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Charlie James slams Senate GOP leaders, SAVE America Act, and candidates.

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In Hour 2, Segment 1 of The Charlie James Show on August 3, 2026, host Charlie James opens with a musical montage including the Pledge of Allegiance and "America the Beautiful" before taking on national and state political maneuvering. He addresses a text line glitch before criticizing GOP leadership—specifically Senators John Cornyn, Tom Tillis, and John Thune—demanding they use leverage and tough committee assignments to push through conservative priorities like the SAVE America Act. Callers join the broadcast to voice frustration with Senate leadership and question whether appointed Senator Darline Graham will vote according to her constituents or follow her late brother's establishment mold. Finally, James informs viewers where to watch that evening's televised South Carolina U.S. Senate Republican primary debate across local TV affiliates.

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Audio Montage: [Crowd reciting the Pledge of Allegiance] "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." [Crowd cheers] [Music: "America the Beautiful" plays] "O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain / For purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain / America! America! God shed His grace on thee / And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea!" [Audio clip: President Donald Trump] "America is back!" [Crowd cheers] Charlie James: Yes, sir! Welcome back! I just had somebody over on the text line... all right, let me just explain something to you here: If you are a regular texter, and you get some sort of a statement that says that you have been unsubscribed—ignore that! Don't even worry about it. Because sometimes, you know how when people are texting, it'll say, "All right, reply STOP to unsubscribe." Sometimes the algorithm will pick up a word, and it will assume that you don't want to be subscribed anymore, and it'll send you that text. Don't worry about that! You can still text all you want to, and once you text us back, everything's hunky-dory and everything's fine. So, ignore that, okay? It's just the algorithm acting up. All right, WORD talk line: 800-905-0989. Now, we actually saw—and maybe John Thune could take a little bit of a lesson from this—we actually saw John Cornyn and Tom Tillis, two horrible RINOs, actually exercise some power. Now, they were holding up the vote for Todd Blanche to be confirmed for Attorney General, and they said they did not like that weaponization fund. That was going to be a fund where, if you thought that the United States government was weaponized against you in some way, you could actually sue and get some sort of a remittance for it. Well, they didn't like that—they didn't like that one little bit. Because they don't want you to believe that under Joe Biden, the United States government was weaponized. And it was! Absolutely weaponized. So they said, "We are not voting for Todd Blanche for Attorney General as long as that is still in play." Well, the White House took it out of play now. So now John Cornyn and Tom Tillis are like, "Okay, now we'll vote." You see, that is—and as much as I hate this—that's how you get things done! And that's how John Thune should be getting things done in Washington. But he's not. And I'll give a couple of examples. Number one: the Senate Parliamentarian. That was a Biden appointee. Get her out of there! Get a conservative one in! That's easy to do. Number two: pass the SAVE America Act. "Oh, well, we just don't have enough votes." Yeah, you do! You do have the votes. You've just got to get them. You go to every single Senator in Washington and say, "Hey! Do you like that committee that you're on? Well, if you don't vote for the SAVE America Act, you're not going to be on that committee anymore! In fact, we're going to give you the worst committee assignments in the history of the Senate. You're all going to be on one committee, and that's going to be the Sewer Committee! And you're going to have to sit there and listen to testimony every single day about sewers. That's what you're going to be on. Oh, you don't want to be on that committee? Then vote for the SAVE America Act." It's that easy! But John Thune does not want to spend the political capital to do it. You can get things done if you are courageous. And I've said this before: If you want something done, you will find a way; if you don't want something done, you will make excuses. And that's all John Thune has been doing: making excuses. This is the most common-sense piece of legislation. But you get people like Murkowski who follow the—I mean, just think about that. I wonder how many illegal alien voters they have in Alaska? Maybe more than they want to admit. Maybe. [Reading a text] "Charlie, they don't want to fire ...

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