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Over the weekend, a miracle happened.

I mean, really, honestly, this is a technological miracle.

What happened with Iran and Israel?

Iran sent

300, 300 missiles and drones over to Israel from Yemen and from, I think, four or five different locations in Iran.

And 99%

of them were shot out of the sky by Israel.

That's incredible technology.

It's called the Aero System.

Please, Jason Buttrill, who joins us, he's

our head researcher on the program and also watches over military kind of stuff for us.

Please tell us we have the arrow system here.

I don't think we do.

Boeing was like the second half of the development of that.

So it's also an American.

We have dibs on it.

We have our own system, a different system that is kind of pre-deployed on naval ships all over the world.

So we do have the same capability.

That's the Aegis system.

Yeah.

That's not shooting things from in space.

It is.

It is.

Is it?

I don't, yeah.

I don't remember.

There's two parts of it.

I don't remember the second part of it.

Because the Aegis system on ships is just a buttload of bullets coming out.

I mean, it's just

round after round of big butt bullets.

It's called a BLB, a buttload of bullets.

That's what we call it, you know, in the military terminology.

Sure, yeah.

It was more than just the aero system.

So this was what's so amazing.

You try to, to really get the scope of this, you have to look at this graphic the IDF

submitted of where all this

ordinance was coming from.

Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, all converging on multiple different fronts, all down on Israel.

But they have a three-pronged system.

The further one out is the Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 system, which can be...

That's the one shoot in space.

That's the one who can reach up and touch you in space.

The second one is called David Sling.

That shoots lower.

Yeah, I know.

They have such cooler names than ours does.

They do.

That shoots like cruise missiles or like missiles that are flying low to the ground.

Then you have the Iron Dome, which everyone is talking about.

All of those things were firing all at once going on over the weekend.

But you also had Israeli planes going up and firing on cruise missiles way the heck out there.

Then you had U.S.

planes and planes from the UK.

All of this converging in the skies over the Middle East over the weekend.

So is it that Iran's missiles suck so much?

Or

is this as amazing as it sounds?

It's as amazing as it sounds.

So, I mean, cruise,

these are current generation weaponry that we're talking about iran is exporting some of this weaponry giving it to russia so russia can attack ukraine so

this is amazing 99

you know success rate does not happen it doesn't so i mean granted there's you know great technology here but i think there's some god work going on as well isn't there isn't there scriptures when uh the whole world comes to attack that it is that god just protects puts like a dome over

Israel.

It was so effective that I think that Iran probably is rethinking some of their first strike strategy against Israel.

Now, you know that they've all gamed this out.

And I'm sure part of this attack was that that goes into their plans.

Like they know that they want to take out Israel.

If they had to, what do they need?

Well, they threw everything but the Ayatollah's kitchen sink at Israel over the weekend.

I think I was flying.

I think I saw that hit the ground.

That was the kitchen kitchen sink.

They probably used that too.

Yeah.

With the disposal, which is weird.

So if you would have had one of these nuclear tipped,

I mean,

so all of that work for a nuclear weapon, you ain't going to deposit it through a missile, right?

Wouldn't that be the message that Iran would get?

You're not now.

Yeah.

I mean, yeah, that's, I don't, I don't,

this set Iran back, I'm sure, like probably several years as far as whatever whatever their eventual goal is.

And that right there is the problem because we know that they're not going to stop.

No.

So when you're saying, you know, when everyone's like pleading with her, when Biden was pleading with Bibi over the weekend to don't retaliate, on one hand, I'm like, yeah, because I don't want to see the Middle East completely change overnight.

But it's not just that.

But it's not just that.

If they retaliate,

Iran has the ability to set Europe and America on fire in the streets.

Yeah.

And that's only a matter of time before it happens.

But I don't know.

I'd like to delay it as long as possible.

Yeah, but if you're Israel, I mean, you're going, guys.

Guys, we've just look at the overall picture here.

They're surrounding them.

Look at that graphic of where all the missiles were coming from.

Israel is surrounded.

The strategy now, the international community is like, Israel, just keep your walls.

Just keep your walls up and you'll be safe.

When has that ever worked in military history?

Never.

Constantinople, Greece, Greece,

Troy.

Pick your time.

Your walls are an illusion.

They will keep you safe for a limited amount of time, but the eventual goal of an invading army is to topple those walls.

That's Iran's plan.

So how long do you delay?

