U.S. Senate Candidate Scott Brown 7-15-26

Good morning. This is New Hampshire today. I am Chris Ryan. I appreciate you joining us for the show. President Trump on Truth Social is calling for ICE not to stop vehicle stops. This after in less than a week, two individuals have been killed by ICE agents in those vehicle stops. Let's get to the latest on this right now from Mark Murphy. President Trump is calling on immigration and customs enforcement to resume most routine traffic stops. After reports, the agency temporarily suspended them following two fatal officer-involved shootings in Maine and Texas. The incident sparked public outrage and renewed scrutiny of ICE's enforcement tactics, prompting the agency to review officer safety procedures and when vehicle stops should be used. But in a truth social post, the president called traffic stops one of ICE's most important and effective. enforcement tools and said ICE cannot give up the tactic. He urged officers to be, quote, judicious, fair, and smart while continuing their enforcement mission. Joining us right now on the HRC, your neighbor credit union guest line to discuss former U.S. Senator Scott Brown. He hopes future U.S. Senator Scott Brown from Massachusetts and former ambassador to New Zealand. Good morning, Senator Brown. Hey, good morning to you and your listeners. Appreciate joining us for the show. So your thoughts on what's going on with ICE right now. Obviously, this obviously is drawing a lot of attention in Maine and as it should. What do you think should happen next? Well, you know, one of the things that is more concerning to me is the fact that you have people who have gotten licenses who are here illegally, who can't read, can't write, don't understand our traffic laws, and they're killing people. So at what point do we just continue to let that happen? You know, had some of these governors actually followed the law and not issued these licenses, we wouldn't be doing a lot of these things. The fact that we have people here illegally, they're still breaking our laws and they're still doing the things that we have all read about many, many times. My answer in question, my question, I guess, is do we do nothing? I think it's appropriate to review the policies and procedures of any agency if things go sideways a little bit, but they need to continue to do their jobs. And I would hope that people here in our state, especially, I don't think we have the same issues that Maine or other states have. uh would allow them to do their jobs and anyone who's here illegally who's breaking our laws uh unlike Chris Pappas respectfully you know in our entire delegation you know they think that's okay and i don't When it comes to, you know, the federal side of things, though, many governors, whether they're red states or blue states, have had to act as a result of the federal government not really picking up their end of the bargain for many years. And whether it's on deportation efforts or some sort of a legalized status, obviously millions of illegal immigrants came in during Joe Biden's term, but many millions were here.

Well, obviously you want to make sure she's safe and secure. You know, she is a key witness potentially to address those things. I've supported the full disclosure and release of all those files. And, you know, he was not there. He was acting at that point. And, you know, he, you know, that's something that I, once again, I think there should be full disclosure on it. There's no question in my mind. And I don't think that should hold up his confirmation hearings, that's for sure. Sentcom announcing more strikes on Iran, this after Iran has been found to be in violation of memorandum of understanding, firing on ships in the Strait of Hormuz, and there's a significant escalation taking place. Trey Yinks has that. U.S. Central Command denounced that another round of U.S. strikes against Iranian targets. These are the first daytime strikes that we've seen since the ceasefire went into effect, an indication that indeed these strikes are escalating. with President Trump yesterday at the White House. He told Fox News that a variety of strikes would take place this week and escalate next week. He said he is reserving the energy targets for later in this campaign, trying to put new pressure on the Iranian regime, as officials in Tehran are still unwilling to make a deal. The president did not rule out a ground component to this operation in the future, but said he wants the focus to be on Iran. Your thoughts on where we sit right now, nearly four and a half months after operation? Operation Epic Fury began. Well, listen, we all know that Iran's just doing the dog and pony show trying to, you know, write it out to the midterms and thereafter. They're not going to do a deal. They're a different mentality. The theocracy there, it's, you know, they send their kids to, you know, to be martyrs. And, you know, it's a different mentality. So they're not going to do a deal. I thought the president kind of missed it when he didn't keep the... His foot on their throats say, you know, a good month ago and, you know, gave him all this time to kind of regroup, you know, reassess and do things that they're doing now. And that's the only tool left in the toolbox is this. You know, the hope is that the economic pressure and these strikes will force them to basically step aside. And I don't think it's going to happen. I'll be honest with you. And I'm hopeful that, you know, the weakening of their regime, the military regime, especially will embolden the population to stand up. I mean, that's really, I believe, the only recourse unless, you know, they go, we go all in. And I'm not in favor of a full... Iraq, Iran, sorry, Iraq, Afghanistan in a long time war again. I'm just not. I think it's a good assessment of the situation where obviously you could question whether or not we should have gone in to begin with and the outcome will, I think, largely determine that if Iran is ever allowed to continue down a nuclear path. But also you look at it and say, okay, well, how do you get to your objectives here? And a lot of them involve enhanced military efforts that may involve, you know, boots on the ground, whether it's taking over the street of Hormuz, whether it is creating an environment where the Iranian people can rise. So a lot of difficult decisions for President Trump ahead.

Yeah, of course. He's made difficult decisions before. You know, you live and die by the sword, and then you make your own bed. He made this decision, I think rightly so, to think that they're going to have a nuclear weapon. Imagine if they had a nuclear weapon right now, what they would be doing with it. I mean, they have some drones and a few rockets and missiles left. But imagine if they had the ability to put a nuclear warhead on there, where we would be. So I've supported, you know, what he did with Epic Fury, you know, making sure we, you know, put them back, hopefully decades or maybe a generation or two, and then obviously neutralizing their military because they're the big bullies in the region. And they should not be disrupting in exporting terrorism around the region in the world as they've been doing. They're, you know, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis, you know, doing their bidding. So that's all good. But once again, I... I would have suggested had I been there, so you know, just keep going and neutralizing them and, you know, do this deal. And don't give them, you know, weeks and weeks and weeks to reconstitute and reorganize and hide and deceive and delay. And that's what the difference. And, you know, John and Chris, you know, they never would have gone in.