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00:03:28.000What's interesting is that Sean O'Brien is sitting now behind Mark Wayne Mullen as a character witness for his confirmation hearing, which I think is very telling about Mark Wayne Mullen as a man.
00:03:39.000He is somebody that's willing to bury the hatchet.
00:04:18.000So you're jolly well fine and you want the American public and the people up here to vote that may or may not vote for you to know that you supported the felonious violent attack on me from behind.
00:06:10.000You saw the division of the caucus here where you had Bernie Moreno steps in and basically says, listen, you're going to get confirmed here.
00:06:23.000And it looks like, here, I'm looking for the clip here.
00:07:46.000Like, I'm reminded, and you'll remember this, when we had Senator Mark Wynn Mullen on the show, and he was very honest about his feelings about a certain Supreme Court justice.
00:07:55.000So this is something that we've seen Mark Wayne Mullen do.
00:07:58.000He is very honest about folks that he thinks, I guess you would say, have character issues.
00:08:06.000And, you know, right, right or wrong, I don't know.
00:08:08.000I just, maybe I'm biased because he's come on the show so many times, but, you know, I find it endearing.
00:08:15.000And that's only one of the hearings this morning, folks.
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00:09:52.000Listen to her right here on the threat of Islamic terrorism, something that we care greatly about on the show, Sat 9.
00:09:59.000The United States continues to face a complex and evolving threat landscape with a geographically diverse set of Islamist terrorist actors seeking to propagate their ideology globally and harm Americans, even as al-Qaeda and ISIS remain weaker today than they were at their respective peaks.
00:10:17.000The spread of Islamist ideology, in some cases led by individuals and organizations associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, poses a fundamental threat to freedom and the foundational principles that underpin Western civilization.
00:10:31.000Islamist groups and individuals use this ideology for recruiting and financial support for terrorist groups and individuals around the world and to advance their political objectives of establishing an Islamist caliphate which governs based on Sharia.
00:10:46.000All right, so she's knocking out of the park.
00:10:47.000I mean, we have multiple clips here, Blake, of Tulsi being 100% spot on when it comes to the threat of Islam.
00:11:28.000But another version that's emerged in the last few years is that they just straight up, they take the bargain of, I would rather side with radical Islamists than with Israel or with Jewish people.
00:11:41.000Some of them are saying, oh, Christianity is too cocked.
00:11:57.000And I think Charlie was prescient, and I think others are very correct to identify this threat now and start really pushing back against it before we're like the UK, before we're like France, and this is 10, 15% of the population.
00:12:12.000And we're having schools forcing all their kids to observe Ramadan, forcing their kids not to eat because it would offend them.
00:12:20.000Having these gigantic mass Islamic prayers out in front of your biggest churches, which is what we're seeing in Europe right now.
00:12:27.000Yeah, and like I said, that's why I'm so glad Tulsi's being honest about it.
00:14:14.000John Solomon has come on the show talking about some of this.
00:14:18.000It says, U.S. Intel hid Chinese 2020 election meddling from Trump because they opposed his policies according to a memo obtained by Just the News.
00:14:27.000Great reporting there from John Solomon.
00:14:29.000We have ample evidence to understand that foreign actors were meddling in our elections.
00:14:35.000Now, I'm not saying that they meddled in Fulton.
00:14:37.000They very well could have meddled in Fulton, but the president has had this intel.
00:14:59.000I defer to Tulsi's wisdom and the timing that she chooses, but somebody needs to articulate fully and forcefully the foreign threat to our elections and our election integrity.
00:15:11.000And I thought this was an opportunity to do that.
00:15:14.000CIA Director John Radcliffe continues to prosecute the case against Iran.
00:15:21.000There's some great back and forth there.
00:15:25.000If left unimpeded, yes, Senator, they would have the ability to range missiles to the continental U.S.
00:15:34.000It's one of the reasons why degrading Iran's missile production capabilities that is taking place right now in Operation Epic Fury is so important to our national security.
00:17:44.000What was your reaction to that back and forth?
00:17:47.000Well, my only relationship with Senator Paul is I've interviewed him and I respect the fact that he's willing to speak his mind even when he's in the minority.
00:17:53.000I think we could use more senators like that.
00:17:56.000Look, there's a personal issue here that I can empathize with, and then there's a substantive one.
00:18:03.000The personal one is he's a member of a club of 100 and a member of his subclub of the Republican Party seemed to cheer when he was beat up seriously by his neighbor and never apologized for it and continued to kind of make light of it.
