Uncle Bill, Bill O'Reilly, and Sen. John Cornyn join us to talk about how the Iran war is going, the Save America Act, and the surge in oil prices. Clay and Buck also discuss the latest on the Iran strike on the Strait of Hormuz and the impact on the global oil markets.
00:02:25.740Clay, oil price has surged a bit, and there are concerns as well.
00:02:31.460After two tankers were attacked and I believe are on fire in the Strait of Hormuz,
00:02:39.920so they're continuing to try to go after the oil, the global oil industry,
00:02:45.800as their choke point, as their way to hit back at us.
00:02:49.280Also, Trump monitoring Iranian terror sleeper cells, a lot of concern about that, and I think rightly concern about that, and we shall discuss that.
00:03:01.340So, Clay, I mean, first one up here, we are in another day of this aerial campaign.
00:03:09.380We now know that Mojtaba is in a coma.
00:09:55.620It's not to provide the best possible outcome to the media ecosystem.
00:10:02.380I also, though, think that there's, and this has been the case for a long time,
00:10:05.180this has been an argument that I've been making since before I was in media,
00:10:07.600there's a fundamental honesty with fox news that which which i think is part of why the audience
00:10:13.900is so uh durable uh sticky if you will i mean stays with fox watch there's a fundamental honesty
00:10:21.060about yeah of course like the opening model like jesse waters isn't sitting there like i don't
00:10:25.380have any opinions i'm just i'm just presenting the objective news like that's insane these other
00:10:31.080channels have been doing this game of we're just we're just news yeah by the way same thing with
00:10:34.760abc news and these other things same thing with those they're just lying they're just lying to
00:10:39.260people and eventually the lies got to be too much but back to the uh oil price situation uh i think
00:10:45.840clay again this is going to be relatively short term uh and as long as that's the case it will
00:10:52.560be fine here's energy secretary chris wright though we've had him on the show very interesting
00:10:57.080guy this cut 18 he's saying look the biden administration was playing all kinds of politics
00:11:02.100with this and not even using it for this is an emergency situation they were just using it to
00:11:07.020try to try to goose the numbers to look better play 18 we have about 415 million barrels in
00:11:13.220storage right now very unfortunately the biden administration drained almost 300 million barrels
00:11:18.980out mostly the lower gasoline prices for a midterm election without disruptions and energy flows
00:11:25.040that's not what the spr is about the spr is about this when we have short-term disruptions and flows
00:11:30.880to replace those flows but dana we will simultaneously sell this oil in the near term
00:11:36.640when it's needed and buy long-term oil meaning say 12 months down the road and we'll pull out
00:11:42.680170 million barrels and we'll put back in 200 million barrels in the next year so we'll actually
00:11:48.940have more oil in our spr a year from now than we do today okay it's the responsible way to use it
00:11:53.840there you go again and what i i think is so important about this is the only reason this
00:12:02.140isn't a major huge transformative danger for us is because we actually produce so much more oil
00:12:09.700we're the energy superpower of the world you want you want to know why your grocery prices
00:12:14.120aren't skyrocketing and they're on oil lines go thank an oil man go thank somebody who works for
00:12:19.400texaco or whatever i mean that's because in the 1970s for those of you who lived through it we
00:12:25.300were able to be held hostage effectively both literally in the sense of what happened with
00:12:31.160iran with our uh with our embassy there but they were able to hold us hostage those of you who
00:12:36.340remember lining up and having difficulty getting oil and gas heck buck i'm reading right now i love
00:12:41.920reading about world war ii you know that during world war ii americans were restricted to four
00:12:47.020gallons of gas a week so people barely drove anywhere because of the huge shortage and the
00:12:53.080amount of gas oil and gas we needed in order to fight that war um at least they were in iowa where
00:12:58.840i'm reading about the anyway i i love all this but the reason we now have energy independence
00:13:04.240is because we have unleashed the full uh economic spirit capitalistic success of our oil and gas
00:13:12.200industry in a way that frankly didn't exist in the in the 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s for those of
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00:26:08.740But I think what will happen is that Iran will come back to the table and there'll be some kind of an agreement to neuter them as a state-sponsored terrorist outfit.
