00:00:00.120Having spoken to people who have reviewed the video, you know, you see the car come crashing through the door.
00:00:05.720You see what appears to be shell casings being ejected through the driver's side window as he's firing.
00:00:12.500And then you see the car gets all the way down to the end of the hall, and then this fire starts.
00:00:19.320So it's suggestive that it was a ramming attack for anybody who was in the hallway, which happened to be clear at the time.
00:00:25.880a shooting attack for anybody who was an available target, which were the security people who shot
00:00:32.420back. And this explosive attack where it appears at least he was able to initiate, ignite, detonate
00:00:40.640some connection to these explosives that were in the back of the vehicle, which if they didn't
00:00:46.740explode, they certainly caused that conflagration that caused that fire that blackened the hallway,
00:00:52.100filled the building with smoke and right now as we're sitting here two things are going on
00:00:57.780one fbi atf and the oakland county bomb investigators are trying to figure out
00:01:04.280is anything in the back of that car something that is still live or but or or explosive that
00:01:10.600needs to be dealt with and structural engineers are coming in to see is the structure strong
00:01:16.220enough so that they can move that car out of there and process it somewhere well anderson
00:01:20.800And we're here in this neighborhood of fairly upscale townhouses, this kind of courtyard of townhouses here in Sterling, Virginia,
00:01:26.780learning a little bit more about the suspect and the suspect's family.
00:01:30.480This suspect identified as 36-year-old Mohamed Bailor Jallot, a former Virginia National Guard member,
00:01:36.400who, as we've been reporting, served nearly seven years in prison after pleading guilty to trying to aid the terror group ISIS.
00:01:43.760Officials at the time saying he was trying to procure weapons for an ISIS attack.
00:01:47.660Now, at the specific address where we believe the suspect lived, there is a sign, a paper sign taped to the front door saying, quote, we do not wish to speak to the press, end quote.
00:01:57.560I knocked on that door three separate times.
00:02:01.680The first time he just pointed to the sign and said, we really don't want to talk to you, and then closed the door.
00:02:06.020The second time he answered, he said, I'm going to try to be as nice to you as I can about this, but we really don't want to talk to the media.
00:02:14.260He said, you have to understand we're going through a very tough time.
00:02:17.220I asked him if he was the suspect's father. He did not answer that question.
00:02:22.020And then a young lady standing behind him said pretty loudly, seriously, and then they shut the door.
00:02:27.860Other neighbors that we spoke to here, I spoke to five different neighbors who describe a very large family living at that residence, multiple members of a family of multiple generations.
00:02:38.740But they say the family really didn't interact with neighbors and that neighbors really did not interact with them.
00:02:44.440One neighbor I spoke to who said he often would walk by the suspect when he would take his walks in the neighborhood said the first time he passed the suspect, he said hi to the suspect.
00:02:54.060He said the suspect didn't say anything.
00:02:56.940He said every single time he would pass him after that, the suspect would just look to the ground.
00:03:01.320And in the words of this neighbor, quote, something about him just didn't sit well with me.
00:03:05.580Another neighbor said, Anderson, I'm surprised that they released him and let him come back here.
00:03:11.180So neighbors here expressing some shock, some surprise, some frustration that he was in the neighborhood.
00:03:17.980Yeah. And as we described, CNN been reporting here tonight.
00:03:21.500It was a very grisly scene inside that ROTC classroom with other students subduing the suspect.
00:03:28.420And one of them apparently stabbing him to death.
00:03:31.480Scott Bessett said the U.S. Navy will be escorting oil tankers through the strait.
00:03:36.180strait. That was always in our planning that there's a chance that U.S. Navy or perhaps an
00:03:46.320international coalition will be escorting oil tankers through. There are, in fact, tankers
00:03:51.560coming through now. Iranian tankers, I believe some Chinese flag tankers have come through,
00:03:58.180so we know that they have not mined the straits. My belief that as soon as it is militarily
00:04:05.200possible. The U.S. Navy, perhaps with an international coalition, will be escorting
00:04:12.120vessels through. 135 fueling tanker crashed after colliding, it appears, with another tanker,
00:04:20.020which ultimately landed safely in Israel. But there are a lot of questions surrounding
00:04:25.420CENTCOM's statement in which they said that this was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire,
00:04:31.120because an Iranian proxy group based in Iraq has now come out and taken responsibility for downing that aircraft.
00:04:38.660Of course, they did not provide evidence, but these proxy groups, they do have surface-to-air missiles.
