1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, so the government still in a partial shutdown, Department 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 1: of Homeland Security not being funded, which also means TSA 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 1: isn't getting paid, Long lines at the airport making Americans 4 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: less safe, and the Democrats are blaming the Republicans on this. 5 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: They are totally gaslighting as for all this and more, 6 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:22,760 Speaker 1: we'll go to the hotline. Bring on Bradley Jy, one 7 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: of the best. He's Breitbart News's Deputy Politics editor. Bradley, 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: you spend a lot of time in the swamp. You've 9 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: worked in the swamp. How did we get to this 10 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: point where people are going to work but aren't getting 11 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: paid five weeks on now? 12 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 2: Well, Democrats, Democrats are incredibly incompetent if they can make 13 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:47,879 Speaker 2: me feel sympathy for TSA agent, right, but that's exactly 14 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 2: what it's done. Look the DHSS funding bill that Democrats 15 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 2: have refused a fund. It's yes, got ice and CBP, 16 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 2: know border patrol, but it also has the Coastguard, SEMA 17 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 2: and TSA as well. The state of the Democrat Party 18 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 2: right now, if you ever want to have a chance 19 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 2: at winning a primary to represent the Democrat Party, you 20 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 2: cannot vote to have anything to do with immigration or 21 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 2: border enforcement. You just can't. That's the ways, that's the 22 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 2: way that things have gotten. It's so bad, and that's 23 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 2: why we're seeing these shutdowns. You've had Democrats who have 24 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 2: tried to get around this. I think that they know 25 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 2: that the messaging isn't. 26 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:31,680 Speaker 1: Going to be good for them. 27 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 2: They've tried to move and the Senate a bill that 28 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 2: would only fund TSA, it wouldn't fund anything else in DHS. 29 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 2: Republicans and Trump smartly said no, fund it all or 30 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 2: don't fund anything. Republicans House members have already passed a 31 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 2: DHS funding bill. The Republicans in the Senate have voted 32 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:55,400 Speaker 2: for it numerous times. But that's why things are so bad. 33 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 2: And there are a few possible out ramps off ramps 34 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 2: off there, but it might have to get pretty bad 35 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 2: before it gets better. 36 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:06,639 Speaker 1: Help me understand something, Bradley, and you mentioned it briefly there. 37 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: ICE is already funded through the big beautiful bill, right, 38 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 1: So what do Democrats want and are Republicans coming up 39 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 1: with any solutions? 40 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 2: Well, Republicans actually are helped the Senate. Republicans are actually 41 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 2: helping give Democrats an out and proposing a Republican cave. 42 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 2: It's astounding but Republicans. Actually, a senator soon, the Senate 43 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 2: majority leader for Republicans, actually went to President Trump and said, look, 44 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 2: we've reached a compromise in the Senate with Senate Democrat. 45 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 2: We're going to move a DHS funding bill that funds 46 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 2: everything in DHS except for Ice. And then sometime later 47 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 2: down the road, yeah, Ice will be you know, that's 48 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 2: fund about a big beautiful bill. So they'll be fine 49 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 2: for the time being. But somewhere down the road will 50 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:03,920 Speaker 2: do another reconciliation bill, which you know has all these 51 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:09,519 Speaker 2: other requirements, It introduces all these other levels of uncertainty. 52 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 2: Other Republicans are wont to have their own priorities inserted 53 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 2: into the bill. But down the road, Republicans say, yeah, 54 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 2: we'll fund Ice through that. What that would do is 55 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 2: ensure that Ice is never funded again. If we made 56 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 2: this the new president, where you fund Ice separately from 57 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 2: the DHS fundingbil from the ordinary Congressional Appropriations bill, you 58 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 2: would never see Ice funded again a future Democrat administration Congress, 59 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 2: they'd never funded. The reason why Republicans are caving, well, 60 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 2: there are a couple of reasons. The biggest one might 61 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 2: be is that there is a regularly scheduled Senate recess 62 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 2: that would begin later this week and soon, and Trump say, 63 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 2: and hope until DHS is funded, I'm not gonna let 64 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 2: you go on vacation. It's amazing. Nothing by nothing gets 65 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 2: Republican senators ready to actually move on something, then threatening 66 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 2: their Tuesday morning to Thursday morning work weeks that they 67 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 2: enjoy each week. It really is pathetic. But that's the 68 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 2: state of Look. I always said while I worked on Congress, 69 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 2: I hate Democrats, but I really hate Republicans, and everything 70 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 2: I see is reinforced out field. 71 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: One more thing on ICE here before we move to 72 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:27,840 Speaker 1: the Save America Act? What do you know about the 73 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 1: ICE agent's being deployed at airports across the country it started. 74 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 2: I believe they're going to thirteen American cities right now, 75 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 2: notably none in the Washington, DC area, with which I 76 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:47,039 Speaker 2: found interesting. Look, Trump understands that he needs to play 77 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 2: this smartly. He has asked very nicely that ICE agents 78 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 2: don't wear masks when they are performing or are helping 79 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,760 Speaker 2: out TSA. He said that he still wants them to 80 00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 2: bill to do it so that they don't get docs 81 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 2: when they're out doing you know, more traditional ICE functions. 