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Speaker Johnson 'This is a SERIOUS threat' · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Joining us now House Speaker, Mike Johnson, speaker, Great to
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  Speaker 1: have you back with us, Glad to be with you.
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  Speaker 1: All right, your thoughts on two point fifty into this experiment.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing. We are celebrating the greatest nation the world
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  Speaker 2: has ever seen, and it was full of activities and
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  Speaker 2: events here in Capitol Hill this weekend. We were up
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  Speaker 2: till after two am, two nights in a row, and
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  Speaker 2: could have kept going. The President was excited to deliver
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  Speaker 2: that speech in spite of the elements last night, and
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  Speaker 2: he told me backstage before we went out there, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: there's no way we could have postponed this. I said,
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  Speaker 2: you're right, sir. It was really well done.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there were thousands of people who were willing to
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  Speaker 1: come back and despite multiple evacuations, to be there for
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  Speaker 1: all of the festivities. Last night. The President touched on
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  Speaker 1: something He touched on this idea of the return of communism.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that you've talked about this too. Democrats
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  Speaker 1: are having to grapple with who's calling the shots in
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  Speaker 1: their party as these Democratic Socialist members are having great success.
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  Speaker 1: But Steve Bannon said some interesting things to Politico this
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  Speaker 1: week that not neither Republicans nor Democrats really fully grasp
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  Speaker 1: what they're dealing with here. He says this, if you're
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  Speaker 1: playing the old politics of tax cuts and wars everywhere
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  Speaker 1: and doing the bidding of Israel his words, let me
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  Speaker 1: be blunt, You're finished. I just keep telling people it's
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  Speaker 1: a flashing red light and the Senate Majority Leader John
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  Speaker 1: Thunes of the World and House Speaker Mike Johnson better
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  Speaker 1: understand that the old politics are gone.
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  Speaker 2: Your response, well, Steve needs to see what we've been saying.
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  Speaker 2: I've been saying this for years, and on the campaign
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  Speaker 2: trail for over a year and a half, and since
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  Speaker 2: Mamdani got elected in New York, I've been out on
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  Speaker 2: the Campan trail country wide, across the coast to coast,
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  Speaker 2: every swing district, the blue state's red states, saying the
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  Speaker 2: same thing. There are many mam Donnis popping up running
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  Speaker 2: for Congress around the country, and you better be very
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  Speaker 2: serious about this. This is a serious threat to our
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  Speaker 2: whole system of government. These are Marxists. It's communism, socialism,
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  Speaker 2: those are deviations of Marxism begins with the opposite premise
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  Speaker 2: of America, and it is a serious threat to us.
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  Speaker 2: These people want to say. They're saying it out loud.
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  Speaker 2: They want to abolish all borders, they want to abolish
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  Speaker 2: all prisons. They want to defund the police. They want
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  Speaker 2: to abolish the US Senate. They want to pack the
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court. They want the government to take over control
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  Speaker 2: of all production. This is communism and it has led
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  Speaker 2: to the murder of innocent people, tens of millions of
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  Speaker 2: them in the twentieth century alone. We have to fight this.
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  Speaker 2: We're no longer just in an election cycle we were
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  Speaker 2: saying it was common sense versus crazy. Now it's common
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  Speaker 2: sense versus communism, and everybody needs to wake up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you talk about all the things that they're for,
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  Speaker 1: and the Democrats are having to have this internal fight
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  Speaker 1: of how much of this they're going to allow. They
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  Speaker 1: keep saying that they have a big tent, But do
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  Speaker 1: you think they internally understand what their party is facing.
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  Speaker 2: I think quietly the Democrat establishment on Capitol Hill understands that,
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  Speaker 2: but they feel powerless to stop it because if they
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  Speaker 2: stand up and say this is wrong. The problem they
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  Speaker 2: have is the energy, the excitement, the money. The grassroots
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  Speaker 2: is on the side of the insurgent left, and this
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  Speaker 2: is a threat that we have never seen before in
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  Speaker 2: the elected system of our government. Ronald Reagan used to
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  Speaker 2: warn about communism, We talked about it, that it was
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  Speaker 2: a distant threat across the world. And now the barbarians
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  Speaker 2: are inside the gate. So this election cycle is for
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  Speaker 2: all the marvel, Shannon is not that this is not
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  Speaker 2: your father's Democrat party. That party's long gone.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you've got your own GOP stuff to deal with
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  Speaker 1: political inputs. It this way. Intra party fights, type margins,
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  Speaker 1: electioneer pressures with an indifferent president have grounded the pre
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  Speaker 1: midterm legislative plans of GOP leaders on the Hill just
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  Speaker 1: a handful of days, they say to get anything done.
