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Don't Be Stupid, Thune! | Episode 340 · V

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  Speaker 1: Everybody, welcome to Vince on a Tuesday. Great to have
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: you with us as always. Appreciate you for being here.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: We got a big show ahead.
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  Speaker 1: John Thune is making all sorts of ridiculous excuses again
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  Speaker 1: for why he hasn't done the right thing and passed
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  Speaker 1: the Save America Act.
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  Speaker 2: And the president of the United States has issued him
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  Speaker 2: a warning. Don't be stupid.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Don't be stupid. I'm going to take you through that.
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: We've got some updates on that subject. Also, the Biden
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  Speaker 1: files have been released. That's exactly right. The Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: conversations with his ghostwriter, because of course he didn't write
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  Speaker 1: his own book, have been released. And now we have
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  Speaker 1: audio of Joe Biden admitting to stealing classified documents.
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  Speaker 2: Yet he was never charged for this.
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  Speaker 3: Why is that?
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  Speaker 1: The latest from the Biden files. coming out ahead on
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  Speaker 1: the program, and so much more to get to. Doug Burgum,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Josh, for that call out.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so look, the President of the United States throwing
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  Speaker 1: down with John Thune yesterday. As we were concluding this
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  Speaker 1: fine podcast Monday morning, and I just got done telling
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  Speaker 1: you about all the ways the Save America Act needs
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  Speaker 1: to be passed and is not yet passed, and also
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  Speaker 1: about the number of senators who are saying they're not
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  Speaker 1: going to allow the Senate to go into recess, not easily,
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  Speaker 1: at least, because they want the Save America Act.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about that yesterday. I That list has grown.
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  Speaker 2: We've got more senators now. I'll get to that coming up.
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  Speaker 1: But right as we ended the show, the president of
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  Speaker 1: the United States, perhaps listening to the program in the background,
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of his busy schedule, he declared on
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  Speaker 1: Truth Social that the Q2 time is over, maybe, to
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  Speaker 1: borrow that phrase from Dan Bongino. He said, John Thune
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  Speaker 1: needs to stop being stupid. He said it right as
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  Speaker 1: our program ended yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Take a look at this. Here's the president.
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  Speaker 1: He says, John Thune should not allow the United States
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  Speaker 1: Senate to leave town until it passes the Save America Act.
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  Speaker 2: I think that deserves a gavel.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: The Save America Act, or far better still, terminates the filibuster,
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  Speaker 1: where Republicans can then quickly pass everything they've ever dreamed of,
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  Speaker 1: including a full and deep-throated Save America Act. A deep-throated
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  Speaker 1: Save America Act.
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  Speaker 2: That's all he wants. Is that too much to ask?
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  Speaker 1: The budget and the ever-looming debt ceiling disaster.
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  Speaker 4: 1929.
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  Speaker 2: The Democrats will do it on day one, he says.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe how lucky they got with this Senate leadership. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: stupidity always brings losing and death.
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  Speaker 2: Losing and death.
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  Speaker 1: President D.J.T. I love yesterday there were some reporters reacting
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  Speaker 1: to this.
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  Speaker 2: Losing and death. I can't believe he said losing and death.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have losing and death on my bingo card.
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  Speaker 2: Losing and death. He's right, though, about this.
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  Speaker 1: Stupidity does bring losing and death. Weakness brings losing and death.
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  Speaker 1: A loss for the United States of America, a loss
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  Speaker 1: for election integrity. And suffering always ensues out of chaos.
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  Speaker 1: History has shown this.
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  Speaker 2: Over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 1: The Republican Party under President Trump needs to be the
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  Speaker 1: party that brings order to our country, that stops the chaos.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're asking for here. And so there's the
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  Speaker 1: president yesterday making that point. Now, what ensued was a whole,
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  Speaker 1: not a whole bunch, a couple more Republicans joining the
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  Speaker 1: fight to say, yeah, no recess. No recess at all.
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  Speaker 1: Rick Scott saying no recess. The Florida senator yesterday, I
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  Speaker 1: told you about, I believe I told you about Rick
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  Speaker 1: Scott yesterday. Tommy Tuberville joined the list yesterday. Thank God
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  Speaker 1: for Tommy Tuberville. We love Tommy Tuberville. Great, great senator
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  Speaker 1: from Alabama. He said yesterday, you know, the Senate's done nothing.
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  Speaker 2: To deserve a five-week break.
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  Speaker 1: We haven't funded the military. We're about to let Democrats
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  Speaker 1: shut down the government. And our elections still are not secure.
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  Speaker 1: The House has passed hundreds of bills. Other than the
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  Speaker 1: one big, beautiful bill all the Senate has done is
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  Speaker 1: pass bills rebuking Trump and giving Democrats handouts.
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  Speaker 2: Get them, Taberville.
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  Speaker 3: Get them.
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  Speaker 2: Get them, coach.
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  Speaker 1: We've lost sight of the fact that our job is
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  Speaker 1: to deliver results for the American people. There's no issue
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  Speaker 1: I hear more about when I'm back home in Alabama
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  Speaker 1: than securing our elections. Under communists Joe Biden and Barack Obama,
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  Speaker 1: more than 15 million.
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  Speaker 2: Third world illegals invaded our country.
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  Speaker 1: These illegals are costing the American taxpayers billions of dollars,
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  Speaker 1: and they're planning to vote in our midterm elections in
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  Speaker 1: just 99 days. Because of this, the traditions of the
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  Speaker 1: Senate should no longer apply. The American people didn't vote
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  Speaker 1: for a Republican Party obsessed with preserving their own power
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  Speaker 1: through the manufactured filibuster. They voted for a Republican Party
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  Speaker 1: that campaigned on fighting back against the tens of millions
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  Speaker 1: of third world illegals who came here under Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: and are looking to destroy this country. If we don't
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  Speaker 1: pass the Save America Act before November, Democrats will steal
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  Speaker 1: the 2026 and 2028 elections. And we will go back
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  Speaker 1: to Joe Biden's immigration policy on steroids under the new
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  Speaker 1: communist Democrat Party.
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  Speaker 2: Now's the time to dig in. Eliminate the manufactured filibuster.
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  Speaker 1: Start a new Senate tradition of actually getting things done
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  Speaker 1: for the Constitution.
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  Speaker 2: And the American people.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be joining Senator Mike Lee in voting against any
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  Speaker 1: attempt to adjourn for recess. Americans did not send us
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  Speaker 1: to D.C. to take a vacation. They sent us here
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  Speaker 1: to preserve the greatest country on earth. Coach Tommy Tuberville.
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  Speaker 2: Can I get an amen? for Coach Tommy Tuberville. Amen, Coach.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being in this fight. He's joined today
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  Speaker 1: by Darlene Graham, the South Carolina Senator, the new South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina Senator. That's a good way to audition for the job.