00:04:45.660And so it's possible, for example, that what happened was these tankers were trying to evade a missile
00:04:52.800or perhaps this was just an incident of a mid-air collision of these tankers just flying too closely together.
00:04:58.040I mean, there's so many possibilities here, but the bottom line is that four U.S. service members are now confirmed to be dead, two others.
00:05:06.080Apparently, the search is ongoing for them, unclear what their whereabouts and their condition is as of this moment.
00:05:14.820Between our Air Force and that of the Israelis, over 15,000 enemy targets have been struck.
00:05:24.120No other combination of countries in the world can do that.
00:05:28.040So today, as we speak, we fly over the top of Iran and Tehran, fighters and bombers all day picking targets as they choose, as our intelligence gets better and better and more refined.
00:05:45.080Looking up, the IRGC and Iranian regime sees only two things on the side of aircraft, the Stars and Stripes and the Star of David.
00:05:56.200the evil regime's worst nightmare. Iran has no air defenses. Iran has no air force.
00:06:05.900Iran has no navy. Their missiles, their missile launchers and drones being destroyed or shot out
00:06:11.300of the sky. Their missile volume is down 90 percent. Their one-way attack drones yesterday
00:06:17.020down 95 percent. And as the world is seeing, they are exercising sheer desperation in the
00:06:25.460Straits of Hormuz. Something we're dealing with. We have been dealing with it and don't need to
00:06:32.080worry about it. We're on plan to defeat, destroy, disable all of their meaningful military
00:06:38.660capabilities at a pace the world has never seen before. They're confused and we know it.
00:06:44.980Our response? We will keep pressing. We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter,
00:06:52.460no mercy for our enemies. Yet some in this crew, in the press, just can't stop.
00:07:00.700Allow me to make a few suggestions. People look up at the TV and they see banners,
00:07:06.600they see headlines. I used to be in that business. And I know that everything is written
00:07:11.320intentionally. For example, a banner or a headline,
00:07:15.340Mideast War Intensifies, splashing on the screen the last couple of days alongside visuals of
00:07:21.120civilian or energy targets that Iran has hit because that's what they do.
00:07:26.780What should the banner read instead? How about Iran increasingly desperate? Because they are.
00:07:33.540They know it, and so do you, if it can be admitted.
00:08:01.160it's a fundamentally unserious report the sooner david ellison takes over that network
00:08:08.100the better another example of a fake headline that i saw yesterday war widening here's a real
00:08:17.800headline for you for an actual patriotic press how about iran shrinking going underground
00:08:24.160so you see iran's leaders are hiding in bunkers and moving into civilian areas
00:08:28.640The only thing that is widening is our advantage, not to mention our Gulf partners stepping up even more now going on the offense and have always been with us on the defense with collective and integrated air defenses.
00:08:44.860You said that the U.S. military has essentially aerial superiority, naval superiority over Iran, yet we're not escorting ships to the Strait of Hormuth. Why? How did you not plan for this?
00:08:58.220We recognize it because ultimately we want to do it sequentially in a way that makes the most sense for what we want to achieve and ensure that we're sending the right signals to the world when we do so.
00:09:11.180So when Chris Wright speaks or we speak, it's based on a full assessment of what we're up against, what we want to say to the world, how we want them to see and understand the conflict.
00:09:20.540It's like this whole idea of the war widening.
00:09:22.620That's what the press wants to make it look like, like it's widening and chaos.
00:09:25.780And so, no, we're actually closing in on grabbing hold of and controlling what what objectives we want to achieve and how we want to achieve them.
00:09:34.460Shape. It's called shaping operations and setting the conditions.
00:09:36.980But when you shape the environment, you don't always tell.
00:09:39.920I mean, foolish political leaders and foolish military leaders of the past will hang an exact deadline on it.
00:09:45.480Or here's exactly when we'll do what we're going to do or here's how long it's going to take us.
00:09:49.300And then if you meet that, maybe you meet it.
00:09:52.260But if you don't, you fail. And if you're far beyond, we know exactly what we're shaping and why we're sending those signals working across the interagency.
00:09:59.040The straight of Hormuz is something we've paid attention to from the beginning.
00:10:02.160And the American people can rest assured we will ensure that our interests are advanced.
00:13:26.260Also, the Cornyn-Paxton situation, so we've got a lot to cover in little time.
