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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Rogue Recap. Hot takes, cold facts, and
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Speaker 1: zero respect for the official narrative. Sit back, roll your eyes,
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Speaker 1: and let's recap rogue style.
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Speaker 2: Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to another episode of The Rogue Recap.
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Speaker 2: I am Linda McLaughlan, your host, and I'm super stoked today.
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Speaker 2: Very rarely do I sam fangirly, but I am officially
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Speaker 2: fangirly today because I am a political nerd, and if
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Speaker 2: you're listening to the show, you know why. I'm also
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Speaker 2: a very angry nerd because I feel like people are
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Speaker 2: lying to us that should be on our side. We
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Speaker 2: have enough Democrats to kill us. Why are we killing
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Speaker 2: each other? So here to unpack a lot of this
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Speaker 2: with me is Clint Brown. He is the president of
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Speaker 2: American Path and he's the former executive director of the
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Speaker 2: US Senate Steering Committee. That means is he knows a
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Speaker 2: hell of a lot more than me about what is
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Speaker 2: going on in the Senate right now, and I think
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Speaker 2: a lot more than most of us. Clint, Welcome to
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Speaker 2: the show, my friend.
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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me, Linda, And you know I really relate.
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Speaker 3: I'm an angry nerd too, very angry about all the
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Speaker 3: stuff that's going on.
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Speaker 2: It's like I talked to people, I'm like, oh my god,
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Speaker 2: could you believe this today? Like, bro, what I'm likes
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Speaker 2: rulings three yesterday and did you hear about it? And
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Speaker 2: they're like, okay, yeah, I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
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Speaker 2: I don't actually understand the rage. So right there with you, Yeah, bro,
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Speaker 2: it's heavy and it's you know, there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: people that are out talking about the Save Act. You know,
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Speaker 2: we're watching Scott Presler, God bless him, literally walking across
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Speaker 2: the country and getting shut out of you know, at
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Speaker 2: dinner the other night with his picture on the table
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Speaker 2: in South Dakota by Senate Majority Leader Thoon, which I
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Speaker 2: was like, some things are just like you have to
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Speaker 2: see them to believe them. Like you, I saw that
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Speaker 2: video over the weekend. I'm like, I what, I cannot
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Speaker 2: believe it. It's one thing to talk, it's another thing
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Speaker 2: to behave like it And that was like that was
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Speaker 2: a raising to a different level. But your post is
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Speaker 2: why you're here. So for those of you who don't
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Speaker 2: follow Clint Brown, that's your loss. It's dissident Clint. He
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Speaker 2: is terrific he is out there, he's talking about terrific things,
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Speaker 2: and he's breaking it down like nobody else. And this
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Speaker 2: weekend he very politely called out John Cornyn and explained
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Speaker 2: that while it may be difficult, what we're trying to
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Speaker 2: do with this save act is possible, and so I'll
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Speaker 2: bring up your post. You know, it's a little hard
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Speaker 2: to read on camera, but it was so good that
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Speaker 2: I had to actually convert it into an MP four
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Speaker 2: so that everybody could see it and read it for themselves.
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Speaker 2: And if you again, dissident Clint, guys, go out and
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Speaker 2: see it. But he literally responds to John Cornyan, and
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Speaker 2: Clint just tell us a little bit about you know,
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Speaker 2: what happened when you saw this post and what has
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Speaker 2: been the reaction since you had this incredible response to him.
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Speaker 3: Well, thanks so much for complimenting the posts when you know,
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Speaker 3: I didn't think anybody would actually see it. I'm not
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Speaker 3: used to having a lot of followers on X, but
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Speaker 3: these days it happens. Since Elon bought X, so I
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Speaker 3: saw Senator Cornyn's posts about you know, armchair geniuses opining
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Speaker 3: on Senate procedure and rules and that there's no way
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Speaker 3: we can do the Same America Act, and it just
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Speaker 3: struck a nerve with me because I always found Senator
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Speaker 3: Cornyan his redeeming quality was that he was dignified, and
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Speaker 3: this was undignified. It was uncalled for to call out
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Speaker 3: people who just want the Senate to do its job
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Speaker 3: and say that they don't know what they're talking about.
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Speaker 3: It was pretty condescending, frankly, and I get it, he's lost,
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Speaker 3: things aren't going well, he's maybe having a hard time.
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Speaker 3: But I wanted to point out the truth that there
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Speaker 3: are people with expertise commenting on this. Your viewers are
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Speaker 3: reading that kind of stuff, and they know what they're
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Speaker 3: talking about. Talking filibuster will work to pass the Save
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Speaker 3: America Act. We shouldn't pretend that it won't. But that's
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Speaker 3: what they're doing.
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Speaker 2: So let me ask you. Can you explain to people
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Speaker 2: who are not actively engaged in the Senate rules, procedural rules,
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Speaker 2: legislative acts, things like that, These are people that really
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Speaker 2: just I mean, it's such an interesting concept that the
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Speaker 2: Save America Act or the Save Act has over eighty
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Speaker 2: percent on a bipartisan measure. It's incredible that eighty percent
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Speaker 2: of Americans are saying, yes, please do this because people
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Speaker 2: on both sides of the aisle think that people on
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Speaker 2: the other side of it are stealing our elections. It's
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Speaker 2: a widely agreed upon measure, and yet we cannot get
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Speaker 2: it to the floor. How does this filibuster work and
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Speaker 2: what are the options? How does that happen?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely, And you know, the Senate is a game.
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Speaker 3: The rules of the game determine how you play it.
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Speaker 3: And it's a fun game if you really learn rules.
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Speaker 3: But a lot of senators and a lot of staff
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Speaker 3: don't learn the rules. They're kind of arcane and complicated
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Speaker 3: on the surface. When you think about it, it's simple, Okay.
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Speaker 3: Everything in the Senate typically passes by sixty votes. That's
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Speaker 3: what they always tell you. Oh, we don't have sixty
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Speaker 3: votes for this, we don't have sixty votes for that.
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Speaker 3: That sixty votes is a shortcut. Pass, go and collect
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Speaker 3: two hundred dollars and monopoly. It's a shortcut around the system.
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Speaker 3: Everything in the Senate is supposed to be unlimited debate.