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  Speaker 1: Actually fight for what we want. Darlene Graham says she
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  Speaker 1: is not going to support going into recess. She will
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  Speaker 1: object to the unanimous consent. Bill Hagerty, Tennessee also says,
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  Speaker 1: I stand ready to stay in Washington through the August
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  Speaker 1: recess as long as it takes to get the Save
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  Speaker 1: America Act passed.
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  Speaker 2: So the list is growing. We're at seven.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Lee, Rick Scott, Ashley Moody, Jim Banks, Tommy Tuberville,
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  Speaker 1: Bill Hagerty, and Darlene Graham are all on our side.
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  Speaker 2: We've got patriots, ladies and gentlemen. But we also have
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  Speaker 2: a lot.
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  Speaker 1: More Republican senators who are not announcing their support of
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  Speaker 1: this yet. That is to forego their vacation to get
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  Speaker 1: this done. And that list needs to grow. Please keep
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  Speaker 1: the pressure on. Especially if you have a Republican senator
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  Speaker 1: in your state, call them. Tell them, no recess. Save
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  Speaker 1: America Act.
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  Speaker 2: No recess.
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  Speaker 3: None.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, Rick Scott said this. He said, no results,
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  Speaker 2: no recess. That's the right phrase. No results, no recess.
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  Speaker 2: Pass Save America now.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So the president was asked yesterday, why is it that
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  Speaker 1: you are telling the Senate to stay in session? Why
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  Speaker 1: do you want them to give up their recess? And
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  Speaker 1: the president responded, cut to, what a stupid question.
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  Speaker 3: Watch.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you want the U.S. Senate to stay in town?
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  Speaker 3: Shouldn't they be out across the country campaigning?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 3: What a stupid question.
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  Speaker 2: Should they be out and be campaigning, though?
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  Speaker 3: What a stupid question.
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  Speaker 5: If Jennifer had asked such a stupid question, she's a
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  Speaker 5: smart person. I knew her all the way back in
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  Speaker 5: the Iowa days when she said Trump's going to win.
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  Speaker 5: And boy, was she right. So listen, why do I
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  Speaker 5: want it? The SAVE Act has to be done. They
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  Speaker 5: shouldn't leave town. I'm not going to stop them from
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  Speaker 5: doing it, but they should get the SAVE Act done.
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  Speaker 5: If they don't get it done, it's going to be
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  Speaker 5: a very bad thing for the party. And frankly, you know,
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  Speaker 5: if you look at it, the SAVE Act is going
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  Speaker 5: to be voted against by all Democrats, just so we know.
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  Speaker 5: We have some Republicans that I will not comment on,
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  Speaker 5: a few of them, probably four, that we probably won't
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  Speaker 5: get the vote. I'd like to comment on them, but...
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  Speaker 5: I have too much sense to do it. The Democrats
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  Speaker 5: are going to vote 100% against voter identification and proof
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  Speaker 5: of citizenship. 100%. They want your taxes to go up.
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  Speaker 3: They want men playing in women's sports.
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  Speaker 5: They want open border for the world's criminals to pour
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  Speaker 5: into our country. And yet, despite all of that, we
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  Speaker 5: have the lowest crime rate in the history of our country.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We've got four senators, he said. I won't name them.
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  Speaker 2: Because I'm too nice. I'm too nice. I'm far too
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  Speaker 2: wise to just name them right here. I'm not trying to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, drive.
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  Speaker 1: Them further away from me. But in case you're wondering
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  Speaker 1: who he's talking about, it's Thom. It's Thom Tillis. It's
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  Speaker 1: Mitch the Glitch McConnell, who's still not back in the Senate,
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  Speaker 1: who this week we found out is.
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  Speaker 2: Not coming back for a while, apparently.
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  Speaker 1: Every so often they release a photo that they think
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  Speaker 1: will satisfy us as proof of life.
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  Speaker 2: So we're waiting on Mitch. Who else? Susan Collins. That's
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  Speaker 2: the hold your nose senator.
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  Speaker 1: That's the one that we have to have in lieu
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  Speaker 1: of having some commie come in and take that seat.
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  Speaker 2: So that's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's Murkowski, Lisa Murkowski, the ranked choice senator
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  Speaker 1: from Alaska. Those are the four he's referencing, Murkowski, Collins, Tillis,
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  Speaker 1: and McConnell.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: It's like Republicans have control of the Senate, but they
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  Speaker 1: don't have control of their own people at all. And
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  Speaker 1: that brings us to John Thune. John Thune went on
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  Speaker 1: Sean Hannity's program last night. And that's where Hannity asked
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  Speaker 1: him some questions about, you know, what's the plan here?
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  Speaker 1: What's achievable? Can you pass the Save America Act? And
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  Speaker 1: I want you to listen to John Thune's excuses here.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to point out to you that I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to dwell on it in a moment, but John
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  Speaker 1: Thune is engaged in an act of deception here. As
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  Speaker 1: he's trying to explain to you or make excuses for
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  Speaker 1: why he's not getting this done, he lies about the
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  Speaker 1: Civil Rights Act and the filibuster.
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  Speaker 2: First, just take a listen to this. I want you
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  Speaker 2: to hear it first.
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  Speaker 5: Watch.
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  Speaker 6: The president putting a lot of pressure on you, the Senate,
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  Speaker 6: to get it done.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 6: There are two paths towards it. The Mike Lee path,
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  Speaker 6: you stay in session. You take to the floor, real
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  Speaker 6: filibuster versus the Lindsey Graham method, which was he thought
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  Speaker 6: you could do it through reconciliation.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think probably the best path to success is
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  Speaker 4: through budget reconciliation. And we can't do everything in budget reconciliation,
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  Speaker 4: but we can do parts of it. The one thing
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  Speaker 4: about the talking filibuster, and it hasn't been used in
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  Speaker 4: something like 100 years. People point to the Civil Rights
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  Speaker 4: Act of 1964, but that actually was done under regular order.
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  Speaker 4: They invoke cloture, passed it that way. But you turn
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  Speaker 4: control of the floor over to the Democrats. It's not
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  Speaker 4: only unlimited debate, it's unlimited amendments. And the Democrats will
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  Speaker 4: have a long list of amendments. And so every time
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  Speaker 4: they get an amendment, get it considered, gets disposed of,
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  Speaker 4: the clock resets. Every Democrat can give two hours of speeches.
