Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) was asked point-blank about a colleague's call for congressional oversight of the USS Abraham Lincoln and the mounting reports that multiple crew members have tried to go overboard during its record-breaking deployment. His answer: never mind all that.

Fallon, who reminded viewers he sits on the House Armed Services Committee alongside Rep. Don Bacon, waved off the reports as unconfirmed rumors he hasn't personally verified — insisting he'd defer to the Navy's word on the matter. When the host pressed further, noting the deployment has stretched past 260 days, Fallon didn't dispute it. He didn't seem bothered by it either.

From there he pivoted to the safest possible answer, praising the "fantastic job" the troops have done and saying he's glad they're finally coming home — without ever returning to address whether anyone actually tried to jump ship.

So to recap: a sitting member of the committee tasked with overseeing the military can't be bothered to check on credible reports that sailors under a nearly nine-month deployment attempted to jump overboard, but he's confident it's all fine because, well, he trusts the Navy.

"I'm sitting on the Armed Services Committee with my friend Don Bacon, and these reports are just that," he said. "I haven't heard anything personally from our office, and I trust the Navy to do this as well."

"So I don't make much of it, to be honest," he continued.

"So you're not concerned about these reports," Cheryl Casone said. "You know, two to 60 days is a long time, you know, for deployment."

"Yeah," Fallon said. "Oh, no, there's no doubt about it. I mean, look at our armed services, you know, our folks, our soldiers, our sailors, our airmen do a fantastic job.

"Of course, we all, when I served, I went, you know, you always prefer to be stateside if possible, but that's part of the job is to deploy," he added. "And they did that. I think they did an outstanding job."

As Andrea Thompson noted, crew members on the USS Abraham Lincoln are running on empty — pulling brutally long shifts with almost no breaks or downtime during the ship's record-setting deployment. The strain has gotten bad enough that military experts are now sounding the alarm, warning that this kind of exhaustion is exactly the recipe for deadly errors on a vessel that's already one of the most hazardous workplaces on the planet, even under normal circumstances.

So, the crews have gone way beyond their duties under horrendous conditions, and Fallon isn't concerned. Republicans are just simping for Trump, who recently insisted the USS Lincoln's deployment was "not nearly long enough."

Trump wouldn't last a week under those conditions.