00:03:26.820Some evening after work, maybe on a weekend.
00:03:31.100That's assuming elections offices are open in the evenings and on weekends.
00:03:36.360Election takeover act, that's what they're calling it.
00:03:38.600So we see their angle of attack on this already.
00:03:40.900Maybe we'll get some more Republicans up here in a while, but it's been Patty Murray, Amy Klobuchar, Andy Kim, Mark Warner, now Alex Padilla.
00:03:49.080They have stepped into the second hour of this and taken over, and they're letting you know in no uncertain terms that they, although many of these people believed it before, they don't believe it now.
00:04:00.620Let's go ahead. We've got a clip of an interview earlier in the day, just right before the start. Let's go ahead and play that.
00:04:10.900Why is the filibuster more important than stopping illegals from voting?
00:04:21.420Well, look, I mean, I think that there are many ways in which you can stop illegals from voting,
00:04:27.620and a lot of states have some of those measures already in place.
00:04:31.300But I do think the filibuster, or maybe more specifically,
00:04:36.080the concept that the founders had for the United States Senate
00:04:38.960It was that there would be one body that was majoritarian and one that wasn't.
00:04:43.060And so they divided power in a way that enabled the United States Senate,
00:04:46.720which we have six-year terms, staggered terms,
00:04:50.180more of a methodical way of going about solving the country's problems,
00:04:55.980and generally in ways that ensure that there are bipartisan majorities in which to accomplish that.
00:05:01.540So, and frankly, I mean, I think most of, I can't speak for all my colleagues,
00:05:06.420But a lot of our colleagues believe that many of the things that Democrats want to do,
00:05:11.360and when they tried to nuke the filibuster a couple years ago,
00:05:15.240were all things that we don't want to have our fingerprints on.
00:05:18.700Whether that's adding D.C. and Puerto Rico estates or expanding the Supreme Court,
00:05:23.600you can go right down the laundry list of nationalizing elections.
00:05:27.620You can go right down the laundry list of things that I think there are a lot of my,
00:05:31.120myself and my colleagues have great concerns about if the Democrats ever had that power handed to
00:05:37.680them. Thune, I just, you could feel the body language. He's going to have to step up here
00:05:44.820to get this done, to actually turn it into a filibuster or grind this through for the next
00:05:49.640couple of days, because I'm hearing, hey, they may want to have a hearing tomorrow and Mark
00:05:52.600Wayne Mullins confirmation, which to me is not a priority. I mean, we got to get him in his DHS,
00:05:57.980but DHS is not even funded. And if you're weak on this, they're not going to fund DHS.
00:06:03.180So, um, yes, it's important to get, um, Mark Wayne Mullins confirmed, but in the priority,
00:06:09.200this is everything that should be treated as everything. President Trump has said it's
00:06:12.600everything. And we had these converging forces finally, after years of fighting this. And to me,
00:06:19.740you kind of, I judge one of the ways I judge people of how serious, how really MAGA they are
00:06:25.400is not simply the fact were they with this early are they populist nationalists and that they held
00:06:31.500tough particularly in 16 and during the first administration when they were coming at president
00:06:37.180trump and then right after is in the 2020 with the pandemic and then the the big steal and then
00:06:43.040the horrible years of 21 and 22 before he took back the house you look at that and and where
00:06:48.580are they on the vital, vital issues of the day. And never was a vital issue. The Middle East or
00:06:56.640Israel just wasn't. After we took out ISIS, it's a sideshow and should remain a sideshow. And now
00:07:01.720it's kind of front and center. There'll be a topic for later. But what's always been front and center
00:07:07.800is stolen elections, the stolen 2020 election, which is the railhead of everything. It's the
00:07:13.320railhead of the financial destruction of the country. It's the railhead of 20 or 25 million
00:07:19.840illegal aliens in the country. Henceforth, we're having this debate right now. It's the railhead
00:07:25.360really of the problems in Ukraine and in Gaza. None of that would have started if President
00:07:29.540Trump had been allowed to close on his victory in 2020 and not had it stolen. And so now three
00:07:38.780massive things are happening simultaneously we have a real investigation going on in uh in
00:07:44.720fulton county and the justice department is not folding on that they didn't this arbitration kind
00:07:48.760of mediation kind of fell apart and the democrats what are they doing they're trying to get the
00:07:52.800ballots they're trying to get the evidence what's happening in maricopa county something along the
00:07:57.120same lines then john solomon's breaking massive blockbuster after massive blockbuster and we know
00:08:03.180this because the intelligence community controlled by political appointees of president trump don't
00:08:08.360want to really step forward and push it. Now, we do understand that John Ratcliffe, the director of
00:08:12.600the CIA, has been quite helpful to John. And I think they're actually going to release some
00:08:15.800documents over the next couple of days. But the White House, John Solomon's words, not mine,
00:08:19.800the White House told him, hey, can you tamp this down? Just hold it for a while. We don't want to
00:08:22.720upset Xi. And, you know, we want to make sure that we have this state meeting, you know, at some time
00:08:28.040in the future, the China meeting. But we have now evidence of what we always thought, that during
00:08:34.020the pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party, who started the pandemic as a biological weapon from
00:08:39.880the Wuhan lab. They started the pandemic because they couldn't defeat Trump. In May of 2019,
00:08:45.060they had declared a people's war against us because they said, we're never going to sign
00:08:48.640the Lighthouse deal after we negotiated for two years. We're never going to sign it. We're never
00:08:54.860going to become part of the economic order driven by the Americans, the foreign devils.