00:26:23.640Hey, Bill. First off, everyone make sure you check out first episode today of We'll Do It Live, which is up on BillOReilly.com.
00:26:33.000go watch the show it's got rob schneider uh who i give a lot of credit to for being a hollywood
00:26:38.180guy who's been right wing and right wing for a long time uh bill one more topic for you before
00:26:43.520we gotta head into the break uh so we'll do a kind of shorter version on it but this save america act
00:26:48.520we're getting so much from everyone listening about talk more about the save america you got
00:26:53.880to push the save america act and and i get it and i agree with it and i wish it would pass
00:26:59.260But I also feel like Majority Leader Thune plus about four or five other senators aren't going to pass this thing.
00:27:31.780But this hurts the Democratic Party big time because 79 percent of the American public, and that includes a lot of Democrats, obviously, want voter ID.
00:27:42.320And all the socialist countries in Europe have it.
00:28:03.400So you need 60 votes to get it to a vote on the floor in the Senate.
00:28:08.020Now there's an effort to knock out the filibuster.
00:28:10.120I don't think that's wise, but that could happen.
00:28:13.660And the American people understand that in order to diminish voter fraud, you've got to prove that you're an American citizen, which is the federal law.
00:28:23.320Do you believe these reports that McConnell is stalling it, that, you know, you say he'll vote for it, but.
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00:30:37.860third hour of play and book gets going right now we're joined by senator eric schmidt of
00:30:45.140missouri now senator thanks for stopping by good to be with you let's start with the save act sir
00:30:52.240we have so many people who are paying close attention to this a lot of listeners all across
00:30:58.100america who are saying this seems like a must this seems so straightforward so necessary as a law and
00:31:06.800of course, Democrats oppose it. Is there any realistic path forward for this? What is the
00:31:12.580best outcome as you see it for the SAVE Act that's realistic? What do you want to happen?
00:31:18.900Well, we need to get on it. And the hope is that next week we will actually be on the Senate floor
00:31:23.740with the SAVE Act. I think that'd be. And by the way, spend some time on it. And I'm the supporter
00:31:28.980of this talking filibuster idea. I think that's what people think happens in Washington in the
00:31:33.060united states senate they think of jimmy stewart uh holding the floor um and the senate the old
00:31:38.760line is that operates by unanimous consent or exhaustion and i think the democrats should have
00:31:42.660to own this and earn it if they want to block the idea that you have to be u.s citizen to vote you
00:31:48.120have to show an id to vote that we're not going to allow mass mail-in balloting scams we're not
00:31:52.680going to allow transgender surgery for minors and we shouldn't allow uh boys in in women's sports
00:31:58.020men and women's sports that's what this will do and those are common sense proposals they're 80
00:32:02.18020 issues they might be higher than that and i think it's really important most importantly for
00:32:06.980protecting the election security and regaining the trust of the american people so my hope is that
00:32:11.200we're on it we stay on it so if we go to the uh talking filibuster there have been all sorts of
00:32:19.460different reports that i have read uh about what that actually looks like what that means
00:32:25.300what do you anticipate a talking filibuster would look like and uh how does it end how does it
00:32:32.280progress so you you got to get on the bill and if we take the house bill and forgive me if i get in
00:32:38.480the weeds but since you asked the question so yeah the house bill it only requires uh 51 votes to get
00:32:44.520on it right so we can take the house bill that's been passed and then it is before the senate
00:32:48.640And then at that point, amendments are in order. You know, I'm working closely with the White House on this, Senator Lee. Amendments would be in order. So that version that came over has two provisions. It doesn't have the male-in piece. It doesn't have the transgender piece. It doesn't have the men and women's sports piece. So we would be able to amend it.
00:33:06.840And then at that point, and that's a majority vote when you're on amendments, then at that point, we need to get to a final vote.
00:33:15.560And one way you can get to the final vote is that you just run out of Democrats that want to hold the floor for hours and hours.
00:33:21.280Now, the commitment from the Republican side is that we need to make sure we hold a quorum for the whole time that this happens.
00:33:27.960Meaning if a Democrat says, hey, I know the absence of a quorum, meaning there's not enough people in the chamber, there have to be 51 Republicans that are there to maintain the quorum.
