Doug about the Straight of Hormuz; Columbia is Corrupt

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00:03 What I find really amazing about old Johnny Thune is that he will, I swear, instead of just doing what needs to be done, 00:21 He will go around his elbow to get to his butt. 00:28 if you know what I mean. He will take extraordinary steps. 00:33 to not do what is actually needed to be done. Let's get rid of the filibuster. No, gotta keep that. Gotta keep that. But we'll pass a bill at three o'clock in the morning and send it over to the House. And we know the House says, see, that's the thing. They will send a bill to the House knowing the House will not pass it. But they will not send a bill, he will not send a bill to the floor of the Senate if he doesn't think the Democrats are passing. And that's what's holding everything up in the Senate. We've got over 200 bills. 01:03 just sitting there, including the Save America Act, including the funding for TSA agents. So there is now a uh reconciliation bill that they're planning. want to read this is from the statement. This afternoon, leader John Thune and speaker Mike Johnson released a joint statement announcing a path forward to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, including Border Patrol and ICE. 01:33 and end the record-long Democrat shutdown. We appreciate and share the President's determination to once and for all bring an end to the Democrat DHS shutdown. In the coming days, Republicans in the Senate and the House will be following through on the President's directive by fully funding the entire Department of Homeland Security on two parallel tracks through the appropriations process and through the reconciliation process. We appreciate 02:02 that Senator Graham and the Senate Budget Committee have already initiated the process of developing a budget resolution that will ensure border security and immigration enforcement will be funded for the balance of the Trump administration and insulated from future attempts by the Democrats to defund these agencies. We operate under the belief that while our country is in the midst of an international armed conflict, Democrats might finally come to their senses 02:31 and understand that defending our home and security agency is beyond reckless and very. Wait a minute, you come, wait, wait, what did you just say? 02:42 We operated under the belief that while our country is in the midst of an international armed conflict, Democrats might finally come to their senses. Wait a minute, hold on, have you met these people? Have you ever met these people? You need to take the Democrats' power away from them in the Senate. At the very least, do away with the zombie filibuster. 03:09 The ideal thing to do would be to do away with the filibuster altogether because that is going to be day one for the Democrats. Day one. The Democrats in the Senate are going to vote to do away with the filibuster. 03:25 and Katie Barthold door. Start looking for some nice place to go to because this country isn't going to be good. 03:34 So instead of doing what needs to be done when it needs to be done, now they're trying to find all of these incredible workarounds. However, John Thune better hurry because I'm hearing that the people of South Dakota are sick and tired of John Thune and he might be ousted at his next election, fingers crossed. 03:59 So meanwhile, we've still got TSA shut down. Yeah, they're being paid through Donald Trump. Some members of Congress don't like that. But tough darts. Your job is to protect the American people. You made a contract with these people. You come to work. You screen the luggage. You make sure that everybody's IDs are checked. You make sure that our airports are safe. And we will pay you a paycheck. Well, they're doing that, but they weren't getting paid. 04:30 So the government broke their contract with these workers and I do not like that. And it was the Democrats' fault. But I will throw some on John Thune as well because he could have solved all of these problems by doing ...

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