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00:18:52.940A procedural vote is basically a party loyalty vote.
00:18:56.920Obviously, when other issues are at play, not so much,
00:19:00.240but you're expected to vote with your party on procedure.
00:19:04.360And then we have to see what the Democrats do.
00:19:06.280You know, the Republicans have some amendments. Will they start filibustering the amendments or will they let them pass with the simple majority? You know, people are just waiting to see how the Democrats are going to play it. But certainly Thune and the leadership are working with conservatives and MAGA to try to get this thing done and play it out.
00:19:28.900um how do you think it's going to go how do you think it's going to go through um how do you think
00:19:38.120it's going to go through the evening or for the next couple hours because the democrats is very
00:19:41.500the battle lines are drawn we already know murkowski and um uh tillis are nos so we're
00:19:49.180down to 51 even if mcconnell uh said no we'd still get to 50 and you have uh if collins hangs in there
00:19:56.980you've got uh you've got the vice president jd vansky come down and vote but one thing that
00:20:03.080struck me about that because you asked the question to thun coming out of the lunch and
00:20:09.200it looked to me and of course i'm observing this from you know half the country away uh that they
00:20:15.720had a lot more piss and vinegar before they went before they had the lunch and then around the
00:20:22.040table, it looked like we went back to, you know, sad thune, the slumped shoulders, the no energy,
00:20:29.180the no urgency, being very professorial, just telling us some basic stuff, no fire that this
00:20:35.000is actually going to get done. What MAGA doesn't want to see in the President Trump's base is just
00:20:39.900some, you know, kabuki theater performance art. They really want to see this thing hammered out
00:20:45.860and pushed through. They don't care how long it takes, but they want to see it really push through
00:20:50.920a real fight to get this done to get it back to the house to get it figured out and they get it
00:20:55.840to the president's desk get it signed then have the lawsuits come take it all the way up to the
00:21:02.680supreme court i think before their june exit take the supreme court argue it win it there and then
00:21:08.980execute on this to make sure that we have free and fair elections in the fall neil mccabe you
00:21:15.780were there your thoughts that the dune seemed like he was breathing fire of a leader you would
00:21:20.740like to be jacking people up on saint patrick's day about this i i don't i almost dozed off during
00:21:26.620his answer it was just hoo-ha-ha about the founders and the deliberative body and he just
00:21:32.320started droning and the two guys i'm watching are mike lee who's sort of the behind the scenes
00:21:37.940strategist and brasso the whip who to my mind it seems absolutely passionate about getting this
00:21:45.280thing done i was under the i was under the impression certainly on the floor speeches he
00:21:50.540was making this week that thune had come home to jesus and he was making it happen but at that
00:21:56.640presser i i really was i really want to wonder it's not so much what happened at the presser steve
00:22:02.260it's what happened in that luncheon like you said and that's where people said
00:22:06.200whoa john we're not really sure we want to do this
00:22:09.360okay let's go we got langford of oklahoma he's always been kind of a i think a weak sister let's
00:22:18.100go ahead and hear what langford has to say for our own future decide for our own families
00:22:21.920without having foreign interference coming across an ocean to be able to affect us
00:22:26.580we determined that we wanted to run our own nation
00:22:31.040Now, 250 years later, we still want to run our own nation.
00:22:38.460We want to make our own decisions without foreign interference, without anyone stepping
00:22:43.380in and telling us as Americans who we're going to be and what we're going to do.
00:32:42.460As you walk up, you have to pull out an ID and to be able to show that ID to vote.
00:32:46.800And if you're going to mail in your ballot, we welcome that.
00:32:51.000But you've got to show ID when you actually do it.
00:32:53.400That means actually going to a location where you can get a notary that before you put your ballot in the mail, it shows your envelope.
00:33:01.940You show the ID. It shows on the envelope who the person is on it.
00:33:06.740And you actually have a notary to do that. We have voter ID at every single stage.
00:33:12.760We don't allow ballot. We'll come back to Lankford in a second.