00:33:36.500So this is something that used to happen. I think the Senate's got kind of lazy with the way we do it now, where you just come in and you clock in a vote and it gets you to 60. So this is about holding the floor, voting on amendments for a period of time. That's how it would play out.
00:33:53.100Now, speaking of the floor, I believe you've been on the Senate floor asking for unanimous consent to fund the Department of Homeland Security for the next two weeks.
00:34:48.280We've set out what their job is in our laws that have been passed, passed by Republicans and Democrats and enforced, by the way, by Republicans and Democrats in previous administrations.
00:34:56.360But what we saw with Joe Biden was unprecedented.
00:35:07.120So in the crosshairs that in the mix there in that DH funding bill is TSA, the Coast Guard, all these agencies that outside of ICE and the Democrats are blocking funding because of Trump arrangement syndrome.
00:35:19.420OK, let's you're breaking down everything going on in in that context.
00:35:24.720We're hearing about hours and hours that everybody's having to stand in line.
00:35:29.880And at some point, especially with it being spring break week, people just look around and they're angry.
00:35:35.420You may not be paying attention to what's funded and what's not.
00:35:39.240We've got an alleged shooting that you may or may not have seen that took place in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
00:35:46.300Reports are that the shooter is believed to be dead.
00:35:49.500We know what happened in Austin, Texas, where unfortunately a couple of people were murdered by what appears to have been a deranged lunatic.
00:35:57.020And we know in New York City there were just a couple of IEDs thrown that fortunately did not go off but could have killed many people.
00:36:04.520isn't it absolutely beyond the pale absurd that we would be in a situation where i think the number
00:36:12.160right now is 300 some odd tsa agents have just said hey i've got to quit i've got to find a new
00:36:16.560job or i've got to make money right now that democrats would be refusing to fund uh these
00:36:21.640individuals it's crazy i mean it's so stupid clay i don't i mean i've seen a lot of stuff in politics
00:36:28.140i've seen a lot of argument it's just so dumb uh but they're obsessed they're first of all um
00:36:33.200They hate President Trump, and that manifests itself in many different ways.
00:36:37.460But they thought they had some moment, I think, in Minneapolis that they were going to be able to ultimately prevent law enforcement from doing their jobs by overloading them with burdens that they can't, you know, we can talk about what those are.
00:36:49.760But basically, it would it would render ICE unable to deport people.
00:36:54.780And so they are willing to hold all of this hostage.
00:36:56.980and now the legacy media will go along with it and they'll create some issue about some
00:37:02.340negotiation on this but it's very simple republicans just voted just now voted to fund
00:37:09.060tsa to fund ice to fund secret service to fund the coast guard and the democrats have voted no
00:37:16.000it's that it's not that complicated it's stupid but it's not complicated
00:37:20.080senator schmidt with us now and uh senator i i think that this war in iran or whatever we haven't
00:37:29.180really come up with something other than a war to call it i guess this overseas aerial campaign
00:37:33.280against the iranian military definitely acts of war going on uh the president seems very confident
00:37:39.800that this is both achieving its objectives and will be limited in scope and he is in charge of
00:37:45.820that scope what's your sense as to how this is going so far and what's your confidence level
00:37:50.540that this will be wrapped up say by the end of the month yeah i mean i think the president's
00:37:56.700committed to um to accomplishing the objectives as he laid out and essentially in a nutshell
00:38:01.680the nuclear program that we you know had a devastating blow to with the b2s out of missouri
00:38:06.880by the way last summer uh iran was basically creating this missile shield this conventional
00:38:11.760ballistic missile shield to protect it for their future ambitions and that's being wiped out now
00:38:17.140so that's really the mission um we had a briefing earlier this week um they're ahead of schedule on
00:38:22.320that and uh i think the president's committed to doing this he understands uh the concerns that
00:38:27.340people would have about having another forever war in the middle east i don't think he wants that but
00:38:31.260um he's committed to this mission i think they're accomplishing that right now
00:38:34.740much less seriously i saw you friday um at the president's college sports roundtable and i know
00:38:42.420you have entered uh introduced a bill uh alongside of a democrat colleague that would help to
00:38:48.640rectify the mess that is college athletics what would it do are you optimistic that it can be a
00:38:54.440solution it look it's the first bipartisan bill that's been introduced on this on this measure i
00:38:59.580I think that's a significant development to set the stage.