I mean, and if they decide that, and if Iran says, okay, we're not delaying anymore, that is when the entire region changes forever.

They've been playing this little proxy game for 40 years.

The time has come.

It's the first time, though, that they have not used a proxy.

Exactly.

It was a ran.

No proxy.

It was a ran.

And so I saw, and I honestly, I thank God that we are pausing, at least, you know what I mean?

Because

this will escalate into a world war that fast.

I just...

Everything in me says

once the Middle East is set on fire, Russia and Ukraine and everything else, it's just going to be just dominoes.

Because if the Middle East is on fire and Iran is losing, which they would,

they're just setting all of our countries on fire, you know, internally.

So I was glad to see the pause.

However, I was a little disturbed that the news came out from the White House.

because that should have come out from the prime minister's office in Israel.

But instead, Joe Biden calls Bibi Netanyahu, who apparently the war ministry all voted to retaliate.

And then Joe Biden called and said, hey,

we won't support you.

Don't, don't do it.

Don't retaliate.

That's what the White House is saying.

And so Bibi changed his mind.

Well,

gee.

Thanks for backing me into a corner.

I mean, it might be a corner I like to be in, but that's not the way you deal with an ally, is it?

No.

Yeah.

How they're dealing with this all across the board is not what you're supposed to do.

This attack happened, and I 100% believe this.

This attack happened because of the Biden administration's overall foreign policy within the Middle East.

What do you think?

When you refuse to stand up to their proxy, Hamas, when you coddle them as they have things like this happen, when you give billions of dollars back to Iran, when you try to go back into the JCPOA, the nuclear agreement with them, when you are doing everything possible to say, let's play nice, let's play nice, when you refuse to stand up to a bully, this is the kind of crap that happens.

And I'm not saying that we go off and militarily attack them.

There is a formula for dealing with this.

It was actually working.

The Abraham Accords was working.

When you abandon that, this is the type of crap that happens.

But if you could have the possibility of getting Trump back in

and quelling all of this,

I just want to make it to

January in case he wins.

If he doesn't win,

I mean, we're just going to keep seeing more and more of this because you're right.

It is our policies.

We are weak.

We don't command any respect.

And honestly, we're on the other side.

We're giving money to Iran.

So our tax dollars went to Iran.

And to Israel.

So you can feel good on April 15th today that you paid for both sides of this.

What do you guys make of the really strange way this all unfolded where it was like, hey, drones are going to be there in a few hours?

They're all coming.

I think that is, that's, that is in war.

And correct me if I'm wrong, Jason, you would know more than I would.

But I think that was the signal from Iran.

Hey.

We're going to do this.

Right.

We're going to, because otherwise you surprise.

Right.

Hey, surprise.

But they let Israel.

They telegraphed it.

Yes.

They telegraphed it, let Israel know, prepare your people for this, and then we're going to stop.

And that gives that gives the Israelis an opportunity to say, okay, well, we stopped you.

Now don't do it again.

Right.

Because their statement right after was like, hey, by the way, that's the end of this.

So you guys know that's all we're doing.

We now feel the matter is settled.

Is it concluded?

Yeah.

I mean, so they're trying to say basically, hey, to our people, we did something.

And then to Israel, hey, we told you it was coming.

You blocked it all.

Let's just call this, call it a draw.

Now, of course, Israel, of course, gets the win here, right?

They wiped out important military

officials and people they really wanted to target in Syria.

And they stopped the entire attack from Iran.

I mean, it's a massive escalation.

There's no way of denying that, but like maybe there's a chance for us to avoid a real inflammation of the whole entire region.

I think we did.

You think it's over?

You don't think that's what I'm saying?

I mean, Netanyahu has been saying for the first time.

It's going to go back to terror.

It's going to go back to terror now.

The missiles, I think, are over.

I mean, Netanyahu has been saying for years he wants to basically go right after Iran directly, believes they're doing all this.

He's been wanting this expression.

They are the head of the snake.

They are the problem.

It's true.

It's all up to Israel's response now.

Right.

And their personality is going to be different from ours.

So you don't believe that they are

finished.

I mean, according to the White House,

they're done.

I think that's what Israel is juggling right now because

it was heavily telegraphed.

They even told, Iran told Turkey that they were going to do this attack, and then Turkey, you know, transmitted that to us.

I want to look at this

from the Israeli point of view.

I'm glad that they're stopped.

But if I'm an Israeli, I'm like, go get them now.

