'It's Disgraceful': John Cornyn Tees Off On VP Harris And Top Dems For Skipping Netanyahu's Address

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During remarks on the Senate floor, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) spoke about Vice President Kamala Harris and other senior Democrats missing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Congressional address.

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00:00Mr. President, this afternoon and actually just in a few short hours, Israeli Prime Minister

00:07Netanyahu will deliver an address to a joint session of Congress.

00:13As his country faces multiple attacks on multiple fronts, an existential threat actually, Prime

00:21Minister Netanyahu has come to the United States to affirm the strong relationship between

00:28his country and ours and to highlight the stakes of this war.

00:35This joint address comes at a critical time and I am absolutely stunned and profoundly

00:41disappointed that the Vice President of the United States has decided to boycott participating

00:49in this particular speech.

00:53As we all know, it's traditional that the Vice President as President of the Senate

00:59and the Speaker sit behind the Speaker of the invited Speaker, in this case Prime Minister

01:06Netanyahu.

01:07I remember several years back when Prime Minister Netanyahu was last here, the Vice President

01:14and the Speaker both sat in those chairs recognizing the importance of lending that dignity and

01:23a sense of gravity to the proceeding.

01:28But Vice President Harris can't be bothered with any of that.

01:32She's blaming her decision on a scheduling conflict, even though the date of this speech

01:37was announced in early June.

01:40And the only other item on the Vice President's schedule is a speech to a sorority convention

01:46in Indianapolis.

01:49The world is on fire.

01:51We've never seen a more dangerous environment since World War II.

01:56And the Vice President can't be bothered to show up at the nation's capital in the House

02:01Chamber and to demonstrate the respect and courtesy that we thought was a given, but

02:14apparently not in this case.

02:19Not only has the Vice President chosen to skip this address, so has the Senate's President

02:26pro tem, Senator Murray, as well as we learned this morning the majority whip, Senator Durbin,

02:33has boycotting this address.

02:37I think it's absolutely disgraceful that the most senior members of the Democratic

02:43Party have chosen to give the Heisman to one of our closest allies in the Middle East,

02:52the only democracy in the Middle East that's fighting for its very existence.

02:59Why would they do something like this?

03:01Well, it's pretty obvious.

03:03It's pandering.

03:05It's pandering to the most radical elements of the Democratic base.

03:13I'm proud of the deep friendship between the United States and Israel.

03:18Our national security is tied up in the national security of Israel.

03:27We know Iran, the number one state sponsor of terrorism, wants to wipe Israel off the

03:32map.

03:34That's what Hamas, which is a proxy for Iran, like Hezbollah, like the Houthis in Yemen,

03:42all are determined to destroy the nation of Israel.

03:48So it's never been more important for the United States to stand shoulder to shoulder

03:54with our ally and friend against these unprovoked attacks by terrorist groups against innocent

04:03civilians.

04:06There were 251 hostages taken on October the 7th.

04:13Innocent civilians, in addition to all of the 1,000 plus individuals that were murdered,

04:21eight of the current hostages are American citizens, and the vice president can't be

04:28bothered to show up?

04:34It's disgraceful.

'It's Disgraceful': John Cornyn Tees Off On VP Harris And Top Dems For Skipping Netanyahu's Address

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