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  Speaker 4: So that's 47 times two, 94 hours of speeches. And
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  Speaker 4: then every time you have a vote on an amendment,
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  Speaker 4: you go back, start all over again. So the Democrats,
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  Speaker 4: this is something that they're salivating over the opportunity to
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  Speaker 4: have is a talking filibuster. So that isn't the best
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  Speaker 4: path in my view. And frankly, I don't think we
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  Speaker 4: probably have the votes in the Senate among Republicans even
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  Speaker 4: to get on a talking filibuster. But I do think
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  Speaker 4: we have a possibility through budget reconciliation to get some
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  Speaker 4: of this done.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, John Thune has spent a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time Telling you that these are forces that are outside
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  Speaker 1: of his control.
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  Speaker 2: He just can't stop this. You know, just don't have
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  Speaker 2: the votes. Just don't have the votes.
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  Speaker 1: Now, he hasn't shown much capacity for trying to get them,
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  Speaker 1: which is the thing we keep asking for.
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  Speaker 2: Show some fight, dude. Show some testicular fortitude.
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  Speaker 1: But the other piece of this is, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: not actually fighting for them because he's lying about the
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  Speaker 1: strategies that you could employ to pass this thing. He's
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  Speaker 1: lying to you. He's lying about the Civil Rights Act
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  Speaker 1: of 1964. He said, oh, that wasn't the filibuster.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it was.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, Mike Lee, once again, politely, explained this last
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  Speaker 1: night in reaction to John Thune's appearance on Hannity.
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  Speaker 2: And here's what Mike Lee said.
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  Speaker 1: My colleague from South Dakota suggests here that the talking
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  Speaker 1: filibuster has not been used in a century. and that
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  Speaker 1: it was not used to pass the Civil Rights Act
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  Speaker 1: of 1964.
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  Speaker 2: He's mistaken.
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  Speaker 1: As I've explained to the entire Senate, Republicans, on multiple occasions,
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  Speaker 1: the talking filibuster was used effectively to break the weeks-long
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  Speaker 1: filibuster mounted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Leader
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  Speaker 1: Thune and others point out that the Senate ultimately invoked
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  Speaker 1: cloture on the Civil Rights Act, and on that basis,
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  Speaker 1: wrongly conclude that the talking filibuster was not the tool
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  Speaker 1: used to achieve that victory.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Lee is being generous to a fault with John Thune.
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  Speaker 1: John Thune is not stupid. He knows this.
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  Speaker 2: He is lying about this.
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  Speaker 1: In order to suppress the appetite for using this vehicle
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  Speaker 1: to get the Save America Act passed.
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  Speaker 2: John Thune, at this moment, is our opponent.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he declared last night when he deceived about
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  Speaker 1: this very issue.
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  Speaker 2: Mike Lee is being too generous with him.
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  Speaker 1: He's suggesting that he was merely mistaken, that he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: realize this, that the filibuster was used, and that's how
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  Speaker 1: they got to cloture.
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  Speaker 2: Too generous, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: John Thune was being deceptive on national television in order
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  Speaker 1: to try and tamp down the energy for the Save
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  Speaker 1: America Act.
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  Speaker 2: That's what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Thune and others point out the Senate ultimately invoked cloture
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  Speaker 1: and on that basis wrongly concluded that the talking filibuster
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  Speaker 1: was not the tool used to achieve that victory. This
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  Speaker 1: argument ignores the fact that this is how the Senate closed.
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  Speaker 1: a staggering 30-vote cloture deficit in 1964. 30 votes, you understand?
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  Speaker 1: But basically, they start the filibuster fight because you have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Democrats who don't want to see Black
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  Speaker 1: Americans have rights in the United States. They convinced 30
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  Speaker 1: more people to join the cause to pass the Civil
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  Speaker 1: Rights Act of 1964 against racist Democrats. That's how this
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  Speaker 1: gets passed, through an exhausting filibuster procedure. These senators don't
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  Speaker 1: want to stand there forever. They don't want to do
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  Speaker 1: this forever.
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  Speaker 2: You can beat them.
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  Speaker 1: Into submission by exhausting them. They closed a 30-vote deficit.
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  Speaker 1: When they started the debate, they didn't have the votes.
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  Speaker 1: By the end of it, they did. Look, there are
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  Speaker 1: two ways out of filibuster. Well, three, technically.
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  Speaker 2: You can give it up if you're weak.
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  Speaker 1: But the other two ways are you convince enough people
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  Speaker 1: to join you, either through exhaustion or the merits of
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  Speaker 1: your arguments, or you exhaust debate. You literally run out
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: of debate. There's no more debate left. Then you can
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: vote on it with a simple majority. How many times
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: have we been over this? You can vote on it.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Every piece of legislation is a simple majority vote. It
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: is not 60 votes to pass any piece of legislation.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: The 60-vote rule is to end debate early.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: That's what it's about.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: If you want to shut off debate early, it takes
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: 60 votes. But we've become so accustomed to the United
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: States Senate not even having debates that everybody thinks it
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: takes 60 votes to pass legislation.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: It doesn't. It takes 60 votes to shut down the debate.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: That's what it takes. And if you have the full debate,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: you don't even have to vote on cloture. You just
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: vote on the bill. It's just as simple as it gets.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: And Mike Lee keeps explaining this.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: So in 1964, the Civil Rights Act, they get this
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: done that way. They started proposing and supporting amendments to
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the bill to make it more palatable, to help them
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: save face. I still maintain that this is a viable
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: approach that could work well, even better in the context
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: of the Save America Act, especially considering that the bill's
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: less complicated and less controversial with voters than was the
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Civil Rights Act. And it currently has a cloture deficit
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: of only 10 votes. It's tiny compared to the 30-vote
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: deficit faced by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. My
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: colleague also mistakenly suggests that Senate Republicans would have to
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: vote to enforce the talking filibuster. That simply isn't true.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Mike Lee being too generous again, John Thune knows. No
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: vote is required for this step. All we need is
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: a majority leader willing to announce that we're getting on
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: the bill and that we will continue to debate it
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: until it passes, all with the understanding that if filibustering
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: senators fail to show up to debate it, we can
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: call the.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Question and pass it with a simple majority.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: That understanding, in turn, is what motivates the filibustering senators
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: to show up and speak, but it's also what naturally
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: causes them to tire of the exercise after a few weeks,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: at which point they start looking for a face-saving on-ramp. Finally,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Leader Thune suggests that the talking filibuster would be thwarted
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: by being reset every time Democrats offered an amendment. There's
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: a valid point there, but it's not a good reason
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: not to invoke the talking filibuster. It appears he's referring
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: indirectly to the two-speech rule. While offering a new amendment
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: can create a new question under longstanding practice, the September 25th,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: 1986 precedent narrowed how rigidly the two speech rules applied
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: by clarifying that many procedural actions do not count as
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: speeches at all. Particularly in light of that clarification, it's
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: been a long time since I've suggested we consider rigid
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: enforcement of the two-speech limit as a part of a
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: talking filibuster strategy for the Save America Act. We don't
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: need it. Nor was that rule aggressively enforced during the
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Civil Rights Act of 1964 debate. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: correctly focused on requiring actual debate from filibustering senators rather
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: than looking for technical ways to shut the debate down. Now,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: he does say he gives credit to John Thune for
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: considering reconciliation. He says he's been, Mike Lee says he's
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: been skeptical in the past, but he's starting to believe
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: it is possible. That said, it's fraught with all kinds
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: of problems, challenges, risks, uncertainties. Also, failure can be far
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: too easy.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: To blame on the parliamentarians.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I'm open to considering the reconciliation path, but we should
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: make this decision with our eyes open. To do that,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: we need to separate fact from fiction when it comes
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: to the talking filibuster. All right, so I took you
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: through that because that's, again, Mike Lee giving us a
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: crash course on the way the Senate works and what's
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: actually achievable here. Because I'm not, I wouldn't be hectoring
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: John Thune about this. I wouldn't be riding this guy
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: right now if it wasn't possible.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: It's entirely possible. Mike Lee just laid it out for you.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Mike Lee is being far too kind to freaking John Thune,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: but he just laid out the actual strategy about how
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: to pass this thing.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: And the president's bringing pressure to bear on this guy.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Now, he was asked yesterday, President Trump was asked yesterday, hey,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: do you still have a good relationship with John Thune
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: in light of the fact that you're pressuring him in public?
