Alabama Sen. Katie Britt said she does not support a cease fire in Israeli military operations in Gaza, saying it is more important to eradicate the terrorist group Hamas.

“Evil is evil,” she said, “and we have to take it down.”

Britt, 41, appearing Monday on “CBS Mornings,” was there to promote her new book, “God Calls Us to Do Hard Things: Lessons from the Alabama Wiregrass.”

However, hosts Gayle King and Tony Dokoupil asked Britt several questions dealing with the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, as well as Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville and former President Donald Trump.

Britt sidestepped questions on her views about her senatorial colleague, Tommy Tuberville, though she has expressed support for a solution to Tuberville’s hold on military nominees that would also result in a change in the policy that is the basis of Tuberville’s actions.

“I can’t control anybody but me and my actions and what I say and do, and every day I get up and work diligently for the next generation, for the people of Alabama,” she said.

On Israel-Hamas, Britt said she understood a pause to get more than 240 hostages out of Gaza, as well as provide food, medicine and aid to civilizations. “Of course you want to protect every innocent life possible, but the only way there should ever be a pause is to get those hostages out.”

She compared the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, that saw more than 1,400 Israelis die, to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 on the U.S.

“But calling for a cease fire, when these people say they will do it again and again until the State of Israel is eradicated, until the Jewish people are eradicated – guys you cannot ask the people of Israel to tuck their kids in at night knowing this could occur at any moment.”

Britt described hearing Sec. of State Anthony Blinken recount how Hamas terrorists brutally murdered an Israeli family at breakfast and then finished their food. She said it was more important to eradicate Hamas.

Britt said what she saw during a recent trip to Israel was “gut wrenching.”

“We first met with the families of hostages,” she said. “Their stories will rip your heart out. Knowing that we have over 240 hostages in Gaza, we have to think about their stories. When I listened to those, I listened as a mom, and as a daughter, and a granddaughter and a sister and a wife.

“And then when we met with the government, we got to see firsthand the accounts that accounted, because these terrorists, these barbaric terrorists, wore GoPro cameras on their heads. They wanted us to see it. When you see them step on someone’s head to cut it off, when you see them murder children in front of their parents, when you see them burn parents alive in front of their kids, you realize this is evil. And we, as Americans, I feel like when we see evil, we look it in the eyes and we take it down,” she said.

She was also asked if she would be interested in running with Donald Trump on the Republican ticket in 2024.

“Oh goodness, I’m just working hard in the U.S. Senate and we’re working really hard to bring those policies back in place,” she said. “Honestly, under President Trump, our border was secure, we were more peaceful.”