They've just, they've just...

blown everything that they have most likely.

Let's go get them while they're weak.

We could overthrow them.

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Megan Kelly, welcome to the program.

How are you, Megan?

Hi, Glenn.

Good to see you.

How you doing?

Well, good.

I mean, what's going to happen this time?

Are they going to get him this time?

They're going to get him.

And I don't know about you, but I don't know.

It's been, you can kind of laugh at it and it's kind of absurd.

But now that it's,

I mean, the first criminal trial of Donald Trump has just begun.

They're in the courtroom.

The witnesses will be called eventually after they pick the jury.

And they're going to try to put this guy behind bars potentially.

They're 100% taking their best shot at stopping him from winning this race.

And it really, for me as a lawyer, it's been a very sobering morning.

I'm just disgusted.

I cannot believe we're doing this.

It's like Princess Diana behaving like a street whore.

That's what we're doing.

The United States of America doesn't do this.

And because we're in the hands of this scummy prosecutor, multiple, it's not just Alvin Bragg, but he's the lead on this.

We've gone down this road pretending a payment to a porn star who is threatening to expose an affair is a crime that warrants 34 counts.

And they're going to make it as sleazy as humanly possible.

We're going to hear about David Pecker, who ran the National Enquirer-owned AMI Media and the catch-and-kill schemes to bury negative stories on Trump and to inflate stories on Hillary.

Great.

I can't wait to hear about Fusion GPS.

Was Trump the only one trying to get dirt printed on his opponent?

Because that's what this jury is going to be left with.

That he worked with dirty magazines to get Hillary painted as fat and unwell and without talking about how his campaign was spied on.

She's been trying to get him impeached or thrown in jail along with President Obama for years.

Politics is disgusting and dirty and underhanded, and we wish it weren't so, but guess what?

It's so.

Welcome to America.

And never before have we put put somebody on trial for antics around it or a man on trial for not screaming from the rooftops.

I paid off a porn star so she didn't humiliate me with my wife.

We are embarrassing ourselves with this trial.

I feel appropriately disgusted.

What is the difference between this trial and the trial that didn't happen?

Because I only lied about sex,

you know, to save my marriage, to make sure I didn't humiliate my wife.

That's basically why Donald Trump perjured himself.

Not Donald Trump, but Bill Clinton perjured himself, and nothing happened there.

Everybody just walked away.

What's the difference between these two?

One's a Democrat and one's a Republican.

Okay, that's what I thought.

That's what I thought.

Yeah, if you're a Democrat, you can lie.

Ask Fannie Willis.

Ask Nathan Wade.

It's fine.

You can lie on the stand under oath like Bill Clinton did.

It's okay.

Just an affair.

Oh, wait.

That's what Trump was doing too, allegedly.

Wait, he was lying to cover up an affair.

In only one lane does it become a felony.

And just, you know, not to get too deep in the weeds, Glenn, but let's not forget what's really happening here is a misdemeanor bookkeeping snafu or error or misstatement.

that the statute of limitations had run on.

Right.

They reinvigorated a dead claim by saying, well, it was made to cover up an underlying felony, which was a campaign finance violation.

You made

$130,000 donation, quote unquote, to your own campaign by paying off Stormy Daniels to win an election.

Well, guess what?

That's not a campaign finance violation.

The only way you get the campaign finance violation is if the payment could only ever have been made for one purpose and that is to help your campaign.

Well, guess what?

Again, hush payments have been made by men to shut women up up since the dawn of time.

It doesn't have to be to save one's campaign.

And that is the relevant legal test, which Alvin Bragg should know because it's the reason the feds were not interested in pursuing this claim against Donald Trump.

So is it just a corrupt judge

that is making all the, because the judge should have looked at that and said, no,

you can't do this.

Yeah, yes.

I mean, it's not just because we've got Mr.

Bragg.

But yeah, the judge is a serious problem.

A non-partisan judge would have thrown this out in the papers pretty easily.

And I do believe there's a very good chance that this will ultimately, no matter what happens with the jury, get thrown out on appeal.

Like most of the prosecutions against Trump, not the obstruction case, but the J-6 case could get thrown out soon, actually, if the Supreme Court throws out the obstruction charges in this other case that's going up involving J-6 defendants, not Trump.

If the Supreme Court does anything on presidential immunity.

And then even if he loses that J-6 case, if there's a trial, I think it could get thrown out on appeal.

But

he has to go through the humiliation.