00:33:16.020i want to go to neil at the white house neil uh today one of the most um i think dramatic things
00:33:25.580was the european allies telling president trump no you know france is kind of saying well we may
00:33:31.760be and he's saying england's saying that but they're not saying that over in england
00:33:34.920uh italy other nations were a hard no um and particularly where the straits are straight
00:33:42.660Hormuz, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, the Suez Canal, that's all going out of Hormuz. I realize
00:33:49.660a big slice of it goes to Asia, but a big hunk, I think 40 percent of the energy from Europe comes
00:33:57.920out of there. In Suez, it's like 90 percent. And you've got multiple carry battle groups.
00:34:03.920And President Trump does say, yes, we can do it ourselves, but we do have other obligations,
00:34:08.120Like in the South China Sea, I mean, we had to take a Marine ready group, a Marine amphibious ready group, the Tripoli from Japan and and take it to the North Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Oman, potentially for a potential takeover.
00:34:25.060if President Trump so orders CENTCOM to take Cargillin or maybe other activities.
00:34:34.680We've now taken, I think, that and Patriot missiles from South Koreans,
00:34:38.460and the South Koreans are very upset about it because they understand what a tough time they had last time to put it in,
00:34:43.840particularly since there's a CCP kind of aligned party now in charge.
00:34:49.240These are major strategic issues for the United States.
00:34:52.840well it's always uh disconcerting when your allies are seeking a separate peace with the
00:35:00.020people that you're at war with i think another sort of the unspoken dirty secret is that these
00:35:07.200nato allies have not invested in their military and so you know their radios their trucks their
00:35:14.740equipment it just isn't up to speed and so yeah they're also making geopolitical decisions based
00:35:21.840on their oil supply, but it's also true that they just don't have navies and air force and armies
00:35:29.620like they used to. During the Cold War, these allies had an obligation to sort of keep up with
00:35:35.840us, but that's all fallen by the wayside, Steve. And everybody talks about working with other
00:35:41.660nations, cooperating, right? But it's like, when we need them, where are they? And I think this is
00:35:49.600This is really the death of NATO, and I think it's really the death of this rules-based order, or however the FDR set up the world to be, I think it's now broken apart.
00:36:04.440Now, you make a great point. First of all, they committed to 5% of GDP, but nobody's spending it.
00:36:09.920I've also said, you know, France, you bring up a point. I just want to make sure people understand.
00:36:13.160It was reported and not refuted that both France and Italy over the weekend, and I think continuing into yesterday, were trying to have direct conversations with the Iranian regime because they are letting out certain vessels.
00:36:30.620We know they're letting out anything that is flagged with the Chinese Communist Party or one of these great zone ships with oil going to China.
00:36:39.180they're going to get cash for they let it look i'm of the opinion they ought to stop everything
00:36:42.820coming out of there it'll bring this thing to a head much quicker but france and italy
00:36:47.960we're having sidebar conversations directly i also think and you're 100 correct they've won
00:36:54.500i think this is going to have a huge impact on this ukraine situation because they want us to
00:36:58.340stand up for an american security guarantee remember that and they're going to all this
00:37:02.880big talk they're going to put in troops at the line at the line of control and all that that's
00:37:07.020not going to it's not going to happen and i i think the american people now are going to be
00:37:10.920outraged because president trump put out feelers to say hey look we may need some assistance here
00:37:16.600particularly with the houthis down the red sea which is 100 the suez canal that's that they should
00:37:22.320i was bitching and moaning about that last summer that they when when the uh our carrier battle
00:37:28.360groups are under attack by the houthis and they got off a couple of they you know they took down
00:37:32.340they took down an aircraft or at least got enough in an aircraft that had a mechanical problem and
00:37:37.800had to had to crash and we had other situations so these guys right here i i think they're
00:37:43.100treading on thin ice particularly comes to the ukraine situation neil
00:37:46.580well i'll just tell you uh it is a fact that when i was serving in the new iraq
00:37:53.020when u.s forces took over an area that was controlled by the italians
00:37:58.380they basically were confronted with the sheikhs who said,
00:38:01.980hey, the Italians paid us to keep this area quiet.
00:38:05.560What are you gonna pay us to keep this area quiet?
00:41:19.260Okay, Senator Lanford, we're in the third hour. I think we're going to get some Republicans or maybe we'll go back and forth. We've had an hour of Republicans, an hour of Democrats are now in the third hour. This is the preliminaries. He just talked about the debate that is to come. And President Trump has made this a priority.
00:41:34.380I'm hearing now there may actually be they may try to slip in the confirmation hearing for the other Oklahoma senator, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, to take over DHS.
00:41:44.980I think if they can do that and do it appropriately tomorrow morning before this thing really kicks off for the seizing the floor and holding it, maybe that could work.
00:41:54.620I think they've got to show that this is a priority.
00:41:56.300The president said nothing else is going to happen until nothing else is going to happen.
