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EPISODE · Jun 15, 2026 · 8 MIN

Trump signed less than 40 bills, because John Thune is not a leader

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The second segment of Hour 3 focused on a legislative critique of Washington leadership, specifically targeting Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Charlie highlighted that Donald Trump signed fewer than 40 bills during this legislative period, directly blaming Thune's lack of leadership and inability to unite the Senate for the stalling of the administration's conservative agenda. The segment emphasized that effective legislative progress is being bottlenecked by leadership failure rather than a lack of executive willpower.

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00:00 All right, welcome back to the program. Something is, oh, by the way, before we get to that, Iran says that five ships has made it through the blockade as lifting takes effect. That is definitely good news. Something is happening tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen. I'm going to let the bitties on the view tell you. This will be one of many questions that we're going to be asking our guests on Tuesday. 00:27 We are going to be joined at the table by Vice President J.D. Vance. We'll be right back. 00:37 Oh, JD. So, yeah. So my question is, are they going to bring this up? Because remember, if you go back to 2024, 2024, this is what Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar said, let's take a listen. Who is in charge? Because 01:04 I've been saying it for a while. Yes, you have. I've been saying that I think Elon Musk believes he's president. I do. Well, you've been him vice president. I've called him vice president. I called him president. Because I don't know what JD is doing. I hardly ever say. I don't remember last time we even talked about JD. You're right. He's planning the presidency when they get rid of Trump. So you think it's Musk Vance? Possible. Hey, you know who? 01:34 Stay away from the stairways. You know, people put their leg out to trippy boy down the stairs. Yeah, yeah, I wonder if you'll bring that up. Whoopee. Whoopee Goldberg. Probably not. Now, here's what they're thinking. Here's what Joy Behar and Whoopee Goldberg, all these, all those women on the view, here's what they're thinking. 02:04 They're thinking they're going to take JD Vance to the woodshed. That's what they are thinking. But what they need to do is go back and remember when JD Vance sat across from Kristen Welker on Meet the Press, that's back in August of 2024. 02:26 This dude does not dodge questions. Back then he was embroiled in the whole cat lady scandal. that? The cat lady comments that he made? He pushed back. He pushed back where he disagreed. He explained in broader arguments, not just little sound bites. He's good at shifting the conversation towards families, affordability, the pressures that Americans are facing in building their lives. 02:57 And JD Vance has become a fantastic vice president. He's not going on the view unprepared. We've seen him on all of these interviews where they always try to give it, know, try to do a gotcha question with JD Vance. ah That ain't going to happen. That's not going to happen. So, JD, it's tomorrow. You want to talk about a UFC fight? Tomorrow, it's JD Vance versus the fake news. 03:26 the fake news is going to fall. There's no way these you couldn't if you put all those women on the view together, Sunny, Sunny Hosten, Joy Behar, Whoopi, Alyssa Farah, anybody else they got on the the dais, ah they don't have an IQ point between them. 03:47 JD Vans is going run circles, but you also got to remember. 03:53 What are they going to allow to air? 03:57 What are they going to be interesting to see? That's going to be a very interesting conversation between JD Vance and the biddies on the view tomorrow. We will see where that goes. So, oh, by the way, um, Pete Buttigieg. 04:15 One of the things that we've been telling you about, I mean, gosh, for months now, has been what the Democrats plan to do. And I don't know why John Thune, and you have to, all right, well, hold on. What I meant to say was, John Thune does not want to be the Senate majority leader. That's not the job he wants. 04:44 John Thune wants to be the minority leader. Just this past weekend, I believe it was Saturday night, maybe it was last, I think it was Saturday night, they put the kibosh on putting the Save America Act uh forward on one of the bills. They said, no, we're not going to do it. The Republicans did that. The Republicans blocked it. So what they are actually voting for, these Murkowski, 05:11 uh You got Mitch McConnell. He did that right before he went to the hospital. By the way, Mitch McConnell is i ...

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