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Speaker 1: part of the program. Well, the never ending New York
Speaker 1: City pro Hamas protesters continued, this time, several dozen of
Speaker 1: them supporting this pro Hamas Mood Khalil occupying the lobby
Speaker 1: of Trump Tower earlier today calling for the release of
Speaker 1: this guy who was detained over the weekend, and protesters
Speaker 1: dressed in red holding up signs free mo Mood, Free Palestine.
Speaker 1: This was at Trump Tower, and uh, this is protesters
Speaker 1: chanting free mo Mood. Freed them all, you know, at
Speaker 1: Trump Tower? All right, So that took place earlier today.
Speaker 1: Greg Jarrett wrote a pretty amazing analysis of all of this,
Speaker 1: how Mahmood Khalil cannot use the First Amendment as a
Speaker 1: shield for lawlessness and he joins us now and will
Speaker 1: lay out the legal reasons why he believes that. Why
Speaker 1: I happen to agree with him that you can't hide
Speaker 1: behind the First Amendment deployed as a shield for lawlessness anyway,
Speaker 1: Greg Jarrett, sir, how are you? It was also something
Speaker 1: called intimidation. If I recall last year and his spoken
Speaker 1: words of support for a terrorist organization. I believe that
Speaker 1: Marco Rubio is writing his analysis of the law of
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts?
Speaker 4: Well, look, people who are non citizens do not enjoy
Speaker 4: the same free speech rights that American citizens do. You know,
Speaker 4: so many in journalism news organizations I've been watching over
Speaker 4: the last twenty four hours don't seem to comprehend that
Speaker 4: fundamental fact. They're just not well educated. A Green card
Speaker 4: holder like Khalil was granted lawful residents, but that's not
Speaker 4: a right, it is a conditional privileging. One of the
Speaker 4: conditions is he must abide by immigration laws until he
Speaker 4: becomes a citizen. And all you have to do is
Speaker 4: look at one of the main sections of the Immigration
Speaker 4: Naturalization Act, Session two twelve, and it specifically forbids resident
Speaker 4: aliens like Khalil from supporting or promoting terrorist activities, and
Speaker 4: if they do that, ICE and Homeland Security can revoke
Speaker 4: their green card and deport them from the US. The
Speaker 4: First Amendment does not protect Khalil. He cannot use our
Speaker 4: free speech principles as a shield for either lawlessness or
Speaker 4: wrongful conduct that's prohibited by the statute I just identified.
Speaker 4: He does not even have to be officially charged with
Speaker 4: a crime to be expelled. Instead, if our government determines
Speaker 4: that his conduct violated immigration standards codified in law, then
Speaker 4: it goes to an immigration judge, and that judge can
Speaker 4: and should a victim. So here, ICE and DHS have determined,
Speaker 4: based on their evidence that this is a guy who
Speaker 4: is spoused terrorist acts of Hamas promoted Hamas. They're a
Speaker 4: designated terrorist organization by a US government, And that's one
Speaker 4: basis for losing his green card. The other basis is,
Speaker 4: as you point out, Sean the Secretary of State, because
Speaker 4: the law says that if a an alien's presence or
Speaker 4: activities have a serious adverse foreign policy consequence for the US,
Speaker 4: he's deportable. And that's what Secretary of State Marco Rubio
Speaker 4: has determined. He said that what Khalil and others did
Speaker 4: is anesthetical to our foreign policy and our national security
Speaker 4: and he should be deported. So, frankly, this should be
Speaker 4: a slam dunk case. But what Khalil has done is
Speaker 4: he's rushed to a different judge who has no authority
Speaker 4: or jurisdiction, A federal district court judge, an Obama appoint
Speaker 4: use halted everything and said, well, I want to hold
Speaker 4: hearings on free speech in First Amendment, so we'll see
Speaker 4: where it goes.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean that's a sad part of our system, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, even if you're a non citizen, you get
Speaker 1: to use the courts. Now, all these reports about the
Speaker 1: major role that he played in the protests against Israel
Speaker 1: at Columbia University. You know, if we go back in
Speaker 1: time and we witnessed what happened. You know, if you
Speaker 1: recall they were setting up these encampments and they were
Speaker 1: taking over buildings again lawless behavior, and then they were
Speaker 1: also confronting Jewish students. That became an unsafe environment, and
Speaker 1: at one point Colombia was telling Jewish students to stay
Speaker 1: home and take remote classes, confronting people and asking them
Speaker 1: if they were a Zionist or not before they'd even
Speaker 1: let them walk through. So all of that happened as well.