00:18:18.000And I think Senator Paul was right to, even though it's personal and it might seem petty to some, to use that as a prism to wedge into the bigger issue, which I think also based on the available record is legitimate, which is, does this guy have the temperament to have this complicated job?
00:18:34.000The fact that at a congressional hearing, he tried to fight a guy, Sean O'Brien.
00:18:39.000Even though they've made up since then, like, I just look at those two data points and say that's a legit area of inquiry for the chairman to take on.
00:18:47.000And I thought the Senator Mullen's responses weren't great.
00:19:44.000Let's say Blake got beat up and by his neighbor, and then you went out in public and laughed and said, I can kind of understand why Blake's neighbor would beat him up.
00:20:04.000And what I think is funny is, I think, well, it's not funny, but I think what may genuinely be a problem here is I remember when that happened, and I think a lot of people did find it kind of funny.
00:20:14.000Like, oh, your neighbor came over and beat you up.
00:20:16.000And I think what a lot of people don't genuinely appreciate is I think Rand Paul was quite seriously maimed in that.
00:20:22.000He was in the hospital for a long time.
00:20:24.000And I think a lot of people just kind of don't, they don't internalize that fact that that's going to be really personal for Senator Paul because this wasn't something that lasted, you know, this wasn't, oh, I got in a fight one day.
00:20:37.000It was, I was in the hospital for weeks, I believe.
00:20:53.000And your neighbor beats you up so badly, you're in the hospital.
00:20:57.000I could see why it would bother him, that his colleague made repeated fun of it.
00:21:02.000And then today, when he asked his colleague if he would apologize for it, he declined.
00:21:08.000So again, I'm not telling senators how to vote.
00:21:11.000I'm not saying this is disqualifying or should be.
00:21:14.000I'm saying is I think this legitimate issue because that mindset of making fun of someone, your colleague being sent to the hospital by his neighbor and then declining in retrospect to apologize, how hard is it to apologize for that?
00:21:36.000And again, I have great respect for Rand Paul.
00:21:39.000I just happen to know, and I'm sure you know this as well, that he's one of those senators that tends to get under a lot of other senators' skin.
00:22:12.000So, but the article, we'll get into that with you.
00:22:14.000Sinister truth about explosive resignation of Trump's top counter terror chief, Joe Kent, and his shot claim, Israel is manipulating the president by Mark Halperin.
00:22:38.000You know, it's interesting that Joe Kent had this job because no one who's followed his career or dealt with him is the least bit surprised that he would quit and that he would quit over this.
00:22:50.000You know, I think all the time, I had Ralph Reid on my show on Next Up yesterday.
00:22:56.000We talked about this thing I'm so focused on as a reporter, which is what if Charlie were still here.
00:23:02.000And I have to say, I think Charlie would have been proud yesterday of Team MAGA for mobilizing so quickly with very few fingerprints to make it clear to not just to Kent, who's going on with Tucker and maybe with Candace and Mark Levin, but to other people who are thinking of quitting over the war, your public, vociferous opposition will not be unchallenged and will not be cost-free to make.
00:24:03.000What about the anti-ship ballistic missiles, the drone program, 440 kilograms of 60% enriched nuclear material, their constant death to America chance?
00:24:14.000I mean, you know, that's called evidence.
00:24:16.000In some limited circles, we call that, you know, a clue.
00:24:19.000I mean, I don't know at what point you thought this wasn't an imminent threat after you've read a lot of the stuff I read.
00:24:25.000And by the way, that's just the open source stuff we can talk about on the air.
00:24:29.000I promise you, the president, I promise you, has a bevy of material that if he could do the men in black thing and erase your mind tomorrow, if he told you right now, you would come to the imminent threat conclusion in a snap.
00:24:40.000Mark, what was your reporting on the intel that Joe Kent had access to?
00:25:02.000Almost every expert would say they are.
00:25:04.000I think it's a bit of a distraction, though, because for decades, presidents of both parties have said Iran must be dealt with.
00:25:13.000So whether they were a week away or 10 weeks away or two years away, I don't know that it matters.
00:25:19.000And I think it's kind of unfortunate for the focus of the public and the righteousness of the cause that there's all this attention being paid to is Kent telling the truth?
00:26:19.000I mean, most Americans aren't aware of it.