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Speaker 3: You can debate it until you resolve the issue. The
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Speaker 3: shortcut is with sixty votes, you can put a time
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Speaker 3: limit on the debate. You can pass, go collect two
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Speaker 3: hundred dollars. So now they don't want to do anything
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Speaker 3: unless it has that sixty vote shortcut. But we could
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Speaker 3: just not take the shortcut. The Senate could debate it
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Speaker 3: until they're tired of debating, which, let's be honest, it
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Speaker 3: wouldn't be that long. The average age is one hundred
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Speaker 3: and five. They don't have that kind of I don't
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Speaker 3: have that kind of stamina, and I'm in my thirties,
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Speaker 3: so they certainly don't have that kind of stamina. It
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Speaker 3: would last, however long it lasts, and at the end
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Speaker 3: of it, you have fifty one votes for something that
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Speaker 3: is critical for our nation, for our national security, for
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Speaker 3: voter's confidence and self government, for the entire system. It's critical.
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Speaker 3: But they can't be bothered to not take the shortcut.
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Speaker 3: That's all. It comes down to a shortcut.
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Speaker 2: Now, how do we? So this is where the rubber
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Speaker 2: meets the road, right, So I'm going to play a
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Speaker 2: couple of clips of our beloved Senator Mike Lee, which
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Speaker 2: I am constantly reposting and posting because I feel like
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Speaker 2: the thing that Mike Lee does that I find truly
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Speaker 2: impressive is he's always so level set. People are so
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Speaker 2: incredibly disrespectful to him on so many levels, and he's
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Speaker 2: always like, Wow, I'm very sorry you feel.
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Speaker 3: That way, and that's classic likely.
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Speaker 2: It's incredible where I'm like, I'd be like, all right,
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Speaker 2: take my rings. It's gonna get real. He's so great.
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Speaker 2: And so he was on an interview on Fox News
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Speaker 2: Sunday with Shannon Breem and I'm going to play it
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Speaker 2: here in a minute, and it's clear that she has
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Speaker 2: been talked to by people who do not agree with us,
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Speaker 2: and it's like, there's no way you can do this.
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Speaker 2: How are you going to do this? You don't have
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Speaker 2: and he's just like, he just goes right at her.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to play it here. They say it would
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Speaker 2: take at least months.
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Speaker 4: Your response, Shannon, Days or weeks can feel like months
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Speaker 4: or years to United States senators who want to be
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Speaker 4: doing other things. The truth is we haven't tried what
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Speaker 4: I believe it takes to get the Save America Act passed,
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Speaker 4: which is to put it on the floor and to
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Speaker 4: say we're going to debate this four weeks and we'll
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Speaker 4: stay through weekends, we'll stay through previously scheduled recesses if necessary,
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Speaker 4: but we're going to stay on this bill until it passes.
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Speaker 4: Nothing sharpens the mind, nothing hastens agreement. Nothing will bring
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Speaker 4: about face saving and perfecting amendments quite like the obligation
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Speaker 4: to stay in and debate something that is popular with
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Speaker 4: the American people when filibustering senators trying to slow it
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Speaker 4: down are becoming steadily less popular in their arguments.
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Speaker 2: Perfect answer, right, couldn't ask for it to be more succinct? No, yeah,
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Speaker 2: he really is, and again, just so eloquent in the
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Speaker 2: way he presents that argument, and yet we can't get
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Speaker 2: it done. So now we have people now I will
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Speaker 2: not name names, so I don't put you in a
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Speaker 2: weird spot. However, there are people who are speaking out
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Speaker 2: and saying I'm a co sponsor, I agree with this,
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Speaker 2: but behind closed doors are saying, don't you dare bring
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Speaker 2: this to the floor.
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Speaker 5: Now?
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Speaker 2: How do we get around these narcissists and roadblocks in
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Speaker 2: our own party? And what can we do to get
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Speaker 2: it to the floor. Not to mention, I mean, the
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Speaker 2: dang president was there having a closed door meeting saying
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Speaker 2: this is the only thing I care about. How do
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Speaker 2: we get it to the floor.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's mind boggling that they haven't brought it to
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Speaker 3: the floor. Eighty percent of Americans agree with it, ninety
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Speaker 3: five percent of Republicans, seventy one percent of Democrats, the
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Speaker 3: President of the United States, the world's richest man, Elon Musk,
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Speaker 3: we all agree with it, and yet they can't seem
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Speaker 3: to be bothered to bring it to the floor. And
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Speaker 3: a couple things are happening here. The first is yes,
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Speaker 3: like you said, there are co sponsors who are behind
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Speaker 3: closed doors saying, please, don't do this. Whatever you do.
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Speaker 3: The Senate Majority leader, Senator John Thune, really has one
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Speaker 3: power that other senators don't have. That's to be recognized
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Speaker 3: first on the floor, which allows him to schedule votes. Okay,
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Speaker 3: that's it. So his one job is to schedule the vote,
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Speaker 3: and yet he won't do it. The reason he won't
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Speaker 3: do it is because what matters most to him and
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Speaker 3: anyone in his position. This is not a character flaw,
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Speaker 3: it's it's designed this way. What matters most to him
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Speaker 3: is the opinion of the members of his conference, and
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Speaker 3: too many of them are saying quietly, we can't do this.
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Speaker 3: We have to pass this other bill, we have to
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Speaker 3: pass we have to go on our you know, congressional
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Speaker 3: delegation visit to Monaco. We can't do this. But the
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Speaker 3: reality is part of it there And this is the
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Speaker 3: second part. They are lobbyists in their office every day
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Speaker 3: making these people are good at their jobs. Lobbyists get
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Speaker 3: paid a lot of money for a reason, making very
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Speaker 3: compelling arguments that you need to pass X Y Z
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Speaker 3: bill because it's good for your constituents. And they're hearing
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Speaker 3: this constantly and they can't be They can't bring themselves
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Speaker 3: to put those things off. This is the charitable argument.
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Speaker 3: They can't bring themselves to put those things off. For
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Speaker 3: the Save America Act, they miss the forest for the trees.
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Speaker 3: The Save America Act is critical. It's critical infrastructure of
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Speaker 3: the United States. That's the way I think about And
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Speaker 3: yet these other things are nice to have. Some of
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Speaker 3: them are really important, don't get me wrong. Yeah, but
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Speaker 3: you know what's not important is that Congressional delegation trip
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Speaker 3: to Monaco or wherever it is they're going. They could
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Speaker 3: cancel their recess, stay in and get the job done.
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Speaker 2: So what you're saying to me, also in a very
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Speaker 2: polite way, is that they're lazy and that they don't
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Speaker 2: want to miss their vacation. And since they don't want
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Speaker 2: to miss their vacation and their fancy trips and being
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Speaker 2: called stupid names like senator, they won't stay and have
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Speaker 2: the vote. Is what it really comes down to.