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: And the president goes, yeah, yeah, I've got a good
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: relationship with him.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: The key is he's got to pass this thing. Watch
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: cut three.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Here he is.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: What's your relationship like with the Senate Majority Leader?
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: It's fine. It's fine.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: He's got to get his job done.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: It's fine.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: I have a good relationship with John Thune. He's just
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: got to get his job done. You got to get
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: the Save America Act passed. Or better than that would
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: be the filibuster. If you terminate the filibuster, everything happens.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: If you don't terminate the filibuster, only bad things will happen.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: If you don't terminate the filibuster, only bad things will happen.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: If you don't terminate the filibuster, only bad things will happen.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: I'm going to share some more information on this in
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: just a moment. The left is salivating at the opportunity
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: to get rid of that filibuster when they're in power.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: I'll give you proof in just a moment.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Hold tight.
• 22:07
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  Speaker 2: All right, so what about the left? What's the left
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: going to do if they get power back?
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Let me share something with you. This comes to us
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: from an NBC reporter. Sahil Kapur is an NBC reporter,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: senior national.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Reporter for NBC. They're dialed in with the left. And
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: he said this.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I'm a broken record on this. But again, Senate Republicans
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: oppose nuking the filibuster because they believe that the 60
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: vote rule blocks many more liberal goals than conservative goals
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: in the long haul. Liberals have come to the same conclusion. Hence,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: they mostly favor nuking it.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: You understand the point?
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: You have some Senate Republicans under some sort of delusional
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: belief right now.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: A delusional belief right now.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: That if they cling to the filibuster, that it will
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: be an impediment to the left in the future. When
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the left, I love that the Republicans have become so
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: satisfied by losing that they fully anticipate the Democrats are
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: going to take over everything.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: You understand that?
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Like the fact that Republicans are clinging to the filibuster
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: is they're doing that because they truly believe that Democrats
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: are going to get every seat back. They're going to
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: get the House, the Senate, the presidency. So we have
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: to have the filibuster when they control everything again.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, when, what?
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Why are we even projecting forward a future where they
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: are going to take over everything?
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: How?
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: It's kind of a sign that you freaking failed. If
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: you already anticipate Democrats are going to run the entire table.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: But the left's own people are saying, yeah, as soon
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: as we get power, we're going to get rid of it.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: So.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Why are you still clinging to it? So you're going
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: to screw us over and hand them the gun?
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: What?
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: We deserve so much better than this crap. We deserve
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: so much better than this crap, which is why we're
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: fighting like crazy to improve this and to fire the
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: guys who are standing in our way. We've done some
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: of that this year. We're going to have to do
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: a lot more. We're going to have to do a
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: lot more. Now, there are Senate Republicans right now who
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: are desperately scrambling to keep their vacations. And, you know,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: it's interesting. I talked with you about on Friday. The
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: reason that this has blown up into a bigger debate
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: is because we asked about it. Remember, Thursday at the
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: White House press briefing, Caroline Leavitt does the briefing. And
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: our White House correspondent, Reagan Reese, straight up asks, is
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the president's patience running out with John Thune? And Caroline
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Leavitt said, yeah, the president's patience.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Is running out. He wants the Save America Act. You
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: guys remember all of this?
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, so because of what we started, it is blown
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: up in Washington.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Everybody's debating this. John Thune is sweating.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Everybody's concerned about the White House saying that the president's
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: patience is running out. And yesterday, the Senate leadership began
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: circulating talking points among all of the Republican senators to
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: try and stop this. And in fact, let me scroll
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: down here. This is the Daily Caller obtained this exclusively.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Let me scroll down here and show you the talking
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: point based on what you and I discussed. This is
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: all predicated on what this show has been obsessed with.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Here it is.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: White House press secretary.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: This is the talking point that was just sent out
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: to Republican senators yesterday. Here's the question that they might
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: get asked. White House press secretary Caroline Levin said President
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Trump's patience is running out with John Thune. Is Thune
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: doing a good job as majority leader? And then there's
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: a number of responses that a senator might give. And
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: by the way, if any Republican senator gives these responses,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: you know that they got them directly from John Thune.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Here we go.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: President Trump and Senator Thune are united. And no, they're not.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: They're not united. Immediately a lie. They're not united.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: They're on different pages when it comes to the Save
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: America Act and the filibuster and how to achieve this.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: President Trump and Senator Thun are united and doing an
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: excellent job, one of them is, delivering safety and prosperity
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: for Americans despite unprecedented Democrat obstruction.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Two.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Their leadership has been critical to.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Make life affordable by ending the income tax on Social
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Security benefits, taxes on tips, and putting more money back
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: in the pockets of hardworking American families. Ladies and gentlemen,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: that was the big, beautiful bill. That was last year.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: You can't dine out on that thing forever. How about
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: pass the Save America Act? Like Larry Kudlow was just
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: asking this week, what the hell have you done for
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: me lately? They've worked together to make Americans safer by
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: closing our border, deporting violent criminals, and cracking down on
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: fentanyl and strengthening our military. 90% of that is something
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: President Trump has done. The rest is stuff that the
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Congress did last year. And then finally, and we all agree,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: we have to defeat the radical Democrat socialists who are
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: threatening to undo our progress. Yeah, we do agree, which
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: is why we want the freaking Save America Act. These
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: talking points are absurd, and they're distributing to Republican senators.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: If any sucker Republican senator just starts mouthing these talking points,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: you know where they came from. John Soon's office wrote
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: them and then distributed them because they didn't like the
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: fact that we actually got an answer to our question
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: from Caroline Leavitt that said, yeah, the president's patience is
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: running out. Once again, if you want to know what's
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: going to happen a full week, month, year before it does,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: watch this show.