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  Speaker 1: House leaders, in particular, they say, appear to have lost
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  Speaker 1: control of their chamber. You had to send folks home.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the House floor was brought to a stop,
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  Speaker 1: not by Democrats, but by some Republicans. How are you
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  Speaker 1: dealing with their concerns?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the Hill Press Corps has been writing this for
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  Speaker 2: the last two and a half years. Okay, we have
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  Speaker 2: the smallest margin in US history. I functionally have a
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  Speaker 2: one vote margin on most days, and so we work
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  Speaker 2: through everybody's preferences on legislation and this week, a handful
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  Speaker 2: of Republicans took down the rule, the procedure rule to
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  Speaker 2: advance legislation. I just decided it was best to send
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  Speaker 2: everybody home to go celebrate your life forth in their districts.
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  Speaker 2: We'll come back together, everybody together. The big urgency is
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  Speaker 2: to get Save America pass. The President has that as
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  Speaker 2: a top priority, and so do I. We passed it
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  Speaker 2: three times in the House. We're going to try one
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  Speaker 2: more time on a budget reconciliation bill, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that will be the way to get it through the
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  Speaker 2: Senate and finally to the President's desk. So that's forthcoming.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I want to talk about reconciliation, but before that,
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  Speaker 1: you talk about what the House has passed. So the
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  Speaker 1: Save America Act on your side is about voter ID
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  Speaker 1: and proof of citizenship. What's come together in the Senate
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  Speaker 1: is different. The President wants some additional things about mail
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  Speaker 1: in ballots, trans treatment, trans for miners, and trans athletes.
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  Speaker 1: Will he accept the House version? You've had conversations with him.
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  Speaker 1: Is he willing to accept that version or does he
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  Speaker 1: want everything else? What's packed in the Senate version.
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  Speaker 2: I think our version is the main sort of the
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  Speaker 2: backbone of that the House version. Yes, he would like
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  Speaker 2: to add the prohibition of mail in balloting, except for
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  Speaker 2: exceptions like if somebody's deployed overseas or they're ill or
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  Speaker 2: can't get to the polling place. But he understands that
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  Speaker 2: one is a bigger reach. If we can get proof
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  Speaker 2: of citizenship and photo ID to vote, that eliminates so
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  Speaker 2: much of the problem, all the fraud and everything that
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  Speaker 2: everybody's concerned about in our elections, particularly frankly in these
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  Speaker 2: blue states. Look at California. There are still counting ballots
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  Speaker 2: from an election that happened a month ago. It's crazy,
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  Speaker 2: and everybody understands that.
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  Speaker 1: So one of the folks who's leading this conversation is
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  Speaker 1: Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna. And when the House rule got
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  Speaker 1: shot down, used everybody home because you couldn't move forward.
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  Speaker 1: She tweeted, I don't care who hates me in the
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  Speaker 1: chamber for it. She clearly has a point to make
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  Speaker 1: about Save America. She says this on X we should
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  Speaker 1: be doing everything to pass Save America. Added to reconciliation,
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  Speaker 1: which you've talked about, added to the NDAA, added to FAISA,
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  Speaker 1: added to every must pass bill. Our frontline members promised
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  Speaker 1: this to their voters. Let's deliver now. She apparently felt
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  Speaker 1: the conversation about adding it to the Defense Bill was
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  Speaker 1: not adequate, that it would be done in a way
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  Speaker 1: that would allow potentially the Senate to strip it back out.
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  Speaker 1: So have you had that conversation with her.
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  Speaker 2: I've had the conversation with her many times, and with
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  Speaker 2: our Senate colleagues as well. What she was saying, just frankly,
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  Speaker 2: isn't true. What we did was a merv and that's
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  Speaker 2: a technical term to say, we've merged the NDAA, the
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  Speaker 2: National Defense Authorisation Act, with the Save America Act that
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  Speaker 2: we passed back in February unanimously with all Republican votes.