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Speaker 3: That's exactly right. When they go on these congressional delegation trips,
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Speaker 3: they're treated like kings because they are United States senators
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Speaker 3: visiting a foreign.
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Speaker 2: Country on our dimetheless.
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Speaker 3: Often on our dime, yep, and it is it is.
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Speaker 3: It makes them feel very important. It feels like important work.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes it is important work, so it's easy to justify it.
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Speaker 3: It's a slippery slope in your mind that I need
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Speaker 3: to go on the trip. I scheduled it, I promised
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Speaker 3: i'd be there. I don't want to miss it. Some
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Speaker 3: of them want to go back and campaign. Totally get that.
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Speaker 3: You know what midterms, and you can tell me if
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Speaker 3: I'm wrong on this one, that midterms are all about
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Speaker 3: base voter turnout. If you don't give them something to
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Speaker 3: be excited about, it doesn't matter how many campaign rallies
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Speaker 3: you do, they're not going to show up.
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Speaker 2: Not to mention the fact that this has been one
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Speaker 2: I probably have and I'm not exaggerating. Fifteen shows on
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Speaker 2: the Save Act. I do a show a day. I
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Speaker 2: probably have fifteen shows on the Save Act because I
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Speaker 2: am completely and utterly mystified, and I have asked the
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Speaker 2: question of many Senators who I am at the liberty
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Speaker 2: of speaking to, who tell me things off the record.
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Speaker 2: But I'll say so, explain to me this. You have
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Speaker 2: the option to pass a bill that will one hundred
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Speaker 2: percent guarantee for the most part. Right, nothing's a guarantee.
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Speaker 2: I shouldn't say that, but for the most part. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: We're going to have American citizens born in America or
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Speaker 2: have a green card, who are actual citizens, have taken
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Speaker 2: it to the nation, are paying into a system by
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Speaker 2: which they will now have an opportunity to delegate how
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Speaker 2: those taxes are paid. YadA, YadA, YadA. And you're telling
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Speaker 2: me that you don't want to do that. How do
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Speaker 2: you think you're gonna win. You're not gonna win either.
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Speaker 2: And not only are you not gonna win, but when
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Speaker 2: you lose, no one will be there to cry for
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Speaker 2: your loss. If anything, they're gonna say, well, we told
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Speaker 2: you to pass this av Act. It's like these idiots
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Speaker 2: from the DSA that are winning in New York and
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Speaker 2: everybody's like, I don't know how they won. I'm like,
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Have you ever voted? Have you even seen
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Speaker 2: what voting is? In New York? It is a hot message.
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Speaker 2: People vote six seven eight times. They will come out
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Speaker 2: and tell you that they voted six seven eight times.
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Speaker 2: They'll bring people you've never seen before. They'll bring a
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Speaker 2: homeless person. Because you don't need to be in the roles,
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Speaker 2: you don't have to register. They're like, oh, I can't
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Speaker 2: find you, that's fine, just go in. It's insanity. And
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Speaker 2: I have voted many times in New York, so I
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Speaker 2: know exactly what it is. So it's not like one
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Speaker 2: of these things where like I've heard no, no, no, no.
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Speaker 2: I've been there, I've seen it. I've gone in as
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Speaker 2: a Republican and seen my ballot thrown out and had
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Speaker 2: to go back and say what are you doing? What
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Speaker 2: is that? And fighting and getting security involve. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I have been through it in New York. It's been
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Speaker 2: a disaster. But what I will say is, as Republicans,
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Speaker 2: I would think it would behoove them to actually have
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Speaker 2: the same Act in place to ensure that their elections
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Speaker 2: are won. Because the Democrats do not give a rip
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Speaker 2: and let me tell you something in their power that
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Speaker 2: filibuster is gone.
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Speaker 3: Out of here. That's right.
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Speaker 2: How you guys do this every day like this is
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Speaker 2: your job. You should know this. So I can't. I
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Speaker 2: cannot wrap my head around why it is that they
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Speaker 2: would not want it even if you had to miss vacation.
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Speaker 2: So you missed vacation this one summer. So let's talk
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Speaker 2: about that for one second, because I was shocked when
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Speaker 2: I heard this one of the things that people are
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Speaker 2: not paying attention to Senator Mike Lias and he posted
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Speaker 2: it the other day, God bless him that if we
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Speaker 2: don't have this done by the first week of all, guest,
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Speaker 2: it cannot be voted on because federal law has a
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Speaker 2: ninety day window that nothing can be done with regard
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Speaker 2: to voting ninety days before a federal election. Is that true?
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Speaker 3: You know, I haven't looked at it myself, But if
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Speaker 3: Senator Mike Lee says that, you know, he is a
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Speaker 3: lawyer's lawyer and he has checked it inside and out,
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Speaker 3: it's I can you can bet on him, that's for sure.
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Speaker 3: You know. One thing with that is you make such
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Speaker 3: a great point about the DSA. Yeah, they know how
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Speaker 3: to game the system and they're communists, and I am
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Speaker 3: bursting at the seams to tell you you probably saw this.
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Speaker 3: But to remind your listeners, the FBI released intelligence earlier
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Speaker 3: this year that a lot of people missed. It was
15:50
Speaker 3: it was publishing Fox, but a lot of people miss
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Speaker 3: it that showed that there's credible intelligence that the DCP
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Speaker 3: sent tens of thousands of fake drivers licenses to swing
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Speaker 3: states in twenty twenty with the intent of influencing the election.
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Speaker 3: Oh wow, the DSA communists and the CCP communists. We
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Speaker 3: think they won't join forces. I mean, it's absurd to
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Speaker 3: say it out loud, and of course they will. Of
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Speaker 3: course they will. It feels crazy, but of course they will.
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Speaker 3: We know how this works, and we also this actually happened.
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Speaker 2: No, not only did it happen, but to your point,
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Speaker 2: I miss that. I remembered reading about the fact that
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Speaker 2: Tom Homan CBP had found ballots, pre signed ballots, and
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Speaker 2: other voting paraphernalia at the border, and that people were
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Speaker 2: bringing things across and I don't know now. Mind you,
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Speaker 2: there's a huge misconception as well about our southern border
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Speaker 2: and the fact that many of the people that are
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Speaker 2: coming across the southern border are Chinese nationals, their Middle
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Speaker 2: Eastern They're not all It's not like these people are
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Speaker 2: just coming from Mexico and Central America. There's a large
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Speaker 2: constituency of people that are being sent and it's it's
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Speaker 2: a deliberate being sent. It's like, Hi, you're going to
17:07
Speaker 2: go in and you're going to steal X, Y and
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Speaker 2: Z and then you're going to come back home. Just
17:10
Speaker 2: like the vote on birthright citizenship today, I mean, if
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Speaker 2: that's not a knock, what is it? And it really
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Speaker 2: is a misrepresentation of what our constitution and what our
17:19
Speaker 2: framers intended for birthright citizenship it is it's really just
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Speaker 2: so manipulated and honestly, between Alito and Thomas today, the
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Speaker 2: frustration level, I mean, Amy Cony Barrett is just I mean,
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Speaker 2: what a disappointment every day all day. I just it is.