Speaker 1: And you're right, the Department of Homeland Security, the DOJ,
Speaker 1: the State Department are investigating Khalil as a possible national
Speaker 1: security threat. I would imagine that anybody that is supporting
Speaker 1: and aligning themselves with a designated terrorist organization has to
Speaker 1: fit that definition, don't they.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think the evidence is pretty compelling here that
Speaker 4: he was helping to organize and then he later mediated
Speaker 4: these violent protests sick Columbia. You've described them that they
Speaker 4: were hideous, disgusting acts of anti semitism, vandalism, destruction of property,
Speaker 4: attacks on Jewish students, and attacks on law enforcement. That's
Speaker 4: not protected speech in nor is the spreading of printed
Speaker 4: pro vamos propaganda flyers that glorified the murderous atrocities by
Speaker 4: Hamas visited on innocent Israeli civilians. October seventh, twenty twenty three,
Speaker 4: forty six Americans, by the way, among the nearly twelve
Speaker 4: hundred who were massacred. Sorry, the First Amendment doesn't protect
Speaker 4: you for that. I you know, I think Trump has
Speaker 4: taken a too prong approach arrest and deport people like Khalil,
Speaker 4: but also punish, you know, higher education institutions like Colombia.
Speaker 4: He's already yanked for four hundred million in federal funding
Speaker 4: for Columbia. Why their failure to protect students and faculty.
Speaker 4: They were encouraging and placating these things by their own inaction.
Speaker 4: As I wrote in my columny. You know, colleges and
Speaker 4: universities are supposed to offer classrooms of learning that are
Speaker 4: safe from intimidation and threats and acts of violence.
Speaker 1: Well they don't. They have all of these anti harassment
Speaker 1: intimidation rules for every protected class that you can ever
Speaker 1: imagine and think of, and what they just make exception
Speaker 1: for people that are Jewish. It's Okay, to attack them
Speaker 1: and intimidate and harass them.
Speaker 4: The irony that you point out should be lost on
Speaker 4: no one. But you know, it's all about the almighty dollar.
Speaker 4: In these institutions of education. The only way you can
Speaker 4: get them to do the right thing is to withhold money.
Speaker 4: Only then will they act according to their obligations and duties.
Speaker 4: It'll motivate them to do the right thing to protect students.
Speaker 4: Let's get on with education.
Speaker 1: Let me play Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, and
Speaker 1: his comments about this issue and about this guy Khalil.
Speaker 3: When you come to the United States as a visitor,
Speaker 3: which is what a visa is, which is how this
Speaker 3: individual entered this country as on a visitor's visa. Okay,
Speaker 3: you are here as a visitor. We can deny you
Speaker 3: that visa. We can deny you that if you tell
Speaker 3: us when you apply. Hi, I'm trying to get into
Speaker 3: the United States on a student visa. I am a
Speaker 3: big supporter of hamas a murderous, barbaric group that kidnaps children,
Speaker 3: that rapes teenage girls, that takes hostages, that allows them
Speaker 3: to die in captivity, that returns more bodies than live hostages.
Speaker 3: If you tell us that you are in favor of
Speaker 3: a group like this, and if you tell us when
Speaker 3: you apply for your visa, and by the way, I
Speaker 3: intend to come to your country as a student and
Speaker 3: rile up all kinds of anti Jewish student, anti Semitic activities.
Speaker 3: I intend to shut down your universities. If you told
Speaker 3: us all these things when you applied for a visa,
Speaker 3: we would deny your visa.
Speaker 1: I hope we would.
Speaker 3: If you actually end up doing that once you're in
Speaker 3: this country on such a visa, we will revoke it.
Speaker 3: And if you end up having a green card, not citizenship,
Speaker 3: but a green card as a result of that visa
Speaker 3: while you're here in those activities, we're going to kick
Speaker 3: you out.
Speaker 1: I mean, it seems to be very straightforward and very
Speaker 1: simple to me.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 4: It is, you know, act consistent with the law. Now
Speaker 4: under Joe Biden, he didn't care about the law. You know,
Speaker 4: he opened our border to millions of people. Aidn't care
Speaker 4: if they were supporters of Hama. So we're going to
Speaker 4: you know, make their way to college campuses in Recavoc
Speaker 4: and you know, cause harm to Jewish students. He didn't
Speaker 4: care about that. This is a president Donald Trump who
Speaker 4: actually cares in a Secretary of State Marco Rubio who
Speaker 4: well understands the law, and he just plainly stated it
Speaker 4: as I did in today's column.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see how this
Speaker 1: plays out. What do you make of these people that
Speaker 1: are out there protesting? And I think it raises an
Speaker 1: entire different question that nobody really wants to raise, and
Speaker 1: that is I think in many ways New York Democrats
Speaker 1: have severely let down the Jewish community in New York.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to change, and I think it's
Speaker 1: going to change rather dramatically. Am I wrong in believing that?