• 28:59
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  Speaker 2: Now, let me just get an update from you.
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  Speaker 1: Did you officially set the Guinness World Record for that
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  Speaker 1: fireworks show this year?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think we're waiting for confirmation, but relative to
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  Speaker 3: any others that we're aware of, 10 launch locations, 850,000
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  Speaker 3: individual fireworks show lasting about 40 minutes, a typical one
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  Speaker 3: on Washington, D.C. A big Fourth of July celebration is
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: less than half that in terms of length, less than
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: a third of that in terms of launch locations, and
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: less than one-tenth of that in terms of number of fireworks.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't think it's going to be close when
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: the tape finally comes in. I think this is going
• 31:40
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• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't realize how rigorous their process was that
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: it would take so long, but hopefully it.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Comes through soon.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Were you worried at all given the weather constraints that
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  Speaker 1: occurred on Independence Day? I know the president was very
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  Speaker 1: insistent that the show go on Were you sweating at
• 31:57
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think the big thing, of course, people need
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  Speaker 3: pull that off because unfortunately there's plenty of bad actors
• 32:50
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• 32:52
  Speaker 3: spoil our 4th of July celebration with some kind of
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  Speaker 3: backpack bomb on them all. And if it had happened
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  Speaker 3: any time near when the president was speaking, no matter
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  Speaker 3: where it was, that's the only news story we'd still
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: be talking about. And so to be able to pull
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  Speaker 3: off that scale of an event through the full two
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  Speaker 3: weeks of the Great American State Fair, all the events
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: going on, and do that with total security, no incidents.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, kudos to the team. They worked on that
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  Speaker 3: security plan for over a year, executed beautifully.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: How intense were the threats now that in hindsight, was it,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: was it a pretty big undertaking? Were there a lot of,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: was there a lot of ill intention for that, that celebration?
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Well, I think there was, uh, certainly was. And, uh,
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: and it's just, it's a sad thing, but you know,
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: long before even our 250th, if you're, uh, if you're
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: in the dark web, uh, going around and looking at
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: how to recruit people that, uh, that have animosity in
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: the United States. I mean, one of the number one
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: images they use is the Statue of Liberty. The Statue
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: of Liberty, of course, is on an island. We screen
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: people before they get on the boat. We screen them
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: again when they get on the island. We screen them
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: before they go in the Statue of Liberty. But the
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: mall is wide open. I mean, it is a, it's
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: an open, but we did have, you know, we had
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: no climb fence around that whole area around, around the
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: where the concert and the speech was going to go
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: on by the president. So we're able to add some
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: security there, but it's always a risk these days. We
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: unfortunately live in a dangerous world, and when the U.S.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: is taking on groups like Iran that are funding 24
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: different terror groups, could come from everywhere. And I think
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: you know it was widely reported there were specific threats
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: around the UFC fight as well in terms of that activity.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: So it's something that when we're doing these public events,
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: we have to monitor. But I just, again, want to
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: give a shout out to the great job that everybody's doing.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: And of course, this is part of President Trump making D.C.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: safe and beautiful when he came up with the executive
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: order a year ago saying, if we're the most extraordinary,
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: exceptional country in the world, we ought to have the
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: most beautiful capital. And with that, the U.S. Park Police,
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: which is part of Interior, not to be confused with
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: our great park rangers, but It's a special force. that
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: George Washington created in 1791 that does watch over the
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: Statue of Liberty, the National Mall, and the Golden Gate
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Recreation Area. And this group, we've doubled the size of it.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: We've recruited talented, experienced law enforcement from other agencies that
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: want to come to work for an agency that actually
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: does law enforcement. We've reinstated their authorities, like being able
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: to pursue. I mean, when I got here, I was
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: like doing a ride-along, and I found out that the
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: prior administration had taken away the U.S. Park Police's ability
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: to actually pursue someone they pulled over. It'd be like,
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: as a former governor, I'm like, why would you have
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: a highway patrol if they couldn't pursue somebody? So just
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: some common sense things. And then President Trump, you know,
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: over a thousand graffiti sites gone, 150 homeless encampments, people
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: that are, you know, humanely relocated to where they can
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: have services, but they just can't live in public spaces.
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: The 22 fountains going back again that have had not
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: water running for years. The 48 monuments. I mean, D.C.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: has never looked better and statistically never been safer like
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: in 125 years. And this is what President Trump's just
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: laid out a blueprint. Any city could do this. I mean,
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: pick a city, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Portland. They
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: could all do what President Trump is doing. It's just
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: a function of leadership.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: You know, fellas, if we can go full screen for
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: a moment, I want to show you show the interior
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: secretary something here.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: From the Memorial Bridge.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: This is the president just posting this. He's very proud
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: of the fact that they've regilded the arts of war sculptures.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: This would be the bridge that connects Arlington National Cemetery
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: to the Lincoln Memorial. and they're taking down the scaffolding.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: As long as I've been in Washington, D.C., that's about
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: 16 years now, these have not looked anywhere near as good.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: They've been regilded, and now all the scaffolding is coming down.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Secretary, these are even the smallest details. Tell us about
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: the passion that goes into this. To what extent is
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: it the president's judgment that's motivating this, and how involved
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: are you in making these specific decisions?
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: On this one with the regilding, very much involved with
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: my team and the president, this was pointed out. The
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: president has an eye for detail. He sees these kinds
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: of things. He asks about them. We dig into it.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: We find out that those things had not been regilded
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: since 1971. They were so stained that no one actually
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: knew they were gold anymore. They were like two things.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: And there's four of these statues coming off two different bridges.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: These two, the arts of war, sacrifice and valor. That
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: work has been going on for the last four months.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Dedicated specialist regilders going in inside that building, that structure
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: and doing that work. And now with the Fourth of July,
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: as you say, that that. That scaffolding coming down, the
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: shrouds coming down, and we're going to be able to
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: see what the original glory of these statues were. There's
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: two more of them now that are under shrouds that
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: are being worked on. The team that has finished these
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: has moved over and do the other two. But when
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: you're coming into the Lincoln Memorial into Washington, D.C. from
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: from Reagan Airport, from the other bridge that comes across.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: That's the front door, if you will, as you're coming
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: across the Potomac, and you're going to be shocked at
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: how beautiful these statues are. 19 feet high, those equestrian
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: statues are.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: It's amazing. I mean, it is beautiful.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: There's something really valuable, I think, to the human spirit
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: when you see beauty, especially when you arrive in Washington, D.C.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: What a difference Union Station is now. Just like how
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: clean it is and the fountain is operating and all
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: the homeless people are gone. because as you pointed out
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: just a moment ago, they're being cared for. They're actually
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: in shelters now, which is like, what was the status
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: quo before? People were just allowed to rot on the street,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: and then everybody was made kind of sad by the
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: fact that their nation's capital looks like crap?