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Speaker 2: I get it. You adopt children from foreign countries. You
17:39
Speaker 2: have some sort of bleeding heart for this issue. That's fine.
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Speaker 2: Can you read the English words on that document because
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Speaker 2: it has nothing to do with your feelings. That's where
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Speaker 2: I get very uncomfortable with this voting. You know, it's like, okay,
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Speaker 2: like AnyWho my point is in all of this is
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Speaker 2: that we have enough obstacles against us. What I'm trying
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Speaker 2: to understand is, how do we now we have the House,
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Speaker 2: just to jump for a second, we have the House
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Speaker 2: now saying they're going to attach this to their own bills,
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Speaker 2: bills that they know that the Senate wants to pass. Obviously,
18:11
Speaker 2: reconciliation is one of these like talking things like, oh well,
18:15
Speaker 2: attach it to reconciliation. But my understanding is that's not
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Speaker 2: a real thing because that it falls under the financial
18:21
Speaker 2: jurisdiction of the Senate and actually can't be tagged on.
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Speaker 2: Is that correct?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, so it would how they envisioned it originally,
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Speaker 3: when they started talking about this, I was like dead
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Speaker 3: side against it. I'm still dead set against it. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: Because what they would do is they would give grants
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Speaker 3: to states that have secure elections that clean up their
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Speaker 3: voter role and require voter ID and proof of citizenship. Okay, well,
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Speaker 3: that's just giving money to red states who don't need it.
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Speaker 3: They're already doing the job, right. And then you still
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Speaker 3: have California in New York electing actual DSA communists to
18:59
Speaker 3: Congress with a very let's say, sketchy elections to do
19:07
Speaker 3: what they're going to do and take over Congress, so
19:09
Speaker 3: it has no effect whatsoever. And the problem with it
19:12
Speaker 3: is they'll say, oh, we did the Save America Act.
19:14
Speaker 3: We got it done. That's enough. We don't have to
19:16
Speaker 3: do anything else. That's how Congress always does it. They
19:20
Speaker 3: do a small thing and they pretend it's something, and
19:22
Speaker 3: it's not something. It's nothing. You can't take ten percent
19:27
Speaker 3: on this issue, You've got to take one hundred percent.
19:29
Speaker 2: So let me ask you. So, we have one hundred
19:32
Speaker 2: and eighty four days left in this twenty twenty six year.
19:38
Speaker 2: We have fifty two I think it is working days
19:44
Speaker 2: or something like that, and legislatively, I think they have
19:47
Speaker 2: between like thirty and fifty days in the Senate to work,
19:50
Speaker 2: which is insane. I don't know. I mean, clearly I
19:54
Speaker 2: picked the wrong line of work. I'm like, how do
19:56
Speaker 2: I get on this vac Asian plan that you people have?
20:00
Speaker 2: Really scary? So another reason why, because we're looking at
20:04
Speaker 2: this week right, we've got July fourth, and they're on
20:06
Speaker 2: vacation till is it the thirteenth or something like that.
20:09
Speaker 3: I think that's right, the thirteenth.
20:11
Speaker 2: I don't have the calendar in front of me, so
20:12
Speaker 2: I'm spitball, but something like that. Then they're back for
20:15
Speaker 2: like a few days, and then they're off again. And
20:18
Speaker 2: then if Mike Lee is correct, and we've got this
20:22
Speaker 2: first week of August deadline, which is what he posted up,
20:25
Speaker 2: and he explained that it's just part of if there's
20:27
Speaker 2: a general election, you cannot modify the changes to any
20:30
Speaker 2: of our voting ninety days before that election. So if
20:33
Speaker 2: we're looking at the first week of August, you know,
20:35
Speaker 2: I don't I think the general election this year is
20:37
Speaker 2: the fourth or the seventh, something like that, so that's
20:39
Speaker 2: the first week of November. Then that would make sense.
20:42
Speaker 2: But I'm trying to understand how we're going to get
20:46
Speaker 2: this across the finish line. It's June thirtieth, right, and
20:51
Speaker 2: these creeps are leaving part of my friend and they're
20:53
Speaker 2: leaving and they don't care. So how what can we do? Clint?
20:58
Speaker 2: What our next steps?
21:01
Speaker 3: Next steps? Well, unfortunately, the Democrats will know that they
21:05
Speaker 3: only have to last a couple of weeks once the
21:07
Speaker 3: Senate comes back in. We have two options. Try to
21:11
Speaker 3: force it through ahead of this election, see if we
21:14
Speaker 3: can get it done. It's possible, right, You never know
21:17
Speaker 3: until you try. Or we can keep working at this,
21:22
Speaker 3: try to get it done out of the twenty twenty
21:24
Speaker 3: eight election. Or I suppose, and I haven't looked at
21:27
Speaker 3: it in detail, the law could be modified. It is Congress.
21:31
Speaker 3: They do make the laws that may create political obstacles.
21:33
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I suppose the law could be
21:36
Speaker 3: modified on when elections can be affected, how many days before?
21:42
Speaker 3: Those are all options.
21:43
Speaker 2: So soon is the only one a Senate majority leader
21:47
Speaker 2: who has the authority to make the schedule and to
21:49
Speaker 2: change the schedule right right, So he could theoretically to
21:54
Speaker 2: day say we're going to vote on this. Enough is enough, Fine,
21:57
Speaker 2: you think you can do it, let's do it now.
22:00
Speaker 2: President Trump says we have fifty three votes, not including
22:03
Speaker 2: Vice President Vance. So if Vice President Vance was to
22:09
Speaker 2: preside over the Senate and allow this to come to
22:13
Speaker 2: a vote and we got to fifty three, we wouldn't
22:17
Speaker 2: even need him. But that would be a miracle. I
22:20
Speaker 2: think I'm not sure which of the rhinos. I know
22:23
Speaker 2: it's not Murkowski, I know it's not Tillus. They could
22:25
Speaker 2: care less Collins. May you know I always laugh about
22:30
Speaker 2: Collins because Collins I have this tape of Collins from
22:33
Speaker 2: when she was running for her first term, and she said,
22:36
Speaker 2: I don't believe in being a career politician. I don't
22:39
Speaker 2: believe in being in Senate for decades upon decades. I'm like, hmm, ma'am,
22:44
Speaker 2: you know these these are moments or I need to
22:47
Speaker 2: remind you. You know, Warner was the same way. I
22:49
Speaker 2: guess they all are right. They walk in with, you know,
22:51
Speaker 2: this ideology of all I'm going to make things different,
22:53
Speaker 2: and it's all the same. But I am interested in
22:56
Speaker 2: seeing if Collins would do it, and if there are
22:59
Speaker 2: other people that will then come to the other side.
