00:00:50.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:02:01.000Well, Texas law requires two-thirds quorum, 100 of 150 members to conduct house business.
00:02:08.000And therefore, they need at least 51 members to abstain.
00:02:12.000Over 50 Democrats have traveled to Illinois and some to New York and Boston, making the minimum quorum impossible and stalling the vote.
00:02:19.000Most have gathered thanks to the aid of my least favorite person in American politics, Governor J.B. Pritzker, who is giving them a little bit of air cover.
00:02:32.000Now, they're fleeing the state because, in fact, in most states, the police can force a lawmaker to attend a legislative session.
00:02:39.000So, the only way to avoid being present is to flee the state entirely and therefore beyond their jurisdiction.
00:02:48.000So, the Democrats are fleeing, and naturally, of course, to my home state of Illinois.
00:02:55.000Maybe they just got stuck by J.B. Pritzker's irresistible gravitational pull.
00:03:00.000Now, Illinois is quite a funny place to flee to.
00:03:04.000This is how you know the Democrats have really lost a step.
00:03:07.000Of all the states to flee to, you are going to flee to Illinois.
00:03:13.000Illinois, which is known for their ridiculous gerrymandering.
00:03:19.000I know it because I grew up as a political campaign volunteer working in the districts in the suburbs of Chicago.
00:03:26.000And I kid you not, where I grew up outside of Wheeling, Illinois, literally there would be carve-outs of little micro-neighborhoods of across the street would be Illinois' ninth congressional district.
00:03:39.000We would be in Illinois' 10th congressional district, and then literally on stone throws away would be Illinois' 8th congressional district.
00:04:04.000Just random streaks of color across your screen.
00:04:07.000That's where they're going to go to go fight gerrymandering.
00:04:10.000Illinois is the worst offender of all the states across the country.
00:04:14.000Again, just look at Illinois' 13th congressional district up on screen.
00:04:17.000It's basically a 15-mile-wide strip connecting five different Democrat cities across 300 miles, from East St. Louis through Springfield to Decatur to Urbana-Champaign.
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00:11:43.000Just the whole ensemble, whiny, yammering.
00:11:49.000The whole way she presents herself, smug, terrible, nasty, cruel, wrong, dumb.
00:11:56.000The whole operation, young men, better for you to become a Catholic priest.
00:12:00.000I'm just going to tell you right now, avoid that entire freight train because it is a coming.
00:12:05.000The Jasmine Crockett shtick, why a lot of young men are checking out of the dating pool because young ladies say, I got to act like, I mean, they don't say they want to act like Jasmine Crockett.
00:12:15.000But this whole thing she's got going here.
00:12:43.000Do what this legislature is consistently been found to be guilty of doing, which is to make sure that they can do an overemphasis of Anglo voices in this state.
00:12:54.000Only 40% of this state is Anglo, yet somehow we have more than 60% of our seats that are elected by Anglo-majority districts.
00:13:07.000As I said in 2021, as I argued against these maps, the math ain't mathin.
00:15:33.000I don't think that it's an accident that Donald Trump picked up the phone, hauled down the Texas, told Abbott what he was going to do, and like a small, ridiculous child, he just fell in order.
00:15:45.000I don't think any of that was an accident.
00:16:34.000What she represents is very serious, which is the continued attempt to eliminate the white population in this country.
00:16:44.000I visit hundreds of campuses every year, and I see it everywhere.
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00:17:56.000Joining us now is Senator Mark Wayne Mullen from the great state of Oklahoma.
00:17:59.000Senator, you tweeted out, quote, it's Saturday, August 2nd, and I'm still voting.
00:19:09.000We had 61 that are reported out of committee on the House or on the Senate floor ready to be voted.
00:19:15.000That was bipartisan, meaning they came out of the committee with Democrat and Republican support.
00:19:19.000He said, let me clear the deck on that one.
00:19:21.000We'll work with you on some other of your pet projects.
00:19:24.000And then let's work on a package that would get away from us having to confirm 1,200 people and clear the deck for 300 to 400 individuals that are really individuals we shouldn't be voting on to confirm.
00:19:38.000At first, we were told by Angus King that they would accept it.
00:19:44.000and then their price tag on that because everything comes with the negotiating they had 800 million in uh in funding that was being held up by fy25 appropriations uh that was part of kind of the rescission packages that was coming through in return let the money go through we had tentatively said we would try doing something like that with president trump negotiating i mean president trump for three days were charlie was extremely engaged with negotiating Talked to him multiple times.
00:20:50.000So Senator, I'm not going to question the president's wisdom or judgment here, nor yours, but I'm going to have to get a little bit deeper into this.
00:22:00.000He can go ahead and put these people in position, but they're working essentially without pay.
00:22:07.000So if you go ahead and you do the recess appointments, like I know you've talked about, we've talked about, it's a much more complicated process of that because what it takes, I'm not even getting into that.
00:22:40.000It was going to take a vote of Rama for us to do it, essentially, because we was going to have to keep the floor occupied.
00:22:45.000And at the meantime, they could continue to put in these ridiculous votes that was going to make the Republicans take a vote on them.
00:22:54.000The president didn't want those votes to be taken.
00:22:57.000And so the solution was, is if we do go into recess, then the Democrats have a political play that they could play the entire month of August, which wouldn't move the needle at all.
00:23:10.000Since these people can already do their job, they're just going to do it without pay.
00:23:14.000By the way, if we do it underneath recess appointments, they're still going to do it without pay.
00:23:18.000If we go back and we go ahead and change the rules, what happens at that point, we can start clearing the slate rather than having to go through a recess appointment over and over again.