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Well, it was, and when I talk about these 150
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: homeless encampments, most of those were on public spaces in
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: either the circles, the squares, the parks, or as you say,
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: Union Station was basically... If someone arrived in our city,
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: flew to New York, came by train to our capital
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: from around the world their first time, they basically got
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: off the train into a homeless encampment inside the station,
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Partnering with our great Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, who's
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: got responsibility for Union Station, we've got the National Park
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: Service Interior outside in Columbus Circle. But Columbus Circle, that
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: was a Hamas-covered, pro-Hamas graffiti site, and it was basically
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: a homeless camp surrounded by a protest camp. And that
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: was what you saw when you came in and that
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: entire thing has been restored. The fountain is flowing. That
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: was 1912. That was over 115 years ago, that Columbus statue.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: It's Carrara marble, Vince. It's the same material that's in
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: the Trevi Fountain in Rome, and nobody knew that. We've
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: had congressmen say, I didn't know it was a fountain.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: They've been here for 20 years. So again, but this was, again,
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: President Trump setting this high bar, as you say. Pride
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: in our country, pride in our capital, the fact that
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: we can have safe and beautiful spaces for people to live.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: And President Trump is doing this in a city which
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: is 95% registered Democrats. When I go back, it's leadership
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: that matters. It's commitment. And I should also point out,
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: people say, where's the money coming from? During this first administration,
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: President Trump pushed for and got signed the Great American
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Outdoors Act. which was the greatest bill ever for doing
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: deferred maintenance on our national parks. And all of this,
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: the National Mall, the circles, like yesterday, we rededicated Logan Circle,
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: you know, completely restoring it earlier this year, DuPont Circle.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: Those are all national park lands. President Trump's action in
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: his first term is helping provide the funding to allow
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: us to go out and get it done. And you
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: want to talk about a rejuvenated group. How about the
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: national park team members doing some of which are historic
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: renovation specialists that were working someplace where they got to
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: sit and watch these parks, these circles, and these squares
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: get overtaken by homeless encampments, by people that are graffiti artists,
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: and then have no support from the White House or
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: the Secretary of Interior to actually go do their job
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: and fix it. The amount of pride and energy and
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: positivity among these dedicated federal team members I mean, they're
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: over the moon, whether it's being able to enforce the
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: law or being able to do the work to restore
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: these statues. I mean, it's really fun to see people
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: energized because now that what they came to do, the
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: purpose in their work, they're getting a chance to do
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: it and make a difference for the people that live
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: here and visit here.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's nice to be able to do your job
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: and see the fruits of your labors.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: What do you think of the people, the lefties, who
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: have been destroying some of these projects?
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: So you are working to restore them.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: And then you've got people who hate President Trump who
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: are rooting on the destruction of the reflecting pool or
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: actively vandalizing it.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: What is that, Secretary?
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: Well, Vince, I don't know. It sort of crossed over
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: from tragedy to comedy at some point when you've got
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: the pro-algae protesters, you know, people dressed up like next
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: to the reflecting pool. The reflecting pool, you know, was
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: built in 19... 22, the same time, the Lincoln Memorial.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: It's literally part of the Lincoln Memorial. And so if somebody's,
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: you know, using a box cutter to cut up the
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: reflecting pool, it's really no different in the eyes of
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: the law than if you came in and threw a
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: bucket of red paint on Lincoln statue. I mean, these
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: are our national monuments. They're protected. And it is, you know,
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: maybe it's overused, maybe not. But on the, you know,
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Trump derangement syndrome of somehow you think you're helping America
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: by attacking one of our monuments and the reflecting pool
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: is designed to reflect and what does it reflect? Lincoln
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: and Washington memorials. So are these people attacking America, attacking Lincoln,
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: attacking Washington, attacking our own country? I'm not sure what's
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: driving that, but President Trump absolutely dedicated on the reflecting pool.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: This thing was leaking 45,000 gallons a day. It's a 2,000
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: foot long pool, nearly a half a mile long. It's
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: got two and a half miles of expansion joints, the
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: expansion joints were leaking and we've fixed it. And now
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: there's stories out about, oh, this or that, the whole thing.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: I mean, post fireworks, because a number of those 10
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: fireworks stations were right along the reflecting pool. So every
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: year after fireworks, even if it's a smaller show, we
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: got to drain the pool, get all the fireworks debris
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: out of the pool, take a look at repairs. But
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: it's in, it's working, it's the most beautiful it's ever been.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: And now as we're in there, it's about 99.7% of
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: the surface is good. So thank goodness, between the vandalism
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: and other things that went on, it's like less than
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: one third of 1%. That repair work's going on. It'll
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: be back to its full beauty shortly.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: There was a media conspiracy theory that there was no
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: vandalism at the reflecting pool.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: They kept saying, and I believe they said it directly
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: to you on a number of interviews.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: But if I recall correctly, Mr.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Secretary, you said that you actually have some very real
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: evidence of the people who were wielding box cutters against
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: the reflecting pool.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: Is there video or something of that?
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's some video. Initially, when we put it in,
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: no one ever thought like, wow, someone's going to attack
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: the reflecting pool. I mean, I I feel like the
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: reflecting pool needs a special security detail. I mean, the
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: reflecting pool maybe should be nominated for Man of the
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: Year or something because it's gotten so much. The Constitution
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: Gardens pool next door is very jealous because it's gotten
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: almost no attention. The reflecting pool has become the focal
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: point of the world. But it is, yeah, there is that.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: That's going through the courts. There have been a number
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: of arrests that were made. And again, but we're moving on.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: And again, I think we want to focus on the
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: big thing, which is President Trump's amazing blueprint for any
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: American city. If you want to have a clean, beautiful,
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: safe city in America, you can do it. And so
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: the mayors and governors that are blaming the president for
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: their troubles is bizarre because they have every tool they
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: need to fix these issues.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you about American energy, because this is
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: a part of your portfolio too.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: This is a big deal.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: A lot of Americans are always looking for the cheapest,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: most abundant energy they can have because they know how
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: important it is for their life to flourish. What do
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: you see going forward now in the next year or so?
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: How's the American energy picture look?