23:01
Speaker 2: Because the fifty that are on board they know we're watching.
23:04
Speaker 2: They know it, so they can't leave, right.
23:07
Speaker 3: And Collin's, to her credit, is one of those fifty.
23:10
Speaker 3: She has said yes that she supports the bill, and
23:14
Speaker 3: you know, I've found her frustrating in her positions just
23:18
Speaker 3: being honest. Yeah, but at least, and I've interacted with
23:21
Speaker 3: her quite a bit. She is thoughtfulful, she's thinking, yeah,
23:27
Speaker 3: and she does her homework, and there's no way you
23:30
Speaker 3: can do your homework on this bill and not see
23:32
Speaker 3: the urgency of it. That's very hard to do.
23:36
Speaker 2: The amount of lies if we can for just a moment.
23:39
Speaker 2: I mean, I think the bill is like, is it
23:40
Speaker 2: thirty pages?
23:42
Speaker 5: Yeah?
23:42
Speaker 3: Something, it's very short.
23:43
Speaker 2: It's very short. Okay, so you know, any sensible person,
23:47
Speaker 2: let's just say it takes you a half an hour
23:48
Speaker 2: to read and reread and sort of really thoughtfully process
23:52
Speaker 2: what it is and all the things. Okay, we'll give
23:53
Speaker 2: you that. We'll give you thirty minutes of your life.
23:55
Speaker 2: You can't dedicate thirty I'm sure you've doom scrolled longer
23:58
Speaker 2: than that. Like, give me a break. You're in this document.
24:01
Speaker 2: And then we have people coming out saying, you know,
24:03
Speaker 2: married women, it's gonna be really hard. I don't know
24:05
Speaker 2: how they're gonna do it. I'm like, what's happening. Why
24:08
Speaker 2: you're saying that it's so offensive? How It's like, like, yeah, minorities,
24:13
Speaker 2: it's gonna be it's gonna be tough for them. We're
24:15
Speaker 2: worried about them voting. What it is so insulting and
24:19
Speaker 2: condescending on so many levels. And it's like we finally
24:23
Speaker 2: get it past the House, not once or twice, but
24:24
Speaker 2: three times with all that nonsense. Now it's in the
24:28
Speaker 2: Senate and we can't get Fun to make this change?
24:31
Speaker 2: How do we how do we make Fuon do that?
24:35
Speaker 2: And I'm going to play a clip here. This is
24:37
Speaker 2: Mike Lee again. I clearly have an affinity for his
24:41
Speaker 2: position on this. But Mike Lee, you know, showing the
24:44
Speaker 2: side by side of President Trump coming out with Rick
24:46
Speaker 2: Scott and Senator Fun, who looked like he was super
24:49
Speaker 2: stoked to talk to the press. I gotta tell you,
24:52
Speaker 2: he was like, yes, let's do this, President Trump so
24:55
Speaker 2: much and then like Barasso's like awkwardly in the middle.
24:58
Speaker 3: I was like, there wasn't he.
25:02
Speaker 2: I was like, what are you doing here? I'm like,
25:04
Speaker 2: you haven't said a word. You've been behind him the
25:06
Speaker 2: whole time. I mean, it's like, anyways, let's play this quickly.
25:08
Speaker 2: We'll talk on the other side.
25:11
Speaker 5: Okay, So a lot has happened today, but I've got
25:15
Speaker 5: a concern. We do have a lot to do, a
25:19
Speaker 5: lot of work that needs to be done. The Save
25:21
Speaker 5: America Act really does need to be passed. Why are
25:26
Speaker 5: we taking a recess right now? Why on earth is
25:30
Speaker 5: the Senate wanting to recess for two weeks? Now? I
25:33
Speaker 5: get it. America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday is coming up.
25:36
Speaker 5: That's great. It's all the more reason why we should
25:38
Speaker 5: finish our work. It's all the more reason why we
25:40
Speaker 5: should finish do everything we possibly can to pass the
25:44
Speaker 5: Save America Act. Instead of recessing for two weeks, only
25:48
Speaker 5: come back and work for a few weeks and then
25:51
Speaker 5: recess for another five or six weeks after that. Why
25:56
Speaker 5: why even bother to spend all this time and all
25:59
Speaker 5: this effort campaigning and running for office. If when we
26:02
Speaker 5: get here, we're constantly taking a recess, a recess at
26:06
Speaker 5: a moment when the Republican Party controls the House and
26:10
Speaker 5: the Senate and the White House, why why do we
26:13
Speaker 5: do this? There's got to be a better way, a
26:16
Speaker 5: way that doesn't constantly involve saying, oh wait, we got
26:19
Speaker 5: to take a recess. We've got to leave the American
26:24
Speaker 5: people that deserve better than this. They deserve to have
26:27
Speaker 5: free and fair elections, and we got to fix it.
26:30
Speaker 2: It's literally what we just said, So why are they
26:34
Speaker 2: Why are they doing it? It really is just ego,
26:37
Speaker 2: pomp and circumstance. We want to take our vacation. That's it?
26:40
Speaker 2: Is that that what you think?
26:42
Speaker 3: That is it? And you know interestingly on this I
26:46
Speaker 3: track pretty closely the systems and the Senate that alert
26:52
Speaker 3: you when something is going to happen. Okay, and there's
26:55
Speaker 3: a thing that can happen in the Senate called unanimous consent.
26:57
Speaker 3: Your viewers are very educated on the stuff we know.
27:00
Speaker 3: Forgive me for spelling it out, but unanimous consent. Any
27:03
Speaker 3: senator can go down to the floor and ask consent
27:06
Speaker 3: to do something, and if no one objects, it happens.
27:10
Speaker 3: They didn't send out the normal alert for this adjournment.
27:15
Speaker 3: I looked, it was not there. So yeah, any senator
27:23
Speaker 3: could have gone down and objected, and we know some
27:25
Speaker 3: would have, but they didn't. They didn't send out the
27:27
Speaker 3: normal alert. A lot of people didn't realize they're objecting
27:29
Speaker 3: normally they I mean adjourning Normally, they adjourn on a Thursday.