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00:16:27.880okay matt ball's with us um we're gonna break down the pete we're cutting the the general uh
00:16:35.580cane to get it down to the succinct about the military operations um you know pete's pete
00:16:42.220pulls with me pete's pete he's always going to lean in and be aggressive but i think
00:16:47.260if you you know they're very focused on what's been accomplished from a military perspective
00:16:54.500and that's that's good i think you can uh derive from this matt boyle that we now have air
00:17:01.500supremacy we're over tehran picking targets as we want we can now use gravity bombs instead of the
00:17:08.520what is p called the exquisite standoff weapons and one of the reasons i don't i think we're
00:17:13.040running out of standoff weapons but we've got uh air supremacy and we're doing targets and we're
00:17:18.380bombing uh the i uh the revolutionary guard and leadership and so at will number one number two
00:17:25.720is that the new ayatollah looks like and president trump put this up on thing on true social last
00:17:30.680night he may be injured in one of these raids disfigured that's why everything you don't hear
00:17:35.240his voice you don't see his face you just hear written um proclamations and the third is we're
00:17:41.940working on the streets of hormuz now i think what's most important about hormuz is what scott
00:17:47.180Besson said the Financial Times is reporting of London right now is reporting that Italy and
00:17:53.200France are in direct negotiations with the Iranians to get ships that are flagged or with
00:17:58.780cargo or oil for France or Italy out. We know the Chinese Communist Party, I think 11 million
00:18:05.200barrels. And Scott just said, look, it doesn't look like it's mined because certain nations
00:18:10.160are getting through. I think that's the big takeaways from this briefing this morning.
00:18:14.920We're going to get to Cain in a minute, but Matt Boyle, national political editor of Breitbart, your thoughts?
00:18:21.300Yeah, well, I think that's a succinct assessment.
00:18:23.820Also, you know, you kind of got to love Pete Hegseth taking, you know, a blowtorch or a nuclear weapon to the fake news.
00:18:32.800Like, so maybe, you know, he's got one mode, right, which is destroy, right?
00:18:38.240Like, you know, he goes in there and he lights up these losers in the establishment press.
00:18:42.780But, I mean, look, I think the big thing that people want to see right now from the Trump administration is the update on the specific progress, what still needs to be done, and, you know, where things stand, and what hurdles are still in the way ahead.
00:19:03.580So I think that's the information that people are looking for, and you're able to glean that, I think, Steve.
00:19:10.880But, you know, sometimes maybe we get a little distracted with destroying the fake news and their fake news attacks on the administration and on the administration's efforts.
00:19:20.300But overall, you know, as long as we get the update on the details throughout the whole thing, and I think you're able to pick that out at the press conference this morning, then that's good.
00:19:32.040and it does appear to be good news let's go back let's okay let's go back the the reuters is
00:19:37.900reporting this morning uh various voices inside the administration are saying hey this is what
00:19:43.640we got to do other people saying this is what we got to do some are stay the course and keep it
00:19:47.260going for a couple more weeks others are let's get an off ramp let's figure out this thing
00:19:51.600and get off you just mentioned people are looking for as you see it right now matt how what would
00:19:58.560you discern as at this right this moment right here what are the military objectives of this
00:20:05.280that you know once accomplished we can uh we can then the president can start making decisions
00:20:12.580about how much longer this thing lasts well i think the biggest question is is what's left
00:20:18.380behind in iran right so uh you know the news that the uh new ayatollah the son of the old
00:20:25.100ayatollah who was killed on the first night uh it is disfigured and and you know in serious
00:20:32.620you know medical issues apparently you know hurting an attack and not even able to appear
00:20:38.620on camera or even a voice recording is a significant development um the so is he going
00:20:46.560to lead the country or not or is this a temporary thing it's just that you know an oligarchy around
00:20:52.540him that's really controlling and pulling the strings? Who are those people? What does this
00:20:56.840look like? So I think that, you know, what does the, you know, I know that they say the goal
00:21:02.140wasn't regime change. Well, they changed the regime because they killed the Ayatollah on the
00:21:06.420first night. So what is left behind and does it, you know, is it any better for the American
00:21:13.620interest if and when, you know, we walk away? And I'm pretty sure that the day is coming where
00:21:20.220we're going to walk away um secondly is iran's or are iran's entire military capabilities disabled
00:21:29.420and and disintegrated right are they able to shoot these missiles um you know we've been hearing
00:21:35.660about iran having these weapons for a long time and then iran proved it on the first night in
00:21:41.340response what did they do they fired at every gulf nation right so uh in fact i do think that
00:21:47.580the iranians did more to unite the gulf countries than anything the west or the gulf countries have
00:21:55.580done at all in the last 30 years in the in just a matter of weeks here by firing at qatar and
00:22:02.780saudi and uae and israel uh i mean they're all kind of in the bunker together now if you will
00:23:04.840The incident occurred over friendly territory in western Iraq while the crew was on a combat mission and, again, was not the result, as CENTCOM has said, was not the result of hostile or friendly fire.