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Well, President Trump has completely transformed it in the most
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: positive way possible. I mean, 18 months ago, the Biden
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: administration had a ban on LNG exports. They were blocking
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: both the leasing and the permitting of oil and gas
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: development on federal lands, that's public land, that belongs to
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: all of your listeners. You know, if all your listeners
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: are feeling like, oh, there's a lot of national debt,
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: they need to also understand that there's a lot of
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: national assets. We just have to use them smart, sustainably,
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: leave them in better shape than what we found them. But,
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: you know, we are loaded. This is a rich, abundant country.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: Just on interior land alone, I mean, almost 30% of
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: the oil and gas in America comes from interior land.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: we inherited just in one office of the Bureau of
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: Land Management in New Mexico, Carlsbad, the Biden administration had
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: left behind 5,600 unprocessed permits to drill. People were trying
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: to drill to produce oil to send a check, a
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: royalty check to the to have an opportunity to develop
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: a resource that belongs to the public and they pay
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: us a royalty, I consider those folks a customer because
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: they're writing a check to the American people. And we're
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: following the law and we're serving a thing. And what
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: do we have now? We've got record oil production in
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: America versus 18 months ago, record LNG exports. We've displaced
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: two thirds of Russian's gas sales into Western Europe. So
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: we're defunding the Russian war machine. And President Trump's energy
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: dominance is all about having abundance for affordability at home,
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: but also so our allies and friends don't have to
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: buy from people that are using their oil sales to
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: fund terrorism. Venezuela, we turned a sanctioned adversary into a
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: strategic ally in 45 minutes, thanks to President Trump's courage
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: and the execution of our fantastic military. All of that
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: Venezuelan oil now coming to Gulf of America refineries, helping
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: lower the price. President Trump unleashing Alaskan energy. I mean,
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: the sum of everything that he's done has moved the
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: geopolitical center of energy from Venezuela the other part of
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: the world from the Middle East back to North America
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: in the Western Hemisphere, and that's going to pay benefits. Vince,
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: America has the lowest cost, most secure energy source in
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: the world now and going forward for decades and decades.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: I mean, everyone who's listening, your kids, your grandkids, everyone
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: is going to receive an economic dividend, if you will,
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: from the fact that President Trump understands that energy policy
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: drives national security, it drives the economy, it drives prosperity,
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: it drives everything. The U.S. is better positioned than every
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: single one, every other country in the world. We are
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: the best position.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember during the Biden era when they were
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: talking about oil output.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: They're like, hey, the oil output's up. Why is everyone
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: complaining about Biden's energy policy? I said, the only reason
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: oil output was up was because President Trump's first term.
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: It takes four years.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: It takes four years for an oil... well to get
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: up and running.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: So President Trump gets a ton of oil wells up
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: and running, and then Biden is taking credit for a
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Trump win.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: So this is once again one of those moments.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: And finally, on energy, do you ever feel like we're
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: going to get to a point where we are fully
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: insulated from any chaos and say the Strait of Hormuz,
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: that American energy production and refining is so prolific that
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: that we will never see energy impacts within our borders
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: because of that.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: Do you anticipate that happening?
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. And we're on our way. And that's, again,
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: part of the moves that are being made in Alaska.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: Venezuela will definitely help that. Domestically, the lower 48. Also
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: in the Gulf of America. All of these things are
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: moving us in that direction. And many states are insulated.
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: We have a few. I'll note California. California, at the
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: time of the latest pandemic, you know, conflict starting this
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: February in Iran, they were importing over 60% of their
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: oil from foreign countries. The number one country California was
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: importing from was Iraq, which comes through the Strait of Hormuz.
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: California doesn't need to get any foreign oil. They could
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: be getting it all domestically. But they were, again, shutting
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: down their own oil industry in California. They used to
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: be one of the top two or three producing states.
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: Now they're not even in the top 10. They have
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: shut down refineries. They used to have 35 refineries. Now
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: they went from 8 to 7 to 6. Right now
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: it's happening. They're going to be down to 6. So
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: they're short of refining capacity. So not only are they
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: importing oil every day, about 25% of the gasoline consumed
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: in the Golden State, which has more internal combustion vehicles
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: than any other state, the state that was going to
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: go all electric. They have more internal combustion vehicles than
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: any other state. They're importing 25% of their gasoline. So
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: if you have a one in four chance or one
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: fourth of your gallons, I want to think about it.
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: When you're filling up in California, it was probably refined
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: somewhere on the other side of the planet and then
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: shipped here in a boat. So there's no saving the
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: environment when you use foreign oil and foreign refinery. And
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: then you send it belching across the Pacific to get
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: here to put in your tank. So the whole policy
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: is folly. It's not helping the environment. All it's doing
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: is raising prices on Californians. And so when we talk
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: about the average price of gasoline in America as a metric,
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: it is 50 cents higher for gas on average in
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: every blue state versus every red state. So if you
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: want a tip and you want lower gasoline, drive across
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: the border, go to a state where the The state is,
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: legislature is controlled by Republicans. And if you've got sound
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: energy policy, you're going to have lower energy prices. And
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: then these folks are, you know, then they're blaming President
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: Trump for their own thing. I mean, the last year,
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: even under the last year of Biden, the lowest prices
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: in California were higher than the highest prices in any
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: of the other states. So it is amazing that, again,
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, California is now leading in one thing, and
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: that's out migration because no one's going to be able
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: to afford to live there because Silicon Valley's leaving. AI
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: requires energy. And the price of electricity is also affected
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: by these policies. The states that over-rotated towards this idea
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: of an energy transition, that somehow we're gonna go from affordable, reliable,
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: and secure American energy for electricity to something that was intermittent,
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: dependent on the weather, foreign sourced, highly subsidized, that was
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: energy subtraction. These states were ending up with less electricity,
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: and therefore their prices went up. Again, the price of electricity,
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: we have people trying to turn this into an election issue.
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: President Trump has the roadmap on how to have lower
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: prices for electricity and lower prices for energy, and it
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: has to do with energy abundance, not some energy transition,
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: which is a lie because it was really energy subtraction.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we've got the best environmental standards, too, for
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: how we pull this energy. And this idea that California
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: is buying it from overseas, it's like being pulled up
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: in the dirtiest way possible. And then refined in China,
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: which is in a full-blown arms race with us for
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: refineries right now.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Thanks, California. Thanks for your work. How about focus on America,
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: like this administration?
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: Doug Burgum. I, one of the great reasons I love
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: talking to you is because you always have so much
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: important stuff to say, and I appreciate you as a
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: guest and as the Secretary of the Interior.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us.