27:34
Speaker 3: This past week, they adjourned on a Wednesday night, So
27:38
Speaker 3: it was not expected if I had my days right there,
27:42
Speaker 3: And and.
27:43
Speaker 2: Why did they do that, Clint, Why did they adjourn
27:45
Speaker 2: on Wednesday night?
27:47
Speaker 3: Well, they wanted to get out of town. They felt
27:49
Speaker 3: like they had done such a great job that they
27:51
Speaker 3: deserved to go home. But they you know, if anybody
27:58
Speaker 3: had objected, they would have simply had a vote and
28:00
Speaker 3: voted to adjourn, and everyone would have been on record
28:02
Speaker 3: is wanting to take this recess. And they didn't want
28:05
Speaker 3: to be on record. That's why they didn't send around
28:08
Speaker 3: the alert. And so senators that had talked about not
28:11
Speaker 3: adjourneying took a lot of heat for allowing the adjournal,
28:14
Speaker 3: which is pretty unfair because they didn't want to adjourn.
28:17
Speaker 2: So who sends out the adjournment?
28:20
Speaker 3: It comes from an internal system and ultimately it's the
28:23
Speaker 3: Majority leader that decides if they're going to make a
28:26
Speaker 3: motion to adjourn, would be and some stafford sends the notice.
28:31
Speaker 2: So said staffer was told by the Majority leader's office,
28:35
Speaker 2: do not send that notice that we are adjourning.
28:39
Speaker 3: It could be and it could be that they didn't
28:40
Speaker 3: even realize that the adjournment was going to happen because
28:43
Speaker 3: it happened earlier than expected, so they didn't include it
28:45
Speaker 3: in their usual notice. I hate to throw any staffer
28:47
Speaker 3: under the bus because it's probably in their twenties.
28:50
Speaker 2: No, yeah, yeah, were doing what they're told to.
28:53
Speaker 3: Do, right, We're not told Maybe they weren't even told
28:57
Speaker 3: it was going to.
28:57
Speaker 2: Happen, right, Okay, So that's corrupt.
29:01
Speaker 3: Well, something happened that was not on the up and up,
29:04
Speaker 3: that's for sure. Yes, corrupt. You're right.
29:06
Speaker 2: And I will say this and I don't know if
29:08
Speaker 2: you can comment on this, but don't. I really don't
29:12
Speaker 2: know all that much about food other than he's a
29:14
Speaker 2: career like many others. And I've been doing a ton
29:18
Speaker 2: of research into his family, his wife and his daughter specifically,
29:22
Speaker 2: which ironically, so were a lot of other people. And
29:24
Speaker 2: I started picking up on that research and I was like, so,
29:27
Speaker 2: we've got two women living in the house with this guy,
29:30
Speaker 2: both Democrats, both giving to these packs that are funding
29:35
Speaker 2: all of the people that we fight against on a
29:37
Speaker 2: regular basis on the left, including Pelosi, and uh, why
29:43
Speaker 2: is this happening? So to me, there's i mean, putting
29:47
Speaker 2: aside the obvious, you know, Twitter fodder of oh, he
29:51
Speaker 2: was the only one wearing a blue tie at the lunch,
29:53
Speaker 2: which clearly he didn't get the memo. Maybe that was
29:55
Speaker 2: lost with the adjournment. Notice I don't know, but you know,
29:58
Speaker 2: it was a little odd. But there's all this, you know,
30:01
Speaker 2: rumor mill So I started researching. I'm like, is this true? Like,
30:05
Speaker 2: because you can't believe everything you read you have to
30:07
Speaker 2: do your you have to do due diligence. But his
30:09
Speaker 2: daughter is that person. She is raising money much. I
30:13
Speaker 2: would say it's between eighty and ninety percent of it
30:15
Speaker 2: go to Democrat candidates.
30:17
Speaker 3: Not Republicans. You're telling me this for the first time.
30:20
Speaker 3: I had not heard it. That's wild.
30:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I was like, okay, well that would make
30:25
Speaker 2: a lot of sense as to why John thun And
30:26
Speaker 2: he's like, oh, my daughter, I'm so proud of her.
30:28
Speaker 2: I'm like, uh, okay, it doesn't mean that your daughter
30:31
Speaker 2: can't think differently than you. Obviously, not of us have
30:33
Speaker 2: that in our family. So I'm willing to play devil's advocate,
30:36
Speaker 2: even against myself as I say it. But like when
30:38
Speaker 2: your wife and your daughter are like, yeah, yeah, we
30:40
Speaker 2: hate Republicans, I'm like, I'm starting to feel like that's
30:43
Speaker 2: awkward for a fune. And maybe as we saw in
30:47
Speaker 2: previous tweets and posts where he was Fourpence not Trump,
30:52
Speaker 2: you know, he's obviously has you know. It's It's the
30:55
Speaker 2: thing about social media is it doesn't go away, so
30:57
Speaker 2: you can go back, you can look at those previous
30:59
Speaker 2: posts and it looks like he wasn't always a huge
31:01
Speaker 2: fan of our president, which is fine. Not everybody has
31:04
Speaker 2: to like everybody. But I feel like this one issue
31:07
Speaker 2: is not a Trump issue. This is an America issue.
31:12
Speaker 2: This is not about Trump because Trump's got a couple
31:14
Speaker 2: more years and he's done this is this is about
31:17
Speaker 2: a nation like do you have children? Do you have grandchildren?
31:19
Speaker 6: Like?
31:19
Speaker 2: Do you not care at all about That's that's kind
31:23
Speaker 2: of like my pivot point of Okay, so we have
31:26
Speaker 2: to get Thoon. He is the only person that can
31:29
Speaker 2: change the schedule and bring this to the floor.
31:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, pretty much. You know, it's really you've got
31:36
Speaker 3: to win over the Senators and the conference to get
31:39
Speaker 3: through to do it. So, so who is that it's
31:43
Speaker 3: a double secret?
31:44
Speaker 2: Is that Kennedy? Is that? Like? Who is it?
31:48
Speaker 3: You know, Haggarty is is great. I imagine he's a
31:50
Speaker 3: warrior on.
31:51
Speaker 2: This, he said, He said as much to me as well.
31:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, but as far as the specific people, you know,
31:58
Speaker 3: it's really hard to say because they say in public
32:01
Speaker 3: one thing and they say in private another. And I'm
32:03
Speaker 3: not privy to those private conversations. But anybody who we frankly,
32:08
Speaker 3: we should pressure them all. They should all be pressuring
32:11
Speaker 3: Doom the more pressure our guys feel to do this,
32:17
Speaker 3: the more authority they'll have within the conference in cycle.
32:20
Speaker 3: Republicans should certainly feel the heat on this, and they
32:25
Speaker 3: may take the cornint approach that, oh, this is demoralizing
32:28
Speaker 3: our base because they think we can do something that
32:30
Speaker 3: we can't. That's not good enough. What's demoralizing the base
32:34
Speaker 3: is that we haven't voted on it. So you know,
32:38
Speaker 3: I think pressuring everybody at this point is what it's
32:40
Speaker 3: going to take. I do think we're closer than the
32:43
Speaker 3: Washington establishment will give us credit for. You never know
32:47
Speaker 3: where a senator stands until you put a binary choice
32:50
Speaker 3: in front of them, because they will say something to
32:52
Speaker 3: influence the outcome. If it's not a binary choice, they
32:55
Speaker 3: want a third option. But if it's yes or no
32:59
Speaker 3: vote in the Save America Act, then you know where
33:01
Speaker 3: they stand, right And I think that a lot of
33:05
Speaker 3: them would really support this if they had the opportunity
33:08
Speaker 3: to vote on it. We've seen it. They had the
33:09
Speaker 3: opportunity and amendments and fifty of them voted for it.
33:13
Speaker 2: So yeah, I guess my question is, and you know,
33:19
Speaker 2: I saw that John Cordon had put out this ridiculous
33:23
Speaker 2: note he was so mad that, you know, he was
33:26
Speaker 2: saying that the talking filibuster, you know, is ridiculous and
33:29
Speaker 2: we can't do it and this is a waste of time.
33:31
Speaker 2: And he listed all of these reasons. And I mentioned
33:34
Speaker 2: this before that he's got this beautiful stationary, you know,
33:38
Speaker 2: with the letterhead of the Senate Seal and all the things.
33:41
Speaker 2: And I'm like, you took all this time to write
33:44
Speaker 2: down all the things that we can't do. Why don't
33:47
Speaker 2: you take five minutes and talk about what we can do.
33:50
Speaker 2: We could use a little help right now. And I
33:52
Speaker 2: don't know if he's just mad like him and the
33:54
Speaker 2: other one, Cassidy, or so pissed off because they lost
33:58
Speaker 2: and they're getting kicked out anyway. Maybe they just don't care.
34:01
Speaker 2: But there, I mean, I give out the Senate number
34:03
Speaker 2: two two two two four thirty one twenty one, Sad
34:06
Speaker 2: that it's memorized, Sad that it's in my head again,
34:08
Speaker 2: angry nerd. But I invite people to call all the time,
34:12
Speaker 2: and it's I feel like it's just deaf ears, even me.
34:14
Speaker 2: I mean, I've been in this game a very long time.
34:17
Speaker 2: I can talk to them one on one and they're like, yeah, Lynn, sorry, Yeah,
34:21
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know what to do. Why
34:24
Speaker 2: why don't you know what to do? That's literally your
34:25
Speaker 2: job and they just won't do it. I just don't know.
34:30
Speaker 2: You know. Fun is doing these closed door dinners and luncheons.
34:34
Speaker 2: He's having interviews where they pre interview and they tell
34:37
Speaker 2: them what they're they can and can't ask, and then
34:40
Speaker 2: he goes on and he does these BS interviews where
34:43
Speaker 2: they never ask him about the Save America Act. And
34:45
Speaker 2: then on the rare occasions when he's in those press
34:48
Speaker 2: corps in the rotunda and they say to him, why
34:50
Speaker 2: won't you do this? And he's like, well, their votes
34:53
Speaker 2: aren't there. Well allow the talking filibuster. And he's just
34:56
Speaker 2: like because the answer is yes, I can do that,
35:00
Speaker 2: And yes we could, and we could have a talking filibuster,
35:03
Speaker 2: and we could have every Senator come up and defend
35:06
Speaker 2: their position on why or why they would not vote
35:08
Speaker 2: for the Save Act.
35:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, and as.
35:10
Speaker 2: The American people were, what do we do other than
35:13
Speaker 2: call that number? We have no recourse, right, we.
35:15
Speaker 3: Have nothing voting pushing them. I think it all helps.
35:19
Speaker 3: Every bit of noise helps.
35:21
Speaker 5: You know.
35:21
Speaker 3: What was really interesting to me about that stationary letter
35:25
Speaker 3: that you just put up from corn In. That is
35:29
Speaker 3: a pocket card that staffers prepare for their boss to
35:33
Speaker 3: be able to have some talking points handy on an
35:36
Speaker 3: issue because they're, you know, and fairness, they're jumping from
35:38
Speaker 3: issue to issue. They're going from a meeting on fish
35:42
Speaker 3: farms one hundred percent that's happening to satellites to oh
35:47
Speaker 3: Save America Act. So they need the talking points. It's
35:49
Speaker 3: not a knock on hand, but the talking points are
35:53
Speaker 3: what One why is he posting a picture of his
35:55
Speaker 3: talking points? Two? They're wrong. A lot of staff and
36:00
Speaker 3: senators don't know the rules of the Senate. He says
36:04
Speaker 3: that the Democrats will be able to offer unlimited amendments.
36:06
Speaker 3: I think this is on that pocket card. But nonetheless
36:08
Speaker 3: he said in another context that's not true. They would
36:12
Speaker 3: be able to offer as many amendments as they want.
36:15
Speaker 3: The Republicans could table each one. And the way they
36:18
Speaker 3: frame this is for each new amendment that triggers new
36:21
Speaker 3: speeches in the filibuster for Democrats, the Democrats will be
36:24
Speaker 3: limited to two speeches each. So at a certain point
36:28
Speaker 3: you run out of time. Right, as long as they
36:30
Speaker 3: can talk two times, that's it. But every amendment that
36:33
Speaker 3: you add triggers two new speeches unless it is tabled,
36:39
Speaker 3: and it can be tabled at fifty one votes with
36:43
Speaker 3: no debate means no speeches. So any amendment that Democrats
36:48
Speaker 3: put up, Republicans like John Cornyn could vote to table it,
36:53
Speaker 3: but that's not on the pocket card. It's just impossible.
36:56
Speaker 3: We couldn't possibly do it because there'll be a number. Well,
36:59
Speaker 3: there's only forty nine Democrats, which means there's only ninety
37:02
Speaker 3: eight speeches, which is a limited time. Unless they had
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Speaker 3: amendments and Republicans don't table them. It doesn't make any sense.