We, we,

America, have to go through the humiliation of this criminal trial first.

We just saw our former president dragged into a criminal courtroom today.

And in typical Trumpian fashion, he said, I'm proud to be here.

He said, I'm very proud to be here.

Well, that's smart.

Trump's smart.

He always does a positive spin on anything that happens to him.

But let's be honest, this is not a proud moment.

Not for him.

Not for us.

Not for his family.

I'm ashamed of us for doing this.

So what do you say about Donald Trump?

This is

something that

we would be disgusted by if it was something that was happening on the other side.

Bill Clinton comes to mind

that we as conservatives would say

this guy, he shouldn't be doing this as president.

But

in the Clinton case, it was illegal.

He perjured himself.

But there really isn't anything illegal here.

And if there was,

it's past the statute of limitations, right?

Well, there's such a difference between those two cases.

Let me tell you, Glenn, no one is allowed to lie under oath.

Correct.

It's a felony.

It's a felony.

It's perjury.

And a lawyer really isn't allowed to lie under oath.

You have additional duties of candor to a court before they admit you into the bar.

You swear not to do things like that.

So there are additional obligations on a lawyer, which Clinton was.

And on top of that, there are additional obligations as president.

He violated them all.

He committed a felony.

Donald Trump made a bookkeeping misstatement.

That's what he did.

And for that, he's being hauled into court.

There's just no comparison between the legal sins.

And look,

I don't have any doubt Trump's going to be convicted.

And to be honest, I don't have any doubt Trump did this.

I'm not,

I don't really doubt that Trump didn't write down

the hush money to Stormy Daniels, porn star, who was threatening to go to my wife and the media about an affair.

I mean,

he probably did do that.

Well, there was another one that he paid off.

There was another one he paid off that it wasn't true.

So, I mean, we don't know, right?

The doorman?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's well, that's another piece of the AMI media piece of this case, which hasn't gotten as much attention, but it's going to.

When you hear, I think David Pecker's going to take the stand, the guy who ran AMI owned it.

He's going to take a stand and say, yeah, we caught and killed stories, including from this Karen McDougal, who was the 1998 Playmate of the Year, who allegedly had an affair with Trump, and also took a payout from AMI to write health columns

instead of take the story to a publication that would run with it.

This is what the allegation is that if you were a friend of Pecker, like Trump was, you could get this kind of thing done for you, and that's what he was doing for Trump.

And we're going to have witness testimony to that effect and that's okay

is anyone shocked that Trump didn't want all of his affairs coming out?

I don't care.

I'm sure he has had affairs.

I'm sure, you know what, I'm sure Obama did too.

The sainted Obama and I'm sure Bill Clinton did.

And the only reason the Clinton thing became a story is because Linda Tripp decided to tape his lover and go public with the story.

It wasn't, neither pair of the lovers wanted that public.

Linda Tripp brought it public.

And then Bill Clinton, rather than being a man and owning up to it, lied under oaths.

We're back to that problem.

But this is just, we shouldn't be knowing about any of this.

We shouldn't be humiliating ourselves and getting neck deep into the gory details of it.

But the Democrats are going to be awash

in seedy Trump affair details for the next six weeks.

And it's anything but accidental.

How do you think this plays with the American people?

I think they're going to be disgusted like I am.

But unfortunately, I think the very group Trump is struggling with, women, former Republicans in the suburbs, like where I live,

they're not going to like this, you know, because

most of our husbands don't cheat on us with porn stars and Playmates of the Year.

And paybacks and stuff.

I would like

all that stuff.

I would hope that it doesn't just, we don't.

Yeah, we're all cheating, but not necessarily with porn stars and playboys.

You know, and there's also

only so many Playmates of the Year.

They would be way too busy if everyone was cheating.

They were way too busy.

I mean, I think most husbands don't cheat on their wives.

I don't think they do.

And so they're not going to like this.

You can't forget MAGA.

Okay, I get like those guys who are out in front of the courthouse right now who are amazing.

The pro-Trump guys with all their pro-Trump gear and then like the anti-Trump guy.

Did you see the guy with the flute?

He hates Trump.

It's like liar, narcissist, felon.

And then he's playing lovely flutes.

It's like, God bless America.

Anyway, the hardcore MAGA, they're not going to care.

We all know

nothing's going to change their mind.

And most Republicans are on Team Trump and realize this is a political persecution.

But there is a group of independents now, center-right independents, who used to be Republicans who don't like Trump.