Speaker 4: No? I think you're absolutely right. Part of the problem
Speaker 4: among Democrats is that they are historically illiterate. Yeah. I
Speaker 4: was a correspondent during the Second ind of Fada, and
Speaker 4: I was there throughout the Middle East, in Israel and
Speaker 4: Gaza and the West Bank and so forth. If they
Speaker 4: had seen the carnage that I saw at the hands
Speaker 4: of some the most despicable terrorists in the world, I
Speaker 4: think they would understand the constant state of siege that
Speaker 4: the Jewish people in Israel are under, and Jewish people
Speaker 4: here now in America with this really despicable anti semitism
Speaker 4: that seems to be sweeping across college campuses. But Democrats
Speaker 4: act as though they're utterly unbothered by any of it. Well,
Speaker 4: the American people are bothered by it, and Democrats need
Speaker 4: to wake up from their deep slumber and start serving
Speaker 4: the interests of the American people and our closest ally
Speaker 4: in the Middle East, which has long been Israel.
Speaker 1: Quick break more with Greg Jarrett on the other side,
Speaker 1: and then later we'll get to your call. Senator Rampaul
Speaker 1: coming up, and also we will introduce you to a
Speaker 1: main legislator who literally is not able to vote, has
Speaker 1: been sent the daring to uh stand against men playing
Speaker 1: in women's sports. We'll get to that case and more
Speaker 1: as we continue. We continue now with Greg Jarrett, Fox
Speaker 1: News Legal Analyst. Let me go back to the courts
Speaker 1: for a second, because, as you rightly pointed out in
Speaker 1: your column, and what you mentioned earlier is Leo's attorney.
Speaker 1: You know, basically, when Judge Shopping ran to a district judge,
Speaker 1: an Obama appoint e, who halted any deportation pending a hearing,
Speaker 1: and that hearing is not based on what should actually
Speaker 1: be the merits of the case, which I find a
Speaker 1: little bit frustrating. Assuming that that judge will be sympathetic,
Speaker 1: uh and and liberal and left wing and an activist,
Speaker 1: and what does that mean for the next step and
Speaker 1: what does what does the Trump administration do next?
Speaker 4: Well, I would like to be optimistic and think that
Speaker 4: Judge Jesse Furman, as you point out, an Obama appointe,
Speaker 4: recognize what what what the First Amendment means and the
Speaker 4: history of it as well as this.
Speaker 1: Why would you even for one second believe that's possible
Speaker 1: after all we've lived through all these years.
Speaker 4: I'd like to be a glass half full kind of guy.
Speaker 4: I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt. Yes,
Speaker 4: he temporarily halted any deportation proceedings, and I hope that
Speaker 4: he will be wise to the tactics here by Khalil's attorneys,
Speaker 4: what they're really trying to do is to wrongfully flip
Speaker 4: jurisdiction from an immigration judge who has authority over Khalil
Speaker 4: to a district court judge who doesn't.
Speaker 1: And this is what your column lays out. So simply,
Speaker 1: Section two twelve Immigration Nationality Act forbids aliens from supporting
Speaker 1: or promoting a designated terrorist organization such as a mosque.
Speaker 1: If they do, their green cards can be revoked and
Speaker 1: they can be expelled. That's not a hard provision to understand, Greg, Now.
Speaker 4: It really isn't. And you know, free speech for citizens
Speaker 4: doesn't trump the immigration law for non citizens. It simply doesn't. Now,
Speaker 4: if we were talking about a citizen, you know, it's
Speaker 4: a different calculation, a different equation. There are greater free
Speaker 4: speech rights. But even citizens who provide material support to
Speaker 4: a terrorist organization like a moss can be held criminally
Speaker 4: responsible and action can be taken against them. That's not
Speaker 4: what's being alleged here. This is a non citizen, different standards,
Speaker 4: no First Amendment protection.
