Tara hits Thune over Senate parliamentarian and scoffs at EU climate blame

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00:00 Meanwhile, Lee, we talked about this before, kind of frustrating ruling from the Supreme Court. um And I can see it both ways. Look, they're saying, look, we're just interpreting the state law here. We're just like reading the law and interpreting it. And so we rule that as long as the ballot is postmarked on the day of the election, you got to count it. You have up to, I guess, five days after that. um 00:28 In the, you know, in the ruling, they said Noledo descended from it, but in the ruling, they said, look, you know, we're just, we're not going to add anything to the law. Well, sorry, John Roberts added plenty to the Obamacare ruling. The word tax did not appear in Obamacare. So he just helpfully rewrote the law for him to make it work. So a little bit of hypocrisy there, but at the same time, um you know, basically saying, Hey, we're going to reinterpret this. 00:55 This isn't, you know, we're going to interpret the state law basically meaning, hey, you've got to at least have it postmarked your absentee ballot by election day. The good news is we can fix this if we can pass legislation through the Senate, which last time I heard was controlled by Republicans. So. 01:17 More reason to get the Save Act passed. Here's Trump on this yesterday on the SCOTUS ruling saying, no, you can have mail-in ballots as long as, again, they're marked, postmarked by the day of the election. Well, because of the mail-in ballot ruling, which was a little bit surprising, gives people more time to vote illegally, let's say. But the Save Act is even more important. And that's the right to have to be a citizen of our country. 01:45 Okay, you have to show you're a citizen of our country called citizenship. Voter ID by photo, photo voter ID and no mail in ballots unless you're in the military disabled, you're ill or you're away. Yeah. Big part of our problem. Well, yeah, pretty big part of our problem in getting this passed is one of these fake roadblocks that Republican and Democrat leaders alike put up. 02:14 in the form of the parliamentarian who issues these rulings like she's God or something. No, she's just a, it's just a job that the Senate has created to advise them. She's not in the constitution, but Republicans will say, well, the parliamentarian says we can't do this. We can't do that. We can't. So we'll just have to go along with that. Nevermind. John Thune could fire said parliamentarian anytime something that is obviously driving Donald Trump. 02:43 nuts. Have you talked with Thune about... I have. No, I can't imagine why you'd keep a woman that was put there by Harry Reid in Barack Obama. I cannot understand it. The leader has the right to fire the person at will and put somebody else there. That would be... Because we get so many negative rulings from her, the parliamentarian. She's been there for years and she was put there by Harry Reid in Barack Obama. Harry Reid was a bad guy. 03:12 And he was the leader and he put her and the speaker has the right to immediately fire her and put somebody else there and it's not even believable that she's still there. She's obviously good politician or something. No Republican leaders of the Senate hide behind her so they don't have to act. 03:33 So it's just a shame to see this time we fought so hard for when we've got majorities in both the House and Senate be wasted by John Thune, who really seems to only have interest in going on vacation. 03:46 But the good news is, yesterday Mike Johnson says, he's the head of the Republicans in the House, for the fourth time now we will pass the SAVE Act. So this is the other half of the Republican Party and this time we're going to attach it to a bill that will hopefully force the Senate to 04:10 to pass it. I the president and I laughed about it in the Oval last week. told him, you know, Mr. President, I don't have any tattoos, but if I did, it'd say, save America on my shoulder, OK? We passed it three times ...

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