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Speaker 1: Hey, my name is Nigel Jason Hammers. Here we'll go

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Speaker 1: straight to the hotline and bring on Senator Jim Banks

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Speaker 1: from the Great State of Indiana. Senator, welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the Hammer of Nigel Show. Pretty simple, straightforward question here.

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Speaker 1: When are we going to get the TSA paid? When

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Speaker 1: are we going to have a safer airport save for

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Speaker 1: United States? When funding the DHS? Do you have a

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Speaker 1: prediction as to win? The Democrats are actually going to

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Speaker 1: play ball here.

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Speaker 2: I can't predict it. I can tell you I just

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Speaker 2: walked off the floor. We voted for the fifteenth time

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Speaker 2: to reopen Department of Homeland Security. Every Democrat but one

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Speaker 2: voted against it. I think it was Fetterman. I think

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Speaker 2: he voted with us again to reopen DHS. I'm hearing

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Speaker 2: the job. I mean, you can hardly blind them. They

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Speaker 2: I mean, they're they're working hard. They're still showing up

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Speaker 2: there they're not getting a paycheck, but they're still showing

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Speaker 2: up and doing their job. But I'm concerned about where

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Speaker 2: this goes. I mean, our our airports are affected, long

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Speaker 2: Democrats have have blocked funding for the Department of Homeland

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Speaker 2: Security while we're in a war right now with the

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Speaker 2: while all of this is going on. So it's not

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Speaker 2: the Secret Service, it's about the ICE. All this for

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Speaker 2: the Democrats is about the ICE officers who are deporting

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Speaker 2: And that, for the Democrats, that's what they want. I

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Speaker 2: to keep our country safe from terrorists, to open it

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Speaker 2: and allow these these men and women to do their job.

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Speaker 2: And that's what that's what Republicans are fighting for. Democrats

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Speaker 3: Senator Jason Hammer here, and it feels like the Republicans

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Speaker 3: have been willing to have some conversations about, you know,

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Speaker 3: But if the reporting is accurate, it's the Democrats who

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Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like it. On Sunday, they were

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Speaker 2: floor that we voted for. The Democrats voted against the

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Speaker 2: exact same thing that they said they would vote for

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Speaker 2: over the weekend. Majority Leader soon put it on the

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Speaker 2: So that so we are where we are. I mean,

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Speaker 2: they've made a list of demands that would severely affect

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Speaker 2: even though that puts them in a more dangerous situation,

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Speaker 2: and some of the things that they're demanding would totally

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Speaker 2: that that is exactly the purpose of why why they exist.

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Speaker 2: So of course I'm not going to go along with that.

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Speaker 2: But that's what the Democrats are demanding.

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Speaker 1: Last thing on this and we'll switch subjects. But I

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Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about un American making and leave

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Speaker 1: it to the Democrats to make me feel sorry for TSA,

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Speaker 1: But these guys don't have a glamorous job. It is

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Speaker 1: They have positive attitudes. Sometimes it just does not look

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Speaker 1: It looks like a hard gig and on a you know,

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Speaker 2: These these can't say just live like most people. They

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Speaker 2: They're not there and they're they're essential. So they're showing

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Speaker 2: watching all of this and thinking, how how can I

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Speaker 2: to be totally okay with that. Shut them down and

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Speaker 2: don't pay them, and you have longer lines at airports,

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Speaker 2: more chaos, and and that's a that's a recipe for

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Speaker 2: for for a disaster. I mean, it's it's very dangerous.

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Speaker 2: So my hope is that they'll come to their senses.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I just presided on the floor for two

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Speaker 2: whether it's you know, short term deals or funding this part.

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Speaker 2: And that's that part, but not as much in the

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Speaker 2: ice part, and and and the and the Democrats. Every

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Speaker 3: Speaking with Senator Jim Banks from the Great State of

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Speaker 3: Indiana joining us here on the Hammer In Nigel Show, Senator,

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Speaker 3: let's pivot to the war in Iran. UH story came

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Speaker 3: out earlier from the Wall Street Journal, but another three

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Speaker 3: to be part of this.

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Speaker 1: UH.

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Speaker 3: I know you're on one of the committees that has

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Speaker 3: meetings about this. You gather information, you gather intel.

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Speaker 1: The Armed Services Committee. Yesh, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Where are we at with this war right now?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 2: I think I think we're close. I mean President Trump

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Speaker 2: has said five times the last forty eight hours that

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Speaker 2: And this creates a generational change to create peace in

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Speaker 2: Trump says he thinks we're close to winding this down.

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Speaker 2: I'm watching high gas prices and hearing from people that

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Speaker 2: to achieve the ultimate objective. Sending troops to the Middle East.

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Speaker 2: Of course we have and I served in the Navy,

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Speaker 2: and I've been the bases all over the Middle East.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we have all over the place. And you know,

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Speaker 2: my hope is that we don't send troops on the

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Speaker 2: to have options and backup. I think that I think

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Speaker 2: those are the moves that we're making at this point.

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Speaker 2: I'm on the Armed Services Committee. We had another briefing

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Speaker 2: That's what President Trump wants us.

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Speaker 3: What I want to senator, last thing here before we

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Speaker 3: let you go. We want to be respectful of your time.

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Speaker 3: Can you tell us who is the United States negotiating with?

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Speaker 3: We've been told that the new Ayatola, the new Supreme

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Speaker 1: Is that who it is? Is?

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Speaker 3: Is it somebody from the parliamentary side here? Who is

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Speaker 3: the United States doing these negotiations with?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's it's it's unclear at this point. You can't

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Speaker 2: don't where are these so the so called negotiations lead to.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the best negotiation is to is to is

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Speaker 2: to wipe out their military and their capabilities, and that's

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Speaker 2: what President Trump is determined to do. But you know,

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Speaker 2: wipe out more of their missiles. The best negotiation is

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Speaker 2: But I'm not convinced at this point that we're necessarily

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Speaker 2: send them messages that if you don't back off and

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Speaker 2: further hell to pay.

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Speaker 3: Senator Jim Banks, we always appreciate you taking the time

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Speaker 3: to join us, and again, if there's any updates on

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Speaker 3: either one of these big stories, the TSA situation or

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Speaker 3: this war in Iran, please don't hesitate to let us

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Speaker 3: know you got it.

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Speaker 2: Have a good day,