WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Sen. Steve Daines issued the following press release:

U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined Newsmax to discuss "Operation Epic Fury."

Daines on President Trump's bold leadership:

"These are the same critics that went after President Trump during his first administration when he took out Soleimani. President Trump has been decisive; he has moral clarity on the situation, not only in the Middle East, but around the world. Keep in mind what's happened just in the last five days is remarkable. Forty-seven years of a reign of terror and tyranny in Iran, the greatest single destabilizing force in the Middle East and the world, the leading sponsor of terror in the world, the backers of Hamas, of Hezbollah, of the Houthis...