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  Speaker 2: That puts it in the base taxt. It merges the
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  Speaker 2: two bills into one, and it transmitted to the Senate
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  Speaker 2: that way. So what she was saying just simply as
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  Speaker 2: an accurate I try to explain that to her on
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  Speaker 2: the floor. Nobody's mad at Anna. We all want the
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  Speaker 2: same thing. She's a team player, she's a dear friend
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  Speaker 2: of mine. We're going to get this done. And I
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  Speaker 2: reminded her, and she said herself, you know, we have
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  Speaker 2: done this in the House now three times already. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to do it again, and I'm going to put
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  Speaker 2: it in a reconciliation bill so that we can get
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  Speaker 2: it through the Senate. The problem is there's only fifty
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  Speaker 2: three Republicans in the Senate, and to do substantive legislation,
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  Speaker 2: he needs sixty votes. There is zero chance, Shannon, that
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  Speaker 2: seven Democrats are going to help us in election integrity, because,
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  Speaker 2: as the President rightfully says, all the time they count
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  Speaker 2: on this, I think some of them allow for some
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  Speaker 2: cheating in elections because they can't win on their policies.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and you can't always count on all the Republicans
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  Speaker 1: in the Senate to stick together on critical issues either.
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  Speaker 1: So talking about reconciliation, just a few weeks ago, it
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  Speaker 1: came up in a Senate of Proporations hearing, Stori McConnell said, then,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's safe to conclude there will not be
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  Speaker 1: another reconciliation bill, so it's really not an option. Senator
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  Speaker 1: Susan Collins was sitting right next to him, and she
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  Speaker 1: followed that up, saying, I agree with that assessment. So
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  Speaker 1: what do you say to your House members who say
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  Speaker 1: we can't count on reconciliation because the Senate may not
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  Speaker 1: do it well.
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  Speaker 2: I've spoken to Leader Thuon about this quite a bit
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  Speaker 2: individual senators. I think some of that that lack of
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  Speaker 2: belief there is based upon what they think may be
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  Speaker 2: in it. What we're planning to do is send over
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  Speaker 2: a bill that will be irresistible for any Republican, really
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  Speaker 2: incredible piece of legislation that will get the job done,
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  Speaker 2: meaning that we will continue to increase affordability, We'll reduce fraud,
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  Speaker 2: waste and abuse in government, and will secure elections. Every
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  Speaker 2: Republican would vote for that if packaged correctly. And that's
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  Speaker 2: what we're planning to.
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  Speaker 1: Do right now, all right. So that's where Save America
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  Speaker 1: Acts is going to move to. The Senate is probably
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  Speaker 1: through that plan. Okay, I want to talk to you
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  Speaker 1: about the Supreme Court decision this week on birthright citizenship.
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  Speaker 1: The President tweeting afterwards, excuse me, true social He said,
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  Speaker 1: we can easily make it up in Congress through legislation.
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  Speaker 1: No long and unwieldy constitutional amendments necessary. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: conservative voices did not read the opinion that way, including
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  Speaker 1: Governor Ron DeSantis. Harvard law grad not exactly a shlouch
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  Speaker 1: in this department. He says, it's a substantive decision that
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  Speaker 1: says the fourteenth Amendment requires citizenship for those born to
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  Speaker 1: among others, birth tourists or those unlawfully present in the
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  Speaker 1: country will need either a constitutional amendment or a future
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  Speaker 1: court to overrule this. Mike Lee joining in with that
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  Speaker 1: as well, Senator saying it's going to be a long
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  Speaker 1: fight to a constitutional amendment. You I knew before Congress
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  Speaker 1: as a constitutional attorney and scholar. What say you about
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  Speaker 1: how this gets done if there's a change to be made.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I used to litigate constitutional law cases, so I
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  Speaker 2: really enjoyed Justice Clarence Thomas's dissent. Everybody should read that
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  Speaker 2: must read, and he explained that the Fourteenth Amendment, the
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  Speaker 2: original intent was to enhance and really value citizenship, and
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  Speaker 2: it's been devalued because of birthright tourism, which is what
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  Speaker 2: we have now. It's a threat to the rule of
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  Speaker 2: law and national security. We do need to address it.
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  Speaker 2: We're looking at all angles. If there's some legislative fixed,
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  Speaker 2: we'll advance that immediately. If it's a constitutional amendment, as
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  Speaker 2: you know, it takes a little more time. But we've
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  Speaker 2: got to address this. It really is a serious, serious issue.
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  Speaker 1: Time for folks to brush up on schoolhouse rock. It
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  Speaker 1: is quite a process and it isn't often done. All right, speaker,
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  Speaker 1: good to see you, Thank you so much. See you.
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