00:23:16.700We're still treating this as an active rescue and recovery operation.
00:23:20.740As CENTCOM announced this morning, four airmen have been recovered, and the Air Force and U.S. Central Command will provide updates as information becomes available.
00:23:28.600Please keep these brave airmen, their families, friends, and units in your thoughts in the coming hours and days.
00:23:36.840Our service members make an incredible sacrifice to go forward and do the things that the nation asks of them.
00:23:43.240It's a reminder of the true cost of the dedication and commitment of the Joint Force.
00:23:48.300We're also aware of a fire on board the USS Gerald R. Ford.
00:23:51.940We're thinking about the crew there who were injured in the fire.
00:23:54.580We believe and hope that everyone will be okay, and we're grateful for that.
00:23:58.600And for any further questions on that, we'd refer you to NAVCENT or to the Navy.
00:24:04.380This morning, we enter the 13th day of Operation Epic Fury,
00:24:08.520and we continue to make progress towards our military objectives.
00:24:12.180As the Secretary said, today will be our heaviest day of kinetic fires across the operating area.
00:24:17.600CENTCOM continues to attack ballistic missile and drone capabilities
00:24:20.860so that they are no longer a threat to U.S. forces, our bases, or our partners.
00:24:26.400They're continuing to destroy the Iranian Navy to ensure freedom of navigation.
00:24:31.340And this means going after Iran's mine lane capability and destroying their ability to attack commercial vessels.
00:24:38.220And we're targeting their defense industrial base so they cannot rebuild the capabilities that can harm America's interests or our partners in the future.
00:24:48.960As Admiral Cooper said in his update on Wednesday, Iranian combat power continues to decline
00:24:55.500as a result of the continued strikes, as the secretary talked about.
00:24:59.980We've attacked over 6,000 targets, and our strike packages continue to launch every hour,
00:25:05.320and we've maintained an unprecedented number of sorties up overhead of Iran.
00:25:12.000CENTCOM is now persistently over the enemy, and as a result, we've seen a reduction in
00:25:17.280missile and one-way attack fires, as the Secretary said. In less than two weeks, we've rendered the
00:25:22.700Iranian Navy combat ineffective and continue to attack naval vessels, including all of their
00:25:29.360Soleimani-class warships, which were armed with anti-ship missiles and anti-aircraft weapons.
00:25:34.760We've made progress, but Iran still has the capability to harm friendly forces and commercial
00:25:40.060shipping, and our work on this effort continues. But I want to make something clear. The only thing
00:25:46.520preventing commercial traffic and flow through the straits right now, which there is some through
00:25:51.620the straits, is Iran. They are the belligerents here holding the straits closed, although there
00:25:58.400is some traffic moving through there. We've made it a priority to target Iran's mine laying
00:26:03.260enterprise, their mine layers, the naval bases and depots, in addition to the missiles that could
00:26:09.200influence the straits. And CENTCOM continues to attack those efforts. And we continue to make
00:26:15.680progress on the industrial base to include factories, weapons, warehouses that are stored
00:26:20.340in. And we will continue to do so in the coming days, especially today.
00:26:27.520If we were to cut that tighter and start at day 13, Matt Boyle, that's about two minutes and
00:26:33.96015, 20 seconds. I think it's one of the reasons that President Trump really holds General Cain
00:26:40.160in high regard, because right there, you got a bang, bang, bang, bang. Here's exactly what we're
00:26:45.080doing we're doing it methodically here are the results have been here's what they got your
00:26:49.560thoughts give me a minute matt before we go to break on kane yeah yeah i i think that general
00:26:54.620kane has it together i mean that's that's as detailed as you can get i mean we're two less
00:26:59.540than two weeks into a war and it appears as though uh you know again without any ground troops in
00:27:05.860you know sent into iran we've we've basically won right like i mean they're they're talking about
00:27:11.840like the final bows that they're tying here and the final knots that they're
00:27:15.740figuring out, this is, this is the, the, the end, right?
00:30:41.360And I think that, you know, everything on the tactical operational side is working. The problem is with the strategic and geopolitical because, you know, you have people in the administration who are watching the midterms, watching the polls.