00:39:03.160College athletics right now is very chaotic in college football, by and large, for years has essentially been the cash cow that funds all the non-revenue sports, women's sports, Olympic sports, even sports like baseball that don't really generate revenue, save a couple of schools here or there.
00:39:19.200because of the new system that we have right now. You know, it's just a matter of time. And I think
00:39:25.220that time's pretty soon where you're just going to start seeing all that programming dropped and
00:39:29.200all those scholarships drop for people who, you know, can change their lives. So what's the
00:39:32.640solution? I was skeptical, Klanbuck, about Congress. If you had asked me this two years ago,
00:39:37.520I'd be, why is Congress considering anything here? But the truth is Congress is the only
00:39:41.560entity on the planet that can grant antitrust exemption to some governing body to set some
00:39:46.180rules, transfer rules, eligibility rules, agent rules, things that they can't do right now because
00:39:50.660of lawsuits have basically rendered the NCAA feckless. They can't do anything. So we can do
00:39:55.540that. But I don't think you solve the governance problem or the challenges in college sports
00:39:59.880without revenue to basically pay for these sports, right? These non-revenue women's sports,
00:40:04.760the Olympic sports that we all love. And so our proposal, Senator Cantwell and I from Washington
00:40:09.020are that, look, the NFL, the NBA, MLB, they all have antitrust exemption to collectively negotiate
00:40:45.360there's a monday night game sometimes a thursday night game college football the interest is
00:40:49.700growing and you can actually have a system here where fox and esp and all of them are bidding
00:40:54.680bidding bidding bidding up those dollars that can protect those sports and it'll be great for the
00:40:57.960fans how optimistic are you that this thing is going to pass i think this component is key i
00:41:05.640don't think you can just do the governance piece and get to 60 votes in the senate right i think
00:41:10.540there has to be a carrot here where everybody feels like they're growing so if you're a if
00:41:14.840If you're a school that's been kind of left behind on some of this stuff, on the revenue that's been generated for the, you know, the conferences, they're doing exceedingly well.
00:41:21.640There's a reason for them to do it. I think. And look, I'm a Mizzou guy. I love Mizzou. They're in the SEC. I love SEC football.
00:41:26.940I think they're going to do well in this model, too. So I'm optimistic that the next phase, the House is probably going to claim vote on something next week.
00:41:34.400Just the SCORE Act, which is just the governance piece. I think the thing at the White House last week added momentum.
00:41:39.600I think we're going to be hopefully the next step in the Senate is a hearing in the Commerce Committee where I serve on.
00:41:45.060And this will be heard out. And I think that's where the work will be done to try to fight a compromise to literally save college sports.
00:41:51.340If we don't get this done this year or maybe next year, but I think this year is very important.
00:41:55.760I think the landscape looks different forever. And if we fix it, or I should say we give them the tools to fix it.
00:42:01.960I think it changes things for the next 50 years will be great for fans.
00:42:04.960good stuff as always senator eric schmidt of missouri we appreciate the time good luck on
00:42:10.600getting all that taken care of all right guys thanks um awesome all right uh let's see here
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00:44:25.260welcome back in play Travis Buck Sexton show I want to update you guys on the latest this is
00:44:34.660from Fox News and I just sent it and let me make sure that I read this correctly
00:44:42.100Authorities say the shooter involved in the attack at Temple Israel, that's outside of Detroit, Michigan,
00:44:48.080found badly burned after crashing a vehicle into the building, which then caught fire.
00:44:58.040Armed security engaged in a shootout and fatally shot the would-be attacker.
00:45:04.300Also, CNN reporting, and this may be why he was badly burned, that the vehicle was filled with explosives.
00:45:11.660So that would explain a lot here, because you would have somebody who tried to create a VBIED,
00:45:19.940a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, essentially a car suicide bomber, and the bomb didn't go off.
00:45:27.500Making bombs is fortunately harder than a lot of people think it is, especially if you've never done it before.
