1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,440 Speaker 1: It's the Hammer of Nigel Show. My name is Nigel 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 1: Jason Hammer. Right over there. With all the news about 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:10,039 Speaker 1: the United States war with Iran, something has kind of 4 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:12,799 Speaker 1: gone under the radar lately. That would be the Save 5 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:16,520 Speaker 1: America Act, a piece of legislation that Donald Trump and 6 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:19,120 Speaker 1: the White House really want to push through. 7 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 2: And it's very simple. It's federal law that's. 8 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: Going to say that you have to have you have 9 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 1: to prove you're an American to register to vote. You 10 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 1: got to have an ID two vote. And here to 11 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: give us an update on that. Bright Bard News policy 12 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: reporter Sean Moran, Seawan, did I get that right? It 13 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 1: seems like a pretty simple piece of legislation. 14 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,839 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the crust of it requires voter ID as 15 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 3: a register. You gotta show voter ID when you vote, 16 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 3: and it would have a bail on mail end ballots. 17 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 2: Wow. 18 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: Okay, this doesn't seem to be having success. I think 19 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: that it got through the House, but the Senate is 20 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 1: a different story. Who's for it? Who's againstant the majority leader? 21 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,560 Speaker 1: Phone is having some problems. What's going on? 22 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 3: Absolutely, and this is something we have and will continue 23 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 3: to report on. 24 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:15,320 Speaker 2: Bright Bartners. 25 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 3: It's a long standing issue that we are seeing the 26 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 3: kind of double edged sword of the Senate filibuster that 27 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:27,360 Speaker 3: requires sixty votes in order to get major legislation through 28 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 3: the body. You know, this is something that President Donald 29 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 3: Trump has tried to push the Senate to adopt to 30 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 3: find ways to get rid of the filibuster or at 31 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 3: least bypassed it in order to pass the legislation. What 32 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 3: some senators, like Senator Mike Lee from Utah is advocating 33 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 3: for is to use what is known as a talking filibuster. 34 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 3: It's basically a center role that's been around forever in 35 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 3: the Senate to basically require democrats are opposed to ending 36 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 3: date on legislation that they would vote on, to continuously 37 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 3: talk on the Senate floor until they basically just get 38 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 3: exhausted and give up. You know, we've seen the sort 39 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:13,760 Speaker 3: of thing. Yeah, no, it's incredible sort of procedure and 40 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 3: it's only been used a couple times in history, but 41 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 3: it's been used for major parts of legislation. We could 42 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 3: see this that it was used to pass parts of 43 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 3: the Civil Rights Act. It was passed to pass major 44 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 3: legislation in eighteen eighty three. So it's a big move 45 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 3: that they would do in order to try and pass this. 46 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 3: It would take a lot of coordination that we can 47 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 3: get into in order to pass it, but it is 48 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 3: definitely a possibility that the Senate could take forward to 49 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 3: take action on that. 50 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: Well, it seems like what it would take from the 51 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:47,359 Speaker 1: Republicans is work, and that's the other component here. They 52 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: could talk for days and weeks if they wanted. But 53 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: you're saying by doing the talking filibuster, eventually the Save 54 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 1: America Act could get passed if they do it. 55 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 2: Now, who like, what's the problem? Why don't they just 56 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 2: do it? 57 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 1: Like? 58 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 2: What's what's student doing? 59 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 3: Essentially with what Republican sender Republicans and Senate Majority John 60 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 3: Stune would have to do is make sure that Senate 61 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 3: Republicans are on the same page on the Senate floor 62 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:21,080 Speaker 3: for potentially weeks, a month or two months even and 63 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 3: that they agree on all potential amendments that Democrats could 64 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 3: add to the legislation to make sure that they're all 65 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 3: in agreement half the time. That they're all presently uh 66 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 3: working together on it, and there's a couple standstills that 67 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,600 Speaker 3: are not entirely on board with this plan. We can 68 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 3: see very infamously, uh, the former Senate Majority Leader Mitch 69 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 3: McConnell is not in favor of this, and this is 70 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 3: something that one of the Senate, one of the Kentucky 71 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 3: Senate Republican candidates, Nate Morris, and we reported that right 72 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 3: Bright News, and one of our interviews is that, you know, 73 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 3: Mitch McConnell has been quite a cudgel about this plan, 74 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:00,320 Speaker 3: and it's to make sure that you know the that 75 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 3: this thing can get through. But it's one of the 76 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 3: things that requires a lot of coordination, a lot of 77 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 3: buy in from everyone, and it oftentimes takes some problems. 78 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 3: And this is quite This is actually one of the 79 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:17,160 Speaker 3: reasons why it hasn't been used this often in history 80 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 3: for the Senative has to these sort of things through 81 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 3: using the talking filibuster, is that it's just it requires 82 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 3: so much coronation and frankly, it's so physically exhausting to 83 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,880 Speaker 3: be on the Senate for so long to get this done. 84 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 3: But President Donald Trump is very committed to get it done. 85 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 3: So it's going to be interested to see if the 86 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 3: Senate Republican Conference can get to it make sure it happens. 87 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,480 Speaker 1: And there's no way McConnell could stay awake for two hours, 88 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,840 Speaker 1: much less thirty hours giving a break. I we're speaking 89 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 1: with a policy reporter from Breitbart, Sean Moran in the 90 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,679 Speaker 1: Save America Act? 91 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 2: Are there okay? 92 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: We know that, we know, and we'll get to why 93 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 1: Democrats are opposed to pushing this through? Are there other 94 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:57,840 Speaker 1: Republicans that are opposed to this in the Senate? 