00:26:21.000Our troops in Iraq and Syria have been attacked 150 plus times by Iranian proxies.
00:26:26.000And when we say Iranian proxies, we got to be clear on what that is.
00:26:29.000That's the Iraqi government that we pay.
00:26:32.000Because after the Iraqi military, we spent $2 trillion on surrendered to ISIS, we had to go back in there in very short order and stand a military back up again.
00:26:40.000The Shia militias controlled by Iran did.
00:26:42.000And the Iraqi government's controlled by Iran.
00:26:45.000There's other clips of Joe Kent talking about the ballistic missile threat and so much more.
00:26:50.000So I'm going to be watching those interviews very, very closely to see if he does have intel or if he does have a perspective that could persuade me that Trump wasn't acting on his own agency, that he was dogwalked into this war by Israel.
00:27:13.000One is that there wasn't sufficient evidence of a threat.
00:27:16.000And the other is it was done on behest, you know, exclusively or primarily at the behest of Israel and the American Jewish lobby.
00:27:23.000He'll have trouble proving the second one.
00:27:26.000The first one, I think, is more ambiguous.
00:27:28.000But as the clip suggests, there's plenty of things he said in the National Town Square that suggest that he did see a threat from Iran.
00:27:36.000Whether he thought the threat was sufficient or not to warrant the president's actions, if he wants to make that judgment, he should run for president.
00:28:17.000I don't know what, I don't know why he is, but I think it's because he used to be, used to have a little bit more weight on you, Blake, which you've slimmed down.
00:28:25.000And so I don't know if it's like remnant strength, but Blake is weirdly strong.
00:31:47.000All the political fallout, the midterms, the president's legacy, all these things, they'll all be answered by how this goes.
00:31:54.000If it ends in the next six weeks or less, if it ends with the objectives or most of the objectives being achieved, I think it'll be a net political plus for the president.
00:32:04.000And if it doesn't, if it goes on longer, if it costs multiple billions, if it does have mission creep, or if the objectives aren't achieved, I think the Republican Party and the president will pay a price, and they should, because the president made this decision on behalf of the party.
00:32:19.000So all this, I said before, I don't like the conversation about was there sufficient intelligence to go in, because I think there was.
00:32:26.000I also don't like this discussion about whether the president's breaking his promise.
00:32:34.000I respect those who think he is, but the president is for using decisive force to achieve important and essential objectives.
00:32:41.000And so far, that's what he appears to be doing.
00:32:44.000Well, Mark, what occurs to me is, do you think this is, I think we've had repeated cases of this now where there's sort of Trump himself, and then also there's the aura that's built around Trump where they'll emphasize things that aren't necessarily big Trump talking points.
00:32:59.000The other one that comes to mind, of course, is the Epstein stuff where people are saying, oh, Trump betrayed us on Epstein.
00:33:04.000He was promising to really go hard at this.
00:33:07.000And then when you look at the evidence, it's Trump's supporters talk about that a lot.
00:33:10.000And then Trump gets asked about in an interview and he's like, ah, yeah, yeah, we'll look at the Epstein stuff.
00:33:14.000And he's never bringing it up of his own volition.
00:33:17.000And I feel like Iran is similar, where Trump's supporters, and certainly we among them, have emphasized, oh, he avoided these wars.
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00:37:12.000We've been planning this conversation now with rep Andy Ogles, House Freedom Caucus, Tennessee's 5th Congressional District, a great American, great patriot.
00:37:22.000I've known about this bill for a little while and I'm so excited to talk about it with him.
00:37:33.000Thank you for the great work that you're doing and for the entire team for continuing what is an important legacy for the future of America.
00:37:46.000I think probably the most consequential immigration bill that I have ever seen.
00:37:52.000And as somebody that follows this subject closely, sir, I'm very excited to see it.
00:37:58.000I know it faces an uphill battle, but explain your bill, the Assimilation Act, what it would do, and why it's necessary.
00:38:05.000Well, and I would argue that this is quite frankly one of the most important pieces, conversations, but also pieces of legislation that we will really try to undertake and pass in modern history.
00:38:17.000So if you go back to 1965, the Heart Seller Act literally opened the floodgates, this tidal wave of immigration, this really this occupation that we've seen across America with illegals who are flooding our communities.
00:38:31.000And so what this does is go back to common sense immigration, simply meaning that if you come here, we get to vet you.
00:38:40.000We make sure that you actually have a skill, a marketable skill that you can deliver to the American people.