00:23:28.000Because remember, recess appointments mean we got to recess for a minimum of 10 days.
00:23:32.000If we can change the rules, then we continue to move forward steadily and get all these people confirmed.
00:24:02.000We wouldn't have ever went, we would have never made a motion to adjourn if President Trump didn't want us to.
00:24:10.000Because I'm telling you, Charlie, he was on the phone with us almost every other hour.
00:24:16.000It was Lindsey Thune, or it was Lindsey Thune, Lindsey Graham, Leader Thune, myself, Katie Britt, Eric Schmidt, and Jim Rich was all talking with the president multiple times a day for trying to.
00:24:56.000President Trump had a clear stopping point.
00:24:58.000Chuck Schumer pushed him too far and President Trump was willing to tell him, go pound sand.
00:25:06.000I'm not so desperate that I have to have these appointments.
00:25:08.000I will work around you by appointing these people as a special envoy.
00:25:12.000I'm not going to give you one single penny.
00:25:15.000And because you've done this, now you're going to force us to go change the House rules or the Senate rules.
00:25:21.000So when he comes back and says we're using a nuclear option, no, we're able to pin it on Schumer and say, no, because you have filibustered every single one of President Trump's nominees, which is unheard of.
00:26:54.000So outside the president's cabinet and outside of second tier individuals and outside of judges.
00:26:59.000So those would be still set at 30-hour debates.
00:27:04.000Everybody else below that, we have two options.
00:27:07.000Easiest option is that we take the motion from a two-hour debate down to a 15-minute debate.
00:27:15.000And we're able to stay in executive session all day.
00:27:20.000What happens right now is after every vote, we go automatically back to legislative session and we have to go back into executive session, which requires us to have two extra votes.
00:27:33.000Each vote will take about 35 minutes to do plus a two hour debate.
00:27:36.000So you got four hours plus on every person.
00:27:40.000If we take away the executive calendar from the legislative calendar and have to go in and out, we can stay in it all day and we can just simply vote to end culture, 15-minute debate, vote.
00:27:51.000The other option on that one, and so we go from four votes to two votes.
00:27:54.000The other option on that one is to assume that the nominee that comes out of the committee to the floor would be a non-debatable and we could move them straight to the floor and for a four vote.
00:28:08.000That is a tougher option because that takes role change actually out into the committee too.
00:28:15.000And a lot of committee chairmen are territorial about that.
00:28:21.000I think the more likely option will be that we will do a similar vote, which will mean that anybody that comes out of the committee with a bipartisan vote can go straight to the floor for a vote.
00:28:33.000And anyone else would take a 15-minute debate.
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00:29:49.000And by the way, Charlie, one of these, I'm going to grow up and be able to explain things as easy as you can because this stuff gets wonky.
00:30:23.000And mind you, there's a few people that still listen to Mitch really heavy.
00:30:27.000He stood up and made in conference and made the argument why we have to do this change.
00:30:32.000So yes, you're going to expect real change.
00:30:34.000Our goal is to be able to make the Senate work more efficiently.
00:30:38.000Now, to keep in mind, there's a lot of Democrats that want the change too, because they're tired of the same thing.
00:30:44.000They see what's happening with Chuck Schumer.
00:30:46.000They understand that this is, you know, we're not always, I hope we do, but traditionally speaking, we're not always going to have a Republican president.
00:30:54.000And this is going to be pushed on them too.
00:30:56.000So they would like to have change so we can move this along.
00:30:59.00080% of our time right now in the Senate is used on executive calendars trying to get these noms across the finish line.
00:31:41.000All of these archaic old crow ancestry rules are back when the U.S. Senate, unfortunately, your colleagues actually wanted what was best, and now they want something completely different.
00:31:53.000The Senate, it was a club built on honor, and it was built on mutual respect.
00:31:59.000I think that is gone, and the rules need to reflect the new character or lack thereof of the U.S. Senate.
00:32:05.000Final thoughts, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen.
00:32:08.000We used to, there was decorum in the Senate that put America first.
00:32:12.000That's why the Senate is elected to six years because you don't have to constantly have to play politics back home because politics do play a role in legislation.
00:32:24.000The Senate was supposed to be somewhat above that, but you have Chuck Schumer that is literally afraid of his own shadow right now.
00:32:30.000The fact is he knows he can't work with us because he's up for reelection and he's afraid AOC is going to run against him and beat him in his seat, which is absolutely accurate.
00:32:40.000So therefore, it puts him in a, in a, in a, in a, um, in an ability, an inability to build and negotiate.
00:32:48.000Then you have Corey Booker, who is clearly running for president in 2028.
00:32:54.000And you have Chris Murphy, who is running for president in 2028.
00:32:58.000They aren't willing to negotiate, and most of this stuff takes unanimous consent for us to be able to move forward.
00:33:03.000So the only option we have is to make these changes.
00:33:07.000And so therefore, we will make these changes.
00:33:10.000When we come back in September, I think it's September 2nd, we will immediately proceed with a package that we're going to be working on all, literally all month, trying to get prepared and ready to vote on the rules change so we can start moving forward.
00:33:26.000By the way, the president is, I can't express this enough, Charlie, how much he's involved in this.
00:33:48.000But my goodness, man, by the one-year election of Donald Trump's victory in November, if we don't have that 160 number to be zero, you will have a stolen presidency via personnel.
00:33:59.000Well, yeah, we can't get to zero because we're constantly confirming more people.
00:34:03.000They're constantly sending people over to us.
00:34:05.000So we have 150 that were waiting on paperwork to be sent back to us from the White House plus 160 that we have.
00:34:11.000So this is going to be an ongoing process, but we should have the backlog caught up.