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Speaker 1: don't want to cooperate. We saw Tom Holman who went
Speaker 1: to Albany, New York, where the state capital is in
Speaker 1: New York, and he was getting heckled by people for
Speaker 1: what reason, I don't know. He just wants to get
Speaker 1: rid of you know, bartel members, gang members, potential terrorists
Speaker 1: and the same thing in Maine. The governor is threatening
Speaker 1: a battle with Donald Trump. Here's Donald Trump tearing into
Speaker 1: the main governor. The NCAA has complied immediately, by the way,
Speaker 1: that's good, but I understand Maine is the main here,
Speaker 1: the governor of Maine. Are you not going to comply
Speaker 1: with it?
Speaker 2: Well, we are the federal law.
Speaker 1: Well you better do it. You better do it because
Speaker 1: you're not going to get any federal funding at all
Speaker 1: if you don't.
Speaker 2: And by the way, your population, even though it's liberal,
Speaker 2: although I did very well there, your population doesn't want
Speaker 2: men playing in women's sports. So you better you better
Speaker 2: comply because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding. Every state.
Speaker 1: Good, I'll see you, and could I look forward to that.
Speaker 2: That should be a really easy one.
Speaker 1: And enjoy your.
Speaker 2: Life after governor, because I don't think you'll be in
Speaker 2: elected politics.
Speaker 1: Now. There is a state legislator in Maine who will
Speaker 1: join us in a second that will tell us about
Speaker 1: these ongoing battles that she's having in a very liberal state.
Speaker 1: And her name is Laurel Libby. You might recall that
Speaker 1: he decided to stand up and protect girls in sports.
Speaker 1: The idea that there are people that don't support this
Speaker 1: is mind numbing to me and reminding her state what
Speaker 1: title line was all about in the first place. And
Speaker 1: they responded by rejecting her right to even voice her opinion.
Speaker 1: So she filed a suit against the House speaker in
Speaker 1: Maine and the judges who are supposed to hear the case,
Speaker 1: every single one of them. I saw this yesterday. I
Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. Every one of them accused themselves, which
Speaker 1: is unprecedented. And you know all four active federal judges
Speaker 1: of Maine, you know won't take the case. And anyway,
Speaker 1: she is not going to stop this fight, and she said,
Speaker 1: Maine's Democratic leadership has asked me to take down my
Speaker 1: post exposing their failure to keep biological males out of girls' sports.
Speaker 1: My answer is simple, I will not. I will do
Speaker 1: everything in my power to ensure our girls' voices are
Speaker 1: heard and that their rights are respected. And I respect
Speaker 1: her for doing it. And anyway, Laurel Libbey, state legislator
Speaker 1: from Maine, joins us, Now, how are you?
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for having me. I'm great and thrilled
Speaker 2: to be on with you today.
Speaker 1: I make fun of a friend of mine who lives
Speaker 1: at Maine that I grew up with. I call him
Speaker 1: a mountain man. He's got this long beard and he
Speaker 1: literally lives like a mountain man. He cracks me up.
Speaker 1: But it's a great state and I have a lot
Speaker 1: of friends there, and the people are, you know, fiercely independent.
Speaker 1: And I can't imagine that the people of Maine want
Speaker 1: men and women's sports, and that the governor, I believe,
Speaker 1: is way out of touch with the thinking of the
Speaker 1: people of Maine.
Speaker 2: The governor is completely out of touch with her fellow maynors.
Speaker 2: And you're right, manors are fiercely independent, and they don't
Speaker 2: believe that biological males belong in girls' sports. And so
Speaker 2: the governor and the Speaker fecto and the Democrat majority
Speaker 2: are out of line with main people and pushing for
Speaker 2: a policy that folks don't agree with in our state.
Speaker 1: Why is the state's plant so left? When I think
Speaker 1: of Maine, I think of maybe only second to Alaska
Speaker 1: in terms of people that are willing to live slightly
Speaker 1: off the grid, not completely, obviously, but people that believe
Speaker 1: in rugged individualism, that are are very very committed to
Speaker 1: handling a lot of life's challenges on their own. I'm
Speaker 1: surprised because that usually doesn't sort of, you know, lend
Speaker 1: itself to more liberal politics.
Speaker 2: I think folks don't understand that main really is a
Speaker 2: purple state. And I'll give you the math on that.
Speaker 2: Out of one hundred and fifty one state representatives across
Speaker 2: our entire state, we only lost the conservative majority by
Speaker 2: sixty votes across the entire state in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: So that's how close things are. We are not a
Speaker 2: dark blue state yet, I don't think. And yet the
Speaker 2: Democrat majority and Governor Mills are pushing these aggressively woke
Speaker 2: policies that mayners don't agree with and don't want to
Speaker 2: see in our state. Maynors want to see biological mails
Speaker 2: out of girl sports and see that we have a
Speaker 2: safe level and fair field of competition for our girls.
