d. c. mike, we've been reporting that a food carrier strike group is sitting south beast and mediterranean, ready to assist israel. certainly not a soft response from the us. a. yes indeed. uh this uh, carrier group, the general rod full carrier group is a mess of uh fleet. essentially it is an aircraft carrier, accompanied by miss ald carrying cruises, a number of them besides um destroyers. so it's a mess of selling soft palmed warships, which are moving into the east mediterranean at the direction of the defense secretary, lloyd austin. in addition, the defense secretary and onset, the us is deploying as an error sources to the region, including if city $55.00 digits the most advanced us plane. and another point as well that was brought up by the secretary, is that us as things supplies on supplies to as well. the, the deployment of those supplies is already underway. it began within 24 hours of these events. so the us stepping up as it was in terms of backing israel. we've heard from the pre

d. c. very interesting question. who is that 2 former vice president mike payments and a very long time he took to consider his on. so what do you think of the political stability of the us right now? i or i used to work it through the national committee and the national republican senatorial committee, and i don't think there's anyone happy right now in washington, in my loyal opposition, but i have jobs. this is a great day for democrats and probably self inflicted for the republicans. i don't think it's hard to disagree with a lot of the things that gets laid out. you know, the money, the car suspending ran up for a year. i installation of going to continue resolution to continuing resolution, but the needs to be a practicality. and i saw a new president trump. there was the republicans were always fighting republicans when they need to be fighting the radical democrat. and certainly at the moment the party weren't, it does seem to be held hostage by a very small number of hard. right. republicans, why say, as such, a strangle hold over the vast number of republicans will make? cuz the make up, the majority of

mike you're a never-quit guy. you've got plan a, plan b, plan c, plan d, but you're jousting with democrats and fighting with someyour own republicans. do you ever think, like, the heck with it? >> you know, this country is too big to think that small. the way i look at it, yeah, it's a tough job, but it's an honor to serve in this building. and the idea the biggest, the bigger the the challenge the more opportunities we have. i've got a small majority, yes, 3, 4 votes, but people are out each week. that's a challenge each week. if you focus on the right thing, you focus what's right for america, what's right for the individuals, and the decision i made yesterday was the right decision. if someone wants to take a motion against me because of that, i'll proudly stand with the american public, especially those in the armed services that that they're going to get paid. this is a real challenge. you look what happened, you just had a report earlier. here's a democrat who pulls a fire alarm trying to stop us from voting on a bill to keep government open. the democrats had already tried actions where they moved to adjo