00:38:47.000So if you come here and you can't work, you can't get a job, then you don't get to come in because what we've seen is roughly 50 to 60% of the Afghanis that came here are on social welfare.
00:38:57.000Look at the Somalians that have come here.
00:40:12.000People rail against us on our immigration policies, yet Mexico and Canada are more strict than we are.
00:40:18.000And so this takes us back where literally to this idea of it's our borders, our borders, we get to decide.
00:40:24.000So if we need a particular occupation, if it makes sense to have more Europeans here versus folks, quite frankly, from parts of Africa who may want to kill us, we get to make those determinations based off of data.
00:40:37.000And at the end of the day, this has to be data driven.
00:40:40.000And so again, by stripping away all of the politics, by stripping away all of the nonsense that, quite frankly, is corrupted, it's abused.
00:40:50.000So like the H-1B visa scam, that's literally taking jobs away from American workers.
00:40:56.000So you can have someone who went to college, who got a degree, expecting to have that good paying job to start a family, to buy a home.
00:41:03.000And then what's happened is cheap labor from overseas is being imported into this country and putting Americans out of jobs.
00:41:43.000It also prevents, when you look at like a lottery system or migration, it prevents any one country from being able to dominate, dominate kind of that pipeline of people coming into this country.
00:41:56.000Well, quite frankly, we've seen a disproportionate number of folks from India using the H-1B visa program.
00:42:04.000And again, we should be able to determine who uses those.
00:42:07.000And quite frankly, so with the bill, like specific to H-1B visas, there's a 200% number in there so that if you're going to use someone by way of the H-1B visa, you're not only paying them market rate, you're paying them twice the market rate so that we know that this is a unique situation and you're not displacing an American worker because we see that over and over and over again where someone who might otherwise make a job paying $100,000,
00:42:34.000they're bringing someone from overseas, India, wherever, and they're paying them $60,000 or $70,000.
00:42:39.000And again, you have Americans, students, kids trying to start their lives, and they can't get a job because our immigration system has become a scam.
00:42:48.000So in 1990 with the Immigration Act signed by George H.W. Bush, it took the annual green cards from about $500,000 a year to 1.2 million in essence.
00:43:00.0001.2 million, which I think is absurd, by the way.
00:43:49.000And we're going to make it for the American people, not for other countries that are abusing our immigration system.
00:43:54.000Yeah, I mean, the people need to understand that what we've lived through in the United States, let's just say since 1990, is the largest move of humanity in human history.
00:44:06.000One part of that is that we have more people on planet Earth than we did during these other big migratory waves in ancient history or less ancient history.
00:44:15.000It is the largest move of humanity into the United States.
00:44:20.000And that's why we use words like invasion.
00:44:22.000That's why we use words like occupation.
00:44:25.000And so I guess the point that just to underscore here, you're repealing Heart Seller.
00:44:57.000You know, I think we're in a unique opportunity, a unique situation.
00:45:01.000Obviously, the Senate is a challenge, but when you look at the waste, the fraud, the abuse, the data points that we're putting out there, that when you have 50, 60% of Afghans are on social welfare, they're not coming here to work.
00:45:14.000When you look at the Somalians, the billions of dollars that have been stolen from Americans, and the fact that, again, 70, 80% are on social welfare, people are waking up.
00:45:24.000And so, just like the Save America Act with voting, I think the American people are going to demand that we reform our immigration system.
00:45:31.000Rep Andy Ogles, thank you so much, sir.
00:45:33.000And thank you for your courage on this issue.
00:45:35.000And we need brave truth tellers like you pushing this conversation like a drumbeat.
00:45:44.000Andy Ogles is a dog with a bone on immigration.
00:45:47.000We're going to have him back on again soon.
00:45:49.000I'd love your thoughts on repealing Heart Seller, the 1964 legislation that completely transformed America's immigration system.
00:45:57.000And then 1990, the Immigration Act signed by H.W. Bush with Ted Kennedy, the quote-unquote lion of the Senate, peering over his shoulder, that took our green cards up to 1.2 million.
00:46:08.000Tell us, what do you want to see happen in our immigration system?
00:46:23.000All right, I'm going to play some, since we're talking about immigration, let's play a little some clips from Charlie talking about the subject: CUT 17.
00:46:30.000The fight, the future, the energy is going to be on who do we legally let into America.