And it would be very helpful to the Republican Party and Trump if those people could be more disgusted with Biden than with Trump.

Right.

And they might yet be, but this is not going to help.

And I don't mean the conviction.

The conviction won't help either.

But six weeks of Trump's a husband, that's not going to help.

Remember,

we're not podcasting broadcast.

That's all right.

That's all right.

So,

Megan,

does he go to jail?

You said he's going to be convicted.

Does he go to jail?

And what would that mean?

How much time would he be facing for this?

He's not going to jail on this case.

He's not.

But you have lunatics like Andrew Weissman, who honestly, he's not a, like, this guy's got a very legitimate legal resume.

I realize, you know, he left the FBI and all that, but he was general counsel of the FBI.

He was a U.S.

attorney.

And he's out there saying nonsense like, well, Trump's a recidivist.

A recidivist is somebody who continues to commit crime after he's served time or been convicted.

You know, like you just can't stop yourself from selling the heroin.

That's not Trump.

So it is true that there's the potential for jail time if this judge somehow turns him into a repeat offender because he's facing three other criminal trials.

That's not happening.

So I don't think he's going to jail for this one.

I think it'll be a matter of fines.

But

that doesn't change much.

I mean, jail time would be far, far worse, but they still have their conviction.

And the thing is, guys,

half of Independents and still one-third of Republicans are saying

they like Trump, but they can't vote for a convicted felon.

And I was having this discussion with, actually, it was, I think it was with you guys, Stu.

You and Dave Marcus were on my show last week.

What if they mean it?

I know we don't think they mean it.

What if they do mean it?

What if they, because I even look at this case like, ah, this or this case?

What if we're wrong?

What if we're downplaying this?

Like, you know what?

Everybody knows this is a BS,

but we're wrong.

When we misread the polls, and we do often, because who the heck knows what to believe on polls anymore,

we get burned.

And so today really could be day one

in Trump losing this election.

It could be.

I don't think it will be, but I recognize the danger of what they're doing here.

And of course, we all know that's why they're doing it.

I was hoping that it was going to backfire on them.

I think it has to some degree.

I don't know when you add the actual felony

to this.

Well, that's the thing, Glenn.

That's the question.

Is the backfire bounce already baked in?

Right?

Like, has he already gotten all the balance there is to get from the outrage over

resetting norms that have been in place for almost 250 years.

And that, of course, would be the Democrats' plan to boost him in the primary.

He'll get

whatever bounce he gets from the backlash.

And then it wanes over the course of what they hoped would be four criminal trials.

Now it looks like just this one.

But this is their best shot.

Six weeks, disgusting man.

horrid husband and now convicted felon.

They don't need to hurt him much.

You know, Joe Biden only won by 45,000 votes.

I know.

They don't need to hurt him much.

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As always, Megan, good to talk to you.

Thank you.

You too.

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Congresswoman from Florida, Anna Paulina Luna, welcome to the program.

How are you?

Hey, Glennon, glad to be back.

Good.

I'm glad to have you.

And thank you so much.

I saw your letter that came out today.

Let me just read just a little bit of it.

Last week, we had the opportunity to reform and reauthorize a widely misused and abused system within FISA, Section 702.

You go on to talk about how, hey, Congress is now,

they're protected.

but you left everybody else out.

So what's happening today?

So, basically, what we did was we saw that there was this massive orchestrated effort, and even from the intelligence community, to really get members to vote for this version of FISA, which is completely unconstitutional.

We allowed the bill to come to the floor.

However, the warrant amendment that Representative Biggs had put forward that would require the federal government to get a warrant if they're going to surveil you, that actually failed by one vote.

And so, that is something that, one, if you're a member of Congress and you're not supporting that, you need to find a different job.

But also, two, we weren't going to go down without a fight.

And so I did something that is not commonly done by the governing majority.

And I brought forward a motion to reconsider, which means I made I objected to them passing this out of the House and basically wanted to give everyone a second chance to reconsider their decision.

So what's happening today is at 6.30, we're going to have an opportunity to kill FISA.

That means that we're going to be voting on the motion to reconsider.

And of course, members of the intelligence community are going to try to table that.

So we're urging all members to vote no on that.

And ultimately, that would allow us to bring it back and potentially put forward that amendment and fix it before we send it over to the Senate.

How long did you work in Washington before your heads stopped hurting on just the I got to vote no to be able to vote yes to be able to reconsider to not table it?