95 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:01,280 Speaker 3: From what I unders say, and a lot of these 96 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 3: center Republicans haven't been talking too publicly, but from my 97 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 3: understand there's a handful of center Republicans that are a 98 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 3: little uncomfortable with entirely eliminating mail in ballots. They often believe, 99 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 3: these center Republicans that a lot of rural states want 100 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 3: to make sure that there's some provisions for mail in 101 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 3: balloting to make sure that these you know, rural states 102 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 3: which often you have to drive ten, fifteen, twenty thirty 103 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 3: miles or however to your polling station to make sure 104 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,239 Speaker 3: that they can have that ability to vote by mail 105 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 3: and things like that. We know that there's often issues 106 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 3: that come with mail in batting. There's ways to have 107 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:42,159 Speaker 3: verification of those mail in ballots, but I think that's 108 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 3: one of the bigger concerns that some center Republicans have 109 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 3: in this. 110 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:50,039 Speaker 1: Yeah, what about the Democrats? Their argument is that it's 111 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: an oppressive piece of legislation, Their constituents don't know how 112 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: to go get drivers' licenses. What if you just get 113 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: what if they're a woman and you just got married 114 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 1: and your name is different. Now it's such a patronizing, 115 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 1: sort of politically stupid thing to said Jim Crowe two 116 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: point zero. I'm hearing all these things, and what are 117 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: you hearing? 118 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 3: We often hear the same thing. And I think that 119 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 3: when you said with the women issues, a new one 120 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 3: that they're doing. You know, former Secretary of State Harley 121 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 3: Klinn brought this up and she said that women that 122 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,799 Speaker 3: you said change their names, would you know no longer 123 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 3: be able to vote? And my wife is able to vote. 124 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 3: She changed her name and when she married me, and 125 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 3: what do you know, she can still vote. 126 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 2: So I don't know. 127 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 3: I think it's gonna work for women, So maybe maybe 128 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 3: I'm wrong for other people. But it is often very 129 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 3: interesting when they try to bring up a new talking 130 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 3: point that it's not going to discourage women are minority 131 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 3: from voting, which apparently a lot of people don't have 132 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 3: licensed IDs to be able to do anything else in life. 133 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 2: It's so ridiculous. 134 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 1: You need an ID to fish, you need an ID 135 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,919 Speaker 1: to get a license to fit or to buy alcohol, 136 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: to bite suita fit for God's sake, but you can't 137 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: somehow is it possible for minorities to make it to 138 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: the DMVD or wherever you would get your ID to 139 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: go vote? 140 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 2: Why? What's the real. 141 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: Reason Democrats don't want this to go through the real reason. 142 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of concerns that perhaps there 143 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 3: might be some this the argument I think from the 144 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 3: right that people would say that there's a lot of 145 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 3: ballots or roles that may not be one hundred percent valid, 146 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 3: and that they might not courage it with this sort 147 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 3: of thing, and then maybe it would be a little 148 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 3: harder for you know, election integrity may not always go 149 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 3: their way, or you should say, I don't know it. 150 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 3: It makes one wonder. I'm still looking into the issue. 151 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 3: But I think that's the argument I've heard from someone 152 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 3: the right that believe Democrats. 153 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 1: This isn't I mean, even like, yeah, I saw the 154 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: other night. We played a clip yesterday on the show 155 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: of CNN and its own polling says voter ID is 156 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 1: not a controversial issue. What of the what are the 157 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: numbers you've seen on polling in people, you know, average 158 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: everyday citizens and even Democrats as a whole. Democrats want 159 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 1: voter id that are that are normal, average everyday citizens 160 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: that aren't lawmakers. I mean, it's not a controversial thing, right. 161 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 3: Any of the polls say to be strong majorities, even 162 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 3: up to like eighty twenty eighty favor twenty against things 163 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 3: like that. This is not a particularly controversial issue. And 164 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 3: I mean for Democrats that are often concerned about foreign 165 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,599 Speaker 3: influence from Russia or you know, medaling and our elections, 166 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 3: this is one medaling and our electoral integrity issue sort 167 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 3: of system that they don't really want to deal with. 168 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 3: You know what, if Russians want to put in fake 169 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 3: ballots that might help Republicans, I'm just gonna think of 170 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 3: it out loud about something like that. But that's not 171 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:00,440 Speaker 3: something they seem to be particularly about. 172 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 1: Sean Moran, Breitbart Policy reporter. What are you working on 173 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:05,120 Speaker 1: at Breitbart dot com right now? 174 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 3: So we're going to be looking a lot more into 175 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 3: what's happening next week with the Senate moving forward on 176 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:12,480 Speaker 3: the Save America Act and We're going to have a 177 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 3: more evergreen piece that's going to explain the history of 178 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 3: the filibuster, what Center Republicans want to do about it, 179 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 3: how this talking pilibuster will work. So be sure to 180 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:22,440 Speaker 3: check out a reporting. We're gonna have a lot more 181 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 3: going on that. 182 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be a double edged sword, I think 183 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: for Republicans if they got rid of the filibuster, for sure. 184 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,080 Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the answer is here. I think 185 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: the talking filibuster is definitely a thing though, in my opinion, 186 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: and Phone needs to get his act together here on 187 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 1: this thing, for sure. Sean Moran, thank you for keeping 188 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:43,959 Speaker 1: us updated. When something happens, we'll get back with you 189 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: on the Save America Act. You can find Shawn's work 190 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 1: Breitbart dot com, breitbartdeuw's policy reporter. Sean Moran, thank you 191 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 1: and have a wonderful weekend, sir. 192 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 3: Thanks to you too.