Speaker 1: Well, well, you know, as the father of a daughter
Speaker 1: who happens to be an athlete, I totally sympathize with this.
Speaker 1: As somebody that's interviewed Riley Gains many times, I sympathize
Speaker 1: with what she went through. And my question is, how
Speaker 1: is it possible, after you bring this lawsuit that you
Speaker 1: have four separate judges recusing themselves and what does that
Speaker 1: mean for your suit?
Speaker 2: The end goal here is that we have our day
Speaker 2: in court, and whether that is before a main judge
Speaker 2: or it looks like a Rhode Island judge. At this point,
Speaker 2: we're confident of the merits of our case and are
Speaker 2: looking forward to being able to defend my First Amendment
Speaker 2: rights and more importantly than that, my constituent's right to
Speaker 2: representation in our main House of Representatives, because right now
Speaker 2: they are voiceless and voteless, and that is absolutely not
Speaker 2: something that should be able to stand in our state,
Speaker 2: that nine thousand people would not be represented.
Speaker 1: Okay, so how did the jurisdiction switch to Rhode Island.
Speaker 2: All of the judges recuse themselves and put out a
Speaker 2: statement yesterday regarding a familial relationship with an employee. No
Speaker 2: specifics there, but really.
Speaker 1: I don't think it sounds sounds like to me like
Speaker 1: they don't want to touch it.
Speaker 2: Perhaps, but at the end of the day, I don't
Speaker 2: think it's going to matter, because this case will be
Speaker 2: heard on the merits. Whether it is heard and we
Speaker 2: win in the first the first go around, or whether
Speaker 2: we have to move up further through the core system.
Speaker 2: I think we will prevail in the end, regardless of
Speaker 2: the jurisdiction.
Speaker 1: As somebody that lived in Rhode Island at one point
Speaker 1: my life for five years, I can tell you that
Speaker 1: I would not expect the odds are high on the
Speaker 1: lower court level that you'd win, But I think you'd
Speaker 1: win this on appeal, probably pretty easily, depending on where
Speaker 1: what jurisdiction went to. I mean, it's a really important fight.
Speaker 1: And how are your fellow legislators reacting to this? Anyone
Speaker 1: willing to join in with you?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: Very partisan? Of course, the Democrats voted with simple art
Speaker 2: is in vote to censure me. All the Republicans stood strong.
Speaker 1: The cent for what.
Speaker 2: For exercising my right to free speech. It really is
Speaker 2: pretty ludicrous when you look at the nuts and bolts
Speaker 2: of what happened. I made a Facebook post, and the
Speaker 2: speaker and the Democrat majority have politically retaliated against me
Speaker 2: for my protective speech because they don't want to talk
Speaker 2: about the actual issue. They don't want to have an
Speaker 2: open and honest debate about what at stake for main
Speaker 2: girls and also for main public schools that are now
Speaker 2: in violation of President Trump's executive or they don't want
Speaker 2: to talk about the real issues. So they're trying to
Speaker 2: silence me, but they didn't realize that by trying to
Speaker 2: silence me, they actually handed me a much bigger microphone
Speaker 2: to get our issues out there and make sure that they,
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, get resolved. The Speaker
Speaker 2: has put in a provision that I can't get my
Speaker 2: voice or my vote back until I apologize for my post.
Speaker 2: And I won't apologize for speaking the truth and for
Speaker 2: fighting for main girls to have a fair state and
Speaker 2: level playing ground. So the only recourse I have is
Speaker 2: the courts. As far as we.
Speaker 1: Understand, where are your fellow Republicans standing up for you?
Speaker 1: I don't understand this well.
Speaker 2: You know what's interesting is many of my fellow Republicans
Speaker 2: shared my post, and one of them asked on the floor,
Speaker 2: what's going to happen to us? Are you going to
Speaker 2: censure all of us? Are you going to silence multiple
Speaker 2: Republicans over this? And the only answer that the Speaker
Speaker 2: gave was that there were no other centers pending. Essentially,
Speaker 2: so it clearly is political retaliation specifically against me, because
Speaker 2: other representatives put the same post out there. There's no
Speaker 2: accounting for common sense here.
