Senator Marshall: Let’s Get Oil Flowing Again & Bring the Cost of Gasoline Down

Senator Marshall Joins NewsNation Live

Washington - U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Keleigh Beeson on NewsNation Live to discuss eradicating the New World Screwworm, President Trump's peace deal with Iran, and hopes for the G7 Summit.

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On the New World Screwworm:

"Yeah, well, good morning, Kelly. Most importantly, your food supply is safe. I think of all the things I want to communicate today - you may recall I'm a physician; I look at this very much from a biology standpoint: your food supply is safe, and for your pets there's treatments out there as well. We've been following this come up through Mexico, and we saw this mass migration, probably brought this direction by pets and or wild animals. And again, there's good treatments for your pets, we have great treatments for the animals. Look, we from the farming and ranching community, would never take an animal with an open wound to the processing plant. It's a very obvious - it's no different than if you scabbed your knee, you fell off your bike, you had a big open wound from something like that. You can see these on the animal; we would never take it to the locker plant."

On eradicating the screwworm:

"Yeah, so remember we eradicated the screwworm back in the 60's and 70's. I would have been working on our own family farm and ranch at the time. So, it was gone; we had it contained in Central America. And then over the last three years or so, as millions of people came out of Central America and worked their way north - probably their pets brought it, maybe they had some livestock, but we saw this continually head north. I'm surprised it took this long to get across the border; probably some deer, coyotes, something like that, brought it across the border as well. I was disappointed in the previous administration that they didn't crank up the development of the sterile male screwworms. It's important to remember - and forgive me for going full biology on you - but a female screwworm fly can only mate one time, and then she dies. What a horrible life. But so, if they're mating with sterile screwworm flies, then eventually the population falls on itself. So, we could have been cranking that up, but regardless, we're not going to cry over the situation. Day one, Secretary Rawlins doubled the capacity down in Mexico by bringing another laboratory online - they'll be ready to go next month. And then we started a third lab in Texas; it'll be up next year."

"Yeah, I think number one is, if your animal has an open wound, I think that's when you need to be especially careful, or newborns, right? This screwworm loves a newborn calf; it would love newborn puppies as well. I think that people having their pets who have an open wound, they should treat it and then ask their veterinarian if there's any signs of that wound getting worse. And then again, just recently, the FDA approved Capstar - it is a flea medicine that they just approved for use on animals as well - I think it has to be over four weeks old. But consult your veterinarians; they know exactly what this is, they've had way more experience dealing with this than we physicians have."

On a peace deal with Iran:

"We are optimistic, and we understand who we're dealing with. We're going into this with eyes wide open as well, so we hope to get this across the finish line. And again, just most importantly, our goal is that Iran, that these religious zealots, would never have a nuclear weapon. If they had a nuclear weapon, gasoline would be $20 a gallon right now. So, we're very optimistic. And remember, these wars in the Middle East have been going on for thousands of years. For 47 years, Iranians have basically held the world hostage, and this president was willing to put it all on the line politically to end their ability to have nuclear weapons. I think we're close, but we're not done, we're going to keep our eye on the target here and make sure this gets across the finish line, and then we'll have to follow through it and watch them closely going forward as well. Very optimistic, though."

On goals for the G7 Summit:

"Well, number one is we want the Strait of Hormuz to be open - you know, today or tomorrow - and get that oil flowing again and bring the cost of gasoline down. That indeed we can maintain this ceasefire. I hope Israel stays a ceasefire as well, and of course, the terrorists in Lebanon, we hope that they stay quiet as well. We can't keep Israel from responding to them, but we're hoping number one is that we keep this peace agreement, this ceasefire, going as well to get the Strait open. And then just discuss what a no nuclear Iran looks like, and then we need the rest of the world joining in here. You know, we're not alone on this - we're not the only ones that would benefit from a nuclear free zone in the Middle East right now. So, I think it would be great for the G7 countries to come together and applaud the situation and then figure out what does the future Iran look like as we go forward. You know they're still murdering thousands of their own people over there, so how do we bring them along into a normal civilized society?"

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