82 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 2: But look, this is I mean, it's really just another 83 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 2: finger in the eye of Democrats saying, Oh, you think 84 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 2: you've got leverage, I'm gonna make you walk by these 85 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 2: ICE agents every day when you're flying back and forth 86 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 2: from your homes to DC. Very smartly done by Trump, 87 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 2: and again I think that he understands that he needs 88 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 2: to be careful with this and with with new new 89 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 2: blood in ICE and DHS, with Tom Human taking on 90 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:34,680 Speaker 2: more authority, and with I believe tonight we'll see Mark 91 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 2: Wayne Mullen be confirmed as DHS secretary. I'm hopeful that 92 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 2: there will be anything like we saw in Minneapolis. I 93 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:44,559 Speaker 2: don't think that we will. 94 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 1: Trump's also on the road. We're speaking with Bright Bart 95 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: News Deputy politics editor Bradley J. Trump's also on the 96 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: record saying that no deal should be made on DHS 97 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: funding until the Save Act is passed. Where are we 98 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: at with the Save America That Act, the legislation that 99 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 1: it's going to require citizens to prove you're an American 100 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: when you go to register to vote and to show 101 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:09,600 Speaker 1: your ID when you actually go to the polls. What's 102 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: the latest there? Where are we at? 103 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 2: I'll tell you exactly where we're at, John Thune and 104 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 2: the Republicans are orchestrating this big song and dance, just 105 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 2: a bunch of kabuki theater to make it look like 106 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 2: they're trying to get it passed, but they're really not. 107 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:26,280 Speaker 2: The Senate took up the bill towards the beginning of 108 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 2: last week. They stayed in over the weekend and debated it. Now, 109 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 2: what is debating a bill and the Senate mean? Today? 110 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 2: The Senate doesn't actually debate. You'll have a series of 111 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:40,599 Speaker 2: senators walk up to the dais and the microphone and 112 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,039 Speaker 2: speak so that they can clip something and put it 113 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 2: on their YouTube or their Facebook channel later, but they're 114 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 2: not actually debating. It's again, it's just a kabuki theater. 115 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:52,800 Speaker 2: They took a couple votes over the weekend, but they 116 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,840 Speaker 2: were spaced apart, like hours and hours apart, so senators 117 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 2: could go to their cocktail parties or fundraisers or whatever 118 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 2: else they normally do with their time. 119 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 1: Wow. 120 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 2: But what eventually is going to happen is it will 121 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 2: be necessary to hit that sixty vote threshold to end 122 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 2: debate on the bill. It's going to fail. Some conservatives 123 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 2: like Mike Lee are saying, well, that's fine, We'll just 124 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 2: keep debating and keep debating and until Democrats eventually give up. 125 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 2: Because these Democrats, just like Republicans, they have all these 126 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 2: ear marks that they want to shove into these bills, 127 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 2: so they don't want to stay out and Save America Act. 128 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 2: But the way that things are going now is they'll eventually, 129 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 2: probably middle or late this week, vote to end debate 130 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 2: on it. It'll fail, and Sooon and his leadership will 131 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,640 Speaker 2: decide just to move on, move on to the next thing. 132 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,600 Speaker 2: I don't know that that's what President Trump will accept, 133 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 2: but that's where things are headed now. But there's a 134 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 2: lot of pressure on Republicans to actually do something concrete 135 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 2: on this and not to just talk like they normally do. 136 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 2: And the fact that they actually are having a debate 137 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 2: it's not sufficient, but it is a step in the 138 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 2: right direction because that's what the Senate is supposed to do. 139 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: And do you think and does Trump want that filibuster gone? 140 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: Is that a possibility? And is it a good idea 141 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: that way? And that right because if you did that 142 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 1: then you wouldn't need the sixty votes. 143 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 2: That's right. I don't think it is a possibility because 144 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 2: that would require Republicans to show a little courage, and 145 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 2: they're not going to do that. Look, the filibuster is 146 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 2: on its way out. As soon as Democrats have the 147 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 2: trifecta again, or even as soon as they have maybe 148 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 2: not even the House, if they have the White House. 149 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 2: In the Senate, they are going to do away with 150 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 2: the filibuster. It's days are limited, they so why don't 151 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 2: Republicans actually get rid of it now so they can 152 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 2: actually move their old agenda for once. The sad fact 153 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 2: is that most Republicans, at least in the Senate, don't 154 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:52,319 Speaker 2: even have an agenda. Their agenda is to be in 155 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 2: the Senate, a sad state of affairs. But the bottom 156 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 2: line is, the numbers don't add up. They're fifty three 157 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 2: Republican senators. You could do away through some parliamentary jiu jitsu. 158 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,440 Speaker 2: You could do away with the filibuster with fifty votes 159 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 2: plus one. But there are probably thirty thirty five senators 160 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,560 Speaker 2: who don't want to do away with the villabuster. They 161 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 2: might say that they want to do away with it, 162 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 2: but you only need four Republican senators to refuse to 163 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 2: go along with that rule change, and there might the 164 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 2: third or the fourth. It might be difficult to find 165 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 2: one who's willing to walk the plank, but at the 166 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:37,680 Speaker 2: very least the retirees like Tillis and McConnell, they'll vote 167 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 2: against it. Edry mcals, you'll vote against it. I'm sure 168 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 2: that they can find a fourth. It would be great 169 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 2: if they went ahead and do it, because we could 170 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:47,319 Speaker 2: actually move Trump's agenda, but it sadly it ain't gonna happen. 171 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,679 Speaker 1: Bright Burn News Deputy Politics editor Bradley Jay, thanks for 172 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:53,079 Speaker 1: talking to us on a Monday, Bradley, and have fun 173 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 1: in the swamp, buddy. 174 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:57,480 Speaker 2: Please pray for me, but it's always great joining y'all.