00:46:01.600primary runoff against ken paxton in late may president trump has said that he is going to
00:46:08.460endorse but has held off on endorsing do you expect him to endorse you what do you what impact
00:46:15.260do you think the president's endorsement in texas would have well i've told the president that i
00:46:21.420thought his endorsement would be very impactful and i would be delighted if he chooses to endorse
00:46:28.140endorsed me in the race. So far, he's not done that. And, you know, people ask me, well, what's
00:46:36.660he going to do? And my usual response is, there's only one person on the planet who knows the answer
00:46:42.040to that, and it's not me. So we're continuing to work hard toward that May 26 runoff. And if the
00:46:51.900president decides to make an endorsement, that would be great news. Senator Cornyn,
00:46:57.760appreciate you being with us uh my understanding is and feel free to correct any part of this
00:47:02.340because there's a lot of senators and i can't know everything that all of you have ever thought
00:47:05.160or said but my understanding is that you've long been in the past a defender of the senate
00:47:11.020filibuster rule so a 60 vote threshold for most legislation but that you just recently published
00:47:17.360why the save act matters more than the filibuster am i right is is that where you are now is that
00:47:25.300really is that a major departure a major change in your feeling about the filibuster and what
00:47:30.420brought you to this because you're going to have some critics who say well this is just because
00:47:35.040you're up for re-election and you want to seem like you're going to give the base what it wants
00:47:39.200well the filibuster has stopped a lot of really bad legislation when the democrats were in charge
00:47:46.760they proposed packing the supreme court making puerto rico and the district of columbia states
00:47:53.820and getting two Democratic senators each and permanently changing the country.
00:48:00.200So the filibuster has worked well to stop bad stuff.
00:48:05.500But we're in much different times now.
00:48:09.160And with the Trump derangement syndrome and the polarization up here in Congress,
00:48:15.780Democrats just reflexively oppose everything that Trump has proposed or that Republicans want,
00:48:22.180including paying the Transportation Security Agency agents and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
00:48:29.840They didn't do anything wrong, but they're the people being punished now by this second shutdown of a significant part of the federal government.
00:48:38.060So I long for the day when you would have these two political parties who obviously have different priorities and different ideas about how to govern,
00:48:52.180but where there is still the possibility of finding some common ground and working to build consensus.
00:48:58.520I think that's good for the country when we can do that,
00:49:01.040because any short-term measures that one party or the other passes can change the next time the Congress slips.
00:49:10.280So I would call this really kind of an evolution of my views that fit the times.
00:49:17.140I don't think it's okay for us to just tell my constituents in Texas,
00:49:21.300We can't get anything done because the Democrats won't cooperate.
00:49:25.300And we know, as the president has pointed out, that when the shoe is on the other foot,
00:49:29.300when they're in the majority, they will blow up the filibuster immediately.
00:49:34.240So I've said I'm open to the talking filibuster, which we hope to use on the Save America Act
00:49:41.200and potentially other reforms as well.
00:49:44.780We're talking to Senator John Cornyn of Texas.
00:49:47.940He's in a runoff against Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, on May 26th.
00:49:52.820We know that one of you will be running against James Tallarico,
00:49:57.020who frankly seems like a very far left-wing and radical nominee for the Democrats.
00:50:03.400Do you believe that you would beat Tallarico worse than Ken Paxton would?
00:50:08.940And is that one reason why you would argue people should vote for you in this upcoming runoff?