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: Well, Vince, great being with you. And thank you for,
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: thank you for your work. Thank you for helping to
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: champion all these cause. And thanks to all your listeners
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: who understand the patriots that listen to your show, because
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: having this information really matters. Policy matters. Politics matters. And
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: And thank goodness for President Trump. Where would we be
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: if he hadn't won this election 18 months ago? You know,
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, we'd be in a very different position globally
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: and we'd be in a very different position economically. And
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: right now, you know, manufacturing coming back to U.S., jobs
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: are coming back. You know, it's all coming back here
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: because it begins with energy policy because no one's going
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: to build a factory of the future in a place
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: where electric prices are high. And so, again, this record
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: amount of capital is going to be spent in America,
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: you know, remanufacturing our thing. It's going to flow to
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: states that have smart energy policies. And traditionally, you know,
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: it just flowed to California and New York out of habit.
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: And now, no, that's not flowing there. I mean, so
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: there's going to be a redistribution of where the jobs
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: are going in part because of who's got the smartest,
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: most affordable energy policies. Love that. I love that.
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: Secretary Burgum, thank you so much, sir.
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Vince. Great to be with you.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: Appreciate you. There he is, still en route to a
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: Guinness World Record. What's taking Guinness so long? How could
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: it take that long to confirm?
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: It better not be Trump derangement syndrome. That better not
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: be the explanation for this, because those boys set the
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: Guinness World Record on the 250th birthday of our great country.
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: Thank you again to Doug Burgum.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: That was very valuable.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: And I do like talking to the Interior Secretary and Boy,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: what a great addition he has made to the Trump administration.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: He always comes to play. He's always got a ton
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: of information and anything you ask him, he's got an
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: answer for.
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: Let me shift gears with you now. So you just
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: listened to someone who is of completely sound mind and
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: has all the answers. Now I'm going to have you
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: listen to somebody who's non-compass mentis and has no answers
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: except that he stole classified information.
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: Joe Biden.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: Had a conversation a couple years back with his ghostwriter, because,
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: of course, Joe Biden did not write his own damn book.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: And over the course of his conversation with his ghostwriter,
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: the ghostwriter, in order to keep notes, recorded the conversations. Now,
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: Robert Herr, when he was investigating Joe Biden's theft of
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: classified information, which in the end he didn't prosecute him
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: for because Joe Biden's brain doesn't work, and he said
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: no jury would find him guilty as a result of that.
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: Maybe test it. Robert Herr obtained these tapes.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: And after a long court process, a battle in which
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: Biden was trying to prevent these tapes from being made public, yesterday,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: the House Judiciary Committee made them public.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: And now we have them.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: And here is Joe Biden admitting that he was sharing
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: classified information with.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: His ghostwriter, which is a crime. He stole it and
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: he shared it. Cut four, watch. This is classified, he said.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: Next thing I have here, this is classified, he says,
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: as he's sharing his classified documents with his ghostwriter. There's
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: no ghostwriter exemption here. to classified materials. Anybody in here
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: ever have a security clearance? We got a lot of
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: people in chat, a lot of great patriots, people who've
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: worked in the government. You ever have a security clearance?
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: Are you allowed to do this?
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: Let me just ask you in chat, again, if you've
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: ever had a security clearance, if you did what Joe
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: Biden is describing in this audio, what would happen to you?
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Just give me some of those answers, if you don't mind,
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: while we play some more of these Biden clips.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: Here's Joe Biden, cut five, talking about how he just
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: found a ton of classified stuff downstairs, you know, for
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: the book.
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: So this was high early on. In 09, I just
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: found all the classified stuff downstairs.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: This is early on 09. What he means is the
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: first year of the unfortunate Obama-Biden presidency.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: It's from all nine.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: It's all the classified stuff that I stole when I
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: was vice president of the United States.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: Just found it downstairs. So maybe it'll be useful for
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: the book. Remember, the framework with which.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: To look at this is obviously the gross criminality going on.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: And by the way, in chat, everybody's saying they'd be
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: arrested and prosecuted. Some people say they would likely be
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: executed for the crimes that Joe Biden committed.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: Is admitting to here.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: Now, remember, Jack Smith goes on the unconstitutional special counsel
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: to prosecute President Trump for stealing classified information, although it's
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: literally physically impossible for the president of the United States
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: to steal classified information.
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: It's so completely stupid.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: But the left created yet another fake crime to go
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: after President Trump for. They could have really gone after
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Joe Biden, but instead they arranged a sweetheart arrangement where
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: they said, well, they can't prosecute him because he's too demented.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: Bet he can stay president of the United States for
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: the rest.
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: Of his term?
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: How does that work exactly?
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: In fact, here's Joe Biden losing track of his mind
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: back when he was talking to his ghostwriter.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: Cut six, watch.
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: Um, I was going to ask you something else.
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: Um, Oh, gosh.
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: I can't think what it is.
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: That was 2017. It was years before he ran for
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: president and then entered the Oval Office, unfortunately.
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: Hmm.
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: Here's some more of him talking about classified information. Cut seven.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: Here's Joe Biden saying, hey, actually, some of this might
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: be classified.
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: Not sure.
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: But be careful with it either way.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: It's not.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: Is that is that the way, Chad? Is that how
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: you handle classified information? I don't think so.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: Here's Joe Biden. Some of this may be classified. Be
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: careful with it. I'm not sure. There's no more classified information.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: People wonder, like, why do you think the justice system
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: is broken? Why do you say that nobody is all accountable?
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Well, Democrats definitely are not, not to the extent that
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: they should be. Joe Biden is on tape admitting to
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: a series of crimes. And then they were like, yeah,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: let's not prosecute him.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: He's demented.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: What?
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: What is the, is there a demented rule? I didn't
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: know there was a demented exemption. He also lost track
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: a couple of other.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: Times about what he was talking about. This is in
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: his meeting with his ghostwriter.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: Cut eight. Listen to this.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: During this period, we're reconstructing the period of February 2015,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: and there's on the schedule a.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: I'm in Munich, but after Angela Merkel, President's working lunch with.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: Hang on a second.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. It's confusing me.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: How the hell did they make that dude president? Talk
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: about weekend at Bernie's.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: Like, what? You made that guy president? He couldn't even
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: think straight.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: About his own life.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: He was trying to write a book or have somebody
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: else write it. Robert Herr had everything he needed. He
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: had the evidence against the guy. Admission of guilt.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: He knew that he.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: Was mishandling classified information. Consciousness of guilt. He was handing
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: it off to a guy who didn't have a security clearance.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: But it's fine because he was generating a profit from
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: his book. These are the standards. And then meanwhile, President
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: Trump gets prosecuted for crimes that he did not commit
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: and were completely invented by.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: An unconstitutional special counsel.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: In case you're wondering whether or not the country's on
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: the right track and whether or not justice is blind.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: The answer has been no. which is why we keep
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: voting for Trump, so he can fix it. So he
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: can fix it. As he does, I will cover it.
• 1:02:16
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• 1:02:19
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