00:30:56.580Like Matt was saying, I thought it was really important that this press conference got some
00:31:01.220information out because a lot of times, Steve, it's not what is said, but why it is said and
00:31:06.300why they had to come out this morning and put out this information was to say, hey,
00:31:22.220But I think that'll all play out in the end.
00:31:26.140well that's a in in i think the importance here is that we've been advocating i don't think you
00:31:33.460can get too much of general kane and emerald cooper i think when you talk about military
00:31:37.840objectives and what the driving force of this is the you know this klaus vitzian the the the
00:31:44.880the center of gravity of this fight um is is that it's a military operation at the end of the day
00:31:52.100And where do we stand in the military operation? We then can say, hey, these target sets, these objectives have been met.
00:32:00.620And then obviously you're dealing with the geopolitical and the in the geostrategic and economic and all that.
00:32:07.440But right now, the most important thing is still to continue to look through and see these things are being accomplished as they're accomplished.
00:32:13.700I will say and duly note that in the objectives of General Cain and CENTCOM, we have not heard unconditional surrender or we have not heard to take away the ability of the regime to do power projection on their people.
00:32:35.080I think we're back to the original objectives of this military operation.
00:32:39.500Matt Boyle, what about holding together?
00:32:42.040Are you seeing any squeamishness on Capitol Hill?
00:32:46.280I know there's a lot of pressure on Besant.
00:32:48.780Eric Bolling is going to join us about how much is actually being released by the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
00:32:56.020We've got the midterms, and obviously we have this huge issue next week of Save America.
00:33:00.700But just on the war itself, what temperature do you have of where people are?
00:33:06.460Well, I think that, first off, Republicans on Capitol Hill are very much united in the threats from Iran, and they stand with the president on this.
00:33:15.780At the same time, there are political consequences here.
00:33:19.380The question is, with the gas prices going up and the questions regarding the Strait of Hormuz, right, like people are seeing, you know, I mean, what, we had gas prices well under $3, what, a couple weeks ago?
00:33:32.320and now they're up a little higher, right, because of all of this.
00:33:36.180You see the price of oil going up and down.
00:33:38.240You see the markets responding, right?
00:33:40.560So, you know, if this is just a temporary thing for a few weeks,
00:33:44.520as the president keeps saying, it's all going to work out just fine.
00:33:48.220But, you know, again, the people on Capitol Hill,
00:33:50.920they're concerned about their re-elections.
00:34:00.220And so, you know, that's going to be the big concern moving forward here is, you know, that's why I keep saying the big question is, is what is the exit strategy?
00:34:10.600What is the end game? Right. What does this look like?
00:34:13.280And you're beginning to get answers to those questions from the Secretary of War, from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and I think from the President.
00:34:22.680The President keeps talking about how this thing is almost over, this thing is almost over, and he's been saying that for the last several days.
00:34:29.480if you listen to him right so uh the the the you know getting that from our military leaders now
00:34:35.640about what does this look like when it's over and when we're done in iran and what is the
00:34:41.560the end strategy look like i know that hegseth is saying that he doesn't want to put a time
00:34:46.680constraint on it that's that's that's a reasonable point but at the same time it's like they've got
00:34:52.600to figure out what is this end like what does this end game look like and what is uh you know us
00:34:57.960leaving well the president has been saying he has he has been saying hey he has been saying hey i
00:35:02.880want to make sure we don't leave before this is all done right there are a set of objectives what
00:35:08.360air supremacy itself not yeah it's it's it's what you do in that now the asymmetric part
00:35:14.940the part with the uh because bloomberg's got charts out there the longer her moves stays
00:35:21.100closed and as we now know her moves is closed to certain flags if you have the chinese communist
00:35:26.980party flag you get out and get the oil which i don't understand why we're allowing that but
00:35:31.600greater minds than mine are working on this now we know from the financial times that our great
00:35:37.660allies in italy and france are in direct negotiations with the iranians to see if they
00:35:42.940can't get into the into the into the uh friendly flag business then get their cargo and get their
00:35:49.680oil uh designated for them out of the persian gulf your thoughts on your thoughts on our
00:35:55.640great analysts also the arabs i think it's pretty evident they turned out to be paper tigers
00:36:00.320in this situation that's why you got lindsey graham having a couple of bourbons and branches
00:36:05.280and then screaming at the saudis that you got to stop double dealing us you got to get in this
00:36:10.160fight your thoughts sir yeah i the i mean look at the end of the day what we want to see is the
00:36:16.640open flow of commerce through the strait of her moves and through all of the straits uh in the
00:36:21.600Middle East and throughout the world. And so if we can figure out ways to get there, that's a good
00:36:27.700thing. So I get it why the Italians and the French would be pushing for this, right? And why they
00:36:33.240would be trying to get their ships through. And frankly, other nations as well. But the fact is
00:36:42.360that, again, at the end of the day here, this needs to be about an exit strategy, right? They
00:36:47.960can't stay there forever, right? Like, it's not like, this is not Iraq, right? Like, this is not,
00:36:53.080you know, we're going to be there for 10 years and we're going to have, you know, thousands of
00:36:57.240Americans on the ground. That's not going to be the case in Iran, right? Like, that's abundantly
00:37:01.640clear from this administration. So now it's, I think it's, we're at the end game here, right?