00:42:01.060He's not going to sign anything. He's not going to push for anything until this is done.
00:42:05.940Well, we had this break. Some big breaking news today. Joe Kent, of course, this audience knows
00:42:10.580Joe Kent and loves him. Big announcement from Joe Kent today, stepping down as the joint terror,
00:42:16.560the head of the joint terror. Senate confirmed position. Tough to get him through.
00:42:20.880Joe's there, but resigned today. He said he couldn't serve, continue to serve,
00:42:25.400where he thought Israel's interest was being pushed. White House immediately pushed back.
00:42:30.300Let's go ahead and play it. The head of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent,
00:42:36.260announced just hours ago that he is resigning immediately over the war in Iran. And we just
00:42:42.280heard from the president who essentially dismissed it. What's so striking here is that Kent is an
00:42:49.260ultra Trump loyalist, someone who supported the president through all three of his campaigns.
00:42:54.360But now, as someone who knows the threats the U.S. faces, perhaps more than almost anyone,
00:43:00.300is saying straight out that the president was duped by a misinformation campaign
00:43:04.720and that Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.
00:43:08.260Well, I read his statement. I always thought he was a nice guy,
00:43:10.820but I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security.
00:43:16.300I didn't know him well, but I thought he seemed like a pretty nice guy.
00:43:21.620But when I read his statement, I realized that it's a good thing that he's out
00:43:26.160because he said that Iran was not a threat.
00:43:29.060Iran was a threat. Every country realized what a threat Iran was. The question is whether or not
00:43:35.200they wanted to do something about it. In a letter to the president that he released online, Kent
00:43:39.760wrote, quote, it's clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful
00:43:45.020American lobby. His final message, clear, quote, as a veteran who was deployed to combat 11 times
00:43:53.420And as a gold star husband who lost my beloved wife, Shannon, in a war manufactured by Israel,
00:43:59.400I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people.
00:44:07.420This is just the latest sign of a massive split inside Trump's base over the war.
00:44:12.260And it comes as the U.S. grapples with the limits of its military dominance.
00:44:17.080now there's some confusion about the uh about how joe wrote that letter but how it was delivered
00:44:24.540and the understanding now it's been out that he met with the vice president he and tulsi gabbard
00:44:30.140together met with the vice president on monday uh and the vice president recommended he go see
00:44:36.000the chief of staff and the president which i think in this situation would have been quite
00:44:39.820appropriate given uh joe kent is a guy that's highly revered like i said the chief warrant
00:44:44.820officer Kent was at 11 combat tours, um, valor and courage and dedication to country beyond
00:44:52.360question. Uh, his wife, his beloved wife died, I think in the Syrian operation, uh, leaving him as
00:44:58.920a, uh, as a widower with two young, I think two young boys. Um, so Joe Kent's dedication to his
00:45:04.880country is unparalleled in this letter being as controversial as it is with the content that it
00:45:10.660has, I think it would have been very appropriate maybe for the vice president to get him to the
00:45:15.000chief of staff and get him to the president of the United States so that he could share with
00:45:17.760the president why he was considering resigning. In fact, why he had drafted a letter. I think
00:45:22.520that would have been very important. Now this is going to get played out, obviously, in the media,
00:45:28.340but the charges are very, coming from a guy like Joe Kent, to me, you're going to have to
00:45:32.660investigate this. There should be an immediate investigation of the facts of what he's talking
00:45:37.560about we got to get we can't these are the type of things we can't kick down the road anymore i've
00:45:41.760had many many questions about the 12-day war and about this whole imminent threat exactly what's
00:45:48.180there and why things have to go at the time as i've also said hey now you're in it we got to win
00:45:53.080this thing and uh and we must win it and it's not a good sign when people that owe their security to
00:45:59.760the united states of america and not just their national security keeping the russians and other
00:46:03.960bad guys away. But when they they owe their economic security, goods and services, products
00:46:10.480and oil that go through the Straits or Hormuz, but also through the Red Sea and up to the Suez
00:46:15.760Canal, the United States Navy's protecting all that. And so these questions have to be answered.
00:46:20.840And for a guy like Joe Kent to put it out, it's not going to go away. It's going to be very
00:46:24.760serious. Let's go back. We've got Asaf, I think, of Georgia. This is a this is a this is a very
00:46:30.900tough a race down in georgias here he is saying that sergeant simmons has been posthumously
00:46:36.940promoted from tech sergeant to master sergeant he was a musician and played both the viola and
00:46:45.440violin in his high school amazing talent his family says he loved to roller skate
00:46:52.820Tyler loved his family but was particularly fond of his grandmother Bernice who at 85 years old
00:47:02.080is described as his confidant and workout buddy Tyler's smile could light up any room
00:47:09.700his strong presence would fill it his family says his mother said he loved serving in the military