00:46:48.000Like our nation has been so insane on illegal immigration on open borders that it is easy to lose sight of the fact that even if even with a total shutdown of illegal immigration, we still have an insane immigration policy that lets in a huge number of people who are not improving America, who are not adding to the country, who are actively harming it, subtracting with it, causing problems, damaging the country's future.
00:47:14.000And I'm very glad, you know, Representative Ogles, for those who haven't followed in the news, he had remarks the other day that, you know, anti-Islam faced backlash for it.
00:47:22.00020 years ago, he would apologize and go into hiding.
00:47:26.000Instead, he turns around and introduces a bill to repeal Hart Seller.
00:47:30.000And as we said in the last segment, this won't pass in the immediate future.
00:47:35.000We don't have the votes for it, but this is the process that must unfold.
00:47:39.000We need to build a Republican Party, a conservative movement that has a coherent and sharply more restrictionist view on immigration, that wants to defend American heritage.
00:47:52.000We didn't even get into it in the last segment, but one of the things about Hart Seller, when they passed it, Ted Kennedy and others came out and said, this will not change the demographic nature of America.
00:48:03.000It will keep America as it is because that is what all the voters of the time wanted.
00:48:08.000Americans literally have never voted to just transform themselves into this giant globalist project.
00:48:15.000They have never voted to become post-national.
00:48:17.000They have never voted to abandon their heritage.
00:48:20.000And yet what we got is a bill that sneakily did that.
00:48:24.000And then people come along 30 years later and say, oh, America is just an idea.
00:48:29.000Americans have never just considered themselves an idea.
00:48:35.000We're a nation of settlers that conquered a land and made it prosperous, made it thrive.
00:48:40.000I know that the indigenous peoples were, there was Indigenous peoples here before, but, you know, honestly, every land has been conquered, and that is a faulty argument.
00:49:48.000She says, we absolutely need a complete moratorium on any immigration unless and until we can vet the ones that are already here and revamp the system.
00:49:57.000I think more and more people are coming around to that.
00:49:59.000We've been the jumping ground of Earth long enough.
00:50:33.000The sad thing is, is like there are some people where it would be trivial to vet that they're fine.
00:50:39.000And like, those are the ones we actually throw up every obstacle in the world to letting in.
00:50:45.000Like, anyone knows that the hardest, the people who have the hardest time coming to the U.S. are the ones we would most obviously want here.
00:50:51.000Like, someone who has world-class skills in some particular field.
00:50:55.000They're the ones who have to jump through every single hoop with their employer, fill all this paperwork out, make sure they don't get whacked by the government.
00:51:02.000And then the ones who've come in with zero effort for decades on end are the people who have so little to add that, you know, they have very little history.
00:51:14.000They're the people who come in as guest workers and then just skip town when they would, they're supposed to come, you know, go back.
00:51:20.000They're people who come as students and they just overstay the visa and they count on the system never catching them.
00:51:26.000And that's the system we've gotten used to.
00:51:28.000There's so many people actively breaking our rules all the time that if we just bothered enforcing them at all, a huge number of problems would go away.
00:51:38.000We see all this urban decay that happens because we just do not do the basics.
00:51:42.000You make a huge amount of crime go away when you say you can't jump subway turnstiles.
00:51:46.000When, oh, if you do graffiti, we're going to put you in jail.
00:51:49.000If you do, you know, some basic illegal gun possession charge because you're a felon.
00:51:53.000When you enforce all those things, all the problems go down.
00:51:56.000And it's the same thing with immigration.
00:51:58.000If you're getting the people who just super obviously shouldn't be here because they don't have a work permit, because they don't have, because they, you know, they skipped a court hearing and you just grabbed them and kicked them out right away and you were super efficient about it, so many of our problems would go away.
00:54:32.000The petitioner, Brenda Brown, hands cash money to the homeless person, not only for signing the California ballot initiative, but also as payment for them to register to vote.
00:54:43.000Now, because you haven't registered, I need to register you so I can get paid too.
00:55:50.000So you're watching groups, petitioners, NGOs encouraging people in Los Angeles to sign California ballot petitions to forge signatures and giving cash to get homeless to register to vote.
00:57:39.000The NGOs of California, the homeless industrial complex, Weingard Center is across the street, receives $800 million of government money, $112 million a year from the state on their tax return, is encouraging these people to go do this.
00:57:55.000So it's a trillion-dollar industry, all government-funded, and it's a conspiracy, multiple federal felonies.
