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Sen. Thune issues MAJOR warning_ 'We're in big trouble' · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Meanwhile, back on Capitol Hill, Congress failed to
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  Speaker 1: reauthorize FIZA Section seven oh two on Friday, which is
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  Speaker 1: considered one of the premier intelligence gathering tools for America's
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  Speaker 1: spy agencies. The controversial program allows the intelligence community to
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  Speaker 1: see who is communicating with whom via phone, email, or
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  Speaker 1: text of foreign targets outside of the United States, but
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  Speaker 1: many times Americans are swept up incidentally and it may
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  Speaker 1: in which many constitutional scholars see is a violation of
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  Speaker 1: the Fourth Amendment, providing protection from unreasonable searchers and seizures
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  Speaker 1: by government. The failure to pass the PISA extension came
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  Speaker 1: after President Trump installed William Paulty as Acting Director of
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  Speaker 1: National Intelligence, causing bipartisan blowback on Capitol Hill. On Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: President Trump nominated former SEC Chairman j Clayton for the
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  Speaker 1: position to replace Telsey Gabbert. Majority Leader John Thune joined
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  Speaker 1: me this week on Mornings with Maria on Fox Business
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  Speaker 1: to explain why the Senate has not advanced more of
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  Speaker 1: the President's priorities. The President is calling on you to
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  Speaker 1: immediately fire the Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth McDonough to clear the
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  Speaker 1: way for passage of the SAVE America Act. Let me
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  Speaker 1: get your take on this. I mean, the President wrote
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  Speaker 1: on truth Social we have every right to change her
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  Speaker 1: and should do so immediately. As long as she's there,
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  Speaker 1: we will never get out desperately needed Save America Act
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  Speaker 1: approved and put into full force and effect. Is that true, Senator?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, America, this is an eighty twenty issue, right.
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  Speaker 1: People want to be able to have rules in place
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  Speaker 1: that you show ID that you have proof of citizenship
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  Speaker 1: to vote. How come we can't get this across the
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  Speaker 1: finish line?
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  Speaker 2: Well, because we don't have the votes. And for me,
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  Speaker 2: it's a function of math, and we are and it's
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  Speaker 2: a popular issue with the American public. But the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: in the Senate have block voted against many of the
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  Speaker 2: things you just mentioned, and we have put those votes
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  Speaker 2: on the floor. The issue with respect to the parliamentarian
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  Speaker 2: is one where even under reconciliation, it has to be
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  Speaker 2: principally about budget and not policy.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything more you could be doing to stop
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats from upbending President Trump's agenda? I mean, when
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  Speaker 1: you look at just two weeks ago when you all
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  Speaker 1: left and you had a June first deadline to deliver
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  Speaker 1: that to the President's desk the reconciliation on immigration, and
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  Speaker 1: you didn't Was that because of the anti Weaponization Fund?
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  Speaker 1: Was it because of the ballroom? Was it because the
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  Speaker 1: President supported Ken Paxton? What was it?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I think it was probably at that point a
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  Speaker 2: combination of all the above. But I do think the
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  Speaker 2: announcement of the weaponization fund timing wise, was very detrimental
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  Speaker 2: to consideration of the reconciliation bill. There were, as you
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  Speaker 2: probably heard, we had a very raucous meeting with Todd
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  Speaker 2: blanche in which he came in and answered questions, But
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  Speaker 2: there were a ton of Republican senators who were prepared
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  Speaker 2: at that point to vote for amendments on the floor
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  Speaker 2: on that issue, and we felt like, rather than proceed
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  Speaker 2: and lose on the floor, we wanted to do our
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  Speaker 2: work and ensure that when we brought it to the
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  Speaker 2: floor that we could prevail on a lot of these
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  Speaker 2: amendment votes, and ultimately we did. But I guess I
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  Speaker 2: would say that you know, you have to the calculation
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  Speaker 2: I have to make and our team has to make
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  Speaker 2: is do we have fifty votes? Can we win? And
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  Speaker 2: it's a function of math, and obviously the president wants
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  Speaker 2: things done. Some of which you know, we've tried to
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  Speaker 2: do through reconciliation, some of which have to get done
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  Speaker 2: through regular order, and we have to go through regular order.
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  Speaker 2: It's a sixty vote threshold in the Senate, and as
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  Speaker 2: I said, there aren't anywhere close to the requisite number
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  Speaker 2: of votes to change that. Notwithstanding the President and others
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  Speaker 2: out there who are clamoring for that, it's just not
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  Speaker 2: going to happen. So that we've got a deal in
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  Speaker 2: the real world. And if we had put that bill
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  Speaker 2: on the floor before that break, we were lost.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you had a conversation and talked with President Trump
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  Speaker 1: about the Texas primary race. You wanted him to support
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  Speaker 1: John Cornyn. He ended up supporting Ken Paxton. Will you
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  Speaker 1: get behind Ken Paxton? Support him? Absolutely?
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  Speaker 2: I mean them last week we've been in touch obviously
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  Speaker 2: working with his campaign. We have to keep Texas read
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  Speaker 2: it is essential to protecting and preserving our majority of
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  Speaker 2: the United States Senate. If we lose Texas, we're in
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  Speaker 2: big trouble. So you know, obviously John corn is somebody
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  Speaker 2: that's admired and respected in our conference. And yes, I
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  Speaker 2: made my arguments to the President on his behalf. He's
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  Speaker 2: in my view of very effective conservative senator for the
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  Speaker 2: state of Texas. But now we've got to get behind
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  Speaker 2: Ken Paxton.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like the Democrats will just use any excuse
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  Speaker 1: to stop the president. Now it's Bill Paulty. They don't,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how came Jeffrey said over the weekend he
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  Speaker 1: will not support the extension of Section seven oh two
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  Speaker 1: of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that expires this week
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  Speaker 1: FIZA unless the President withdraws his nomination for Bill Paulty.
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  Speaker 2: And you say, well, that's an irresponsible position on behalf
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  Speaker 2: of the Democrats. Another irresponsible position, and it goes along
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  Speaker 2: with open borders. Defund the police sanctuary cities. Now we're
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  Speaker 2: going to def fund the intelligence gathering capability that has
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  Speaker 2: been responsible for ninety percent of the drug bus that
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  Speaker 2: we've had and has prevented terrorist attacks. It is a tool,
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  Speaker 2: it's a national security tool. It needs to be reauthorized.
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  Speaker 2: The Democrats have indicated, and they did. We moved to
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  Speaker 2: proceed to it last week. They block voted against it.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to take care of the business of national security.
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  Speaker 2: If we don't get that right, the rest is conversation.
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  Speaker 2: And the Democrats right now are dug in over this
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  Speaker 2: polty issue, and it's an irresponsible position to take.
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  Speaker 1: Why are they so dug in center?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think they view him as part
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  Speaker 2: of quote weaponization at the housing agencies and are at
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  Speaker 2: least fearful or they're saying that this is that they
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  Speaker 2: think he'll do this in the intelligence world. These things
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  Speaker 2: are totally unrelated.
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  Speaker 1: Do you support a one and a half trillion dollars
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  Speaker 1: defense budget at twenty seven support?
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  Speaker 2: I support it conceptually. As a practical matter, we can't
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  Speaker 2: get there that fast, but we do need to move
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  Speaker 2: in that direction. If we're asking all these European nations
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  Speaker 2: to up their defense spending in NATO, and so we've
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  Speaker 2: got to do the same.
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