Abu Bakr] al-Baghdadi. We even entered the Abraham Accords. All of this was possible because President Trump had the wisdom and the foresight to impose maximum pressure on the Iranian regime that clearly is seeking to obtain a nuclear weapon, that clearly funds all of this terror. And the Biden Administration, the Harris Administration, steps right back in immediately and starts to fund them. Now they've got well over a hundred billion dollars of funds thanks to what this Administration has allowed them to do, and they're using those funds to instill terror throughout the Middle East and perhaps around the world."

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