01:00:20.000And I think that that's the thing that needs to change.
01:00:24.000We need to work together on the same thing so we can apply pressure on the same exact thing at the same time to get the consequences that people want.
01:01:28.000And by the way, I want to underscore your point that getting rid of this competition, Cam Higby's great, Nick Shirley's great, Savannah Hernandez is great.
01:01:36.000I know that you guys are all in communication and coordinating and working on stories together now, and it's amazing.
01:03:01.000I mean, there's another video clip in this 40-minute long video where the NGOs actually pretend to be the police in order to intimidate me.
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01:06:50.000I believe it's going to become absolutely a national security, maybe even a national security threat, but definitely a domestic, huge, preeminent issue if we have too many people and not enough jobs.
01:07:05.000There is a massive case to be made that AI is going to wipe the table of so many jobs that we think we need all this labor for.
01:07:13.000And what are we going to do with the people that we brought in?
01:07:16.000So that's a huge, huge concern that I'm looking at.
01:07:19.000If you have seen videos, Blake, maybe you've seen them, these robots that come and pick fruit and pick vegetables faster than migrant laborers can do it when you have hundreds of them out in a field.
01:07:33.000Maybe industries like, you know, hospitality, you need somebody to actually come and change the sheets or serve the drinks and the food.
01:07:42.000Maybe, you know, maybe Optimus, I believe that was what it was named by Elon Musk, the robots are going to be able to do some of this work for us in the near future.
01:07:51.000But we really, genuinely need to get serious about our immigration reform.
01:07:55.000And I am not going to stop banging the drum.
01:07:58.000We're going to have Andy Ogles back on again and again and again as this goes through committee, as it gets worked up, as the bill gets refined.
01:08:05.000This is existential to the future of the country.
01:08:08.000And candidly, it's one of those domestic issues that we need to focus on more, Blake.
01:08:13.000I feel that, you know, there's a, I think Rich Barris has laid this out pretty clearly, that there is this penchant to look internationally, to look at foreign wars or foreign entanglements.
01:08:29.000And we need to focus on domestic issues.
01:08:31.000I think immigration is the one, two, and three most important domestic issue that we can tackle.
01:08:55.000They become one of the world's richest countries.
01:08:58.000Nations can recover from economic crashes.
01:09:00.000We recovered from the Great Depression.
01:09:02.000Lots of countries have recovered from that sort of thing.
01:09:04.000What nations don't recover from is no longer being the nation that they are.
01:09:09.000And so if Britain is no longer a place of British people, if it's no longer the English and the Scots and the Welsh, it's a bunch of Pakistanis and Algerians and anyone else who's moved there.
01:10:02.000Maybe we'll have him on the show tomorrow to walk us through it all.
01:10:05.000But they have had this intel for a while.
01:10:08.000So Tulsi Gabbard's involvement in our election fraud cases, investigations that are going on in Fulton County and Maricopa County makes all the sense in the world when you realize that foreign countries are in fact trying to attack the integrity of our election system.
01:10:42.000Marlene says, hey, guys, I was given to understand that we're forever stuck with Lindsey Graham because South Carolina has open primaries and Dems will make sure he stays on the ballot.
01:11:03.000Blake, do you have the details on that?
01:11:04.000I believe it is an open primary, but I do think that the odds are very high that we're going to get this to a runoff.
01:11:11.000So, yeah, I mean, I would presume Democrats would probably prefer to have Lindsey Graham in just because he's bad for the brand.
01:11:17.000So, my understanding is it's, I don't think it's, I mean, I think you need a majority, so it will go to a runoff, which is the primary itself, I think, is June 9th.
01:11:27.000I think a runoff is two or three weeks later than that if there's no 50% winner.
01:11:32.000I think that's kind of nice because it seems that people do have strong preferences between either Lynch or Dan's in that primary.
01:11:40.000And, well, it doesn't hurt as long as you're not voting for Lindsay.
01:11:45.000The main thing is just making sure, because I know this is so tempting on the right, is you have to make sure we don't decide, like, don't get embittered.
01:11:54.000Don't decide you're mad at Dan's because Lynch said, you know, he's from a different state, or you're super mad at Lynch because actually, Dan's was very kind to Lynch, so I don't know what the attacks on him would be, but make sure there's no bad blood out of this race because I think we're going to agree.
01:12:09.000We want them to come together to get the win here after that goes to a runoff.