00:37:07.140Like, what does the exit strategy look like? What does the Strait of Hormuz look like after this?
00:37:11.680What does the current leadership in Iran look like? What does the eventual leadership in Iran
00:37:16.980look like? And how do we get out of there now that it appears as though our military targets
00:37:24.200are mostly taken out throughout Iran, right? So I think delineating what's left of military
00:37:32.680targets in Iran, and then figuring out the exit strategy, and then alleviating the economic
00:37:38.460pressures on the world, and then all of this is going to sort itself out. And I think the
00:37:42.580President is exactly right when he keeps talking.
00:37:45.580The way he talks about this is that, okay, the oil price is going to go up a little bit
00:37:49.740because obviously when you're at war in the Middle East and commerce is disrupted, that
00:40:17.000So what they're going to do is they're going to get on the bill a motion to proceed, basically, but the way they're doing it is that it's a question posed by the House because the House has passed this bill, the Save America Act, and they're going to do it that way.
00:40:33.000They haven't done this in a long time, so that's a way to get around the 60-volt threshold on the outset of it.
00:40:38.120The problem is there's still a 60-volt threshold on the back end, right?
00:40:42.480And this is the issue that Cornyn, Thune, all these guys are standing in the way of.
00:40:50.660They refuse to change the Senate rules, right?
00:40:54.000So President Trump has said we should get rid of the filibuster.
00:40:58.780The 60-vote threshold on the back end of legislation.
00:41:02.480So they're getting rid of the 60-vote threshold actually on the open side of the legislation to get on the bill, which is a significant development, by the way.
00:41:11.000So like, that's a good step, but it's still not enough to get off the, to get the, uh, you know, it's a final passage of the bill and get it to the president's desk. So is it, is it Kabuki theater essentially? Yes. Like, well, hang on, hang on, but it's not Kabuki theater. Are you saying by getting on the bill and doing this methodology, we're actually going to have the Democrats forced to sit there and defend why they, they, they don't want voter
00:41:40.980id why they don't want the cleanup of the voter rolls why they don't want mail on ballots all
00:41:44.780those critical parts of the which they said is this is voter suppression it's jim crow law
00:41:50.380if we get it at the start are we gonna have two weeks of uh tim kane and uh and uh murphy and
00:41:58.880these guys being forced to go to the senate yeah they're they're yeah but the problem still is is
00:42:07.440that there's still no legislation going to the president's desk unless they eliminate the
00:42:12.540filibuster or they get through a different way. Some people have suggested this whole
00:42:19.100quote-unquote talking filibuster thing, which is you make the Democrats talk until they drop.
00:42:24.960The problem for that is that the Republicans would have to staff the Senate floor
00:42:29.400with senators for just as long as that goes on for. And I don't know if they can physically do
00:42:36.600that right like I think there's a lot of very old senators like for instance John Cornyn is up for
00:42:41.260re-election he's 74 years old right like so can he stay there for three weeks straight like can
00:42:49.640can some of these other older senators do that like you know Chuck Grassley who's a very older
00:42:55.240guy I mean you know great senator but very old guy uh you know these guys out in Idaho like Mike
00:43:00.820Crapo and, and, and, um, uh, Jim Risch. I mean, they're old guys, right? Like, I mean,
00:43:06.160the average, the mean age of a Senator, a Republican Senator, I believe is 64, 65 years
00:43:12.100old. Right. And that, and that's including people who are in their thirties and forties,
00:43:16.720like guys like Tim Sheehy who are really young. Yeah. Hang on one second. We're gonna go to break
00:43:23.000there. They sound like mere kids. We're going to get into this or is our hold up the ability
00:43:28.260the Republican Senate to step up here.