EXCERPT:
WALTZ: "Well, Jake, we‘ve known that Russia and Iran have this symbiotic have this strategic partnership for some time now. I‘ll tell you what Russia has lost just out of this they‘ve lost their biggest manufacturer of the shahed drones Russia has been licensing those drones for quite some time and hitting Ukraine with it all the more reason why we need to defang this regime, and all the more reason that they cannot have a nuclear weapon. And I‘ll just point out too, because a lot of critics out there are are making hay of this. It was President Trump that put sanctions on Russia‘s largest oil producer, rosneft. He also put sanctions on lukoil. The Biden Administration did not do that for many years. They only did a kind of a pinprick action at the very end of the administration. He also took tough action on India, and now he‘s put a temporary pause on that in order to calm energy markets. I think these are all pragmatic, common sense approach approaches. While we deal with the Iranian regime."
TAPPER: "But surely, surely Russia helping Iran target our service members is upsetting and distressing, and action needs to be taken."
WALTZ: "Well, I‘m not going to get into you know, leaked assessments of what intelligence is being provided or not I just can‘t and won‘t do that. But I‘ll tell you, if they are doing it, it certainly hasn‘t been affected or effective excuse me, because the Iranian air force air defenses, missile forces and navy have been completely decimated."