00:50:15.560yes uh that's exactly right um i will be at the top of the ticket as the nominee and in 2020 last
00:50:24.760time i ran i won by 10 points which means that not only will we keep the senate seat in republican
00:50:30.700hands but it will help down ballot races including these five new congressional seats that were drawn
00:50:37.000as a result of redistricting to hope hopefully help keep the majority in the in the house
00:50:42.480the attorney general has so much political baggage that I think it's an open question
00:50:49.500whether he could actually even win so this thus the prospect or the possibility of actually losing
00:50:57.160a red state senate seat in this election and even if he were to win by the skin of his teeth
00:51:03.940I would think he will not win by a margin that will help down ballot and it would cost hundreds
00:51:10.000of millions of dollars to try to salvage him and salvage this red seat so that is part of the
00:51:16.840argument that uh that we've been making and i know the president and his team um are fully aware of
00:51:23.200okay so let's say that you weren't the nominee let's say ken paxton won or vice versa would you
00:51:30.360uh campaign heartily for whoever the republican nominee is and do you expect that he would
00:51:36.040campaign for you in order to make sure that this seat as you just laid out doesn't end up in
00:51:41.620democrat hands or doesn't even end up hopefully competitive uh so that there's not having to be
00:51:46.720a ton of money spent on it but in other words you win uh that's great you're going to be working
00:51:52.080hard do you expect his endorsement if you lose will you endorse him well first of all i expect
00:51:58.980to win but to answer your question um i've worked most of my adult life trying to build
00:52:05.220the Republican Party, both at the state level and at the national level. My first statewide
00:52:11.860election was in 1990 when we still were basically a divided state. We had a Democratic governor
00:52:20.000that year, Ann Richards, for example. But to answer your question, I would support the Republican
00:52:26.420ticket. I think that's the best answer I can give you. Speaking of Senator Cornyn of
00:52:35.140texas and uh senator why would you be um better i mean a lot of times it comes down to for some
00:52:42.880people uh trying something new you've obviously been in the senate for quite some time why would
00:52:48.380it be better to have you representing texas than uh attorney attorney general paxton and how would
00:52:54.900you address any critics that you have who say that you're not as maga when it counts as you'd like to
00:53:02.720appear at election time because we get a lot of emails a lot of callers and this is something that
00:53:07.600we hear wanted to give you an opportunity to just lay lay it out there for everybody
00:53:11.560well thank you i i think a lot of this has to do with personalities and temperament i spent 13 years
00:53:20.500of my life as a judge and then as attorney general before i got to the senate and i always like to
00:53:27.000tell people I'm conservative. I'm just not mad about it. But the point is what you've done.
00:53:35.640And that's one reason why in Texas, in our advertising, we pointed out that I have voted
00:53:40.320with the president 99.3% of the time. That's a better number than Ted Cruz, the junior senator
00:53:48.220from Texas, by the way. And secondly, we need somebody who can be effective for the state.
00:53:54.780So when the governor called me and said, look, Texas taxpayers have had to step up and pay
00:54:00.320$11 billion to help secure the border when Biden wouldn't, he called me and we worked with the
00:54:07.840Texas delegation to get that done. And so we are expecting a nice check from the federal government
00:54:14.140to the Texas taxpayer of $11 billion. It takes some experience and relationships to be able to
00:54:21.420get that done and i think uh i think my effectiveness on behalf of uh of 32 million texas
00:54:28.620is something that separates me from the attorney general we're talking to john cornyn senator from
00:54:33.660texas runoff may 26th um when you looked at the results you won the primary um in the first go
00:54:42.020around you had the most votes were you surprised by that did you expect it what did that what does
00:54:47.360that outcome tell people about texas well i i would there's nothing's guaranteed but i i was
00:54:56.960optimistic that i would win and that was you know there have been a lot of trash what i call trash
00:55:02.680talk including the attorney general who said he could win without a runoff and obviously that
00:55:08.000didn't materialize so um you know we've been only about 11 of registered voters voted in the
00:55:15.560Republican primary. Thankfully, people who didn't vote in the primary can vote in the runoff.
00:55:21.860But, you know, a lot of this has to do with motivating your voters and getting them to the
00:55:27.500polls. In the end, winning elections isn't all that complicated. It's about who gets the most
00:55:33.160votes. And we simply worked hard to to try to encourage as many people as we can to vote in
00:55:40.640the republican primary even so the democrats outvoted us which should be a warning shot across
00:55:47.280our mouth senator uh you know we got a lot of emails because we asked for questions and you
00:55:51.880know for example i'll just let you address this we have one vip who wrote in and said
00:55:56.080i believe senator cornyn voted against pete hegseth for dod secretary now secretary of war
00:56:02.080you voted yes for pete hegseth if memory served am i correct on that correct correct yeah yeah
00:56:07.200Some of the questions we get are actually not fair to, just to call the balls and strikes here, Senator,