I mean, I don't even understand.

So you have to

you have to vote, You have to vote which

no to the first part?

Yeah, we have to vote no on the motion to table the motion to reconsider.

Jesus.

So basically, if you want to get involved, I'm just, I'm in my own capacity, I'm urging everyone to call your congressman and ask them to vote to kill Faisa, and they'll know what that means.

Okay, vote to kill Faisa.

That's all you have to say.

And where are you going to remember?

Congress will know.

Where are you going to find?

Because it was 12 to 12.

212 to 212, I think, wasn't it?

That was on the amendment for the warrant.

So, right now, in order for FISA to go down, we just need a simple majority, which means we need 218.

We need 218 members to stand together and say we will not go along with the unconstitutional surveillance of Americans.

I love this.

Thank you for fighting.

Sincerely, thank you for fighting.

So,

do you think you have the 218?

You know, I honestly don't know.

I don't want to sit here and give everyone false hope, but I did find a way to be able to get this letter to the Democrats over the weekend.

You know, they silo it so that we can't openly communicate some of these dear colleague letters.

And so I was able to reach out to some people.

So I think that you will see a change in that number.

But again, this is a simple majority.

So if we get the 218, we can kill it, we can reform it and send it over before FISA lapses.

But I just want to remind people that, you know, for any member of Congress saying that this wasn't violated, that's a lie.

You know, the Pfizer courts found that the federal government actually violated it over 278,000 times.

And this didn't just stop at members of Congress, journalists, and political commentators.

I mean, it went into over 19,000 donors of congressional campaigns.

And even for some of the more progressive members of Congress, I mean, we're talking about

some of their protesters that had their civil liberties violated as well.

So I pointed that all out in the letter.

Wow.

So, but it was only 200 and how many

78,000 times.

Right.

So it's only that.

Let me read this part.

The FISA court has documented many of these abuses according to the FISA court.

The federal government used Section 702 for searches for 141 racial justice protesters and political activist groups that organized protests, searches based on witness report that two men of Middle Eastern descent were loading cleaning supplies into a truck, searches for a state court judge who reported civil rights violations to the FBI.

The FBI conducted batch

searches that included current and former federal government officials, journalists, political commentators.

Am I on that list?

And

19,000 donors to congressional campaign.

The FBI conducted a search on a member of Congress and a U.S.

senator.

That's not good.

It's not good.

It's not good at all.

And we do have the opportunity to stop it.

We don't just have to accept what they're trying to shove down our throats.

But I will say that, you know, this, no matter what,

will end in two years, and we'll have the opportunity to reform it then.

But I just, I think it's really, really awful that people would throw the Fourth Amendment out, you know, out like that.

And in the name of protecting America, they take away your freedom.

Yeah.

I mean, isn't the amendment thing about what Congress cannot ever do?

I thought that was the whole point of that amendment process, but maybe it's, maybe it's me.

I mean, when they wanted to levy income tax, they had to vote for an amendment.

Why aren't they going for an amendment on this other than they know it will never work?

Why aren't they forced to go that way?

You know, Glenn,

I've really had some kind of deep thought on the floor watching the board, because if I could just explain for a moment what happened, we saw members that, you know, the, I'm going to call them the Intel bros had lined up that would, if we were winning by a vote, they would have someone else go down and flip their vote.

And I watched members do this.

I watched them do this.

I had Senator Mike Lee standing next to me, and we were seeing members flip their votes in order to intentionally kill it.

And when they had one more, you know, that would join us, they would, again, have someone go and change their vote.

So the fact is, is that there is this uniparty that exists in Washington.

And I will say that there were Democrats that were actually standing with us on this.

And they even told us, you know, behind closed doors that, you know, there is that block that will ensure that the agenda, whatever it is, will pass no matter And so when we're seeing this happening, when you're seeing how the control mechanism works and how it's in place, I just, all I'm going to say is, in my own capacity, is it's so incredibly important that people are getting involved for this next election because there's a lot on the line.

And I think that, you know, we are seeing a massive identity crisis and change in the Republican Party, but it's for the better.

And this is just part of the growing pains.

But this can't continue.

Yeah, this is different than the Tea Party was.

This time it's real.

It's the people that are there like you are are actually committed to this and it's not just a populist thing it is an actual constitutional uh backing so i appreciate it and i thank you so much you bet bye-bye please call your congressman today and tell them

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