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Speaker 3: Why don't they know this? It's spelled out in black
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Speaker 3: and white and rules. There's only sixteen rules. It's not
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Speaker 3: that hard.
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Speaker 2: So do you think that he knows that? And just so,
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Speaker 2: I guess my last time asking you this aside from.
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Speaker 6: Vacation, truly, these are people who are in like one
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Speaker 6: of the most powerful bodies of our government and they
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Speaker 6: don't want to vote for this only because of vacation
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Speaker 6: or is there some other like is it no, we're
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Speaker 6: not giving Trump this win?
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Speaker 3: It could be that, Oh yeah, it could be that.
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Speaker 3: For sure. There's some of them that do not want
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Speaker 3: to give Trump this whin. There's some of them that
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Speaker 3: they don't want to be forced into this long talking filibuster.
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Speaker 3: They spend themselves up into these ideas that voting to
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Speaker 3: table these amendments. Oh, the Democrats are going to put
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Speaker 3: up something really tough for us to vote against, like
37:59
Speaker 3: we're going to vot against an amendment to give everybody
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Speaker 3: in America a puppy, And they'll run ads saying that
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Speaker 3: we hate puppies. Well, no, they're not as good at
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Speaker 3: it as we ever think they are, the Democrats. It's
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Speaker 3: a base turnout election and Democrats know that. So what
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Speaker 3: they will put up is not gotcha amendments for Republicans,
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Speaker 3: maybe one or two, but they'll put up amendments that
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Speaker 3: excite their base, like I don't know, LGBTQ, handicapped, two
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Speaker 3: spirited Native Americans get to vote three times. They'll put
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Speaker 3: up something ridiculous like that, and it will be very
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Speaker 3: easy for Republicans to vote to table it. That's going
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Speaker 3: to be the majority of it. But they're very deathly
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Speaker 3: afraid of having to take any tough votes. The reality
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Speaker 3: is that's a fundraising game, and they don't want to
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Speaker 3: spend their money defending those ads. They want to spend
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Speaker 3: their money, and they want people to spend money on
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Speaker 3: them about the bills that K Street wants them to consider.
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Speaker 3: So they don't want to give up their vacation, but
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Speaker 3: they also don't want to give up the bills the
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Speaker 3: K Street wants them to consider. And I made the
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Speaker 3: charitable case for that earlier. The uncharitable case for that
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Speaker 3: is they have been given campaign donations. They raise a
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Speaker 3: lot of money, and I'm not against campaign donations from lobbyists.
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Speaker 3: I'm not against lobbyists. I think they're very important. But
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Speaker 3: they raise a lot of money promising that things will
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Speaker 3: get done, and if you throw off the schedule, those
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Speaker 3: things don't get done.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of there's a lot of competing agendas,
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Speaker 2: and those competing agendas unfortunately put the American people last.
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Speaker 2: And my fear is that people are talking about Iran
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Speaker 2: and oil prices and everything else. None of that matters
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Speaker 2: as much as the Save Act. It really doesn't.
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Speaker 3: That's right, That's exactly right. And I've heard from senators
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Speaker 3: we really have to focus on kitchen table issues, economic issues.
39:50
Speaker 3: You do, but those people actually care if their vote
39:54
Speaker 3: counts they do. That's their last line of defense. You
39:57
Speaker 3: can fix the economic issues, but if they can't vote
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Speaker 3: to fix them in the future, then they feel like
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Speaker 3: it's all in your hands and not in theirs.
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Speaker 2: And now you're electing people. And I'll end with this
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Speaker 2: because I really do think that this is an incredibly
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Speaker 2: important point. You know, Hassan Piker and this I'm going
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Speaker 2: to tie this in. You're going to go huh. Hassan
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Speaker 2: Piker was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He was
40:20
Speaker 2: raised in Istanbul, Turkey. He was raised there until he
40:24
Speaker 2: was eighteen when he came back to the United States
40:28
Speaker 2: to go to school and to vote and to do
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Speaker 2: all the things that he's doing. So he is the
40:35
Speaker 2: exact example of birthright citizenship going awry, being raised in
40:41
Speaker 2: a mindset against Western democracy, and now working with communists
40:46
Speaker 2: to take over local and federal seats in our government.
40:52
Speaker 2: Whether you're an assemblyman to a senator, I mean we
40:55
Speaker 2: have nine to eleven sympathizers from Hassan to this I
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Speaker 2: your host woman in Colorado to say Ed in Michigan.
41:04
Speaker 2: You name it and it is. I mean, we are
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Speaker 2: literally in a point of time right now where We're
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Speaker 2: looking at the twenty fifth anniversary of nine to eleven,
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Speaker 2: the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our nation, and
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Speaker 2: people are saying we deserve it. I'm not proud to
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Speaker 2: be American. And nine to eleven was a response to
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Speaker 2: all of your actions. That is what is going into
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Speaker 2: the House and Senate. That's why the SA Act matters.
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Speaker 2: It's not about your trip to Monaco.
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Speaker 3: No, And it boggles my mind that they don't understand
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Speaker 3: how fragile all of this is an actual Marxist Aslamist.
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Speaker 2: Yes that psychopadical I said today on another show, I said,
41:45
Speaker 2: you know what, I would like to see every single
41:47
Speaker 2: one of these people who say we agree with the DSA.
41:52
Speaker 2: There's a place for them in the Democrat Party. Okay,
41:54
Speaker 2: here's what I'd like you to do, Chris van Holland,
41:57
Speaker 2: why don't you go take a nice little spot over
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Speaker 2: in Venezuela, spend a year there. Okay, then come back
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Speaker 2: in a year and tell me how bad the country is.
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Speaker 2: I would love to see that. You seem to like
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Speaker 2: to travel to visit gang members. I think that would
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Speaker 2: be a good fit for you. Go ahead, have a
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Speaker 2: great time. We'll see you later. That is what we
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Speaker 2: need them to do. Please go and get some life experience.
42:18
Speaker 2: All these twenty five to thirty five year old candidates
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Speaker 2: talking about socialism. I mean, Kiro's off the beaten path
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Speaker 2: just a little bit here, but Kiro's literally said today
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Speaker 2: she goes, you're a school bus, says the trains. It's
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Speaker 2: all socialism. It's all ma'am that Oh my god. I'm like,
42:36
Speaker 2: what is happening. I'm like, no, that's not it. It's
42:39
Speaker 2: called okay, you know what. Well, anyways, Clint Brown, you
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Speaker 5: Well.
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