Speaker 1: All right, quick break, welcome back, more with Maine State
Speaker 1: Legislator Laurel Libby is with us. I can't believe this
Speaker 1: fight that she's engaged in. She's just standing up for
Speaker 1: the right of Title nine and for whom not to
Speaker 1: have to compete with men and women's sports, and how
Speaker 1: she's being treated and silenced and ostracized, and now she's
Speaker 1: taken her case to court, and how complicated this has
Speaker 1: all become. More on the other side, will continue in
Speaker 1: your calls coming up. I would continue now with Laura Libbey,
Speaker 1: state legislator from Maine, who's been you know, just experienced
Speaker 1: the censure and literally has been silenced just for a
Speaker 1: social media post defending the right of women to maintain
Speaker 1: Title nine and not have men compete in women's sports.
Speaker 1: Is there is there any way if the Republicans were
Speaker 1: unite together, is there any way they could basically shut
Speaker 1: down the House until you are officially reinstated, because there
Speaker 1: seems this seems to be a moment, a pivotal moment
Speaker 1: of truth for Republicans in Maine that they should take
Speaker 1: a stand on this very important issue, and that's the
Speaker 1: right of Title nine and women and for men not
Speaker 1: to play women's sports. Why don't they come together and
Speaker 1: stand and united behind you and come up with a
Speaker 1: strategy to counter this.
Speaker 2: Well, that's certainly a good question, Sean. And the fact
Speaker 2: is the Democrats are determined to do all that they
Speaker 2: can buy a simple majority. This year, the last two sessions,
Speaker 2: we've had majority budgets rather than the two thirds consensus
Speaker 2: that is required in the Constitution to pass the budget.
Speaker 2: The Democrats are well versed in extra constitutional shenanigans to
Speaker 2: get their way, So this is nothing new. Now, could
Speaker 2: Republicans just not show up?
Speaker 1: Why are Republicans putting up with that, Laurel? That makes
Speaker 1: no sense to me. If they're not following the Constitution
Speaker 1: as it relates to spending and spending bills, why is
Speaker 1: that not challenged in court?
Speaker 2: Well, it makes no sense to me either, Sean. The
Speaker 2: way they've gotten around that is that they adjourn, sign
Speaker 2: a die after passing a majority budget three months early,
Speaker 2: and then call us back in for special session to
Speaker 2: process the rest of the bills, and they get away
Speaker 2: with it because you're frankly not used to being challenged.
Speaker 2: So this lawsuit is the first time that this Democrat
Speaker 2: majority has really seen a challenge because we're going through
Speaker 2: the courts instead of just trying to fight at the
Speaker 2: legislative level. This is the first time they've really seen
Speaker 2: a challenge like that on a free speech issue like this,
Speaker 2: and I'm not.
Speaker 1: Sure that they really sound like it sounds like they
Speaker 1: need the challenge on the spending issue as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: I almost feel like flying up to Maine and giving
Speaker 1: these guys a pep talk and saying, hey, wake up
Speaker 1: here and do your job.
Speaker 2: Come on up, I'll make sure you get some lobster
Speaker 2: while you're up here.
Speaker 1: I'll get some main lobster. I do like lobster. I
Speaker 1: like to drench it in butter, by the way. But
Speaker 1: it's kind of sad that the Republicans. I'm more mad
Speaker 1: at them now because all this is going on, and
Speaker 1: even unconstitutional passage of spending bills, and then the case
Speaker 1: you're defending the right of women not to compete against
Speaker 1: men and women's sports, and yet they sit there on
Speaker 1: their hands and they allow allowing all of this to
Speaker 1: go on. I can't believe what I'm hearing. They need
Speaker 1: to grow a spine and they need to unite.
Speaker 2: It certainly is a frustrating situation to be and sean.
Speaker 2: Earlier this week, I was not able to vote on
Speaker 2: a supplemental budget, which did get two thirds majority in
Speaker 2: the House. Unfortunately, one of the first roll calls that
Speaker 2: I couldn't participate in the other role call that we
Speaker 2: had on Tuesday, You'll love this was regarding a resolution,
Speaker 2: this joint resolution commemorating Women's History Month and International Women's Day.
Speaker 2: Guests who couldn't vote or speak on that resolution unbelievable.
Speaker 2: You absolutely, I had a proxy speak for me, and
Speaker 2: you'll not be surprised that the speaker hammered her down
Speaker 2: part way through and didn't let her get all of
Speaker 2: her words out.
Speaker 1: Laurel, I appreciate you, and you do have our support,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. If we can help you in any way,
Speaker 1: please let us know.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: A bunch of bullies. Good grief,